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(WASHINGTON) — Uranus is a lopsided oddity, the only planet to spin on its side. Scientists now think they know how it got that way: It was pushed over by a rock at least twice as big as Earth. Detailed computer simulations show that an enormous rock crashed into the seventh planet from the sun,…

via Uranus Was Likely Hit By a Rock Which Made the Planet Lopsided, Scientists Say — TIME

A new startup using AI to look after elderly people at home has raised a new round of funding to apply its platform to detect changes in gait or behavior, falls or stumbles. In other words, it could start to predict changes in long-term health. CherryHome, the home AI security system created by startup Cherry…

via CherryHome raises $5.2M to apply AI to home care cameras, detecting behavior changes — TechCrunch

Weird begets weird and in 2018 the cinema was a great place to find these strange times reflected and refracted. Explorations and exploitations of the body were examined in horror, like Hereditary, and in the surreal socialist commentary of Sorry To Bother You. The latter also dealt with how our actions influence a better world,…

via The best TV and film scores of 2018 — FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music.

The holidays are a magical time of year, so it should come as no surprise that this season is the perfect opportunity to let your favorite Potterhead know you’re thinking about them. Luckily, over two decades of Harry Potter fandom has made finding a fantastical gift for the wizard in your life a cinch. From…

via 7 Magical Gifts for the Harry Potter Lover in Your Life — TIME

Hanging a wreath on a door or a wall is almost as essential to decorating for yuletide as setting up a Christmas tree — and, as it turns out, the two traditions come from the same place. “The tree gave birth to the wreath,” says Ace Collins, author of Stories Behind the Great Traditions of…

via Christmas Wreaths Are a Classic Holiday Decoration With a Surprisingly Deep History — TIME

Hanging a wreath on a door or a wall is almost as essential to decorating for yuletide as setting up a Christmas tree — and, as it turns out, the two traditions come from the same place. “The tree gave birth to the wreath,” says Ace Collins, author of Stories Behind the Great Traditions of…

via Christmas Wreaths Are a Classic Holiday Decoration With a Surprisingly Deep History — TIME

Sheeran and Taylor Swift secure the year’s two biggest tours The post Ed Sheeran’s Divide tour generated $432m in 2018 – a new world record appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.

via Ed Sheeran’s Divide tour generated $432m in 2018 – a new world record — Music Business Worldwide

(HOTAN, China) — Barbed wire and hundreds of cameras ring a massive compound of more than 30 dormitories, schools, warehouses and workshops in China’s far west. Dozens of armed officers and a growling Doberman stand guard outside. Behind locked gates, men and women are sewing sportswear that can end up on U.S. college campuses and…

via American Sportswear Traced to Factories in Chinese Internment Camps — TIME