‘Arrival Calendar’ Review: An Interval of Tricks and Treats

Writer-director Patrick Ridremont’s “The Advent Calendar” has all kinds of unpleasant pleasures behind its doors. This fiery dream of a movie packs love potions, evil stepmothers, benevolent demons, voodoo, sex, alternate realities and more into 104 minutes. The fantastic props and effects are whimsical and dizzying, and strangely beautiful in their euphoria, as they move …

How Maori’s Arrival in New Zealand Was Frozen in Antarctic Ice

When it comes to records of human history, don’t overlook Earth’s only uninhabited continent. Researchers have recently found soot preserved in Antarctic ice, linked to fires in New Zealand by Māori settlers, the islands’ first human inhabitants. The team suggests that finding evidence of fires thousands of kilometers away is a dramatic example of early …

Ancient Footprints Push Back the History of Human Arrival in the Americas

The ancient human footprints preserved at the site across from New Mexico’s White Sands National Park are surprisingly old. scientists have reported On Thursday, it dates back to the Ice Age, about 23,000 years ago. The results, if they continued to study, would revive the scientific debate about how humans first spread to the Americas, …

Messi’s Arrival in Paris Reflects a Troubled Time in Football

In those frantic, final hours of April, a split arose in their ranks before a gang of owners of Europe’s biggest clubs announced their plans for a breakaway super league to an unsuspecting and unwanted world. A group led by Juventus president Andrea Agnelli and Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez wanted to go public as …