One Direction is accidentally the best named boy band in the history of coordinated turtlenecks. Legend has it that Harry Styles picked it on a whim because it sounded cool after Simon Cowell gave the five boys a second chance to compete on X Factor if they were willing to go at it as a team.

For about five years, it worked remarkably well, and then the tears fell. 

There’s a line in Zadie Smith’s The Autograph Man, a book about the the trappings of idolization published when Harry Styles was eight years old, that seems oddly prescient for the current situaton. Just after a line that happens to be about a character’s ruffled shift, Smith writes, “All fandom is a form of tunnel vision: warm and dark and infinite in one direction.”  Read more…

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Dumpling maker by day, club DJ by night – an 82-year-old Japanese woman, who goes by the moniker DJ Sumirock, spins techno tunes for club-goers in Tokyo. Read more…

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Abandon all devices bigger than a smartphone, ye who board here. 

We just got our first look at an airline warning passengers that they cannot bring laptops, tablets, or e-readers in their carry-on bags. 

This:

The picture quickly caught the attention of the media. Delta reportedly told ABC the sign was put up in error.

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How do you deliver bad news? 

It’s an unfortunate question we all grapple with at some point in our lives. But regularly having tough, life-changing conversations is a job requirement for many doctors.

A newly developed technology called MPathic VR helps medical professionals learn how to deliver bad news, like a cancer diagnosis or a loved one’s death. The technology, according to its creators at Medical CyberWorlds, teaches “effective, empathic communication skills” to help better prepare doctors for these common conversations.

A study published in April backs up that assertion, showing that students using MPathic VR increased their patient communication skills and felt more confident in having tough conversations than those using traditional methods. Read more…

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For a million reasons, much of it out of anyone’s control, the initial crop of games that launches with any brand new console is bound to have some duds. Normally, those unfortunate failures don’t warrant a sequel, and second chances are exceedingly rareKnack is the exception.

System launch games are built on brand new hardware that developers are unfamiliar with. Deadlines are bound in steel because the game’s launch is tied to the console’s release. And, all while the, the pressure to make something innovative, a game that can show off the possibilities of a new generation of game consoles, is impossibly high. Like so many console launch games before it, Knack suffered as a result of this vicious process, and nevertheless, Knack 2 is happening. Read more…

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As conversations and criticism continue around Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why, one Michigan high school is taking action by having students openly discuss the people and things that keep them going.

13 Reasons Why Not began at Oxford High School in honor of former student Megan Abbott, who died by suicide in 2013. Students didn’t know about the project until the first “tape” began playing over the school’s loudspeaker one day, courtesy of senior Riley Juntti.

Juntti and several other seniors recorded audio clips of personal stories — battles with bullying, body-shaming, abusive relationships, and more — but then they highlighted someone who gave them hope instead of someone they could blame. Read more…

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On Wednesday, high school students across the country channelled weeks of cramming to complete the AP English Exam, a standardized test featuring multiple choice and essay questions. If their scores are high enough, the students earn college credit.

According to BuzzFeed, the final essay question of the exam, which was based on “America the Illiterate,” a column by progressive writer Chris Hedges, asked how much of a role “artifice” plays in politics. For those of you whose high school vocabulary skills have since left your brain and leaked out your ear, “artifice” means cunning or deceit.

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Kylie Jenner is not who you think she is. She is a skull eating neon roses.

The celebriteen dropped the first trailer for her docuseries on E! this summer, The Life of Kylie. When you grow up on camera, everybody feels like they know you,” Jenner says. “But they don’t.” 

Great! Well, now we get to find out who Kylie Jenner is. According to the 30 second teaser, Kylie is so many things!

• A neon triangle 

• An affirmation

• Disembodied lips 

• A pop culture icon

• A documentarian

• A single silver shoe Read more…

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We continue our look at some of the best shots in all of film history by digging into relational shots, two shots, over the shoulders, group shots and crowds. Not just based on how cool they look (because there’s too many cool looking shots for that!) but how they work and why.

Visit CineFix for more episodes and movie-related content. Read more…

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Those barriers aren’t casually placed at level crossings for aesthetic purposes.

One man proved the importance of said barriers when he decided to climb over them and into the train path in London yesterday. 

In the video shared via Twitter, the impatient cyclist hauled his bike into the level crossing before squeezing himself through the barriers.

The man shouts, “I don’t fucking care” right before a speeding train nearly flattens him.

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