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Formed in London in 1968‚ King Crimson emerged as a seminal force in the progressive rock genre‚ blending an eclectic mix of classical‚ jazz‚ folk‚ and more into their innovative soundscapes. Their broad musical palette‚ encompassing everything from heavy metal to electronic and experimental music‚ set them apart as pioneers‚ influencing not only their 1970s contemporaries like Yes and Genesis but also a diverse array of artists in the decades that followed. The founding members‚ Robert Fripp‚ Michael Giles‚ Greg Lake‚ Ian McDonald‚ and Peter Sinfield‚ established the band’s distinctive sound with their debut album‚ “In the Court of the The post 10 King Crimson Songs Loved By Fans appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Playing a musical instrument has obvious rewards: the sense of fun and enjoyment‚ the ability to express feelings in different ways‚ and the satisfaction experienced as proficiency improves‚ but could it actually be making you smarter? Well‚ scientists working on PROTECT‚ an online study open to people aged 40 and over‚ reviewed data from more […] The post Singing or Playing Music Throughout Life is Linked with Better Brain Health While You Age appeared first on Good News Network.

The post Why Does My Cat Sleep in the Bathroom? 8 Possible Reasons by Codee Chessher appeared first on Catster. Copying over entire articles infringes on copyright laws. You may not be aware of it‚ but all of these articles were assigned‚ contracted and paid for‚ so they aren't considered public domain. However‚ we appreciate that you like the article and would love it if you continued sharing just the first paragraph of an article‚ then linking out to the rest of the piece on Catster.com. Cats are strange animals‚ and that’s part of the reason we love them. Sometimes‚ though‚ they can act downright bizarre and become obsessed with the weirdest things. For instance‚ you might be amused and puzzled if you happen to find your cat sleeping in your bathroom when they have a perfectly good pet bed to lounge in. There are actually a lot of reasons your cat might want to sleep in the bathroom‚ from comfort to curiosity and more. Check out the reasons below to shed some light on your cat’s new favorite sleeping spot. The 8 Reasons Why Cats Sleep in the Bathroom 1. It’s Cooler in the Bathroom Bathrooms tend to run a little cooler than the rest of the house‚ and bathrooms with cool tile make the perfect resting spot during hot summers. If the rest of your house is sweltering‚ your cat will seek out the coolest places in your home‚ like a reverse heat-seeking missile. It doesn’t hurt that there’s often a litter box nearby or interesting debris like toilet paper rolls to mess around with. Image Credit: 9CatStudio‚ Shutterstock 2. The Water Is Interesting Cats don’t usually like getting wet‚ but funnily enough‚ they enjoy being near water. The sound of running water seems to be soothing for some cats‚ and having cool‚ potable water nearby is a pretty big plus too. Some more playful kitties might even play with the seemingly magical flows of water that come from your bathroom taps. To all animals‚ having water nearby is a soothing reassurance that they’re provided for‚ and this is also true with our domesticated house cats being attracted to the bathroom. 3. It’s Forbidden If your cat doesn’t have free access to explore your bathroom‚ they might leap at the chance to check out this fascinating room where you spend so much time. It’s not necessarily that they’re rebellious‚ but that your cat is naturally attracted to learning more about things and places in their home. Even if they end up not caring for the bathroom one way or the other‚ a bathroom fixation is perfectly normal. Image Credit: Andreas Gradin‚ Shutterstock 4. They Love Sleeping in the Sink Your bathroom sink may be the perfect shape for your cat to curl up‚ with a cool firm surface that supports their bodies and makes them feel safe. Another likely reason cats love sinks is that they’re elevated and give your cat a better view than they’d get chilling on the floor. Combine all these characteristics and it’s little wonder your cat makes a beeline to nap in your sink. 5. It’s a Quiet‚ Restful Area We all know that cats are private animals that need their space to be independent beings of their own‚ and they can pick up on the fact that your bathroom is a private area. If the rest of your home is bustling with activity‚ such as when you have guests over or throw a birthday party‚ you might find your cat hiding away in the bathroom. It’s rejuvenating for them to spend time alone‚ so don’t take it personally. Image Credit: Konstantin Aksenov‚ Shutterstock 6. Your Cat is Quirky Part of the reason we love cats in the first place is that they’re mysterious‚ quirky characters that do things that don’t always make sense to us humans. Some cats are more prone to behavior like sleeping in the bathroom than others‚ or maybe they just have a specific fondness for the type of air freshener you use in the bathroom. Regardless‚ sometimes your cat does weird stuff like sleep in the bathroom for no particular reason at all. 7. Your Cat Wants Attention Cats are very smart and pay attention to when you give them attention‚ which may be why they sleep in your bathroom. If you’ve previously made a fuss about how adorable they are when sleeping in the bathroom like a weirdo‚ they could be repeating the behavior to try and get more of your attention. Talk about clingy! Image Credit: Danny Chang‚ Pixabay 8. Your Cat May Be Sick If your cat is acting abnormally‚ avoiding you‚ or displaying symptoms of physical discomfort and seeking out the bathroom to sleep‚ it may be a sign that they’re sick. Cats look for private spaces to recuperate where they feel safe‚ and proximity to water is a big plus. Ultimately‚ sleeping in the bathroom by itself isn’t cause for alarm. If accompanied by other worrying signs‚ however‚ it may indicate a health problem to get checked out by a qualified vet. Conclusion Cats sleeping in the bathroom usually do it for one or more of the reasons listed above‚ and you can really only make an educated guess. Sometimes it’s just a cool‚ private oasis in a whirlwind of activity‚ they might have a thing for the sink‚ or any of a number of possible reasons. The good news is that sleeping in the bathroom is almost always perfectly normal and not a sign of concern unless accompanied by other significant medical signs. Sources https://www.hepper.com/why-do-cats-like-to-sleep-in-sinks/ https://catvills.com/why-cats-sleep-in-bathroom/ https://www.thesprucepets.com/cats-in-the-bathroom-554029   Featured Image Credit: Burunduk’s‚ Shutterstock The post Why Does My Cat Sleep in the Bathroom? 8 Possible Reasons by Codee Chessher appeared first on Catster. Copying over entire articles infringes on copyright laws. You may not be aware of it‚ but all of these articles were assigned‚ contracted and paid for‚ so they aren't considered public domain. 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Book Recommendations space exploration Five Ways Authors Motivate Characters to Leave Earth Behind Say goodbye to your home planet and hello to the grim void of space… By James Davis Nicoll | Published on February 1‚ 2024 “Earthrise” (NASA/Bill Anders‚ 1968) icon-comment 7 Share New Share Twitter Facebook Pinterest RSS Feed “Earthrise” (NASA/Bill Anders‚ 1968) Few challenges are as vexing to ardent space colonization fans as the continued existence of Earth. Earth possesses a notoriously socialistic biosphere‚ one where even peons can breathe unmetered air‚ where food literally grows out of the ground‚ where the magnetosphere and a thick blanket of air protects even the undeserving poor from an endless sleet of radiation. How to attract workers to toxic‚ nearly airless‚ radiation-bombarded Mars‚ hellish Venus‚ or even the bone-eroding microgravity of the asteroids when there’s a perfectly habitable planet available? To borrow a phrase attributed to a notable public figure‚ “No planet‚ no problem.” If for some reason Earth is not available‚ then workers would have no choice but to accept life on alien worlds for as long as it takes to kill them. Some of you might think Earth is pretty big and hard to get rid of. SF says: Hold my beer! There seem to be five primary strategies available to eliminate Earth from the equation. In order of increasing apocalyptivity‚ they are as follows… Unaffordability The existence of a life-sustaining biosphere is only one aspect of living on Earth. Most of the other elements involving transferring money from one’s own pocket to someone else’s. Provided steps are taken to enhance the income-extraction aspects of living on Earth‚ moving to a place with metered air may seem like the lesser of two evils. Cost-of-living enhancements can vary from morally unjustifiable taxes squandered to prevent the remnants of Earth’s biosphere from collapsing to more tolerable micropayments required to maintain the license on one’s Kreb’s cycle. The exact details do not matter as long as the end result is that the characters cannot afford the fees for living on Earth. Some centuries prior to the main plot of William Barton’s Acts of Conscience‚ residence was made expensive enough that only Earth society’s wealthiest could afford the fees. For the other forty billion people‚ there was an abundance of small‚ expensive habitats in space and the other rocky worlds of the Solar System. Gaetan du Cheyne is a master mechanic but he isn’t rich. Thus‚ he has no choice but to live in cramped quarters in a moderately hazardous space facility. It’s no surprise that when ownership of a functioning starship falls into his lap‚ he swiftly takes advantage. Intolerability An equally functional (and more common) alternative is to provide Earth with a culture or government that is intolerable. Although this often involves conditions such as rampant violence‚ crime‚ or political and/or religious repression‚ history shows that one can achieve much the same results with an excess of will-power-sapping positive qualities1. The important thing is that characters find themselves out of step with their surroundings‚ to the point that the environmental challenges of another world appear the better choice. Readers might wonder why the inhabitants of 25 Phocaea in M.J. Locke’s Up Against It opted for their precarious existence in space. Life in the asteroid belt is an endless quest for volatiles‚ complicated by the necessity to fend off hostile takeover bids from borderline criminal organizations. The answer is that as challenging as the belt can be‚ life down in violence-ravaged America2 is even worse. Presumably the US is not alone in providing contexts which make space habitats seem like a good deal. Forced Migration It does not really matter where people prefer to live if they are given no choice in the matter. History is rich in examples in which states have decided for one reason or another that the state’s interests would be enhanced by shuffling populations around like pieces on a game board. This practice goes back at least as far as the Iron Age and probably earlier. A century and a half before Alan E. Nourse’s Trouble on Titan begins‚ a small but hardy population was exiled to Titan precisely because Titan was so inhospitable. Titan seemed an ideal location for a prison. When valuable rubidium ore was subsequently discovered‚ the prisoners and their descendants were a convenient labor force. Intent on cost-cutting‚ Earth authorities decided that the descendants of the prisoners were just as villainous and unworthy of high wages as the original criminals. There will be‚ however‚ consequences for mistreating the workers on whom Earth’s energy security depends. Inaccessibility Space colonists have no choice but to make a life in space if for some reason they are barred from access to the Earth. While plunking the characters down sans maps in some remote region of the galaxy is a common gambit‚ people within the Solar System can be deterred from returning to the Earth via such rudimentary methods as technology-inhibiting fields or a propulsion regime entirely unsuited to landing on planets like Earth. The backstory to John Varley’s Eight Worlds novels‚ for example‚ involves first contact with judgmental aliens. Preferring cetaceans to primates‚ the aliens simply turn off all advanced technology on Earth. An astonished Lunar colony is forced to survive without Earth. Fortunately the Lunars were up to the task.3 Uninhabitability The simplest method of removing Earth as a factor is to render it utterly uninhabitable (non-existent is a specific subset of uninhabitable). Whether by nuclear war‚ runaway nanotech‚ rampaging hypernova‚ or micro-black hole mishaps‚ the main thing is to force people to move elsewhere by making it lethal to remain on Earth. Malka Older’s The Mimicking of Known Successes features a community in the clouds of Jupiter4. Why settle such a challenging world? Because humans in their exuberance rendered Earth even more uninhabitable than Jupiter. Go team human! * * * Perhaps there are plot-enabling stratagems that I have omitted or examples better than the ones I selected. Feel free to expound on them in comments below. The obvious example being Pilgrims fleeing the Netherlands lest their children be tempted into scandalous ways. Provide the Earth of tomorrow with a sufficiently licentious society and prim protagonists might well opt to flee for some more modest community in space. ︎Canada seems to be pleasant enough‚ although that may only be in comparison with the United States. There are many reasons why people might choose space over Canada‚ starting with the complete absence in space of Canada geese. ︎Possibly because it would have been very hard to sell a series set in space if all the space-dwelling humans had died off centuries before. Sure‚ there’s the George Stewart approach of personifying natural events (as seen in Fire and Storm) but is there a market for Solar Flare? or A Billion Years of Uneventful Near-Misses Amongst Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids? Although I’ve seen a Jupiter-centric simulation of asteroid orbits and it is very hypnotic. ︎The planet is called “Giant” in the novel‚ but as it is orbited by Jupiter’s moons‚ it seems likely that it is Jupiter. Of incidental note: while most of the giant planets in the Solar System have close to Earthlike gravity‚ Jupiter doesn’t. ︎The post Five Ways Authors Motivate Characters to Leave Earth Behind appeared first on Reactor.

News Star Wars Ahsoka Ahsoka’s Wes Chatham Drops a Sly Hint About Captain Enoch’s Future Thrawn’s right-hand man may not stay so loyal By Molly Templeton | Published on February 1‚ 2024 icon-comment 0 Share New Share Twitter Facebook Pinterest RSS Feed If you‚ like me‚ were very excited when The Expanse’s Wes Chatham was cast on Ahsoka‚ and then somewhat let down by his relatively small role in the show—you may have reason to get your hopes up again. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly‚ Chatham mentioned a detail about Enoch’s appearance that may turn out to be very meaningful. That gold mask of his is not‚ as it turns out‚ just a weird-looking metal stormtrooper faceplate. “When I saw the Captain Enoch uniform for the first time‚ it reminded me of Excalibur‚” Chatham told EW‚ continuing‚ “And I remember having a conversation with [showrunner] Dave Filoni and he was excited that I picked up that detail.” Excalibur fans may also have picked up that detail‚ but it seems quite notable that Chatham mentioned it to the press: This is something he thinks you should know. Or else he’s just teasing us! But I want to believe. Here’s the thing: Who wears a gold mask (and armor) in Excalibur? That would be Mordred‚ son of Morgana. If you know your Arthurian mythology‚ you probably just went Ohhhhhhh‚ I see. If you do not know your Arthuriana‚ then the rest of this post might be considered hypothetical spoilers. Mordred is also Arthur’s bastard son‚ who later demands his father’s crown. When the two eventually meet on the battlefield‚ no one really walks away from the fight. I’m not sure I think this means Enoch is Thrawn’s son‚ but if the mask is to hide a blue visage‚ well‚ that would be one interesting reason for it. But I do think this means there is much more to Enoch than we saw in the first season‚ and that he will not stay loyal to Thrawn forever. If you’d like to layer in additional theories‚ you might also consider the origin of his name. Ahsoka will return for a second season eventually. You can watch the first season on Disney Plus. The post <;i>;Ahsoka<;/i>;’s Wes Chatham Drops a Sly Hint About Captain Enoch’s Future appeared first on Reactor.

Lunaris is a Pal that only appears as a Field Boss in Palworld. This means that it’s rather tricky to catch one‚ and you’ll have to keep waiting for the boss to respawn in between attempts. It looks like breeding is the only other option. Lunaris breeding combinations in Palworld Most Pals in Palworld have numerous breeding combinations ‚ and Lunaris isn’t any different. Breeding offers a way to streamline the process of acquiring the Pals you want‚ even before the recommended levels of catching them in the wild. As the results of breeding are fixed‚ you can rinse and repeat this to get as many Lunarises as your heart desires. There are many breeding combinations for Lunaris‚ but I’ll present the easiest ones that don’t require super powerful Pals — or Lunaris herself. Screenshot: PC Invasion Rushoar and Gobfin Mau and Tombat Rushoar and Beegarde Lifmunk and Arsox Lifmunk and Chillet Tombat and...

As a live service game‚ Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is set to get a ton of new content in post-launch patches containing new characters‚ locations‚ weapons‚ and more. The game is currently in Season Zero‚ but Season One is arriving soon with more content for players to enjoy. Suicide Squad Season One Release Date Season One of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is set to launch in March 2024. There isn’t a specific date available yet‚ but fans have been speculating that the season will release on March 5‚ 2024. This is the day that the game releases on the Epic Games Store as well as the end of the current Twitch Drops campaign featuring skins for the four base game characters. Because everything lines up perfectly (and that date also marks five weeks after the early access launch of the game)‚ it’s a safe assumption that Season One of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will begin on March 5‚ 2024. If it doesn’t kick off exactl...

One of the new Aspects introduced in Season 3 of Diablo 4‚ but how can you get it for yourself? This Legendary Aspect is a Defensive type usable by any class. You can attach this Aspect onto Chest Armor‚ Pants‚ Helms‚ Shields‚ and Amulets‚ and it’ll help boost your defense. Here’s how to get it. Diablo 4: Where to get Juggernaut’s Aspect Some players online have been confused as to how they can get their hands on this Legendary Aspect. It’s a lot easier than you may realize. You can get the Juggernaut’s Aspect in Diablo 4 through the Season 3 Journey rewards. Although you have a chance of gaining this Aspect through random Legendary item drops‚ your chances are slim. You’d have to farm multiple Dungeons and World Bosses just for the chance of seeing it. The better way of obtaining the Juggernaut’s Aspect is to simply complete the fifth Chapter called “Slayer” in the Season 3 Journey. Screensh...