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Say Anything’s most iconic scene could have looked very different if John Cusack had followed his initial instincts. The film’s writer and director, Cameron Crowe, is recalling filming the beloved 1989 teen romance movie, sharing his memory of shooting the sequence in which Lloyd Dobler (Cusack) blasts Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes” to win back his ex Diane Court (Ione Skye) by raising a boom box over his head outside her window. In a wide-ranging new conversation with The New York Times, Crowe said Cusack didn’t want Lloyd to hold the boom box at all. “He felt like it was…

The NHL’s first outdoor game in Europe could be taking place in the next few years.According to David Pagnotta of the Fourth Period, NHL president of content and events Steve Mayer recently said “he wouldn’t be surprised” if an NHL Stadium Series game takes place in Europe “in the coming years.”The NHL has been holding regular-season games in outdoor venues since the first Stadium Series game took place in 2014 between the Anaheim Ducks and Los Angeles Kings in Dodger Stadium.This year’s edition of the series is set to take place on Feb. 1, 2026, when the Boston Bruins and…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Can you slip into a more relaxed state and sharpen your focus by simply listening to a couple of slightly different tones? That’s the idea behind binaural beats, an auditory phenomenon that’s increasingly getting headlines as a cure for procrastination and everyday stress.  The idea of binaural beats is hardly new. Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, a physicist and meteorologist, first recorded the phenomenon in 1839. But, nearly 190 years later, scientists are still exploring what they are and what they can and can’t do, Bopanna Ballachanda, past…

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Kyiv’s military intelligence agency on Saturday confirmed that a Ukrainian drone struck one of Russia’s largest oil refineries roughly 1,400 kilometres from the Ukraine border. Russian official Radiy Khabirov said that the attack had caused minor damage to the refinery.

So it was the early astronauts that kind of drove the desire to take cameras themselves, but they were quite basic. Wally Schirra (Mercury-Atlas 8) then took the first Hasselblad. He wanted medium format, better quality, but really, the photographs from Mercury aren’t as stunning as Gemini. It’s partly the windows and the way they took the photos, and they’d had little experience. Also, preservation clearly wasn’t high up on the agenda in Mercury, because the original film is evidently in a pretty bad state. The first American in space is an incredibly important moment in history. But every single…

Sainsbury’s has recalled two varieties of its own-brand hummus over fears they may contain a deadly strain of E coli, advising customers who have bought the products not to eat them.The affected items are 315g containers of JS Classic Houmous, with a use-by date of 13 September, and 200g tubs of JS Lemon & Coriander Houmous with a use-by date of 14 September.The Food Standards Agency said the affected batches could contain shiga toxin-producing E coli (Stec), and that the items had been recalled as a precaution.Point of sale notices will be displayed in all stores selling the products until…

Mark SavageMusic CorrespondentBBCSir Brian May (left) and Roger Taylor debuted a new orchestral arrangement of Bohemian RhapsodyThe rock band Queen were the star guests at the Last Night of the Proms, giving their first ever symphonic performance of their rock operetta, Bohemian Rhapsody.Sir Brian May and Roger Taylor joined the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Chorus to bring their scaramouches and fandangos to the Royal Albert Hall, as the song celebrated its 50th anniversary.Queen singer Freddie Mercury, who died in 1991, “would have loved to be here,” Sir Brian told BBC News. “He’d have been on that stage,…

People hold Palestinian flags as they try to disrupt the eleventh stage of the Spanish Vuelta cycling race, from Bilbao to Bilbao, Spain, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. Miguel Oses/AP hide caption toggle caption Miguel Oses/AP BARCELONA, Spain — As an alderperson in northwestern Spain, Rosana Prieto tends to the running of her tiny village and is far removed from major cities, often rocked by protests over geopolitical issues. But with one of the world’s biggest cycling races coursing through the bucolic hills nearby, she and hundreds of like-minded townspeople sensed a chance to make their small voices heard, denouncing Israel’s…

Earl Richardson was the president of Morgan State University between 1984 and 2010. Morgan State University hide caption toggle caption Morgan State University Earl Richardson was a Black college president — “armed with history,” as a colleague described him — when he led a 15-year-long lawsuit that ended in a historic settlement for four Black schools in Maryland and put a spotlight on funding disparities for all of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Richardson’s death, at 81, was announced on Saturday by Morgan State University, located in Baltimore, where he served as president when he helped organize…