Author: Michelle Korhonen
When Kate Wylie noticed a niggling pain in her left leg she wasn’t too worried – but her decision to visit the doctor ‘just in case’ saved her life.The 33-year-old, from Perth, visited her GP in October, 2023, for sciatica-related pain but was still sent to have scans as a precaution. These detected a large and unrelated mass growing in her pelvis.A few weeks later Kate received news she never expected to hear. She had stage three ovarian cancer that had spread to her omentum (a tissue structure in the abdomen), lymph nodes and bowel.Tumours were also growing on both her…
Listen to this articleProduced by ElevenLabs and NOA, News Over Audio, using AI narration.The latest avalanche of content from Jennifer Lopez has me thinking about Richard Wagner, the German composer who argued in 1849 that the “consummate artwork of the future” would be Gesamtkunstwerk—“total artwork,” combining elements of many forms into one. This lofty notion, once associated primarily with opera and architecture, is now commonplace. Visual albums, installation art, video games, and TikToks routinely blend the auditory, the visual, the narrative, and the poetic—sometimes spectacularly, quite often unsatisfyingly.Human beings can be Gesamtkunstwerk too. Or at least, that’s the best way…
The late Anna ‘Chickadee’ Cardwell got emotional as she spoke about her daughters on the new season six episode of Mama June: Family Crisis, titled Reality Sets In.It is the last season she is seen on after her death at 29, and in a heartbreaking hospital scene Anna teared up as her daughter Kaitlyn, eight, and sister Lauryn ‘Pumpkin’ Efird, 24, joined her during her third round of chemotherapy.‘Kaitlyn coming to chemo kind of, like, put everything in perspective. Sorry, I’m crying,’ the reality star – who was battling stage 4 adrenal cancer – said.‘But, you know, I’m glad that she got to come and…
A new program from the ChatGPT maker promises to create videos from simple text prompts, but little is known about how it will actually work.One of the Sora sample videos released by OpenAI. The entire scene was generated by AI. (Courtesy OpenAI)February 16, 2024, 4:39 PM ETYesterday afternoon, OpenAI teased Sora, a video-generation model that promises to convert written text prompts into highly realistic videos. Footage released by the company depicts such examples as “a Shiba Inu dog wearing a beret and black turtleneck” and “in an ornate, historical hall, a massive tidal wave peaks and begins to crash.” The excitement…
Good Morning America, the USA’s biggest TV breakfast show, must have been thrilled to get the first interview with Prince Harry so soon after his father’s shocking cancer diagnosis.It suited the Prince, too, for his admirable Winter Invictus Games were promoted on the show, and he was once again in the limelight just days after he and Meghan launched their new website, Sussex.com.Harry returned the favour, dutifully answering questions about King Charles’s health.How did you hear of it? ‘I spoke to him. I jumped on a plane.’ Could the cancer diagnosis have a unifying effect on your family? ‘Possibly, yes.…
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Justice Arthur Engoron’s ruling is not fatal for Trump’s business empire, but it might be a near-death experience.Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post / Bloomberg / GettyFebruary 16, 2024, 5:21 PM ETA New York judge fined Donald Trump $355 million today, finding “overwhelming evidence” that he and his lieutenants at the Trump Organization made false statements “with the intent to defraud.”Justice Arthur Engoron’s ruling in the civil fraud case is not fatal for Trump’s business empire, but it might be a near-death experience. The fine fell just short of the $370 million that New York Attorney General Letitia James sought.…
Could Harry return to the royal fold? Prince is ‘willing’ to take on ‘temporary royal role’ amid King Charles’s cancer battle, source claims – but expert says ‘neither side’ want him and Meghan back in UK despite Duke’s olive branch interview – Sound health and lasting wealth
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.The president of the United States is now on TikTok. Joe Biden’s campaign launched an account during the Super Bowl on Sunday, kicking things off with a post about the game captioned “lol hey guys.” I called my colleague Charlie Warzel, who covers tech and internet culture, to discuss what the president is doing on the video platform, and how politicians face the same pressures…
Joanne Froggatt’s career has been punctuated by a number of high-profile roles that have shocked viewers and stoked some heated debate. As lady’s maid Anna Bates in Downton Abbey she was brutally raped by a valet, and she followed that by playing sadistic Victorian killer Mary Ann Cotton, who was thought to have poisoned 11 of her 13 children, in Dark Angel. She then shone as teacher Laura Nielson when the date-rape thriller Liar gripped the nation in 2017, before taking on the role of a domestically abused wife out for revenge in Angela Black.But it was Joanne herself who was left shaken and…