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“Some of the storm’s most frightening attributes, though, are on a par with recent trends. Dorian made 2019 the fourth year in a row that spawned at least one Category 5 hurricane; that’s the longest streak on record. Dorian’s rapid jump in wind speed is in line with the major storms of 2017 and 2018; Hurricane Maria, for example, jumped from a Category 1 storm to a Category 5 within 24 hours. And Dorian’s devastating stall over the Bahamas—the National Hurricane Center has listed the storm’s “present movement” as “stationary” since 5 p.m. yesterday—matches Harvey’s in 2017, Florence’s in 2018, and even Tropical Storm Barry’s earlier this year.”

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The idea of beauty is always shifting. Today, it’s more inclusive than ever.

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The idea of beauty is always shifting. Today, it’s more inclusive than ever.

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"Diverge too much and a woman was simply considered less attractive—or desirable or valuable. And for some women—black and brown or fat or old ones—beauty seemed impossible in the broader culture.”

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“Here, the Greek hero Heracles launches arrows at a sea monster, Cetus, to save the princess Hesione, who is throwing rocks at the creature herself.”

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“In light of increasing fan skepticism toward Daenerys, Warren writing an article praising the Mother of Dragons could seem poorly timed. But instead, she demonstrates exactly the kind of analysis of a female candidate that would be useful in the 2020 primary.”

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Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson as American President! He Could Run if That's What People Want

“Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is still considering running for president, saying his choice to make a Oval Office bid will be "up to the people." In a few years' time, Johnson may ask the American citizens to smell what he's cooking while on the campaign trail. The pro-wrestler-turned-actor, who has long flirted with cavorting into the political ring, might launch a campaign to become commander-in-chief.“

“The Rock“ is a well known nickname of Dwayne Johnson since his days as a wrestler, many years ago.

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5 terrifying films about serial killers to watch on Netflix right now

“Serial killers such as Ted Bundy, Ed Kemper, and the BTK Killer are notorious for their violent crimes. And in some cases, their deadly rampages have been the focus of true-crime documentaries or the inspiration for narrative works.“

In this INSIDER article we can see the different references of serial killers by listing some of the most infamous serial killers.

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Why Instagram Is the Worst Social Media for Mental Health

“Social media posts can also set unrealistic expectations and create feelings of inadequacy and low self-esteem, the authors wrote. This may explain why Instagram, where personal photos take center stage, received the worst scores for body image and anxiety.“

It refers to all of the bad things that Instagram is having.

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Mermaids: The myth comes to life
“Our fascination with mermaids is as deep as the sea, going back centuries to the myth of a Syrian goddess who was transformed into a half-fish. Faith Salie reports on how the folklore of mermaids got its legs as a feature of modern stories, movies and Coney Island.“

Mermaids are myth creatures. We have no real life physical reference of them.

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Upcoming Music Trends In 2021 (Brayan David Pérez Díaz)

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There are new subgenres popping up all the time, and some of them are growing rapidly. Here we’ll take a look at several different genres you should have your eye on in 2021 and how to get started with producing them. The 4 genres covered in this article are:

Synthwave

Ambient music

J-pop

Nu disco

Even though the author of the article said different types of genres they are kind of the same.
Genre is the expression and the fourth points are the referents.

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There are new subgenres and microgenres popping up all the time, and some of them are growing rapidly. Here we'll take a look at several different genres you should have your eye on in 2021 and how to get started with producing them. The 4 genres covered in this article are:

1. Synthwave

Synthwave is a combination of 80s sci fi soundtracks and modern electronic production techniques. Modern movies like Tron: Legacy and Bladerunner 2049 extensively use synthwave to hearken back to their predecessors while incorporating cutting edge production techniques and electronic music styles. One of the most significant aspects of this subgenre of EDM is the challenge on the producer to accurately reference the sounds of 80s synth pop while still making their mixes sound highly polished and current.

There's a plugin called RC-20 Retro Color from XLN Audio, and it can instantly re-create magnetic tape degradation, pitch fluctuations, and mechanical distortion - all of which are typically undesirable effects, but are unique to the recording mediums used at the time when 80s synth pop began to emerge. In the 80s, VHS tapes were the most common way to distribute movies, and they weren't perfect by any means - their imperfections contributed immensely to the sounds we remember from that period, and recreating them is vital to making true synthwave.

One of the key elements of synthwave is the percussion - and it's quite tricky to get right, because the kick and snare must lie in between the sounds of the 80s and of modern music. Normally this would require a series of compressors and distortion modules, but UJAM created Beatmaker VICE to consistently produce the exact sort of electronic production that straddles the line between retro and cutting edge production techniques. For chords, use a lot of supersaws (multiple sawtooth waves stacked together and slightly detuned) and a lot of filter sweeps, and add gentle degradation effects like those mentioned in the paragraph above. Analog modelled monophonic synths like Native Instruments' Monark are an excellent way to quickly create an authentic synthwave bass in minimal time. There's no one correct way to do this, but you'll start to get a feel for things the more your practice!

2. Ambient

Ambient music has been around since Brian Eno released Ambient 1: Music for Airports in 1978, though it has its roots as far back as Erik Satie's minimalist style of composing. 'Furniture music,' as Satie called it, was designed to be enjoyed as a background atmosphere for dinner events, and ambient musicians used early sound design-oriented synthesizers such as the Buchla to create textures that were designed to be listened to at an almost imperceptible volume (hence, 'ambient'). Writing ambient music requires a distinctly different mindset than almost any other genre, because you need to focus on atmosphere and sound design, while often completely eliminating any percussion.

If you can play the piano reasonably well, ambient music should be fun to try out - it might sound silly, but if you noodle around slowly on the keyboard and use a lot of chord extensions, you're already part of the way there. Find a short loop you like, and set that to repeat for a while. You'll add to this later, but make sure you get your core chord progression right before venturing out. Then comes the best part: adding effects!

To nail ambient music, it's vital that you get your use of reverb just right. Ideally, you want to create an infinite, deep palette of sounds that changes timbre fluidly, and one of the best ways to smear transitions is with an 'endless' reverb. UJAM's Finisher NEO contains excellent presets for exactly this purpose, plus crazy delays and pitch shifting to enrich any synth or effect and turn it into an evolving soundscape. Your source material can be almost anything - pianos, synths, household items, animal sounds, you name it. It's arguably far more important that you get the processing just right.

3. J-pop

J-pop has been around in (close to) its present form since the 1990s, but it's rapidly growing into a broad international market through more Japanese animes and movies being subbed, dubbed and subsequently streamed around the world. It features bright, hyper-processed vocals and instrumental tracks, and typically falls into EDM, rock, or ballads. Even acoustic instruments take on a mechanical, highly polished feel that has only become possible in the last decade or so. To get a feel for modern J-pop, listen to Perfume - their music is a fantastic example of hyper-processed pop music, and Spring of Life is a great song to start with:

The obvious first step is getting a vocalist - but don't worry if you don't know any international singers! Getting the style right is far more important, and some J-pop is even written in English. And there are plenty of examples of underground Japanese electronic music that's fully instrumental, inspired by anime and video games (often called 'doujin,' or 'self-published' music).

You'll want to practice getting very comfortable with compression, which is where most of this perfectly controlled sound comes from. J-pop also tends to have a lot of different elements going on at the same time, so you'll likely need to include a lot of different instruments and synths simultaneously and balance them with EQ and volume leveling. Like everything else on this list, mastering J-pop takes time - but if you dive in, you may find it's one of the most fun genres on this list to create!

4. Nu disco

Nu disco has a similar origins to synthwave: It focuses on recreating the sound of a particular decade and throwing into a modern light, but instead of the 80s, in this case it's the 70s. Disco is one of the original 'four on the floor' styles of music, and emerged out of the urban nightlife scene in the United States. Its original run was brief, but producers are starting to bring the genre back ... with a twist. Nu disco is a far more dramatic departure from 70s disco than synthwave is from 80s synth pop, with fully electronic drums and heavily processed vocals. It also presents one of the most fun opportunities to get your hands dirty with purposefully over-processing songs.

There's an approach to frequency balance called the 'smiley face EQ,' which is a playful reference to how producers and engineers often heavily cut the mids in their tracks to reduce clutter and make them louder. (Cutting out this range eliminates the 'bunching' effect that causes a limiter to activate at a lower perceived volume, and allows the producer or engineer to push the track harder into the limiter without distorting the signal) While it's easy to overdo this in most genres of EDM, nu disco is very forgiving toward you cutting into the mids, so you can feel free to push this harder than you normally would.

You typically want to trigger the kick on every beat, and the snare on beats 2 and 4. There's more flexibility with the hi hats, but you probably want to stick to eighth notes (possibly layers with very light 16th notes), most closed but with some open hats thrown in every now and then. Nu disco vocals often have a high shelf EQ pushing up the high end to add a lot of shimmer, and depending on your preference you can add heavy phasing / flanging. Go crazy with sidechain compression off the kick, too - if you're not familiar with sidechaining or would like a refresher, check out this article from MasterClass.

Wrap-up

This is a wide variety of genres - jump into whichever one seems most fun and run with it! Over time, feel free to experiment with all of them. It's invaluable to venture into an unfamiliar genre every now and then, because you always add a little something new to your style even if you don't realize it yet. Don't feel obligated to do this, but if it's a great way to change things up when you feel stagnant.

And you'll likely find a ton of growing genres that didn't make it onto this list - experiment with them too! Consider riding a genre on the way up and catching it before it peaks, because that could make it much easier to get discovered. Regardless, don't commit to a genre unless you love it - you don't want to miss out on the most rewarding part of the journey!

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Born Ashton Nicole Casey in 1996 in Oak Ridge, North Carolina, Ashnikko grew up in Greensboro. She discovered rap around age 11, listening to M.I.A. In her teens she lived in both Estonia and Latvia, where her father was working. It was during this period that she began making her own music, influenced by artists like Nicki Minaj and Björk. In 2017, she released a digital EP, the Raf Riley-produced Sass Pancakes, which included the track "Krokodil." A second EP, Unlikeable, followed in 2018 and included the song "No Brainer."

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Ashnikko - Biography        (Brayan David Pérez Díaz)

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Ashton Nicole Casey was born in 1996 in Oak Ridge, North Carolina, Ashnikko grew up in Greensboro. She discovered rap around age 11, listening to M.I.A In her teens she lived in both Estonia and Latvia, where her father was working. It was during this period that she began making her own music, influenced by artists like Nicki Minaj and Björk. In 2017, she released a digital EP, the Raf Riley produced Sass Pancakes, which included the track "Krokodil." A second EP, Unlikeable, followed in 2018 and included the song "No Brainer."
Ashnikko is the expression of the artist name of Ashton Nicole Casey.
When we don't know the real name of an artist we constantly recognize them with their artist name as in this case they were not using their artist name  but they used her pronouns.

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EFFECT ON EMOTIONS/ PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF COLORS:                          (Brayan David Pérez Díaz)

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EFFECT ON EMOTIONS/ PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF COLORS:                          (Brayan David Pérez Díaz)

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WARM COLOURS: like red, orange and yellow which can be exciting, stimulating or even anger igniting.
COOL COLOURS: like green, blue and purple often create feelings of calmness, serenity, content as well as sadness.

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It is important to know that those are two different referents.

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Colours form an inseparable part of our life. If we look around and observe, we can see multiplicity of colours which are blending into our lives and they do have an effect on us but this may vary from individual to individual and also on the circumstances.

Colours are a part of our everyday life and a life without colours would be boring and dull. Colours have a strong effect on senses especially on sight, touch and taste and also on our emotions and overall personality.

Let us go in detail about how important are colours for us and our overall life and their usage:

Effect of colours on emotions, mood, psychology, personality of any individual comes under the domain of colour psychology. Colours affect mood and emotions by influencing the flow and amount of energy throughout the body. Different colours have different effects on human mind and body. Same colour may have different effect on different people. This can be understood by way of studying colours and their effects by categorising them into two:-

1. WARM COLOURS: like red, orange and yellow which can be exciting, stimulating or even anger igniting.

2. COOL COLOURS: like green, blue and purple often create feelings of calmness, serenity, content as well as sadness.

I am giving a list of Common psychological effects of few common colors:

RED: symbolizes love, warmth, romance, energy, excitement, style and even anger & danger.

ORANGE: means happy, excited, energetic, prosperity, enthusiasm etc.

YELLOW: is equivalent to happiness, joy, cheerfulness, intellect, positivity, laughter, intensity, hunger, anger etc

: means purity, light, cleanliness, softness, innocence, coolness, simplicity, serenity and even sadness

BLACK: is the colour of power, formal, strength, sophistication, intelligence, death even devil.

GREEN: symbolize nature, growth, life, environment, freshness, safety, health, money, calmness and even envy

BLUE : is calm, serene, loyal, cold, peace, sincerity, wise and trustworthy.

PURPLE: denotes wealth, royalty, dignity spirituality, wisdom, respect, luxury etc.

PINK: envisages love, gentleness, positivity, compassion, beauty and calmness.

Recently color therapy is also used to cure people of their ailments. Colour therapy is a holistic way of treating people. It helps in improving physical, mental and even emotional health of patients.

Colour therapy helps in reducing stress, flow of energy through the body and in complete relaxation of mind and body. Each colour has a specific effect on body's energy and vitality.

Even in ancient time's, use of colours for betterment was quite evident for e.g. palaces of kings used to have various coloured glasses in the windows of their rooms through which sunrays would come inside and these coloured rays help them in being happy, calm and relaxed.

USE OF COLOURS IN ADVERTISING AND BUSINESS

Colours play a very important role in business world. The companies make use various colours according to its effect on the customers mind in their logos and various marketing and advertising strategies.

Some colours have calm effect, some have exciting effect, some create hunger etc.
Let us see a few examples:

1. Red and yellow are capable of exciting and creating very strong emotions and thus they are oftenly used by various restaurants and food outlets because the evoke hunger amongst onlookers like Mc Donald's, Walls, KFC, Hard Rock Cafe etc.

2. Blue color evokes trust and loyalty among-st the customers about the brand and company and that is why most of the Banks and finance companies use blue logos and blue boards.

3. It is also seen that in most of the shops you find yellow lighting and yellow coloured decor to evoke your emotions and push you to shop.

4. Jewellery stores mostly make use of golden lightings as golden colour denotes luxury, extravagance, prestige and richness and thus attract the consumers who desire luxury and wealth.

USE OF COLOURS IN HOMES AND OFFICES:

Since ages people are using a few colours to paint their homes and workplaces. The colour used on walls of different rooms and even exteriors have a specific effect on your minds and may create flow of positive energy or may be quite depressing.

People tend to colour their living rooms in bright colours so that it gives them a gush of energy as and when they enter into it after whole day of work. It rejuvenates them and makes them fresh and energetic. However some people may choose light colours in their living rooms because they want to feel relaxed and calm.

Bedrooms are mostly coloured in shades of red, pink or purple to create effect of warmth, cosiness, positivity and love. Kid's room are mostly painted with bright colours, as kids are full of energy.

Moreover choice of colours, even have an effect on the size and lighting of room. Colouring walls with light colours can make a room look bigger and brighter while dark colours can be used in big rooms to make them appear cosy.

Areas which are meant to evoke ideas, creativity and passions are mostly coloured in various bright and inviting colours like red, yellow, orange etc.

Offices should be painted in colours which tend to increase productivity, efficiency and creativity amongst the staff. Most commonly people use light colours in offices like light blue, very shades of green or even yellow.

Even the colour of bed-sheets and furniture used in homes and offices, have different effect on different people.

Use of colours in fashion is very prominent. Whichever colour you wear has a particular effect on you and on others too. Each colour tell a story of your mood like yellow or red shows your happy mood, while or grey depicts your reserved or introvert or simple nature.

Even events, days or places decide a person's choice of colours like if you are going on a date you may prefer colours like red or pink, or on weddings bright and shiny colours, or going for interviews light colours especially light blue as it is the colour of loyalty and it has a great affect on the interviewer, or if you are going to some crowded place you may go for yellow or orange shades so that you can get noticed easily, or at formal events you may go for black as it is the most formal looking colour etc.

In the end I would say that though we are surrounded by so many colours but each colour has a different meaning. Colours may range from bright to dull; from warm to cool; from relaxing to exciting etc. but still all the colours play a very important role in human life. Colours not only affect your thinking but also your mood, your actions, reactions and expressions.

Colours may have a healing effect or even a depressing effect. Also the use of colours in your lives, houses, fashion and business have a very specific effect and their apt usage may lead to a huge difference.
Please do share your thoughts and favourite color here in comments section.
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Goblin, in Western folklore, a wandering sprite that is usually mischievous but often malicious. Goblins supposedly live in grottoes but attach themselves to households, where they are believed to bang upon pots and pans, snatch nightclothes off the bodies of sleeping people, move furniture at night, and flee after rapping on walls and doors. They are thought to help parents discipline children by rewarding the latter with presents when they are good and punishing them when they are disobedient. The word goblin derives from the Greek kobalos (“rogue”).

Goblins does not exist as they were a creation of the parents to be mo restrictive in a way.

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goblin, in Western folklore, a wandering sprite that is usually mischievous but often malicious. Goblins supposedly live in grottoes but attach themselves to households, where they are believed to bang upon pots and pans, snatch nightclothes off the bodies of sleeping people, move furniture at night, and flee after rapping on walls and doors. They are thought to help parents discipline children by rewarding the latter with presents when they are good and punishing them when they are disobedient. The word goblin derives from the Greek kobalos ("rogue").

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Goblin | Folklore, Origin & Characteristics

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Dwarf:
In Teutonic and especially Scandinavian mythology and folklore, the term dwarf (Old Norse: dvergr) denoted a species of fairy inhabiting the interiors of mountains and the lower levels of mines. Dwarfs were of various types, all of small stature, some being no more than 18 inches (45 cm) high and others about the height of a two-year-old child.

They are just mythical creatures that exist in stories only, we have no prove they live amog us.

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Being fit vs being healthy
In a few words, fit people have the physical ability to perform athletic activities. This type of person looks good; they can have abs showing up because they do exercise.

Are they healthy? We can’t be sure of that.

Healthy people, on the other hand, have all the system in their body which are working in an optimal way. Nervous, muscular, lymphatic, hormonal, etc… Their bodies function well. So they feel good and don’t get sick easily as they have a great immune system.

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The Boogie Man
Bogeymen have no specific appearance, and conceptions vary drastically by household and culture, but they are most commonly depicted as masculine or androgynous monsters that punish children for misbehavior.

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Purple heart leaft at the thrift storeis returned to the family of a deceased veteran.
"All the children had been estranged from their father for years. And although he had contacted them more near the end of his life, they never received any of his belongings. Blauberg had left his possessions to his doctor, making it difficult for his children to get access to any token of his life."

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Seeds of Happiness at a Tokyo Garden Center
"As many people have spent more time at home during the coronavirus pandemic, gardening has become a popular hobby. Tokyo's garden megastore with over 100,000 varieties of plants is the go-to place for people wanting flowers, vegetables, bonsai trees or rare shrubs. The center's customers include a man inspired by a cactus' power to survive, a woman who buys weakened plants so she can help them recover and a woman who feels most relaxed when she tends to her plants. For 3 days, we asked what plants mean to them."

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Why Ventilation is a Key to Reopening Schools Safely.
"Experts agree that good ventilation is the most effective and practical way to rid a space of contaminants. The Healthy Buildings program recommends four to six air exchanges per hour in classrooms, through any combination of ventilation and filtration."

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Travelogue: Four mythical animals in Chinese culture.
The Four Auspicious Beasts, also known as Si Ruishou or Siling, are the four divinities in Chinese mythology, symbolizing prosperity and longevity. This revered group of mythical creatures is said to have helped the primeval being Pangu, creator of the world, establish heaven (yang) and earth (yin). The Four Auspicious Beasts are also said to be the rulers of all the other animals. The first known mention of them dates from the Warring States Period (475 BC-221 BC). The  Qilin, Long, Bixi, and Fenghuang."

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The Queen.

Queen Elizabeth II, the United Kingdom’s 94-year-old monarch, has told her subjects to stop being selfish and “think of others rather than yourselves” and get a COVID-19 vaccine.
The head of state was speaking on a video call with health professionals and said “it didn’t hurt at all.”
She joins a list of famous people such as musician Elton John and actor Michael Caine in encouraging the public to get vaccinated when given the opportunity.

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Minotaur.

In Greek mythology, a fabulous monster of Crete that had the body of a man and the head of a bull. It was the offspring of Pasiphae, the wife of Minos, and a snow-white bull sent to Minos by the god Poseidon for sacrifice. Minos, instead of sacrificing it, kept it alive; Poseidon as a punishment made Pasiphae fall in love with it. Her child by the bull was shut up in the Labyrinth created for Minos by Daedalus.

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Overview on Mars.
​Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun – a dusty, cold, desert world with a very thin atmosphere. Mars is also a dynamic planet with seasons, polar ice caps, canyons, extinct volcanoes, and evidence that it was even more active in the past.

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Shawn Mendes debuts a new haircut.
In an Instagram post the young singer posted a selfie of his new haircut, after he grew it out in a year of quarantine. Mendes captioned the photo of him wearing a white shirt worn under a light blue cardigan with a gold chain around his neck in his home with two blue heart emojis.

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Disney takes full control of Hulu video streaming services / Gabriela Portillo Corral

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Disney takes full control of Hulu video streaming services / Gabriela Portillo Corral

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Disney has agreed to take full control of video streaming service Hulu under a deal with cable TV conglomerate Comcast.

Disney has been rapidly beefing up its on-demand video offering as it bids to go head-to-head with Netflix in a battle for subscribers.

Under a deal announced on Tuesday, Disney will buy Comcast's 33 per cent stake in Hulu at a valuation of $27.5bn or whatever Hulu is appraised to be worth in five years.

The two companies also agreed to fund Hulu's recent purchase of AT&T Inc.'s 9.5 per cent interest in Hulu.

Disney removed its content from Netflix earlier this year as the competition among video streaming brands heats up. Meanwhile Apple launched its own rival service at a star-studded event in March.
From comcast news /  Gabriela Portillo Corral

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Dani filth: "We picked on Jesus... it could have been Hitler" / Gabriela Portillo Corral

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Dani filth: "We picked on Jesus... it could have been Hitler" / Gabriela Portillo Corral

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There’s something wonderfully reassuring about this. Twenty-eight years since a teenaged Daniel Davey started Cradle Of Filth in the villages of his home county, the man has lost none of his dark humour, or sense of what a black metal singer is supposed to represent. Despite this, his band’s name is probably the genre’s best known, and their success and stylish flair found them on the Kerrang! cover multiple times, as well as mainstream TV shows like Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

As the one constant in the band, it’s Dani who’s always steered the good ship Cradle, injecting a gothic, romantic edge into the band, not to mention a uniquely British sense of humour alongside the Hammer Horror-style macabre, becoming an icon in his own right. Even the band’s infamous ​‘Jesus Is A C**t’ line of shirts was born of a sense of humour, different from the stony-faced, blasphemous image many of their peers favoured.
From Kerrang Magazine / Gabriela Portillo Corral

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Schindler's List: Themes / Gabriela Portillo Corral

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Schindler's List: Themes / Gabriela Portillo Corral

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In the face of overwhelming evil, the Jews in Schindler’s List exhibit an unbroken spirit and will to survive. Mrs. Nussbaum, trying to make the best of the situation just like all the other Jews forced into the ghetto, tells her husband their ghetto apartment could be worse. Schindler’s factory workers believe they may be safe in his factory and continue to hope for survival. The event that perhaps best illustrates this triumph of spirit is the wedding in the Plaszów labor camp. Even though the Jews in Plaszów live in constant fear of death, including random shootings from a hilltop villa by camp overseer Amon Goeth, two people manage to fall in love. With possibly no future to look forward to, they marry in the hope that they will survive. A woman in the barracks apologizes to God for performing the ceremony when she is not a rabbi, but explains that desperate times call for desperate measures, and that the union of the couple is ultimately what counts. The groom crushes a light bulb—an improvised substitution for the traditional wineglass—with his foot at the conclusion of the ceremony. Not only does the couple wed, but they stay true to Jewish traditions, which symbolizes hope for the survival of the Jewish race.
From Spark Notes / Gabriela Portillo Corral.

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Baphomet, invented pagan or gnostic idol or deity that the Templars were accused of worshipping and that was later embraced by various occult and mystical writers.
The first known mention of Baphomet was in a letter written in 1098 by Anselm of Ribemont describing the Siege of Antioch during the First Crusade. Anselm stated that the Turks “called loudly upon Baphomet.” Most scholars believe that the word refers to Muhammad, the founder of Islam. In 1307 Philip IV of France had every Templar in France arrested, accusing them of such heretical acts as idolatrous worship of a bearded male head called Baphomet. By the 19th century Freemasons had also been (falsely) said to worship Baphomet.
In his book Dogme et ritual de la haute magie (1861; Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual), the influential French occultist Éliphas Lévi created the Baphomet that has become a recognized occult icon. The book’s frontispiece was a drawing of Baphomet imagined as a “Sabbatic Goat”—a hermaphroditic winged human figure with the head and feet of a goat that is adorned with numerous esoteric symbols. Lévi describes the meaning of each element of the drawing, which is defined by its profound and pervasive duality. British occultist Aleister Crowley also adopted Baphomet, notably in his “Gnostic Mass.” More recently, the Satanic Temple commissioned a statue of Baphomet, which was unveiled in 2015 and then moved to various places as a protest against displays of Ten Commandments monuments in public spaces.
from Enciclopaedia Brittanica / Gabriela Portillo Corral

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The Biggest Video Games Coming in March 2021

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The Biggest Video Games Coming in March 2021

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For the last few console generations, March has consistently proven to be the first month of the year that truly delivers on the big-budget, hype-inducing video games that players are starved for during the barren winter release window. Last March alone brought us games like Call of Duty: Warzone, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, , Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Doom Eternal, Half-Life: Alyx and Persona 5 Royal, just to name a few.

When compared to that stellar lineup, March 2021 is severely lacking any sort of major studio releases save for a Nintendo-exclusive Monster Hunter title along with a smattering of ports and next-gen upgrades of existing games. To fill this void, however, there are a handful of charming and unique indie titles coming out that can finally take center stage without being overshadowed by the AAA experiences that usually dominate the conversation.

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Revita
Releasing March 3 for PC
Coming to Steam Early Access on March 3, Revita is a twin-stick platformer roguelike created by one-man development team BenStar and published by Dear Villagers. Featuring a gorgeous retro aesthetic, catchy soundtrack and fast-paced side-scrolling action, Revita follows a nameless child who awakens in a monster-infested subway line and sets out on a quest to reach the distant clocktower and recover his missing memories.

Revita features many of the familiar trappings of the roguelike genre, including procedurally generated levels, unique power-ups and weapons that drastically change each playthrough and a mysterious storyline that slowly unfolds as you climb further and further on each subsequent run.

But what differentiates Revita from other roguelikes is the ability to sacrifice health for power, transforming your character into a glass cannon and adding another layer to the game's surprisingly detailed customization settings. It seems that just about every month brings about yet another entry in the ever-growing roguelike genre, and Revita is shaping up to be the one to look out for this March when it hits Steam in Early Access.

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Minute of Islands
Releasing March 18 for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch
Minute of Islands might just be the most eye-catching and intriguing game on this entire list. Created by German indie developer Studio Fizbin, which prides itself on producing story-based experiences featuring unique characters and original tales, Minute of Islands certainly looks to exemplify the studio's creative focus with beautiful, hand-drawn visuals and a dark, unnerving adventure that follows a young mechanic named Mo as she journeys into the depths of the ancient machines that protect her world in an effort to repair them and prevent the world from collapsing.

A narrative puzzle platformer, Minute of Islands features story-based environmental puzzles and platforming that Mo must traverse using a powerful tool called the Omni Switch. The machines she's tasked with fixing were created by an ancient race of giants in order to suppress a forgotten threat, yet a deeper mystery lies beneath the surface of the islands Mo traverses along the course of her journey.

The promise of a fully narrated, emotionally poetic story, multiple beautifully handcrafted islands to explore and a cast of odd characters and creatures to encounter make Minute of Islands one of the most exciting titles releasing this month.

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Balan Wonderworld
Releasing March 26 for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Nintendo Switch
The first game from Square Enix subsidiary Balan Company, Balan Wonderworld is a collaboration between director Yuji Naka and character designer Naoto Ohshima, the veteran creators behind Sonic the Hedgehog and Nights into Dreams, respectively. Balan Wonderworld is an action-platformer reminiscent of classic collect-a-thons like Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong 64, infused with the charming characters and visual style that made both the Sonic the Hedgehog and Nights into Dreams franchises so memorable.

Balan Wonderworld's story is told through a series of twelve tales set in a fantastical theatre-inspired land known as Wonderworld. Protagonists Leo and Emma are brought here by the maestro Balan to recover something precious to them and heal their wavering hearts. Each of the game's explosively colorful levels is filled with collectibles, as well as equitable costumes that imbue players with unique abilities similar to the power-ups of the Super Mario Bros. series.

With over 80 different costumes to unlock, collectible Balan statues that can open up new worlds and customizable creatures called Tims to assist players, Balan Wonderworld looks to bring back the nostalgic era of the collect-a-thon platformer for a modern audience.

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It Takes Two
Releasing March 26 for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X
The second title by charmingly eccentric director Josef Fares and developer Hazelight Studios, It Takes Two is the follow-up to the well-received 2018 co-op adventure game A Way Out that embraces the same multiplayer-focused puzzle-solving that made its predecessor so successful. A genre-bending platforming adventure with no single-player option, It Takes Two follows Cody and May, a couple whose relationship has hit a rough patch shortly before being turned into dolls by a magic spell. To return to normal, Cody and May must follow the whims of love guru Doctor Hakim, who tasks them with completing an increasingly wacky series of challenges in order to save their relationship and return to normal.

It Takes Two emphasizes constantly evolving gameplay mechanics and set pieces to keep the game feeling fresh throughout the course of Cody and May's romantic comedy-infused adventure. Each challenge is strongly tied to the narrative while forcing players to rely on each other and adapt to the ever-changing gameplay to progress the story.

Because It Takes Two is solely a co-op experience, developer Hazelight has included an exciting feature called Friend's Pass, which allows the owner to invite someone else to play with them for free. This feature allows anyone to join in on the fun without having to buy a copy of the game, ensuring that you'll always have a Cody to your May whenever you want to jump in for some more multiplayer platformer goodness.

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Monster Hunter Rise
Releasing March 26 for Nintendo Switch
By far the highest-profile game releasing in March 2021, Monster Hunter Rise is the sixth installment in Capcom's popular and long-running action-RPG series and the follow-up to 2017's smash-hit Monster Hunter: World. Employing the same seamless open-world design as the previous game along with all 14 weapon types and many of the iconic monsters the series is known for, Monster Hunter Rise takes the excellent formula of World and infuses it with several of its own new ideas and features to create a fresh Monster Hunter experience exclusive to the Nintendo Switch.

The most game-changing new feature to gameplay is an emphasis on verticality, with new rideable companions called Palamutes that can be used to quickly scale obstacles and used to directly attack monsters. There's also a tool called the Wirebug that allows players to grapple and swing across the environment to gain a height advantage over their prey before swooping in for the kill. This, combined with the vast selection of weapons and abilities that hunters can take into battle, allows for limitless potential in how players approach each encounter.

Monster Hunter Rise also features a unique visual aesthetic that sets it apart from World and further embraces the ninja's concept of freedom of movement, employing a medieval Japanese-inspired world design as well as a new hub area called Kamura Village, complete with traditional hot springs and cherry blossom trees around every corner. Monster Hunter Rise certainly looks to be doing everything it can to set itself apart from its predecessor while introducing fresh and exciting new ideas to the series, a fitting way for the franchise to make its return to its portable roots when it launches for the Nintendo Switch on March 26.

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As the world anxiously awaits Adele's follow up album to her smash hit 25, one insider claims that the "Hello" singer's upcoming release will not, in fact, contain one single song about her ex-husband, Simon Konecki.

A source connected to the singer told OK! magazine that Adele, 32, made the decision not to sing about her ex-husband because she worried how it would affect their son, eight-year-old Angelo.

"Heartbreak has helped Adele shift records over the years but this split is quite different," the source detailed. "They’re both aware their son Angelo should be protected and that’s why Adele has agreed not to sing about their relationship."

Adele launched her career thanks to her breakup anthems "Rolling in the Deep," "Someone Like You," "Hello" and "Send My Love (to Your New Lover)" but will reportedly focus her upcoming fourth studio album on something else.

"Her new album will have a different sound anyway, so it hasn’t bothered her too much that Simon quietly expected her to keep their relationship out of her music," the source added.

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As the world anxiously awaits Adele's follow up album to her smash hit 25, one insider claims that the "Hello" singer's upcoming release will not, in fact, contain one single song about her ex-husband, Simon Konecki.

A source connected to the singer told OK! magazine that Adele, 32, made the decision not to sing about her ex-husband because she worried how it would affect their son, eight-year-old Angelo.

"Heartbreak has helped Adele shift records over the years but this split is quite different," the source detailed. "They're both aware their son Angelo should be protected and that's why Adele has agreed not to sing about their relationship."

Adele launched her career thanks to her breakup anthems "Rolling in the Deep," "Someone Like You," "Hello" and "Send My Love (to Your New Lover)" but will reportedly focus her upcoming fourth studio album on something else.

"Her new album will have a different sound anyway, so it hasn't bothered her too much that Simon quietly expected her to keep their relationship out of her music," the source added.

The former couple, who began dating in 2011 and wed in 2016, are currently in the middle of a private yet seemingly amicable divorce.

As previously reported, the 14-time Grammy winner and Konecki filed a judgement packet in Los Angeles court on January 15. The packet, which will finalize the divorce, requires a judge to sign off on it.

The two elected to keep the proceedings private in order to protect their son and did not respond to requests for comment.

Adele and Konecki have reportedly been living across the street from one another as a way to co-parent their child amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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According to one legend, Daft Punk have already been dead for 22 years. Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo were collateral damage in a sampler explosion on September 9, 1999, the duo reported at the time. Their subsequent album, Discovery, was made by robots.

Nobody was supposed to believe it. It was a droll interpretation of the ubiquitous ’90s electro scenario where two boring blokes bashed beats and samples together in a bedroom and made folks dance all around the world by the miracle of digital remote control.

Like their man-robot forebears Kraftwerk, albeit with more funky hit-single mojo, the former Parisian school buddies were making a statement about the misplaced emphasis on personality in a new creative realm enabled by technology. In marketing and privacy capacities, the anonymity factor surely had its rewards too.

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According to one legend, Daft Punk have already been dead for 22 years. Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo were collateral damage in a sampler explosion on September 9, 1999, the duo reported at the time. Their subsequent album, Discovery, was made by robots.

Nobody was supposed to believe it. It was a droll interpretation of the ubiquitous '90s electro scenario where two boring blokes bashed beats and samples together in a bedroom and made folks dance all around the world by the miracle of digital remote control.

Like their man-robot forebears Kraftwerk, albeit with more funky hit-single mojo, the former Parisian school buddies were making a statement about the misplaced emphasis on personality in a new creative realm enabled by technology. In marketing and privacy capacities, the anonymity factor surely had its rewards too.

February 22, 2021 marks a much more profound turning point in the Daft Punk story. This time the explosion is captured on video: a poignant film titled Epilogue shows the permanently helmeted duo drifting slowly apart in an empty desert landscape, then coming to an unspoken agreement that one must detonate the other.

Boom, the tall guy goes, atomised into a million pieces. Then boom, and boom again, in case we thought they were joking. "If love is the answer you're home", goes the song rising in the background. Naaaw. Also, what? The band's long-time publicist, Kathryn Frazier, confirmed the pair were breaking up. But can this really be the end for the world's favourite squillion-selling Grammy-nabbing techno disco robot phenomenon?

Ironically, helmets and all, Daft Punk leaves a legacy as one of the most recognisable outfits in the long, faceless history of electro music. In 20 years they cut a swathe from the French House underground to the dance-pop mainstream, where they jammed 70s disco king Nile Rodgers and hip-hop prince Pharrell Williams into one of the songs of the century, Get Lucky.

Daft Punk have announced they are splitting after 28 years.

Their international launch event for that album, Random Access Memories, at a massive rave in the tiny NSW outback town of Wee Waa in 2013 was an act of art renegade genius crowned by the fact that they didn't bother to turn up. Robots, eh?

The fact that the aforementioned farewell film, Epilogue, is actually 15 years old - it's culled from their arty sci-fi cinematic experience of 2006, Electroma - is perhaps the best indication that the robo-duo is truly out of battery power, and not just playing marketing games this time.

But given their sparse output, long hiatuses and deliberately elusive profile these last 15 years, we can only wonder why an act that's barely there feels the need to make a formal exit.

One answer is that despite their best theatrical intentions, Daft Punk are made of flesh and blood. Their separation entails real emotions that need to be processed, in their case as a community of vast global proportions lamenting in tens of thousands of social media comments in every language under the sun. If somebody truly loves you, no amount of tinfoil spacesuits and other conceptual gimmickry will stop them.

But listen, we know what happens to robots, right? They never really die; they just spend some down time in the trash compactor until some Wookie comes along and reassembles them in the sequel. For sound processing artists like Daft Punk, consumption and regeneration is part of the deal. They sample ELO and Barry White and Sister Sledge, they get sampled by Janet Jackson and Kanye and Williams. Daft Punk is an essential part of the eternal, morphing ether of modern music now.

The working partnership of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo is a separate story. Spinal Tap outed every ageing band's standard marketing strategy back in 1992 when they defined their future as "a carefully orchestrated series of farewells and reunions". Failing some unspoken tragic understory, surely odds are that more music will emerge sooner or later. In this business of music, even the actual death of a key player is just a career pivot point.

In truth, Daft Punk were always more human than robots. Hugging and bumping helmets at the Grammies in those clumsy leather space suits, they were way more adorable than Kraftwerk; much more family-friendly than TISM, less art-scary than the Residents. Whether the two guys inside the concept can resist the lures of money and ego that drive the endless reunion circus might be the ultimate test of their human nature.

Michael Dwyer is an arts and music writer

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A unicorn is a mystical animal whose appearance is known to everybody although nobody has ever seen one. Unicorns are mythical creatures that appear in numerous fairy tales and saga all over the world. They belong to the cultural heritage of many Asian and European people, where unicorns play important roles in fabulous legends that narrate the history of mankind and the origin of life. There are Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Greek, Scandinavian, and other cultural variants of unicorn stories dating back up to 2800 years BC which all have something in common. The unicorn appears as a creature which brings law and order, health and good fortune, fame and satisfaction in an otherwise chaotic and disordered world.
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A unicorn is a mystical animal whose appearance is known to everybody although nobody has ever seen one. Unicorns are mythical creatures that appear in numerous fairy tales and saga all over the world. They belong to the cultural heritage of many Asian and European people, where unicorns play important roles in fabulous legends that narrate the history of mankind and the origin of life. There are Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Greek, Scandinavian, and other cultural variants of unicorn stories dating back up to 2800 years BC which all have something in common. The unicorn appears as a creature which brings law and order, health and good fortune, fame and satisfaction in an otherwise chaotic and disordered world. 1

There are many unicorns in the world of chemical bonding models carrying quite different names: resonance, conjugation, hyperconjugation, frontier orbitals, covalent bonding, donor‐acceptor bond, agostic interactions, π bonding, to name just a few. A particularly fickle species is aromaticity, which is an evergreen target for hard core unicorn hunters. 2 Just as in mythical saga, unicorns bring law and order, health and good fortune, fame and satisfaction to chemists who would otherwise be lost in a pandemonium of experimental observations. Unicorns were particularly important in the early days of chemistry when the science evolved from its historical ancestor alchemy. Chemists needed a classification system which helped them to identify compounds and to understand and possibly predict the outcome of chemical reactions. The atomic hypothesis and the discovery of the chemical elements proved to be very helpful for the purpose because it provided the building blocks which could be used to construct the world of chemistry in terms of molecular structures. As a result, chemistry finally evolved as the science of understanding and manipulation of the material world on a molecular scale. 3

While the development of experimental chemistry in the 19th century was a great success story which together with its scientific progress paved the way for the build‐up of a new and rapidly developing branch of industry, the theoretical side became much less developed. This was not because of insufficient efforts by the chemists. The physical laws which were known at that time did not provide a theoretical basis for understanding the strong attractive interactions between atoms yielding a chemical bond. The appearance and definition of chemistry as a scientific discipline has been significantly influenced by the fact that, historically, the molecular understanding of the material world was and still is far behind its experimental control.

Without possessing physical knowledge about the nature of atoms and molecules and the forces acting between them, chemists developed a set of working hypotheses and experimental descriptions which enabled them to manipulate the material world to an extent which was hitherto unknown. Guided by intuition and experience, heuristic chemical models were suggested to explain the experimental observations and to guide new experiments. The models became more and more elaborate with an increasing number of chemical compounds being synthesized. Experimental results were used like in a neural network for developing bonding models which proved to be very powerful for designing new experiments. This was all done before the laws of quantum theory were formulated.

The development of heuristic bonding models in chemistry culminated in the epochal contribution of Lewis. 4 His formulation of the chemical bonds in terms of electron pairs and the rules which he suggested for understanding molecular structures have shaped chemical bonding models in a way which constitutes still now, 90 years after the first publication, the basis for teaching molecular structure and reactivity. It should be mentioned that, as a counterpart to the formulation of the covalent bond by Lewis, a theoretical model of the ionic bond was introduced in the same year by Kossel. 5 An outline of the most important ideas of Lewis is presented and discussed in this issue in the essay by Shaik. 6 It is important to realize that the work of Lewis appeared before quantum theory provided new physical laws for electrostatic interactions which were necessary to understand chemical bonding in terms of elementary physics. This was finally done in 1927 when Heitler and London 7 described the interatomic interactions in H ₂ in terms of the newly formulated quantum theory of Heisenberg and Schrödinger. It was the first time that a picture of the chemical bonding was presented which was in agreement with basic laws of physics. But the year 1927 saw also the Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to Heinrich Wieland for his pioneer findings about the constituents of the bile acids and related substances. 8 Figure 1 shows the fundamental difference between chemistry and physics in describing chemical bonding in 1927 which still exists today. Note that the research about the rather complicated compounds which was awarded a Nobel Prize was carried out by Wieland using unicorns as essential ingredients for planning and explaining experiments. He and his fellow chemists had no knowledge about the quantum theoretical nature of the chemical bond.

The model of the chemical bond in terms of electron pairs which was used by Wieland is still familiar to present day chemists. It is used in all textbooks of chemistry and it is clearly the most powerful model for describing chemical phenomena. In essence, the model consists of only a few simple symbols (a dot for an atom identified by its chemical symbol and straight lines for assigning chemical bonds) and a set of empirical rules which in the hands of an experienced chemist possess an unprecedented explanatory and predictive efficacy in explaining molecular structures and reactivity. Much of the rules and the understanding of the electron‐pair bonding goes back to the work of Lewis. 4 He recognized that the electron‐pair model does not agree with classical electrostatic laws. Lewis was bold enough to suggest in 1916 that the law which describes the electric forces that are responsible for a chemical bond must be different from Coulomb's formulation of electrostatic interactions. 4 This amazing intuition was confirmed by Heitler and London in 1927. 7 Pauling later showed that the electron‐pair interpretation of the chemical bond introduced by Lewis can be put on quantum theoretical grounds. 9 It is astounding that in nearly 80 years of quantum chemistry, which undoubtly contributed in its own way to modern chemistry, the Lewis bonding model has been complemented but not replaced.

Heitler and London were the first who applied quantum theory for investigating chemical bonding using a method which was later named VB (valence bond) theory. An alternative method which proved to be very powerful for qualitative and quantitative studies of the chemical bond is MO (molecular orbital) theory which was shortly afterwards developed by Hund, Mulliken, Hückel, Lennard‐Jones, et al. 10 Both methods gave birth to a multitude of new unicorns with some of them still being alive in present‐day bonding models.

In his essay about the Lewis legacy, Shaik argues that chemical bonding is a traditional chemical territory. 6 We want to add that the afore mentioned unicorns are integral parts of the chemical language which is spoken in this territory, and that the chemical formula are the alphabet which is used to write down the language. Inspection of the scientific literature shows that discussion about molecular structures, chemical reactions, and bonding situation uses expressions which are characteristic for the communication among chemists. This holds true even for most publications which report about quantum chemical studies of molecules and chemical reactions. In many theoretical papers there are attempts to connect the calculated data with classical bonding models. This is in line with the statement which was made by Coulson in his famous after‐dinner speech in 1952 when he addressed his fellow theoreticians who were occupied with calculating accurate data: "Give us insight, not numbers." 11 But this is not an easy task!

The physical description of the chemical bond given by Heitler and London had the advantage over the intuitive chemical bonding models that it was derived from fundamental laws of physics. The problem was that the physical picture of a chemical bond in terms of the complicated wave function did not appeal at all to the imagination of chemists who were used to living with unicorns. The heuristic chemical bonding models were easy to write and they had proven to be very helpful as classification system and as predictive tools for experimental chemistry. Chemists had become so intimate with their unicorns that they attained the status of real living beings. This made it very difficult until today to introduce new concepts which do not agree with the unicorn world. The interpretation of Ψ was a central topic of controversial discussions in physics but chemists largely ignored the new findings which were not appealing to human senses. This was so, even though the quantum theoretical description of the chemical bond, soon after its introduction by Heitler and London, solved long‐standing problems such as explaining the triplet ground state of O ₂ 12 and the stability of aromatic compounds (inclusive predicting new aromatic species). 13

It is useful to point out the essential finding of Heitler and London (HL) about chemical bonding because it is still not correctly described in many textbooks. 14 Figure 2 has been taken from the original publication of HL. 7 The calculation of the bond energy in H ₂ using classical laws of electrostatic interaction between charges ρ( r) gives only a weak energy minimum of ∼10 kcal/mol at a too long HH distance. Equations (1)-(3) in Scheme 1 show the basic ansatz of the classical approach. Equations (4)-(9) give the new quantum theoretical approach. The pivotal difference to the classical ansatz is that the wave functions Ψ and not the charges ρ( r) of the hydrogen atoms must be added (or subtracted) in order to get an accurate description of the wave function and thus, of the electronic charge of H ₂. The two quantities Ψ and ρ( r) are related by eq. (4), which requests that the wave function Ψ must be squared in order to obtain the electronic charge ρ( r). It means that the sign information of Ψ is not found anymore in ρ( r). Woodward and Hoffmann 15 and Fukui 16 showed that the sign of the wavefunction given by the molecular orbitals determines the reaction course of many chemical reactions. This led to the genesis of new unicorns like HOMO and LUMO which proved to be very helpful for understanding and predicting chemical reactions, particularly pericyclic reactions. 17

Equation (6) shows that there is a new quantity which shows up when the wavefunction rather than the charges of the atoms are added (or subtracted in case of Ψ). The new term ± Ψ( H a) Ψ( H b) called "interference" or "resonance" gives an accumulation of charge when the sign is positive, or a depletion of charge when the sign is negative. The unicorn "covalent bonding" is strongly associated with the interference of the wave function. Many textbooks are saying that chemical bonding is a result of the accumulation of density in the binding region. 14 This is a deceptive statement, because the origin for the charge accumulation is not given. It is also misleading because it gives the incorrect impression that it is sufficient to consider the electronic charge of the interacting species for understanding chemical bonding. Figure 2 shows that the two hydrogen atoms may interact in two very different ways, i.e. in a bonding or antibonding fashion. The bonding comes from the spin‐pairing arrangement of the atoms which yields a covalent bond. The information about the two different possibilities is given only by Ψ but not by ρ( r). The charge distribution ρ( r) is the result but not the origin of the bond formation which can only become fully understood when the wave function is considered.

An important contribution to the understanding of the physical mechanism of the chemical bond was made by Ruedenberg. 18 This author showed that the kinetic energy plays a paradoxical role in the chemical bond formation in H ₂ and H ₂⁺. According to the virial theorem, the kinetic energy T and the potential energy V of a molecule at equilibrium are related as E = V = −2 T. It seems logical that the energy lowering upon formation of a chemical bond is driven by a decrease of V and an increase of T. Ruedenberg has shown that it is actually a decrease of T which accompanies the charge accumulation in the bonding region, and that the increase of T comes from the intraatomic compression of charge in the final stadium of the bond formation. 18

While the wavefunction Ψ is recognized as the fundamental quantity for understanding the chemical bond, it is premature to conclude that a quasiclassical 18 treatment of the interatomic interactions in terms of classical electrostatic laws using eq. (4) from Scheme 1 does not yield a strong chemical bond. It has been pointed out already in 1968 by Hirshfeld that the very weak quasiclassical attraction in H ₂ is atypical for diatomic molecules. 19 Spackman and Maslen published in 1984 the results of quasiclassical interaction energies in 147 diatomic molecules which were calculated through integration over the undisturbed spherically symmetric charge distributions of the atoms. 20 The interaction energy was found to be strongly attractive in all molecules except H ₂. A striking example is N ₂ whose bond was also recently analyzed by us. The quasiclassical interaction energy of dinitrogen given by eq. (2) of the classical ansatz for dinitrogen was calculated to be −313 kcal/mol attractive which is more than the bond dissociation energy (calculated value D e = 241 kcal/mol, experimental value D e = 229 kcal/mol)! 21 While H ₂ is a good example to demonstrate the importance of resonance, it is also deceptive because covalent bonds of the heavier atoms often possess strong contributions from the quasiclassical attraction between the atomic charges ρ. This comes from the electronic charges whose interactions can not be described with a point-charge model when the atoms come closer to each other. The deviation of the quasiclassical interaction between electrons from Coulombs law can lead to significant attraction between neutral atoms. This has been explained and discussed in the literature. 15, 22

The above reasoning suggests that there are two terms which can be identified as useful unicorns for explaining a chemical bond AB. These are the quasiclassical electrostatic interaction between nuclear and electronic charges q of A and B and the resonance term Ψ( A) Ψ( B). It is tempting to identify the two terms with the two types of chemical bonds which were already distinguished by Lewis as polar and non‐polar bonds illustrated by potassium chloride and methane, respectively. 4 In modern language these are ionic and covalent bonds. Most chemists would probably agree with the assignment. But as mentioned above, the quasiclassical attraction can also be very strong in bonds which are considered as purely covalent. There are even covalently bonded molecules which would not be stable without quasiclassical attraction. The energy decomposition analysis of chemical bonds in nonpolar molecules showed that the interatomic attraction in N ₂ which comes from the quantum theoretical resonance of the wavefunction is stronger (−730 kcal/mol) than the quasiclassical attraction (−313 kcal/mol), but the former attraction is compensated by strong Pauli repulsion (+802 kcal/mol) which is a third important term for understanding chemical bonding. 21 Pauli repulsion is a quantum theoretical phenomenon which does not play a role in H ₂ but it becomes very important for most other molecules. Thus, the quantum theoretical terms which are the reason for the strong chemical bond in H ₂ are actually repulsive in N ₂!

The quantum theoretical postulate named after Wolfgang Pauli requires that any two electrons must have at least one quantum number which is different from each other, i.e. a proper wave function must be antisymmetric with respect to the exchange of (space and spin) coordinates. This has a dramatic effect on the potential energy curve for the interaction between two electrons. Figure 3 shows three different curves for e‐ e interactions.

One curve (solid line) gives the classical electrostatic repulsion which is calculated using Coulomb's law for point charges. The second curve (dotted line) gives the quasiclassical repulsion between two electrons in 1s hydrogen orbitals ( ξ = 1.0) given by eq. (1):

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It becomes obvious that the e‐e repulsion at distances r < 2 Å is less than what is calculated from Coulomb's law. We want to emphasize that the curve for the quasiclassical repulsion between electrons significantly depends on the shape and the size of the occupied orbitals. 22 The third curve (dashed line) gives the repulsive energy which comes from the antisymmetrisation of the product wave function Ψ ₁ Ψ ₂ where Ψ ₁ and Ψ ₂ are 1s hydrogen orbitals which are occupied with electrons possessing the same spin. Note that, in the bonding region between 1 and 2 Å, the curve for the Pauli repulsion increases much more sharply than the quasiclassical electron repulsion. This is in the same region where the two curves for the electron‐electron repulsion describing the classical and the quantum theoretical behavior begin to diverge. Moreover, as mentioned above (see also the curve for E ₁₁ in Fig. 2), the overall electrostatic interaction in molecules in the bonding region is attractive. The crucial term which is responsible for repulsive interactions in chemical bonds except in two‐electron systems such as H ₂ is the Pauli repulsion. The three terms (a) quasiclassical electrostatic interaction, (b) resonance, and (c) Pauli repulsion give a complete picture of the interatomic interactions which yield a chemical bond. The partitioning of the binding interactions into the three expressions thus yields useful unicorns for discussing chemical bonding.

The important role of the quasiclassical electrostatic attraction in chemical bonds of heavier main group atoms which have valence p orbitals can be demonstrated by calculating the electron-electron and nuclear-electron interactions in a fictitious diatomic molecule E ₂ where the atom E has the nuclear charge Z = +1 and the two electrons are either in 2s or in 2p orbitals. Figure 4a gives the calculated curves for the e‐e repulsion using eq. (1). The curves show the behavior of the e‐e repulsion when both electrons are in 2s, 2p(σ), or in 2p(π) orbitals. Here we discuss only the situation when both electrons are in the same type of orbitals. The curves for the interaction between electrons in unlike orbitals are shown and discussed in Ref. 22b.

The curves in Fig. 4a show that the 2p(σ)‐2p(σ) repulsion (blue dotted line) is always larger than the 2s‐2s repulsion (red line) at any finite distance. The former repulsion is even stronger than what is calculated by Coulomb's law for point charges (black line) at distances ≫∼1.9 Å. The curve for the 2p(π)‐2p(π) interaction (blue dashed line) on the other hand shows weaker repulsion than all other terms at distances r ≫∼1.0 Å. At this distance it crosses the 2s‐2s curve and it converges to the same value as the 2p(σ)‐2p(σ) repulsion when r = 0 Å. Note that the 2s and 2p orbitals converge to different values for the electron repulsion.

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Figure 4b gives the curves for the quasiclassical attraction between a nucleus N with the point charge q = +1 and an electron in a 2s or 2p orbital which are calculated using eq. (2). The curves for the N‐2p(σ) (blue dotted line) and N‐2p(π) attraction (blue dashed line) converge toward the same value at r = 0 Å but the shape of the curves are quite different. The N‐2p(σ) attraction is stronger than the N‐2p(π) attraction and the N‐2s attraction (red line) at any finite distance. While the other nuclear‐electron curves exhibit a steady increase of the attraction at shorter distances, the N‐2p(σ) attraction attains a maximum value at r = ∼0.5 Å but then it decreases and finally approaches the same value as the N‐2p(π) attraction when r = 0 Å. The curve for the point‐charge model (black line) shows larger attraction than the N‐2p(π) and N‐2s attraction at finite distances while the N‐2p(σ) attraction is stronger than the classical interaction at distances r ≫ ∼1.1 Å. Figure 4c displays the curves which give the sum of the e‐e, N‐e, and N‐N interactions. It becomes obvious that the potential energy curve has only a rather small energy minimum when the electrons are in 2s orbitals (red line). The situation is similar to the H ₂ molecule where the electrons are in 1s orbitals (see the curve E ₁₁ in Fig. 2). The quasiclassical potential energy curve is even purely repulsive when the electrons are in 2p(π) orbitals (blue dashed line), i.e. when the electrons form a π bond. However, the curve for a 2p(σ)‐2p(σ) σ bond (blue dotted line) exhibits a deep energy minimum of nearly 100 kcal/mol at r = ∼1.1 Å. This means that nonpolar covalent bonds between atoms which have occupied p(σ) orbitals should have strong bonding contributions from quasiclassical electrostatic attraction. This is further discussed below.

What influence did quantum chemistry exert on the appearance of unicorns in the world of chemical bonding models? Examination of present day chemistry textbooks shows that chemical bonding is explained using a combination of classical heuristic bonding models with quantum chemical reasonings. The latter are often given as ad‐hoc explanations which are derived from various partitioning schemes and arbitrary definitions of quantum chemical terms which can lead to conflicting explanations. Two pertinent examples are the controversies about the explanation for the staggered equilibrium conformation of ethane and the question about the triple bond character of heavy atom homologues of alkynes. 23 An alternative view which has been strongly advocated by Findlay 24 and more recently by Cortés‐Guzmán and Bader 25 calls for abandoning the historical chemical models which do not come out of the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics. The heuristic chemical approaches which he discarded as obsolete should be replaced by new approaches which strictly follow rigorous fundamental principles. Slater's position has been called "The View from Physics" as opposed to "The View from Chemistry" for which the name of Charles Coulson is standing. 23 Coulson demanded that the role of quantum chemistry should be to help understanding the classical chemical concepts and to show what their essential features are in chemical behavior. 26

The latter philosophy has been adopted by Roald Hoffmann who made a great impact on chemical bonding models by paving the way for using MO models like the Woodward‐Hoffman rules and his later work until today. 15, 17 New symbols were added to the standard alphabet of chemical bonding models like the famous green/blue π orbital sketches. 15 New unicorns were borne from MO theory like through‐bond and through‐space interactions 27 and hard and soft acids and bases. 28 There is a gap, however, between the approximate MO models and the physical mechanism of the bond formation which needs an accurate quantum mechanical treatment of the molecule. Such a gap is no longer acceptable at the present time when molecules with up to ∼100 atoms of the entire periodic system, including very heavy atoms that need relativistic methods, can be calculated with chemical accuracy competing with experimental investigations. In our view, five conditions should be fulfilled by a chemical bonding model that is acceptable in 2006:

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It should be derived from accurate quantum chemical calculations.

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The terms which are used for describing the chemical bond must be mathematically unambiguously defined.

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The defined terms yield numerical results that must not significantly change at different levels of theory.

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The terms must be interpretable in a plausible way.

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The terms should be useful for explaining chemical phenomena such as structure and reactivity with a wide range of applicability for electronic ground and exctited states.

It is clear that conditions 4 and 5 are the most critical ones because the interpretation of the terms is subject to some arbitrariness. We think, however, that the sheer complexity of chemical phenomena demands definitions and interpretations that are helpful as classification schemes, for designing new experiments and for qualitatively predicting their outcome. The difference to classical heuristic models is that the latter are based on assumptions and correlations with experimental observations that may or may not be justified. Useful quantities like covalent bonding or multiple bonding would not be so controversial anymore if agreement is reached for a definition which fulfills the above requirements. Our reasoning is in the spirit of Ruedenberg who wrote in his article The physical nature of the chemical bond:

Many of these interpretations certainly are not "physical" in an operational sense, i.e. they have no direct relationship to specific experimental observations. They are however "physical" in the sense that they try to provide a complete set of physical pictures which furnish a correct facsimile of the mathematical workings of the Schrödinger equation.

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In other words, unicorns may become tamed by demanding that their behavior does not violate physical laws, but they should not be doomed to extinction because they are not object of physical reality.

One approach which fulfils (One referee pointed out that the EDA results do not fulfill condition 1 because the calculations are performed using DFT methods which are afflicted with the electron self‐interaction error (SIC). This is true, but there are presently no accurate DFT methods available which are free of SIC.) the above conditions is the energy decomposition analysis (EDA) which was developed by Morokuma 29 and Ziegler and Rauk 32 and then modified in the program ADF. 22, 31 It has been used by us in systematic studies of the chemical bond in transition‐metal compounds and in main group molecules. 35 The EDA uses those three unicorns which are mentioned above as central terms for the classification of a chemical bond: (a) quasiclassical electrostatic interaction Δ E elstat, (b) resonance interaction Δ E orb, and (c) Pauli repulsion Δ E Pauli. Since the resonance is calculated through the relaxation of the orbitals the term is called orbital interaction. The three terms are calculated in a well‐defined three‐step procedure where a chemical bond AB is analyzed in terms of instantaneous interactions between the frozen fragments A and B. The sum of the three terms Δ E elstat + Δ E orb + Δ E Pauli gives the interaction energy Δ E int. The bond dissociation energy D e is given (with opposite sign) by the sum of Δ E int and the preparation energy of the fragments A and B from their equilibrium structure to the geometry in AB. Further details are given in the literature. 22, 31

The EDA makes it possible to define covalent (orbital) and classical electrostatic contributions to a chemical bond. It is also possible to define multiple bonding character in molecules which have mirror symmetry. Examples for EDA calculations of chemical bonds are given in Table 1 which shows the data for the CC bonds in ethane, ethene, and ethyne.

C₂H₆

C₂H₄

C₂H₂

Sym

D 3d

D 2h

D ∞h

Δ E elstat a

−130.9 (41.4%)

−181.6 (38.4%)

−147.5 (27.6%)

Δ E orb a

−185.5 (58.6%)

−291.4 (61.6%)

−387.9 (72.4%)

Δ E σ b

−175.5 (94.6%)

−212.2 (72.8%)

−215.5 (55.6%)

Δ E π b

−10.0 (5.4%)

−79.2 (27.2%)

−172.4 (44.4%)

D ₀ c
83.4 (89.9 ± 0.5)

168.3 (175.4 ± 2)

238.7 (230.9 ± 2)

The EDA data give a quantitative estimate of the π bonding contribution in ethene (27.2%) and ethyne (44.4%) which agrees with the general expectation which comes from classical bonding models. The small π contribution to the CC single bond in ethane (5.4%) gives the hyperconjugation and the relaxation of the π orbitals of the methyl fragments after bond formation. The data also show that the quasiclassical contribution to the carbon-carbon bonds which comes from the Δ E elstat term is rather large. The percentage share of Δ E elstat to the attractive interactions is between 27.6% and 41.4%. Note that the absolute value of the electrostatic attraction in ethane (−130.9 kcal/mol) is larger than the total interaction energy (−114.8 kcal/mol). The large contribution of Δ E elstat to nonpolar bonds becomes obvious from Fig. 5 which shows the EDA results for N ₂ at different N-N distances. The p(σ) orbitals of the nitrogen atoms in the ⁴S ground state are singly occupied. According to the above discussion a strong contribution from quasiclassical attraction to the N-N bonding should be found. Figure 5 shows that the curve for the electrostatic attraction has indeed a deep minimum with a maximum value of ∼450 kcal/mol at the very short bond lengths of ∼0.85 Å. The clearly longer equilibrium distance of r(N-N) = 1.102 Å comes from the onset of the Pauli repulsion.

The power of the EDA has been demonstrated by its application to controversial topics such as the multiple‐bond character in (CO) ₄Fe‐GaCp* 34 and the strength of the conjugation and hyperconjugation in 1,3‐butaydiyne and related compounds. 35 New answers to the questions why CO has a higher bond dissociation energy than N ₂ 21 and why F ₂ has a weaker bond than Cl ₂ 32 have been given which are in agreement with the physical mechanism of the bond formation. The EDA was also used to give an explanation for the unusual structures which are exhibited by the heavier group‐14 analogous of acetylene E ₂H ₂ ( E = Si−Pb). 36 The EDA is but one example of a chemical bonding model which fulfills the above five requirements. It serves as a bridge between the heuristic bonding models of classical chemistry and quantum chemical insight into the chemical bond. Like other models it has its strength and its weakness which indicate the scope and the limitation of the approach.

One critical point of the EDA is the fact that the polarization of the fragment charges is not explicitly considered. In the original Morokuma scheme 29 the orbital mixing is divided into the intra‐fragment excitation (polarization) and the inter‐fragment term (charge transfer). This has been criticized, because the terms do not properly converge with the extension of basis set. 37 The EDA avoids the problem which means that the polarization is included in the orbital interaction term.

Another critical point of the EDA is the choice of the interacting fragments which are used for analyzing a chemical bond. The choice of the fragments is in most cases trivial when nonpolar bonds are analysed, 21 but for polar bonds it can be difficult to choose proper fragments. Since the results of the EDA strongly depend on the choice of the fragments it is important to recognize that the particular data and thus the interpretation are valid only with respect to the chosen fragments. For example, the EDA results for the LiCH ₃ bond differ significantly when either neutral fragments Li and CH ₃ or charged fragments Li⁺ and CH ₃− are employed. 38 An alternative energy decomposition analysis which avoids this problem has recently been introduced by Pendas. 39 It uses the atomic basins defined by the topological analysis of the electronic charge 40 as interacting fragments. Since the latter do not overlap the results of the energy partitioning necessarily differ a lot from the EDA results. Future studies will show the merits of this and other approaches.

There is a future for unicorns in chemistry even after quantum theory has been introduced, because the territory of chemical bonding requires a simple language which is spoken and understood in the different communities of experimental chemistry. Quantum chemistry has imposed some restrictions to defining unicorn species, but the essential features of the heuristic bonding models will survive the attack even of their most notorious hunters who fail to recognize the difference between chemistry and physics.

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