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‘I Play Rocky’ Review: Sylvester Stallone’s Wild Hollywood Underdog Story Gets a Punchy Crowdpleaser
Peter Farrelly continues his reign of making audience-delighting hits for the TIFF crowd, but this one pulls its punches a bit.
IndieWire · EN
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‘Mouse’ Review: ‘Saint Frances’ and ‘Ghostlight’ Filmmakers Bring Their Singular Humanity to a Coming-of-Age Tale
Around these parts, every Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson feature film is an event. The pair's third production together is no exception — and their best to date.
IndieWire · EN
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‘The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’ Will Be in 3D in Theaters — and on Meta’s New VR Glasses
Lionsgate is partnering with Facebook parent company Meta on the 3D version of the film and will collaborate on future titles for the VR glasses hitting shelves next spring.
IndieWire · EN
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‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ Review: The King of the Monsters Returns with a Direct Sequel That’s One Better Than the Last Movie in Almost Every Way
Godzilla squares off against King Ghidorah in an IMAX-sized melodrama that features some of the most thrilling kaiju fights ever.
IndieWire · EN
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‘The Liberation’ Trailer: Carrie Coon Is Lured Into Lily James’ Cult in a Gut-Wrenching Grief Drama
The fall festival hit opens in theaters on January 8, courtesy of Bleecker Street.
IndieWire · EN
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What If Thinking About Death Could Make Us Feel More Alive?
Explore how thinking about death can teach us to live more fully, find meaning, and appreciate the people we love.
Greater Good · EN
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What’s Important to Us When Making Political Decisions?
A core assumption in any democracy is that citizens with access to information will make reasoned decisions on political candidates and policy issues. But a new study by UC Berkeley social scientists finds that Americans usually don’t consider the full scope of difficult issues, instead basing their opinions on mental shortcuts that sidestep complexity. The paper offers striking insight into the differences in cognitive reasoning patterns among Americans. While some people in the study did closely analyze a range of issues before coming to an opinion, others did a quick back-of-the-napkin tall
Greater Good · EN
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Can You Learn to Feel More Loved?
Imagine you have a colleague who remembers that you had a difficult appointment and checks in on you. Or a friend who is just there to listen without telling you what you should have done differently. We don’t tend to think of these experiences as grand declarations of love, but they leave us with a certain lingering warmth: the feeling of being loved. In our research, we coined the term felt love to focus on the receiver’s side of love. This emphasis shifts attention away from the expressions of love (i.e., loving signals). While expressions are actions we choose to take, felt love is an inte
Greater Good · EN
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How Young People Are Researching Issues That Matter to Them
“Adults should take students more seriously, as they have voices and different opinions too” — Middle school student Middle school students in a California school district noticed that their perspectives were not included in decisions related to school policy that they cared about, like the dress code. They engaged in research to explore how administrators, teachers, and staff could incorporate their voices in decision-making processes. Students conducted surveys and focus groups with their peers and developed recommendations for their school, including more student-led events and a more activ
Greater Good · EN
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Four Practices to Help You Feel More Engaged at Work
Work can be tough. With only 20% of workers feeling engaged globally, we need tools that can help boost engagement and well-being at work. While some difficulty at work may always be expected, there are things we can do to take control of our work lives and bring more kindness, appreciation, connection, and trust into the workplace. For many years, researchers have been testing different practices that individual employees, managers, and teams can do to improve work life for everyone. You can find some of these on Greater Good in Action, our library of over 100 practices found to improve well-
Greater Good · EN
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Happiness Break: A Meditation to Help You Sit with Grief
This guided meditation with end-of-life doula Andrea Sexton-Dumas offers a gentle way to make space for grief by imagining sharing your heartache with a plant, releasing it into the soil, and nurturing the earth that holds it.
Greater Good · EN
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Your Happiness Calendar for November 2026
Our monthly Happiness Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we hope it helps you pause to notice good things. To open the clickable calendar, click on the image below. (Please note: If you are having trouble clicking on calendar links with the Chrome browser, try these tips to fix the issue or try a different browser.) {embed="happiness_calendar/subscribe"} View the latest calendar here.
Greater Good · EN
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Why Sending Reels Is More Meaningful Than You Think
Humans are constantly reinventing ways to maintain intimacy with the people we care about most. Today, one of our most ubiquitous connection rituals is reel sharing—that is, sending short social media videos to each other. At a time when much of the conversation about technology centers on how it is eroding human connection, reel sharing and the unspoken social norms that surround it suggest another possibility: a tool to maintain social bonds. This has been my experience. I met my best friend of more than 25 years, Kyra, when I was a Peace Corps volunteer. Our friendship formed before social
Greater Good · EN
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An Inside Look At How To Tame Unstoppable AI
The post An Inside Look At How To Tame Unstoppable AI appeared first on NOEMA .
Noema · EN
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What We Can Save In A Time Of Endings
The post What We Can Save In A Time Of Endings appeared first on NOEMA .
Noema · EN
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When The Present Eats The Future
The post When The Present Eats The Future appeared first on NOEMA .
Noema · EN
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Sudan As A Mirror For Today’s World
The post Sudan As A Mirror For Today’s World appeared first on NOEMA .
Noema · EN
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Turbulent Times Call For Experimental Law
The post Turbulent Times Call For Experimental Law appeared first on NOEMA .
Noema · EN
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A New Dawn For Mathematical Progress
The post A New Dawn For Mathematical Progress appeared first on NOEMA .
Noema · EN
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The Sediment Of Culture Shapes Political Order
The post The Sediment Of Culture Shapes Political Order appeared first on NOEMA .
Noema · EN
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Inside the cartoon library
Curators Jenny Robb and Caitlin McGurk took me on a 45-minute guided tour of one of my favorite places: the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum on the OSU campus in Columbus, Ohio. Really fun. Watch the video.
Austin Kleon · EN
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Typewriter interviews with Roz Chast and Paul Noth
This was not entirely pre-planned, but: it turns out I’m publishing a typewriter interview with a cartoonist every week of October, and I just now realized they’re all contributors to The New Yorker. The first two are Roz Chast and Paul Noth! (Can you guess the other two?)
Austin Kleon · EN
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Are we a teardown or a fixer-upper?
Last week’s newsletter began: An out-of-town developer tore a house down at the end of my street and cut down every single tree on the lot. As I watched the big T-Rex excavator claw down the walls, a thought ran through my head: If it can be built, it can be torn down. True of […]
Austin Kleon · EN