Well, not exactly. We can get our hopes up that Walter White will make a comeback because of some leaked photos from the filming of 'El Camino' but it is generally thought that the character died at the final episode of Breaking Bad. However, there is a possibility that we can see Walter again, albeit in flashbacks.
Now with only a month before the Breaking Bad movie hits Netflix, behind-the-scenes photos from the set of El Camino have leaked and by the looks of them, it appears that Walter White will be returning.
El Camino will focus on Jesse Pinkman played by Emmy-winning actor Aaron Paul. The official synopsis from Netflix reads: “In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.”
If there is a possibility that aliens exist, then why don't we see or hear from extraterrestrial beings? This question pops up a lot and the Fermi paradox sums it up quite nicely. And to offer a few possible answers to this dilemma, Singularity Hub enumerates four explanations.
Tumbleweeds don't seem like much. Usually we imagine them rolling on a barren wasteland, until the winds die down. But researchers have discovered a new species of tumbleweed called Salsola ryaniiwhich has the capacity to grow as high as six feet.
To complicate matters, the tumblebeasts may very well thrive on climate change. "It's one of the only things that's still green in late summer," said researcher Shana Welles in an interview with U.C. Riverside News. "They may be well positioned to take advantage of summer rains if climate changes make those more prevalent."
Online communities, groups, and forums enable people to connect with others who have shared interests, but there will be cases when users post content that doesn't contribute much to the community.
So when user @Michael1979 had the chance to become admin for a day in the WhatsApp group to which he belonged, he set a condition for filtering the content based on his standards. After which he took appropriate action, namely removing people whose content isn't useful or helpful to the discussion. This is what happened.
Though basketball is a popular sport the world over, there is a variation of it called streetball. Every year, one place in China turns up with a throng of people coming from distant lands to catch a glimpse of Beijing's legendary streetball tournament at Sunset Dongdan.
Streetball is more fast and loose than your NBA variety of the sport, typically played with less enforcement of the rules, more flair and tricks. There are courts around the world that draw perennial crowds hoping to catch some of the city’s — even country’s — most talented streetball players in action.
For New York, it’s Rucker Park; for LA, it’s the courts at Venice Beach. For China, that court is Dongdan, which plays host to the aforementioned yearly streetball tournament that falls between May and June.
As more areas of Thailand experiencing development, they may see more risky encounters with elephants crossing roads, making both elephants and humans prone to accidents. So organizations like WWF Thailand are looking for ways to conserve wildlife in the face of Thailand's development.
“Incidents of elephants getting hit happen from time to time, as some of the elephant movement areas have been converted to development areas, including roads,” says Dr. Arnold Sitompul, WWF Thailand conservation director. “New infrastructure development certainly needs to take wildlife movement as a critical factor.”
“In Ang Re Nai, for example, we have collared two individual elephants from two different groups to understand their movement so we can anticipate the HEC (human elephant conflict) before it becomes massive,” says Sitompul, adding that they are aiming to collar four more elephants in a separate group to get more information. “This preventive measure has been quite successful to reduce the scale of HEC in the community areas.”
“In the context of elephants getting killed by cars, sometimes it is unavoidable, as they are constantly moving,” says Sitompul, adding that the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) has been working hard to put elephant signs on the main roads so that drivers will be aware of the potential elephant crossings.
With its strategy to make their services more accessible to a wider population, the National Health Service in the UK launched the NHS app which will give users information about their symptoms, allow them to book appointments, and order repeat prescriptions.
And in order to increase the public's awareness of the app, they are seeking social media influencers who will promote its benefits and encourage people to download it.
England's chief nursing officer, Ruth May, said the NHS is looking for people from a range of different backgrounds. "The best advert for our NHS is our extraordinary staff who continue to be the envy of the world, and with some of our leading lights soon to be promoting the next generation of health care tech across social media, the benefits of the NHS App will be experienced by even more people across England."
Tara Donnelly, chief digital officer at NHSX, said: "Just like you can book a flight or order food to your door, we want NHS services and advice to be available in the palm of your hand. "The official NHS App has the potential to benefit millions of people and is an important step in driving forward digitalisation of the NHS."
India expressed their interest to join in the space race by being the fourth to land on the moon. It was launched in July and was expected to land in early September. As it reached the final stages of its landing attempt on September 6, transmissions from the spacecraft were cut and the status of the lander is uncertain.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was present at Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) mission operation complex at Bengaluru, told press following the communications loss that, “it is not a small thing that we have achieved. Be courageous.”
The landing attempt continues a surge of lunar-related activity in 2019, following a failed soft landing attempt by an Israeli spacecraft in April and China’s unprecedented January lunar far side landing. The United States in March announced plans to accelerate a human lunar program with the target of a first landing in 2024.
Oftentimes, we tend to adopt certain words, phrases, and their meanings without giving a second thought as to why they mean or how they came about. We just accept them as we listen to others use them in certain contexts. One such word is "OK" which generally means "fine", "all correct", or "all right". But how did the word get its meaning and who started it all?
On 23 March 1839, OK was introduced to the world on the second page of the Boston Morning Post, in the midst of a long paragraph, as "o.k. (all correct)". How this weak joke survived at all, instead of vanishing like its counterparts, is a matter of lucky coincidence involving the American presidential election of 1840.
One candidate, Martin Van Buren, was nicknamed Old Kinderhook, and there was a false tale that a previous American president couldn't spell properly and thus would approve documents with an "OK", thinking it was the abbreviation for "all correct".
Within a decade, people began actually marking OK on documents and using OK on the telegraph to signal that all was well. So OK had found its niche, being easy to say or write and also distinctive enough to be clear.
Despite its growing trend, it didn't gain widespread use until the 20th century due to some associating the use of the word to being illiterate. But as with most trends, it found its way into everyday speech and eventually, everyone started to incorporate it in conversations with others.
OK used such familiar sounds that speakers of other languages, hearing it, could rethink it as an expression or abbreviation in their own language. Thus it was taken into the Choctaw Native American language, whose expression "okeh" meant something like "it is so".
US President Woodrow Wilson, early in the 20th Century, lent his prestige by marking okeh on documents he approved. And soon OK was to find its place in many languages as a reminder of a familiar word or abbreviation.
Whenever you ride on high-speed roller coaster, make sure that you have everything strapped in and tucked away so that nothing will fall out. And if something does fall out, just hope that there is someone like this guy who will be able to catch it mid-air. -via Twisted Sifter
“I was in Spain at Port Aventura on shambhala ride and saw the person a few rows ahead drop their IPhone X. long story short I caught it. this roller coaster is moving at over 130kms…was once Europe’s tallest and fastest coaster.. only recently beaten.”
In an era of audio streaming and other digital music platforms, you wouldn't see a lot of people consuming their music through vinyls. But you would be surprised that vinyl records are actually about to outsell CDs for the first time since the 1980s.
Nearly $224 million worth of vinyl records were purchased in the first half of 2019, a nearly 13 percent increase from the same time frame in 2018. People bought $247 million worth of CDs, which is still ahead of record sales but only a .8 percent increase from last year.
The reason record sales might outpace CDs, however, is because of the growth in the second half of 2018 — Rolling Stone points out record sale revenue grew by nearly 13 percent in the second half of 2018, and CD sales experienced little to no growth.
One of Leonardo da Vinci's famous works, the Mona Lisa, may have had a much earlier unfinished version hidden in the vault of a Swiss bank. Historians are still debating on whether this is just a mere copy or something painted by da Vinci himself, but for now, people are disputing about who will get custody of it.
Known to some as the "Earlier Mona Lisa," the painting has spent much of the past five decades hidden in a Swiss bank vault. Acquired by a secretive consortium in 2008, the painting has since been shown in a number of galleries, most notably in Singapore in 2014 and Shanghai two years later.
Then, in June, it went on display at Florence's Palazzo Bastogi -- the first time it has been seen in public in Europe this century. As the show came to its conclusion, an anonymous claimant made a dramatic legal grab for a quarter ownership of the artwork.
It's no secret that there's bad blood between Japan and South Korea as memories from their historical tensions linger in the minds and hearts of South Korean people.
Kim Bo-young, an official from the Korean Sport and Olympic Committee, says the request was made to the Tokyo Organising Committee during National Olympic Committee meetings in the city from Aug. 20 to 22. Tokyo organizers say they will not ban the flag, which portrays a red sun with 16 rays extending outward.
Organizers say “the Rising Sun flag is widely used in Japan; and it is not considered to be a political statement, so it is not viewed as a prohibited item.”
In South Korea and elsewhere in Asia, the flag is widely viewed as a symbol of Japan’s aggression during World War II. The flag is still in use, albeit not widely.
In the city with one of the highest populations in the world, one would be hard-pressed to find a moment wherein there are no people around to capture just the scenery of the place with its architecture, streets, and foliage.
For almost 30 years, Masataka Nakano has been doing just that in order to take photos of a seemingly deserted Tokyo, waiting for that one moment when all the people have gone and all that could be seen in his frame is the stillness of the landscape.
The face of Tokyo has rapidly changed over the last several decades and as the Tokyo 2020 Olympics approach, the rate of change has only accelerated. Which is why Nakano chose to now release a photobook looking back on all his past work.
Simply titled “TOKYO” (published 9/1/2019 and available through Tsutaya), the book traces a changing city but relies only on the vibrant streets and architecture.
When calamities like hurricanes or earthquakes strike, they leave almost nothing in their wake. Almost everything will be leveled and destroyed due to the sheer strength and power of these forces of nature.
As seen in satellite images taken after Hurricane Dorian struck the Bahamas, there was widespread devastation throughout the archipelago.
Dorian was a Category 5 storm when it hit the Bahamas on Saturday and then stalled over the northern Bahamas for days before continuing on its path. The storm is blamed for at least 30 deaths and Bahamas officials say that hundreds, or even thousands are missing.
Satellite images from Maxar Technologies show the damage to several parts of Marsh Harbour on Great Abaco Island, which suffered a direct hit from the storm. The images from before the hurricane were taken on October 25, 2018, and the photos after Dorian hit were taken on September 5.
