Bryan Cranston thinks it’s time we all were allowed to be mad as hell – even in public.
The Breaking Bad star, currently starring as a very angry man in the play Network on Broadway, thinks that we could all benefit from allowing ourselves to get angry.
Talking to Stephen Colbert on The Late Show, Cranston explained why we need to normalise anger in order for social change to happen.
“True anger displayed socially is not acceptable,” Cranston said. “When you get mad, perhaps when you see injustice […] you don’t want to be tolerant, you don’t want to be accepting. You want to say: ‘No. This makes me angry.’”
Just when you thought that nothing else could possibly go wrong in the endless parade of obstacles that is Brexit, Theresa May’s gone and got locked in a car.
On her way to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a bid to rescue her Brexit deal, May got trapped momentarily inside her vehicle. Merkel looked on, waiting for May to exit the car, while officials kept trying the door handle to extricate her.
You couldn’t make it up, honestly.
Here’s some glorious footage of this rather unfortunate moment:
Just one day after calling off MPs’ vote on her Brexit deal, May is now meeting European leaders and EU officials to attempt to gain “further assurances” about the Northern Ireland border plan.
Jean-Claude Juncker — president of the European Commission — made it clear that the EU would not “renegotiate” the deal, but caveated that “further clarifications” were on the cards.
May is reportedly “seeking legal guarantees” that the UK won’t be “trapped in the Northern Ireland backstop plan.”
The backstop is “the rule that either the Province [of Northern Ireland] or the whole of the UK must obey EU rules until Brussels agrees that a hard border with Ireland is not a prospect,” according to the Evening Standard.
We wait with bated breath to see what will go wrong next.
What are the holidays for if not for honouring the people you admire with presents and carols?
James Corden and Will and Grace star Sean Hayes teamed up in a sketch on The Late Late Show to dedicate a song to an actor whom Christmas is apparently “all about” for some reason; Michael Rapaport, star of Deep Blue Sea and Atypical on Netflix.
What followed was a pretty glorious parody of “The Little Drummer Boy,” dedicated to Ra-pa-pa-port.
George RR Martin knows what you want and he promises to give it to you. But first, he will tease you for a bit.
Theauthor just published a blogpost where he stated that he’s back to work on the sixth instalment of A song of Ice and Fire and even made mention of what all of us are desperate to know; what’s up with The Winds of Winter and when will we get to read it?
“I know you want Winds, and I am going to give it to you…” Martin writes, thanking fans for not being upset with him for taking the time to write the 700-page Targaryen history Fire and Blood in between volumes of A Song of Ice and Fire. “I am delighted that you stayed with me for [Fire and Blood] as well. Your patience and unflagging support means the world to me.“
Martin also revealed some pretty important information about just how long we will have to stretch our patience. “I am back in my fortress of solitude, and back in Westeros,” Martin writes. “It won’t be tomorrow, and it won’t be next week, but you will get the end of A Song of Ice and Fire.”
It looks like we have to wait at least until the end of Game of Thrones before there will be another book. The final season of the show premieres in April 2016 and will run for six episodes.
“Meanwhile, you have the final season of Game of Thrones coming,” Martin writes. “And the new show that is not yet officially called The Long Night being cast, and a couple more shows still being scripted… and a few other cool things in the works as well.”
Martin ends his blog post with one very teasing sentence, referencing the well known words of house Stark.
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It was rumored on Dec. 4 and then confirmed on Dec. 6 that Microsoft is giving up on its EdgeHTML rendering engine and embracing Google’s Chromium for its Edge browser. Now we’re hearing more detail about what to expect in terms of support as part of that transition.
By switching to the Chromium rendering engine, Microsoft is cutting down on the amount of testing developers need to do for their websites and apps, but there’s also an opportunity to embrace features other browsers using Chromium already enjoy. As part of a discussion on Reddit about the Edge engine switch, Edge Project Manager Kyle Alden, confirmed one of those features is Chrome extensions.
It means that if everything goes to plan, the new Edge browser that is set to appear within a year will by default allow Chrome extension installation. However, I must caveat this by stating it is Microsoft’s “intention to support” these extensions, which gives the company space to deliver the support at a later date if they so wish.
The Reddit discussion also points out that progressive web apps (PWA) will be supported and installable through the new browser. A PWA is software that looks and acts like an app, but relies on web browser technology to function. Examples include Google Photos, Contacts, and Maps.
At the same time, existing Universal Windows Platforms (UWP) apps will continue to rely on EdgeHTML/Chakra to function. Microsoft has no intention “to shim under those with a different engine,” but a new WebView will be offered allowing the choice of using Chromium as the rendering engine instead.
Just as scientists confidently predicted last century, climate change is pushing weather to extremes all over the planet.
A new report, published Monday by the American Meteorological Society, again proves the point. The 100-page report assessed 17 extreme weather events from 2017 — including floods, droughts, and heat waves — and determined global warming either significantly boosted the odds of these events, or simply made such extreme, often deadly events possible in the first place.
“We are in a world that is warmer than in the 20th Century, and we keep moving farther from that baseline,” Martin Hoerling, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientist who worked on the report, said at the 2018 American Geophysical Union conference on Monday.
“There are very few places escaping from the warming that is occurring on our planet today,” Hoerling added.
Global temperatures compared to the average, with blues showing cooler temperatures.
Global temperatures compared to the average, with yellows and reds showing warmer temperatures.
For each extreme event, the report outlines just how much climate change increased its likelihood, which is a growing field of science known as attribution research.
And when it comes to heat waves, rain, and drought, scientists have a good handle on how climate change exacerbates these events, often by modeling the chances of extreme weather events in the absence of today’s globally disrupted climate.
“These attribution studies are telling us that a warming Earth is continuing to send us new and more extreme weather events every year,” Jeff Rosenfeld, editor in chief of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, said in a statement.
Extreme deluges
Of note, Earth’s hydrological, or water systems, have been propelled to the extreme. One reason is simple: Warming temperatures mean more water vapor is loaded into the atmosphere. Specifically for every 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming, the air can hold 7 percent more water. That can mean historic, prolonged deluges.
Overflowing water surging out of California’s damaged Oroville Dam spillway in 2017.
Image: Dale Kolke/ California Department of Water Resources
In the U.S., scientists pointed out deluges during the 2017 California winter that threatened to collapse the state’s largest reservoir (the Oroville Dam), and the most extreme rain event in the nation’s history, Hurricane Harvey.
“No single storm (Oroville) or instantaneous precipitation rate (Harvey) was to blame; rather, the damages were caused by precipitation that did not seem to stop,” the authors wrote.
The report also highlights severe 2017 flooding in Bangladesh, Peru and China.
In Bangladesh, for example, extreme rain fell for six straight days before the expected monsoon, or summer rainfall season, even began. Human-caused warming, the authors found, was 100 percent responsible for the unusual rainfall event.
Since the onset of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s, climate change has boosted the average global temperature by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, or 1 degree Celsius. This background warming makes typical heat waves all the more extreme, resulting in record heat.
“I’m virtually certain that nearly all heat waves have been made more severe by climate change,” Michael Wehner, a senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, said this summer amid a flurry of global heat waves.
In 2017, southern Europe experienced an “exceptional heat wave” which was nicknamed “Lucifer.” Temperatures in the Balkans and Italy sustained in the triple-digits for days, records fell, and nighttime temperatures elsewhere exceeded over 85 degrees.
Such a scorcher is three times more likely than it was in more temperate 1950s, the authors conclude.
And while Europe burned, China did the same.
The northeastern portion of the country saw its hottest temperatures on record, as a sustained mass of warm air hovered over the vast region.
The authors concluded that climate change, all the more enhanced by decreasing Arctic sea ice (which ultimately helped produce this block of warm air), were the environmental culprits.
While once rare, severe heat events in this part of China are now believed to have a one in five chance of happening during any given year.
Paralyzing Drought
A particularly harsh drought hit the Northern Great Plains of the U.S. in 2017 — even threatening an essential ingredient in beer.
This event, which proved to be a billion dollar disaster, hit Americans with a double whammy. Hot temperatures dried out the soil, easily outpacing dismal, record-low rains.
After modeling different climate scenarios, researchers determined that this event was 1.5 times more likely under our current climate scenario, wherein the atmosphere is saturated with its highest levels of carbon dioxide in some 15 million years.
When everything’s going wrong and your industry’s sinking, who you gonna blame? Uhh, uhhhhh, millennials? Sure.
According to a controversial report in the , the canned tuna industry is in trouble, with a giant finger pointed at millennials who apparently “can’t be bothered to open and drain the cans, or fetch utensils and dishes to eat the tuna.”
Riiiight.
Andy Mecs, vice president of marketing and innovation for StarKist Tuna, went event further, telling the Journal, “A lot of millennials don’t even own can openers.”
So, can they even open a can of tuna? Jimmy Kimmel wanted to make sure, so he asked passing millennials in the street to demonstrate their skills. While it’s pretty hammed up, those can openers still can be tricky for any generation.
Apple is appealing a decision that bans certain iPhone models from being sold in China.
As reported by CNBC, the tech giant filed an appeal on Monday, after San Diego-based chipmaker Qualcomm was granted multiple injunctions against Apple’s Chinese subsidiaries earlier that day.
It means Apple is prohibited from selling the iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X domestically in China. Qualcomm claims that Apple infringed on two of its patents.
The patents relate to features which allow users to adjust and reformat the size and appearance of photographs, and to manage applications using a touch screen when viewing, navigating and dismissing apps on their phones.
“Apple continues to benefit from our intellectual property while refusing to compensate us. These Court orders are further confirmation of the strength of Qualcomm’s vast patent portfolio,” Don Rosenberg, Qualcomm executive vice president and general counsel, said in a statement online.
While the ban is only limited to China, it’s another chapter in the ongoing and messy legal saga between the two tech giants, which resulted in Apple dumping Qualcomm’s (superior) cellular modems earlier this year.
The dispute stems from Qualcomm’s charging of patent royalties, which Apple has decried as extortionist.
“Qualcomm’s effort to ban our products is another desperate move by a company whose illegal practices are under investigation by regulators around the world. All iPhone models remain available for our customers in China,” Apple said in a statement to the news outlet.
“We will pursue all our legal options through the courts.”
Mashable has reached out to Apple for further comment.
During its two-year, 1.4 million-mile (2.2 million-kilometre) trip to the asteroid, instruments aboard OSIRIS-REx — that’s the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer — began to make scientific observations of Bennu between mid-August and early December.
Two of these instruments identified molecules on the asteroid, containing bonded oxygen and hydrogen atoms — these bad boys are known as hydroxyls.
These hydroxyls, NASA said, can be found across the asteroid in water-bearing clay minerals, which means Bennu’s rocky surface once had contact with water.
But don’t think Bennu was once brimming with lakes, or even puddles. According to NASA, the asteroid is actually too small to have ever hosted water in liquid form, but its parent body could have.
“The presence of hydrated minerals across the asteroid confirms that Bennu, a remnant from early in the formation of the solar system, is an excellent specimen for the OSIRIS-REx mission to study the composition of primitive volatiles and organics,” Amy Simon, OVIRS deputy instrument scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, said in a statement.
OSIRIS-REx is NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission. When the spacecraft lands on the surface of Bennu in July 2020, it will gather 4.4 pounds (2 kilograms) of rock over a year and a half to send back to Earth in a capsule.
“When samples of this material are returned by the mission to Earth in 2023, scientists will receive a treasure trove of new information about the history and evolution of our solar system,” added Simon.
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