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7 Oct

This Recent Sci-Fi Inspired Beauty Brand Is Winning Multiple

Simedar Jackson is motivated by helping others. Over the summer the esthetician launched her beauty brand, Of Other Worlds, to just do that. “I like hearing how much the product,” Light Beams, “has modified people’s skin,” she tells ESSENCE via Zoom. “And I like helping others achieve their skincare goals,” the Chicago-based skin guru adds.  Beyond aesthetics, Jackson was empowered to create her brand because she desires to “construct more equity for marginalized beauty consumers.” Moreover, Jackson desired to make clinically proven formulas feel and look more approachable—because of fun packaging and intergalactic product names. “I’m very inspired by sci-fi, Afrofuturism, and fantasy,” she says. Simedar Jackson. As for Light Beams’ standout ingredients? “There are a ridiculous amount of actives within the product,”...
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22 Dec

The 15 Best Sci-Fi Movies of 2022

Science fiction had rather a lot to live as much as this yr. Not only is Avatar: The Way of Water sci-fi, its very creation looks as if sci-fi. It’s like how we invented countless things just attempting to get to the Moon. But other than James Cameron’s technological feat of production and product, science fiction was back on the multiverse beat. Certainly one of the yr’s biggest movies was an indie featuring a universe with talking rocks. One other did something similar…only with Beavis and Butt-Head. One other was a creature feature dense with references to lights and cameras—motion! As these movies got big and added in horror, comedy, motion and melodrama, it was within...
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13 Dec

Kode9 is crafting sci-fi sonics for an independent Scotland

Escapology is the soundtrack to sonic-fiction work Astro-Darien – and the Hyperdub label head’s first album since 2015 Within the late 1690s, Scotland launched into what can be probably the most ambitious colonial schemes attempted within the seventeenth century. An try to colonise what's now Panama in Central America, the Darien Scheme, because the project was named, was meant arrange trading posts between the Atlantic and Pacific. Nevertheless it was a disaster; the plan almost bankrupted Scotland and is a contributing factor to the country having to enter into union with England for the money. “After Brexit, I’ve been considering quite a lot of how that strategy of disintegration might proceed with Scottish independence,”...
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