An antibody-like compound known on land to be exclusively to be found in camelids like alpacas, lamas, and dromedaries, could be used to treat human brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study. The study’s focus were antibody-like proteins, aptly called nanobodies, whose small size allowed the scientists to treat neurological conditions […] The post Unique Antibody from Camels and Alpacas Could Be Used to Treat Alzheimer’s appeared first on Good News Network.

News The Running Man The Running Man Final Trailer Gives Ben Richards a Team and A Lot of Dynamite Edgar Wright’s adaptation of the Richard Bachman book hits theaters later this week. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on November 10, 2025 Credit: Ross Ferguson/Paramount Pictures Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Ross Ferguson/Paramount Pictures There’s a new, quite violent Running Man trailer out today, and in it we get a few more details about the film’s scope and plot. The clip is short—less than a minute long!—but it sets up the fact that Glen Powell’s Ben Richards has a team helping him survive and win the deadly (and televised) competition where assassins across the globe aim to kill him within 30 days. If they fail and he survives, he’ll be awarded a billion dollars. Here’s the full synopsis, which offers the basic premise: In a near-future society, The Running Man is the top-rated show on television—a deadly competition where contestants, known as Runners, must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins, with every move broadcast to a bloodthirsty public and each day bringing a greater cash reward. Desperate to save his sick daughter, working-class Ben Richards (Powell) is convinced by the show’s charming but ruthless producer, Dan Killian (Josh Brolin), to enter the game as a last resort. But Ben’s defiance, instincts, and grit turn him into an unexpected fan favorite—and a threat to the entire system. As ratings skyrocket, so does the danger, and Ben must outwit not just the Hunters, but a nation addicted to watching him fall. The rub, of course, is that no one survives because the game is rigged. Powell’s Ben Richards, however, appears to have some help in the form of actors Michael Cera, William H. Macy, and probably others. How their characters will keep Ben alive remains to be seen, though today’s trailer also shows Ben Richards traveling quite a bit during the competition, which suggests that staying on the move may be the best way for him to survive. Maybe? The good news is we’ll get to see how Edgar Wright’s adaptation of Richard Bachman’s (aka Stephen King’s) novel pans out very soon! The Running Man premieres in theaters on November 14, 2025. Check out the final trailer below. [end-mark] The post <i>The Running Man</i> Final Trailer Gives Ben Richards a Team and A Lot of Dynamite appeared first on Reactor.

Column Babylon 5 Rewatch Babylon 5 Rewatch: “Racing Mars” Marcus and Franklin meet their liaison to the Mars resistance, while Sheridan confronts Garibaldi about his attitude. By Keith R.A. DeCandido | Published on November 10, 2025 Credit: Warner Bros. Television Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Warner Bros. Television “Racing Mars”Written by J. Michael StraczynskiDirected by Jesus TreviñoSeason 4, Episode 10Production episode 410Original air date: April 21, 1997 It was the dawn of the third age… Ivanova meets with Sheridan to discuss their supply issues. With EarthGov’s quarantine in effect, and the punishment for violating it by any human being brutal, even black market sources are steering clear. Ivanova says she’s already working on a solution, which she’s been doing on her own to give Sheridan deniability. She then relieves Sheridan of command on medical grounds, as he hasn’t taken any personal time in nine months, during which he’s died, been resurrected, and fought a war, and maybe he should take a break before the inevitable showdown with Earth. Franklin and Cole are in the cargo hold of a a liner heading toward Mars, with Cole making Franklin batshit with his game of “I Spy.” Cole then discovers someone sneaking about. He calls himself Captain Jack, and he claims to be the brother of the ship’s captain, who lets him hitch a ride periodically. He also offers superior food to their meal-bar rations: Insta-Heats, which actually taste and smell good. Cole insists they not only not take them, but keep their distance from Captain Jack, as they’re to make no contact with anyone until they meet their Mars Resistance liaison. Eventually, however, Jack reveals that he’s the liaison, uttering the appropriate code phrase. He didn’t identify himself right away out of a sense of caution. He gives them the identicards they’ll need on Mars—they’re for a couple, Jim Fennerman and Daniel Lane. Sheridan tries to relax by watching TV, but all the Earth channels have been blacked out except for ISN. He puts that on, only to see a rerun of Dan Randall’s hit piece. After watching Garibaldi’s evisceration of Sheridan, the captain decides to confront his erstwhile chief of security. Garibaldi makes no apology for his words—and isn’t freedom of speech what they were supposed to be fighting for? Sheridan counters that they’re having enough trouble with Clark’s propaganda war without Garibaldi giving him ammunition for his side. Their discussion gets very heated, with both sides yelling, and Sheridan making it clear that he won’t tolerate Garibaldi endangering the station. Credit: Warner Bros. Television Some very skeevy-looking guys observe this, led by a guy named Wade. Later they approach Garibaldi with an offer to help deal with Sheridan, though they frame it as “helping” the captain. Captain Jack takes Cole and Franklin on a tube across Mars. Jack says they’ve heard all kinds of outlandish stories about B5, including that they’d abandoned Mars. Franklin assures them that they haven’t abandoned them, they’ve just been busy fighting a war—Jack has no idea what he’s talking about. He’d heard rumors about a war, but nothing he really believed. Cole is rather annoyed to learn that he’s finally a war hero and nobody seems to know about it… Ivanova meets with four smugglers, who haven’t been operating much around B5 lately. They explain that EarthGov’s penalties for doing business anywhere near B5 are too harsh to risk. Plus, Nightwatch has made gun-running damn near impossible. Ivanova offers them a deal: bring legit supplies—food, medicine, and so on—to B5 and they’ll have the protection of B5’s starfuries when they’re in the general vicinity and have full access to B5’s repair facilities for their ships. Captain Jack leads Cole and Franklin down some underground corridors belonging to abandoned mines. They’re met at gunpoint by members of the Mars Resistance, led by someone identified only as “Number Two.” The communiqué from B5 was fragmentary, and they also have news of a hit squad coming for them, so they’re playing everything safe. They ask for Cole and Franklin’s real identicards, and they’ll verify those against their DNA profile to make sure they’re really Marcus Cole and Stephen Franklin. While they wait, Captain Jack shows Franklin a picture of his daughter, complete with her address on the back of it, which he says is there because he sometimes forgets it. He also insists on keeping his coat on, despite how hot it is in the tunnels. Delenn approaches Sheridan in the Zen garden, where he’s stewing about the confrontation with Garibaldi. To his horror, she has yet another Minbari ritual that prospective couples must undergo, though he relents when he finds out that it’s to spend a night discovering each others’ pleasures. Wah-hey! Number Two returns along with Number One: the identicards show that they aren’t Cole and Franklin. However, before anything else can happen, Captain Jack shakily raises a PPG and aims it at Number One. Franklin tackles her to the ground, which saves her life, while Cole manages to shoot Jack in the shoulder, which knocks an alien creature off it. Jack runs away, dropping the real identicards on the ground. The resistance folks capture the alien, which is now dead, and Franklin examines it. It’s a parasite, with fibres that wrap around the nervous system. Jack probably was being controlled. In retrospect, he dropped hints that something was odd, and also provided a method of notifying his next of kin with the picture of his daughter. Credit: Warner Bros. Television Number One tries contacting him via his comm headset, which he still has. He’s in a tube, and he’s stolen a grenade. Number One tries to convince him that it’s over, the alien parasite is dead, but Jack says that it’ll just grow back. So he blows himself up with a grenade. Sheridan tries to mend fences with Garibaldi, and the talk is almost reasonable until an alien woman practically genuflects before Sheridan. Garibaldi loses his temper, violently grabbing the woman and saying he’s not a messiah or a religious figure, he’s just a person. Sheridan urges Garibaldi to let go of her, as he’s hurting her. Garibaldi asks if Sheridan likes this adulation, oblivious to the physical harm he’s causing. Sheridan puts a hand on Garibaldi’s shoulder to get him to leave her alone, and Garibaldi decks him. Sheridan calls off security, which is more than happy to arrest their former boss for assaulting their current CO, but Sheridan says this one’s free. Next time, he’ll knock Garibaldi’s block off. After Sheridan walks off, Garibaldi is visibly pissed at himself. Sheridan goes to Delenn’s quarters for the pleasure ritual, only to be rather appalled to find a crowded room. There are a mess of Minbari—including Lennier—present as witnesses, apparently. Delenn drags a reluctant Sheridan into the bedroom. Number One tells Cole and Franklin that the resistance leaders are all going to gather, but it’ll take a couple of days. In the meantime, they’ve made a reservation at the Red Planet Hotel in the names of their assumed identities: it’s the honeymoon suite. Garibaldi meets with Wade, saying he’s in, that Sheridan has gotten out of control. But he won’t hurt him. Wade assures with a hilarious lack of conviction that they just want to help Sheridan, no really, honest.    Get the hell out of our galaxy! Sheridan spends his enforced vacation trying really hard to make nice with Garibaldi, also trying really hard to deal with having his sexual preferences displayed for many Minbari to see. He doesn’t do so great with either… Ivanova is God. Ivanova pitch to the smugglers is a clever mix of enticing—protection and repairs—and enlightened self-interest—they’d only be smuggling nice things—and also threats—she makes it clear that their ships will need those free repairs if they step out of line. Her pitch is sufficiently successful that one of the smugglers propositions her. The household god of frustration. It’s obvious that Garibaldi is being manipulated in some way. His body language and facial expressions make it clear that his initial response in the immediate aftermath of his second confrontation with Sheridan is regret and self-directed anger at how badly he’s screwed up. But the next time we see him, he’s telling Wade how dangerous Sheridan is, which is a completely different response, and at odds with reality. If you value your lives, be somewhere else. Minbari really do have a ritual for every damn thing… We live for the one, we die for the one. Cole gets to show off his badassery twice, once when he finds and captures Captain Jack in the cargo hold, and again when he takes out his guard before shooting the Keeper off Jack’s shoulder. The Shadowy Vorlons. We see another Keeper like the one that attached itself to the Centauri Regent (and Mollari in the future) on Captain Jack, and it’s apparently trying to break the Mars Resistance. This is in keeping with the Shadows’ allies still trying to help Clark out. Credit: Warner Bros. Television No sex, please, we’re EarthForce. The morning after the pleasure ritual, Lennier and Sheridan encounter each other in a transport tube. Lennier looks at Sheridan questioningly and asks, “‘Woo-hoo!’?” Sheridan just looks embarrassed. Also there’s some very obvious chemistry between Franklin and Number One… Welcome aboard. Donovan Scott plays Captain Jack, while Clayton Landey plays Number Two and Geoff Meed and Brian Tahash play the two smugglers with speaking parts. Carrie Dobro—who will later star in A Call to Arms and Crusade as Dureena Nafeel—appears as the Brakiri woman. Enough archive footage from “The Illusion of Truth” is used to give Jeff Griggs another guest star credit as Randall. We also get two new recurring characters. Marjorie Monaghan debuts the role of Number One, while Mark Schneider kicks off the role of Wade. Monaghan will return next time in “Lines of Communications,” while Schneider will be back in “Conflicts of Interest.” Trivial matters. This is the third time we’ve seen a Keeper, following the one on Mollari in the future of “War Without End, Part 2” and the one on the Regent at the end of “Epiphanies.” At one point, Ivanova and the smugglers mention that one of them smuggled in a compound that made Garibaldi bald, providing a plot reason—beyond, “he’s going balder by the nanosecond,” anyhow—why Jerry Doyle started just shaving his head. Garibaldi refers to the pope with a feminine pronoun, a bit that, according to J. Michael Straczynski, resulted in many angry responses from Catholics all over the world. A Pope Bernadette II will be referenced in an episode of Crusade. The echoes of all of our conversations. “Just my luck—first time in my life I’m a war hero, and nobody knows about it! And worst of all, I’m married to you!” “Well, that’s not my idea.” “Oh, you say that now—tell that to your mother. She never stopped calling us about it. ‘So, when’s the big day? I’ve got to pick out patterns. Your father isn’t going to live forever!’ And on and on and on and on.” —Cole taking the piss out of Franklin. Credit: Warner Bros. Television The name of the place is Babylon 5. “And that’s when I killed him, your honor.” I have not been kind to the late Richard Biggs in this rewatch. I have come through this not liking Biggs’ acting much, and especially not liking the character of Franklin. But I recall having fond memories of the Mars Resistance subplot, and while a lot of that is due to my abject love of Marjorie Monaghan, this episode reminded me that a big part of it was the easy chemistry between Biggs and Jason Carter. This chemistry extended to real life, as the pair were close friends all the way to Biggs’ tragic death. And that really helps sell the Mars part of the episode. Which is good, as that part of the plot has two major casting issues—which, luckily, won’t affect the future of the storyline, as this is the only appearance by each. Clayton Landey mistakes snarling for acting in his role as Number Two, and Donovan Scott and his hilariously wandering accent is just a little too precious as Captain Jack. He definitely ranks way behind Sparrow, Harkness, and the guy in the Billy Joel song when it comes to fictional Captain Jacks… I find myself wondering what the plan was for Garibaldi’s betrayal before Michael O’Hare had to leave the show. The Sinclair-Garibaldi friendship was a cornerstone of the first season—indeed, Garibaldi only had his job because the commander was his drinking buddy—and having Garibaldi betray the station would have had much more weight if it was Sinclair he was betraying. But the advantage of it being Sheridan is that the relationship between the two of them was never particularly strong. Yes, they worked together, and generally trusted each other, but the closeness that Garibaldi had with Sinclair has never been there with Sheridan. And so Garibaldi’s turning on him actually has a certain sincerity to it that it wouldn’t have had with Sinclair. Of course, it’s a bit spoiled by the fact that we know that Garibaldi’s being controlled by something or someone. It might have been more effective if we didn’t know that about him, and thought this might be a legitimate character choice. Especially since Garibaldi’s words do have the ring of truth. Since returning from Z’ha’dum, Sheridan has been a lot more high-handed and arrogant. The rest of the episode generally works well. Ivanova’s solution to the supply issue is clever and well handled. Sheridan’s expression of Minbari ritual fatigue hangs a lantern on the rather ridiculous number of rituals that the Minbari seem to have for every damn thing—plus “‘Woo-hoo!’?” still makes me laugh, though that’s primarily due to Bill Mumy’s letter-perfect deadpan. Next week: “Lines of Communication”[end-mark] The post <i>Babylon 5</i> Rewatch: “Racing Mars” appeared first on Reactor.

Books book reviews Here Be Dragons: John Hornor Jacobs’ The Night That Finds Us All A bracing work of maritime cosmic horror. By Tobias Carroll | Published on November 10, 2025 Comment 0 Share New Share Is it any surprise that cosmic horror and open water fit together all too neatly? The subgenre is one that abounds with feelings of insignificance; when you see an image of a crewed vessel dwarfed by massive waves—or even the breadth of a lake, sea, or ocean—you’re already tapping into some of the same emotions countless practitioners of the genre harness for their own ends. Jean Ray’s “The Mainz Psalter,” a tale of a voyage that heads very far off course, is a prime example of a seafaring tale that heads into ever-more-unsettling waters. There’s also the matter of megafauna. I write this as someone terrified by creatures over a certain size; the blue whale at the Museum of Natural History unsettled me as a child and continues to do so as an adult. Nautical cosmic horror has these aplenty; John Langan’s The Fisherman, for my money one of the best horror novels of the last decade, neatly taps into that moment wherein awe gives way to primal terror.  That’s a roundabout way of saying that John Hornor Jacobs is heading into potent territory with his new novel The Night That Finds Us All. Thus far, Jacobs’ work has encompassed everything from trips into musical history (Southern Gods) to sprawling dark fantasy (The Incorruptibles). Jacobs is no stranger to cosmic horror, but in his latest novel he’s taken that approach in a very nautical direction. Like a well-tied knot when docking, it’s a good fit. At its core, The Night That Finds Us All is a novel about the fight against precarity and insignificance. That works on a thematic level: What is a vessel on the open ocean but something out of place and constantly under siege? But it also fits in with the more lived-in elements of this book. Narrator Sam Vines is in a financially precarious situation when the book opens, trying to keep her ship The Victress afloat and herself gainfully employed, whether running her own boat or crewing someone else’s. The arrival of a global pandemic complicates matters further, and makes a job offer from Loick Archambault, an old friend and colleague, that much more tempting. Loick is assembling a crew to bring the Blackwatch, a decades-old yacht, from the Pacific Northwest to London. That the ship will be captained by one Hank Huntington—with whom Sam has a complicated professional relationship—adds to the fraught nature of this voyage. There’s also Seabees (also known as Sarah), the ship’s first mate, to whom Sam is drawn. Sam isn’t the only character in grim financial straits; Hank, we learn, has been using a YouTube channel to elevate his profile, and has also taken on a trio of paid crew members without the ship’s new owners signing off on it.  There’s also the matter of whether or not the Blackwatch is haunted, something Loick brings up relatively early in the proceedings. That the yacht’s cabin is decorated in an eldritch manner is one clue things are about to get uncanny; another is Sam’s discovery of a manuscript detailing a harrowing trip it took with its original owners in the mid-20th century. That narrative doesn’t quite parallel the present-day segments, but it provides a few echoes—and makes it clear that the Blackwatch is being menaced by more than economic anxiety. Buy the Book The Night That Finds Us All John Hornor Jacobs Buy Book The Night That Finds Us All John Hornor Jacobs Buy this book from: AmazonBarnes and NobleiBooksIndieBoundTarget This novel is narrated by Sam after several devastating events have taken place; at one point, she alludes to a terrible fate awaiting one supporting character. But Sam is also a fallible narrator; there’s one especially bleak bit of offscreen violence that readers may become aware of before she does, and there’s also a sense that she’s not telling the reader everything about certain things. This isn’t done in a “the narrator is unreliable and everything you know is wrong” way; instead, Jacobs uses that quality to advance the characterization of Sam. As the Blackwatch continues on its journey, the sense that something is off ratchets up. That takes many forms, including an odd substance in the bilge, mechanical failures, and erratic behavior from a few crew members. (Though not Sam; her struggles to stay sober while on this assignment are one more source of tension here.) Given the nature of Sam’s narration, we know that things will take a bad turn at some point; still, the violence with which it finally does is jarring. There’s also a moment in this novel’s second half that readers of Jacobs’ novella collection A Lush and Seething Hell will likely enjoy, but familiarity with the author’s previous work is not a requirement. Instead, this accomplishes the task of evoking a larger cosmology without giving the sense that this is not a self-contained work.  It’s also worth noting here that Jacobs knows his genre. There’s a fun moment partway through the book when Sam stumbles onto some writing in a mysterious language that hints that Jacobs is taking this book into Lovecraftian waters. Later, Sam learns that the uncanny language she’s been reading is, in fact…Welsh. It’s a gentle reminder in a not-so-gentle book that Jacobs is familiar with the map but willing to add in his own cartography. The Night That Finds Us All is a bracing work of maritime cosmic horror. That description is largely accurate but also flawed: For all that this is a story of flawed people trying to survive under terrifying circumstances, at its core it’s also a story about redemption. In the midst of mysterious hauntings and the legacy of a doomed voyage, what stands out most is Sam Vines, who opens the novel as a flawed antihero and fights her way towards something that looks an awful lot like redemption. Jacobs’ novel doesn’t lack for grotesque and awe-inducing images, but cloaked beneath that is a story of heroism in an unlikely place.[end-mark] The Night That Finds Us All is published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons. The post Here Be Dragons: John Hornor Jacobs’ <i>The Night That Finds Us All</i> appeared first on Reactor.

Start Quiz Jonathan Borba/Unsplash Jonathan Borba/Unsplash When it comes to a romantic relationship, people tend to fall into one of the five love languages: words of affirmation, acts of service, physical touch, quality time, or receiving gifts. These languages make a person feel loved, adored, and good about their relationship. There are five love languages; which one speaks to you? Source

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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency slaughtered hundreds of ostriches at Edgewood, British Columbia's Universal Ostrich Farms Thursday night.Using rifles, at least two “marksmen” believed to be working at the CFIA’s Enforcement Investigation and Services Unit in its Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, branch unloaded hundreds of rounds into the birds beginning on Thursday evening and continuing into the early hours of Friday morning.While sifting through material filled with the blood and remains of the supposedly infected ostriches, the police wore no protective gear and worked with their bare hands.To those who raised and cared for them, each ostrich was more than a number. Among the dead were Spike, "tough and protective"; the "feisty" and "full of attitude" Anna; and Kickaroo, so named because of her penchant for kicking when excited.'Please stop'Over 120 supporters stood in the rain and shouted their objections to the killers, including farm spokeswoman Katie Pasitney, who kneeled in front of the iron fence that had separated her from the ostriches since the CFIA and RCMP invaded and occupied the 58-acre spread located in the pastoral Kootenays, close to Valhalla Provincial Park and about two hours east of Kelowna. Sobbing profusely, Pasitney begged the shooters to “stop, please stop.” — (@) The “culling” did not appear to be humane, as many ostriches were only injured and spent the night crying in pain as their lives receded. In the morning, CFIA “inspectors” decapitated several of the birds that continued to struggle for their lives.Many supporters took to social media to describe the ordeal. According to one such post:They were gunned down in the dark, over hours. I watched the lives from 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. and had to log off around 9 because I couldn’t take any more — the gunshots, the agonizing sounds of the birds, the screaming. By the time I muted the sound I think the count was around 600 bullets. It was absolutely f****** sickening. The anger I feel is unreal and I will not be silenced. Those responsible — the shooters, CFIA, and the corrupt cops who look the other way — you will pay in hell.No protective gearA source who has been integral to the farm’s response to the ongoing presence of the CFIA and RCMP told Align that aside from identity-concealing “balaclavas," the shooters wore absolutely no protective clothing, despite the CFIA’s continued claim that the birds posed a “pathogenic” health hazard to other animals and humans.On Sunday, the CFIA began the task of removing the ostrich carcasses from the farm. Personnel used the RCMP as farm labor to collect all the hay from the “hot zone” or death pen, which the government bureaucrats had used to corral the ostriches.While sifting through material filled with the blood and remains of the supposedly infected ostriches, the police wore no protective gear and worked with their bare hands. The remains were then piled into blue bins and loaded onto trucks for an undisclosed dumping location, although farm supporters have been following the vehicles to discover where the birds are going.Many believe the carcasses were headed for the port near Surrey, BC, to be loaded onto a ship for disposal at sea.RELATED: ‘Classic display of punishment’: Canada targets family ostrich farm for destruction David KraydenRefusal to testThe CFIA refused to test the ostriches for evidence of avian flu in life or in death. The farm had demonstrated for almost 300 days that the birds were healthy and had developed herd immunity with antibodies that could provide valuable lessons for the natural containment of the H5N1 disease.In a statement, the CFIA claimed it was “moving forward” with “a disease response” at the farm and noted that it would “complete depopulation and disposal measures as authorized by the Health of Animals Act and guided by the stamping out policy for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).”The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday dismissed an appeal from Universal Ostrich Farms to stop the Canadian Food Inspection Agency from slaughtering hundreds of ostriches of the farm because of an apparent outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza in December 2024.'The people have to fight back'Pasitney said, "Our hearts are empty," about herself and farm co-owners Karen Espersen and Dave Bilinski. She said, “It doesn’t matter if it’s a chicken or a 35-year-old ostrich; no animal should have to die inhumanely, neglected, tortured."The CFIA claimed that shooting the birds over several hours was the “most appropriate and humane option” for them.But a CFIA manual on culling practice indicates that shooting should only be utilized as a “last resort.”Pasitney has indicated that she intends to fight for other farms that have been targeted by the CFIA over a “stamping out” policy that is out of step even with the guidelines of the World Health Organization and World Organization for Animal Health.After months of constant legal wrangling and nonstop media attention, Pasitney told Align Sunday that she needs to “get strong” as she moves ahead. “There has to be change in Canada. This cannot be allowed to continue to happen. The people have to fight back.”

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