Only a month after Thailand’s adorable baby hippo Moo Deng was unveiled on Facebook, her fame became unstoppable both domestically and internationally. Zookeeper Atthapon Nundee has been posting cute moments of the animals in his care for about five years. He never imagined Khao Kheow Open Zoo’s newborn pygmy hippo would become an internet megastar … Read more
Among the many videos of Kamala Harris that have recirculated heavily on social media in the past, momentous week, one has defined the conversation above the rest. In the clip, the Vice-President quotes her mother, the late cancer researcher Shyamala Gopalan Harris. “You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?” Harris asks, surrendering … Read more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nigeria’s capital market regulatory institution, has warned against investing in Davido’s meme coin, $Davido. Meme coins are cryptocurrencies inspired by internet jokes and memes. They often have a light-hearted or humorous theme, and social media hype and celebrity endorsements can heavily influence their value. The Grammy-nominated singer launched $Davido … Read more
Love them or hate them, there’s no escaping memecoins. The impressive gains boasted by top dog and catcoin traders regularly make headlines, fuelling FOMO (fear of missing out). It would be easy to dismiss memecoins as a fad if not for their persistent growth and increasing share of the cryptocurrency market. When a respected figure … Read more
If you attended the 2019 Venice Biennale, you might have waited in a long line to see the prize-winning piece “Sun & Sea (Marina),” an opera performance staged by three Lithuanian artists on a sandy faux beach that had been installed in a warehouse. A couple dozen performers acted out seaside leisure activities—sunbathing, digging, reading—and … Read more
Oppenheimer finally premiered Friday in the nation where two cities were obliterated 79 years ago by the nuclear weapons invented by the American scientist who was the subject of the Oscar-winning film. The reviews of Japanese filmgoers who spoke to reporters were understandably mixed and highly emotional. The film’s release in Japan, more than eight … Read more
There are few figures in American history as mythologized as J. Robert Oppenheimer — in no small part due to the man himself. So building a cohesive story about him — the physicist who helped define an entire scientific field so new and arcane it was called “boys’ physics”; the precocious child-genius who delivered a … Read more
In the first episode of What The Hell Navya season two has finally been released on Navya Naveli Nanda‘s YouTube channel, which has given viewers an insightful and entertaining conversation featuring three generations of the Bachchan family, Navya, her mother Shweta Bachchan Nanda and her grandmother Jaya Bachchan. During the episode, Jaya posed a thought-provoking … Read more
“Did this film direct itself?” When a female-directed film that received critical acclaim and box-office success was nominated in several Oscar categories — including best picture, but not best director — that was the question that had people buzzing. But this wasn’t Barbie, and the director wasn’t Greta Gerwig. This was 1992, when Barbra Streisand’s directorial snub for The Prince of Tides was seen as so controversial that Billy … Read more
The Stanley Quencher, pictured for sale on the company’s website, is an insulated stainless steel travel mug that’s become extremely popular on social media and among consumers. A dramatic rise in the company’s revenue is being attributed in part to the tumbler. (Stanley) The Stanley cup is so popular these days that even technology giants … Read more
