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In its first two hours, “The Substance” is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.But the film’s deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year’s Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for “The Fly” director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But “The Substance” is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat’s perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society’s scrutiny.
“The Substance” tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a “younger, more beautiful, more perfect” version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
The one rule to follow is that Sparkle and her better self (Margaret Qualley) must trade places every seven days. So for one week at a time, she is forced again to live as her 50-year-old self. But the allure of youth and a made-for-TV butt proves too strong to resist. What’s the worst that can happen if she squeezes an extra day or two in?
Benjamin Kracun’s cinematography, particularly his low-angle shots and close-ups reminiscent of David Lynch’s movies — another filmmaker Fargeat credits as having influenced her as a director — expertly capture the omnipresent claustrophobia and anxiety that exist even while Sparkle is in the body of her better self.Also evocative of Lynch is Fargeat’s compelling construction — between the fashion, architecture, aerobics and highly advanced cell-replicating drugs — of a kind of atemporal world.Given that body horror has been all the rage at festivals — with Julia Ducournau’s “Titane” and Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future” also premiering at Cannes in recent years — it could be easy to write this movie off as capitalizing on the zeitgeist.But “The Substance” resists being lost in that shuffle.What is perhaps most impressive is the fact that, in its 140-minute runtime, the movie never feels like it’s dragging on. Fargeat ups the ante until the last second of the film, with a jaw-droppingly deranged final scene that is still somehow poignant.
If there’s a critique to be made about the film, it’s that the satire and caricatures are a bit heavy-handed, with most of the male characters being not-so-subtle misogynists. But that overkill is part of what makes it so much fun.“The Substance,” a Mubi release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association for strong bloody violent content, gore, graphic nudity and language. Running time: 140 minutes. Three and a half stars out of four.
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WSMV) – During its September meeting, the Rutherford County School Board is scheduled to decide the fate of seven books that have been challenged for removal from school libraries, over claims they contain explicit material in violation of a state law prohibiting obscenity in schools.The titles under scrutiny are:“Beloved” by Tony Morrison“Queen of Shadows” by Sara J. Maas“Tower of Dawn” by Sara J. Maas“Homegoing” by Yaa Gyasi“Skin and Bones” by Sherry Shahan“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Shbosky“Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West” by Gregory MaguireRutherford County School Board faces decision on book ban amid legal warnings(WSMV)The potential ban sparked debate and argument from some parents in the county and the ACLU of Tennessee, who are now raising questions about free speech and students’ rights.In August, when word of the book challenge became public, several parents spoke out against the proposed ban during a school board meeting, urging members to keep the books on library shelves.“Banning books is not OK,” said Jennifer Edwards. “Just because you don’t like what the mirror shows you doesn’t mean you put the mirror down.”“As a resident of Rutherford County, I have a vested interest in our public schools preparing our students properly for the real world,” Angela Frederick said. “And shielding them from books like these does not prepare them for anything but ignorance.”The seven books were flagged by board member Caleb Tidwell, who during an August School Board work session said they contain sexually explicit content and must be removed under state law.“I understand that there is some subjectiveness, but there is a line, and our job is to find where that line is. I believe the line was crossed in all seven of these books.” Tidwell said. “So, there’s no violation of rights.”Tidwell, who spearheaded to removal of 29 books from Rutherford County school libraries last year under a state obscenity law, emailed the district in July with a new list of titles, including the seven now under review.Rutherford County School Board faces decision on book ban amid legal warnings(WSMV)“It’s not suppression because these books are readily available in other places and other sources,” said Tidwell.But at least one board member during the recent work session expressed some trepidation about removing the books.“We’re making a big deal out of books that, gosh, kids are not interested,” said Butch Vaughn. “They don’t check them out.”In response to the proposed ban, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Tennessee has raised concerns about the board’s process, warning it may violate students’ First Amendment rights.“It is just not acceptable to ban books in this manner.” said Kathy Sinback, Executive Director for the ACLU of Tennessee.” There have to be processes that follow Constitutional guidelines where you’re not just pulling books because of content you pick out of context.”“[Caleb Tidwell] makes these books sound like filth. But these are books that are award-winning books that have been on school library shelves for years,” Sinback said. “And so, it is very concerning that you have one person who seems to have a personal agenda to remove these books from the library.”Sinback warned that if the board votes to remove the books, the school district could face legal action.“Facing First Amendment federal litigation is something that school districts should not take lightly,” Sinback said. “We don’t want to sue school districts, because it’s a very expensive prospect for districts like Rutherford, and we believe that money could better be spent improving things like school security, paying teachers, and other real education issues. But it is our job to protect student rights and the First Amendment in Tennessee.”Under state law and the district’s library material review policy, the board must vote on whether to keep the books or remove them during its September 19, 2024, meeting.Copyright 2024 WSMV. All rights reserved.
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Thank you to The Post and Courier’s editorial writers, for stating the obvious: Libraries “couldn’t ban books even if they wanted to; people can still purchase pretty much any book libraries refer to as banned.”I’m tired of being called a book banner. I’m also tired of us being so polarized that we’ve lost all common sense. Sexually explicit material shouldn’t be accessible to children. It’s not political. It’s also not a “publicity stunt,” as your Sept. 3 editorial called the Charleston County Republican Party’s request that the Charleston County Library move “all sexually explicit books” from the children’s section of the libraries to a restricted, adults-only section.
About two years ago, I began researching the volume of sexually explicit books in our library, and I was shocked. It’s not rocket science — and you don’t even have to leave your home to discover it. Go to ccpl.org and type “sex” in your search engine. All of these books are accessible to children because children can check out any book they want. If they want to check out an R-rated movie, mom needs to give the OK and lift the “card restriction.” It’s ironic that Hollywood has stricter standards than our libraries. Read the ratings guide at filmratings.com. Then, check the content of a few of the books that just came up in your library search.I couldn’t check out adult books in the 1980s, so when did this happen? I also had no idea what was on the shelves in the children’s section. I know, the library staff expects “parents to do their job.” I thought the library staff was doing its job and the books were cataloged according to age-appropriate content. Instead, books are catalogued based on publishers’ recommendations.
Living two blocks away, we called the library our second home. When my kids could finally walk to the library on their own, they loved spending afternoons at the new young adult section at the main library on Calhoun Street. They weren’t on phones; they were reading. I thought things were good. So when I learned the young adult section had become filled with filth, I wanted to help. Surely adults would agree we need to fix this, right?
First, I met with our branch manager, and I spoke to librarians. Next, I submitted a patron’s request for reconsideration. Then, the library’s review committee and the director denied my request. I wanted to appeal, but there was no appeal process. Finally, I met with Executive Director Angela Craig and Deputy Director Jim McQueen. I showed them graphic images and content. I even went to the police and showed them. They shared their frustration with the books. One officer suggested my best option was to find a civil attorney.
I naively thought if I shed some light on these books, the board and the library director would agree that they clearly don’t belong in the hands of children. Unfortunately, it was the opposite. My request to make Nikol Hasler’s book “Sex: An Uncensored Introduction” only available to young adults with parental consent would be “contrary to CCPL’s collection development policy, inconsistent with the mission and values of the public library as an institution, and impractical to implement.” At the time, there were only two copies of this book in the entire system. How could that be impractical to implement?
So I took Ms. Craig’s advice, and I went to the library board. I gave the board members a packet similar to the one I showed their director. In my two-minute speech, I simply asked board members to review their policies and procedures of selecting, cataloging and shelving books. I also asked them to review their patron’s reconsideration policy because it lacks due process. I heard nothing. In fact, our board doesn’t even have to rewrite its policies and procedures; the library board in Campbell County, Wyoming, has already created a policy for “Protecting Children from Harmful, Sexually Explicit Material in Areas Designated for Minors.” It’s accessible on the group’s website.
Fast forward to today. The Sept. 3 editorial said the burden of identifying books that we don’t believe the library staff should make available in the children’s section should fall on those of us who object to the books, but the library staff knows what’s on the shelves. I have a list that I started months ago. To ensure I wasn’t being unreasonable on what made the list, I went to booklooks.org, which provides a rating and provides copies of the content. After confirming the books were in the library, I only put those on my list that this site rated as 3 or higher on a scale of 1-5. That would be the filthiest of the filth.
Yet books keep coming in, and I can’t keep up. The authors keep writing, the publishers keep publishing, and our dedicated staff keep ordering, cataloging and shelving them. I’m happy to hand off the list to anyone who wants to take over from here. I’m also happy to help “relocate the books.” In fact, there are dozens of us willing to help. We just want libraries to be a safe place for children to explore like they used to be not too long ago.Pam Kusmider is a former high school teacher in the Charleston County School District.
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Wise philanthropists have a key role to play in bringing truth—and trust—back to science.
Science has lost its way, and it’s been a story decades in the making. The COVID-19 pandemic brought this detour into sharp focus, accelerating the credibility gap and contributing to a rising loss of public trust in science.
A Pew Research poll from 2023 found trust in scientists declined by 14-percentage points during the pandemic. The political divide has become even more pronounced as well. A 2021 Gallup poll found 86% of Democrats reported having a high trust in science compared to only 37% of Republicans. What’s more, distrust of science is closely correlated to distrust of other institutions.
Findings from the Survey Center on American Life at the American Enterprise Institute concluded that COVID-19 vaccination status correlates to trust in government, the news media, the academy and religious and scientific organizations.
The problems at the core of science are complicated and multi-faceted. Experts interviewed by Philanthropy Roundtable identified several top reasons:
The pressure to conform to conventional wisdom has never been higher.
Career bureaucrats now run the government and outlast presidential administrations.
Research funding is closely tied to the National Institute of Health (NIH), leading scientists to choose research topics carefully to avoid conflicting with the NIH.
Peer-review journals have become “pay-to-play” publications where unbiased science is crowded out.
“At the end of the day, science should not have an ebb and flow. We may learn new things, but it should not be ignored just based on politics,” said Jacob Traverse, president and CEO of the Center for Truth in Science. “If that’s the truth of the science, and the evidence supports it, the decisions should reflect that. Often, we see that’s not the case.”
Dr. Scott Atlas, a former advisor to President Donald Trump and a key contrarian against the prevailing narrative during the COVID-19 pandemic, believes the root of the loss of trust in science is based on the crowding out of dissenting voices.
“We’ve seen a dangerous increase in the role of the state in economic development, regulatory dominance and a trend to restrict personal freedom under the guise of science,” he said. “There has been a distortion of science becoming advocacy rather than seeking truth, which has led to a dangerous loss of trust in public institutions.”
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, founder of the organization Do No Harm, which seeks to counter the influence of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) mandates in medical education, adds, “I always used to tell my students: you have a whole lifetime to convince people that you’re someone of merit. It can take one minute to destroy it. And that’s what the government did. You took organizations like the CDC that were wonderful bastions of research and tried to keep the public safe, and they wasted all of their good works and public support by toeing political lines and not knowing when the data changed.”
In his farewell address in 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower warned, “In holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”
That warning appears to be playing out, as stories of the impact of a one-way approach to science abound. Atlas, for example, was shunned at Stanford University when he challenged the COVID-19 orthodoxy. The same held true for Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, another Stanford professor who faced severe censorship after publishing research data contrary to the prevailing narrative surrounding COVID-19 death rates.
Through a series of public records requests, John Sailer of the National Association of Scholars uncovered a pattern in universities receiving a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to discriminate on racial and gender lines in hiring practices.
“The elephant in the room is the enormous power that government funding has in science and the way government directs science at universities and research institutes,” said Richard Tren of the Searle Freedom Trust.
Why Science Matters More Than Ever
Science is technical, but it matters because of the human element. Changes in the realm of science are particularly impactful to vulnerable demographics, including low-income and impoverished communities, children and the elderly. We witnessed this in stark contrast during the pandemic.
For example, there was little scientific proof to support widespread lockdowns, mask mandates and school closures. During recent testimony before the U.S. House Oversight and Accountability Committee, Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted his COVID-19 rules—including six-foot distancing and masking for children—were not based in science.
Elderly people were forced to die without loved ones close, students experienced massive learning loss and economic shutdowns hit the poorest communities the hardest. The United States is still paying the price for all of this today. The highest-in-a-generation inflation rate between 2022 and 2024 hit the working class and poor the hardest. Unlike wealthier individuals who often have savings and assets to buffer against rising costs, the poor and working class are struggling to make ends meet.
The pandemic-induced inflation has thus highlighted and worsened pre-existing disparities.
“The number of lockdown and societal-disruption deaths since 2020 is likely around 400,000, as much as 100 times the number of COVID deaths the lockdowns prevented,” Atlas and Steve H. Hanke wrote in The Wall Street Journal.
The bottom line is that restoring trust in science matters for the future welfare of our country. And to move forward, the way science communicates will need to change.
“Restoring [trust] will require careful and perhaps even painful self-scrutiny on the part of [scientific] institutions to learn why they lost the confidence of so many Americans during the past four years,” Tony Mills, AEI’s director of the Center for Technology, Science, and Energy, wrote in The New York Times.
To Mills, the way forward must include open dialogue, improved transparency and increased accountability in scientific communications and decisions.
And donors can pave the way forward.
Investment Opportunities
Liberty-oriented donors have been tempted to retreat from giving in the areas of medicine and science, but wise philanthropists have a key role to play in bringing truth back to science. A pivotal one is to return grounded reality to the world of science by opposing the DEI agenda. Organizations like Do No Harm aim to counter the influence of DEI mandates in medical education. Efforts are directed toward ensuring merit and scientific rigor remain the guiding principles in medical research and education.
“There’s been a long-term effort, particularly at the NIH, to encourage minorities to be involved in science. And I think that encouragement is fine,” said Do No Harm’s Goldfarb. “But the way they’ve gone about it has been problematic. It’s based on the idea that we’re going to have a better scientific workforce if it’s more diverse, which on its surface is an absurdity. Scientific research is about individual intellectual capability. It’s about dogged pursuit of goals. It’s about working really hard. It’s not about anything else.”
Another avenue is to support freedom of speech and inquiry in the science space. Atlas calls the current regime “a cabal of science control,” where a small group of people at the top through the NIH approve grants and are also the journal editors and department heads at universities.
“You cannot get promoted in a university in an academic medical center without getting an NIH grant specifically. Young people are not going to jeopardize their career by speaking out against the NIH leadership,” Atlas added.
Tren, of the Searle Freedom Trust, points to examples like the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression that are working to expand free speech rights across the board.
Another big challenge in this arena is the current process of peer-review in the scientific community.
“The underpinning of the scientific community is iterative, slow, painful peer review,” said Traverse.
But today, the process is monopolized by journals that profit from free submissions and unpaid reviewers. This system has led to significant issues. Traverse says academic institutions need to change how they hire and retain researchers to address these economic incentives and improve the integrity of scientific research.
Another avenue for donors to consider is by direct funding of institutions, individual scholars and media sources. For example, Dr. Tyler Cowen, an economics professor at Georgia Mason University and faculty director at the Mercatus Center, has created so-called “fast grants” that allow scientists to quickly apply for and receive funding decisions within 48 hours. The money flows quickly afterward. This was a model from the COVID-19 pandemic of how philanthropists can quickly expedite grants to fill an urgent need.
Along the same lines, a promising way forward is to support the next generation of young scientists willing to challenge the establishment orthodoxy. Support fellowships to incentivize conservatives to make a career in the sciences and invest in workforce education in the STEM field. A good investment opportunity in this arena is the Global Liberty Institute, founded by Atlas, which aims to promote individual and economic freedom and the free exchange of ideas.
GLI focuses on creating a coalition of young professionals who value free markets, limited central government and individual freedoms. The group advocates creating clear pathways for rising leaders in the field, dispelling fears associated with cancel culture and ensuring competent individuals ascend to influential positions. GLI has successfully mentored around 150 young people in various fields, aiming to connect them with senior business leaders and policymakers.
Dr. Vinay Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist and professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco, says one of his most frequent pieces of advice for donors is to resist the temptation to support universities broadly and instead fund individual scientists or labs.
“A better approach is to donate to researchers who are doing the kind of research you feel is good,” Prasad said. “One of the challenges if you donate to a place like Harvard or Johns Hopkins is you don’t know if the money will be used for something that you disagree with, or that defies common sense, or an agenda you didn’t sign up for.”
Prasad’s own lab, VK Prasad Laboratory, has explored issues including cancer research and approaches to medical practice. But since 2020, the lab has also focused on the efficacy of the response to the pandemic, including employer-mandated vaccine policies.
Still another investment opportunity is in bringing a differing perspective through alternative media sources. Look to fund media platforms to inform the public and lawmakers about data or research initiatives mainstream outlets ignore.
Ultimately, perhaps the biggest way donors can make a difference is by helping return balance to the world of science.
As Prasad said, “Just because many scientists have been captured and become ideologues cheering one political party doesn’t mean that all of science is broken. The more we can have balance in universities, the more we can have people who have different points of view and who feel empowered to speak up, the more we can have debates, the reality is that the people who are correct will win.”
This article originally appeared on the Philanthropy Roundtable Values-Based Giving Page on September 4, 2024, at https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/politics-has-poisoned-science-philanthropy-can-help-provide-the-cure/.
AI-generated image of the black hole jet.
Black hole jets are powerful streams of particles and magnetic fields ejected from the regions surrounding supermassive black holes. These jets, often spanning hundreds of thousands of light-years, play a crucial role in shaping the environments around galaxies by injecting energy into the intergalactic medium. They can influence the growth of galaxies, the distribution of matter, and the magnetic fields within the cosmic web.
Now, researchers have found the biggest one to date.
So big we need to change the physics books
The newly discovered black hole-driven jets extend over 7 megaparsecs or 23 million light-years.
“This pair is not just the size of a solar system, or a Milky Way; we are talking about 140 Milky Way diameters in total,” says Martijn Oei, a Caltech postdoctoral scholar and lead author of a new Nature paper reporting the findings. “The Milky Way would be a little dot in these two giant eruptions.”
The megastructure was named Porphyrion, after a giant in Greek mythology. It has a total power output equal to trillions of suns, shooting from above and below a supermassive black hole at the heart of a remote galaxy.
What makes Porphyrion particularly remarkable is not just its size but also its coherence. The structure consists of a northern lobe, a core, and a southern jet, with hotspots at both ends — all of which are remarkably stable. The core of the system is anchored by a galaxy harboring a supermassive black hole which is actively accreting matter and powering the jets. The discovery of this structure raises new questions about how such jets manage to maintain their integrity over cosmic distances, even as the universe evolves.
The findings, based on observations using the International LOFAR Telescope (ILT) and the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) are so striking they force astrophysicists to rethink the limits regarding black hole energy transport and the stability of jets on a cosmic scale.
For decades, astronomers have studied these cosmic jets, with many falling within the size range of a few megaparsecs (Mpc). However, until now, the longest-known jet structures ended at about 5 Mpc. The discovery of Porphyrion, stretching to 7 Mpc, goes beyond this proposed limit.
These jets may be important for the universe
The jet dates from a time when our universe (currently 13.8 billion years old) was “just” 6.3 billion years old. During that time, the universe was denser and more turbulent than it is today, which makes it all the more surprising that the jets grew this big and lasted so long.
This suggests that these giant jet systems might have been influential in the formation of galaxies in the early universe.
“Astronomers believe that galaxies and their central black holes co-evolve, and one key aspect of this is that jets can spread huge amounts of energy that affect the growth of their host galaxies and other galaxies near them,” says co-author George Djorgovski, professor of astronomy and data science at Caltech. “This discovery shows that their effects can extend much farther out than we thought.”
Even the fact that there are so many of these jets (this is just the latest in a series of black hole jets) surprised researchers. This massive population of over 10,000 gargantuan jets was found using Europe’s LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) radio telescope.