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Norway and France meet in their 2026 FIFA World Cup final group stage match on Friday, June 26, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. ET from Boston Stadium. Norway beat Iraq 4-1 in their opener and Senegal 3-2 in their second match. Erling Haaland is squarely in the Golden Boot race with four goals through the two matches. France beat Senegal 3-1 in their opener and Iraq 3-0 in their second match. Kylian Mbappé, not to be outdone, has also scored four times in the tournament so far, including twice against Iraq to move into a tie for the second-most goals scored…

Willa Fitzgerald has officially signed on to star in Skeletons, the upcoming creature feature from Strange Darling writer-director JT Mollner. She joins an already impressive cast led by Brie Larson and Kyle Gallner, reuniting Fitzgerald and Gallner on screen after their unforgettable performances in one of the most acclaimed horror films of the decade. Sony Pictures recently secured worldwide distribution rights to Skeletons after a competitive bidding war, signaling strong confidence in Mollner’s next genre outing. Based on a short story by acclaimed horror author Philip Fracassi and adapted by No One Will Save You writer Brian Duffield, Skeletons centers on a young boy who slowly begins to realize…

A new study tracked 26,811 Chinese secondary school students over 30 months. The research measured how generative AI impacted their learning. The good news: Students using AI saw homework scores rise 18% and completion time drop by about 30%. Better scores done faster. These are outcomes any educator should be happy to see. The bad news: The same students saw their closed-book exam scores fall 20% within six months. Entrance exam scores dropped between 18% and 24%, with the greatest declines surfacing after roughly two years of AI use. About 80% of student AI users demonstrated the results of outsourcing…

SHUDDER TAKES “NIGHTBORN” DIRECTOR HANNA BERGHOLM’S FOLLOW UP TO HORROR HIT “HATCHING”: “Shudder announced today that it is acquiring the rights to NIGHTBORN, Finnish filmmaker Hanna Bergholm’s follow up to her debut horror hit HATCHING. NIGHTBORN explores the complex emotions and experiences of parenthood through a visceral and terrifying dark fable of unconditional maternal love, from a screenplay written by Berholm and Ilja Rautsi. Rights include The United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The film debuted in competition at Berlinale, and will celebrate its North American Premiere at Fantasia Festival on July 22nd before its Shudder release on July…

Many of my clients have reported that a narcissist accused them of being “manipulative.” Understandably, this can cause confusion and anger when you are the target of this accusation. Narcissists tend to project: They accuse you of doing something they are doing. Remember, with a narcissist, an accusation is a confession. I have had clients question if they are being manipulative when they have learned effective communication strategies with a narcissist. You can see how narcissists create doubt and confusion in their victims and make them question themselves. In this post, you will learn the difference between strategic communication and…

The 1976 cult classic Island of Death STILL feels shocking all these years later!Paying tribute to Nico Mastorakis’ cult shocker Island of Death!Island of Death is one of those movies that became an accidental political statement. Nico Mastorakis, the director of the still obscure Greek horror movie from 1976, said he never explicitly meant for his film to carry a pointed message about the hypocrisy of religious fundamentalists. But it’s hard to watch the film today and not pick up some hardly veiled resentment of puritanical sorts who use their religious convictions as a catch-all excuse to hate everybody who…

Found footage horror has never really gone away—it just keeps finding new ways to make us question what’s real. The latest entry hoping to leave audiences unsettled is Blood, an upcoming indie horror film that has finally released its first teaser trailer. The film follows two aspiring filmmakers who set out to create a low-budget slasher movie. What begins as a passion project soon takes a terrifying turn as the production spirals into chaos. As paranoia, obsession, and violence consume the cast and crew, the line between fiction and reality disappears, transforming their movie shoot into a nightmare no one is…

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As a professor of leadership, I work with postgraduate business students and executive clients to make real improvements in their influence, leadership, and communication skills. When I start discussing how workplace performance improves, the audience tends to offer up “Practice makes perfect.” It’s a nice, simple statement, but it’s far from true. Doing something over and over again doesn’t necessarily make you any better at it. Experience and Expertise Are Not the Same Thing We routinely use the term “experience” as if it means “expertise.” At work, someone with years of experience meeting customers, leading a team, or presenting ideas…

“It is still a metaphysical faith upon which our faith in science rests — that even we knowers of today, we godless anti-metaphysicians, still take our fire, too, from the flame lit by the thousand-year-old faith, the Christian faith which was also Plato’s faith, that God is truth; that truth is divine.” ~ Nietzsche Michel Foucault studied tranches of history to report shifts in “epistemes,” unconscious assumptions that determine what counts as knowledge in a given epoch. For me, there was a paradigm shift in Western civilization in the beginning of the 20th century that can be seen in physics, painting, music,…