You are M. After the tragic loss of the love of your life, your chronic depression makes it difficult for you to be productive at work. You have no significant savings. There is a service that allows you to be “severed”, which allows your memories to be divided. Once severed, you will no longer have memory of your personal life once you enter the office. These memories will come back to you as soon as you leave the office. 

At the conclusion of the BLUE competition, Soma has proven himself as one of the world’s top young chefs. He is a member of Tōtsuki’s Elite Ten, the student council at one of the  world's greatest culinary academy. At the same time, he continues to operate Yukihira’s Diner, the humble family restaurant where he learned to cook from his Dad, who is often revered as the greatest chef in the entire world. 

Erina Nakiri, the current headmaster of Tōtsuki, holds a unique place in Soma’s life. While their relationship is complex, she serves as his greatest rival, motivator, and source of validation. Their culinary rivalry is a driving force for both of their growth, pushing them to reach new heights in their cooking.

Now, Soma faces a choice:

Stay at Tōtsuki – refine his craft within its structured system, develop his leadership within the Elite Ten, and continue challenging Erina.

Leave the diner and the academy like his father Joichiro – travel the world, experience new culinary cultures firsthand, and forge his own path outside the academy’s traditions.

You’re a fading starlet in your late 50s, who has just lost her job, with the producers looking for someone young to replace you. You’ve been in the industry since you were 14, and are unsure of your prospects outside the entertainment industry.

The Substance is a mysterious serum which when injected splits your consciousness into two bodies: the current you, and a hotter younger body. Your consciosuness switches between the two bodies every week.

"Wendy Brown coins the term ""wounded attachments"" to critique identity politics as premised on forming social relations based on experiences of suffering, pain, and hurt. For her, wounded attachments are a manifestation of what Nietzsche referred to as ressentiment—the moral vengeance of the powerless, or how vulnerable people often indulge in a sense of moral superiority in their powerlessness by displacing blame onto the oppressors. Brown argues that political identities built in response to marginalization and oppression often inadvertently rely on the continuation of the very structures of subordination they oppose (why: think!). Examples of wounded attachments: radical feminists for reinscribing the category of ""woman"" as an essentialized identity premised on injury; black people enduring the haunting dehumanizing legacies of slavery, Savarna accounts of how reservation ensures that they lose out on opportunities and that they are an injury to their ""merit""; or white men's anger at how they are victims of DEI."

You are M. After the tragic loss of the love of your life, your chronic depression makes it difficult for you to be productive at work. You have no significant savings. There is a service that allows you to be “severed”, which allows your memories to be divided. Once severed, you will no longer have memory of your personal life once you enter the office. These memories will come back to you as soon as you leave the office.

At the conclusion of the BLUE competition, Soma has proven himself as one of the world’s top young chefs. He is a member of Tōtsuki’s Elite Ten, the student council at one of the  world's greatest culinary academy. At the same time, he continues to operate Yukihira’s Diner, the humble family restaurant where he learned to cook from his Dad, who is often revered as the greatest chef in the entire world. 

Erina Nakiri, the current headmaster of Tōtsuki, holds a unique place in Soma’s life. While their relationship is complex, she serves as his greatest rival, motivator, and source of validation. Their culinary rivalry is a driving force for both of their growth, pushing them to reach new heights in their cooking.

Now, Soma faces a choice:

Stay at Tōtsuki – refine his craft within its structured system, develop his leadership within the Elite Ten, and continue challenging Erina.

Leave the diner and the academy like his father Joichiro – travel the world, experience new culinary cultures firsthand, and forge his own path outside the academy’s traditions.

You’re a fading starlet in your late 50s, who has just lost her job, with the producers looking for someone young to replace you. You’ve been in the industry since you were 14, and are unsure of your prospects outside the entertainment industry.

The Substance is a mysterious serum which when injected splits your consciousness into two bodies: the current you, and a hotter younger body. Your consciosuness switches between the two bodies every week.

"The US-Iran relations had been heavily influenced by Iran's nuclear program. In 2015, Iran agreed to limit its nuclear program through the Iran Nuclear Deal, or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, between Iran and six other countries (US, UK, France, Russia, China, and Germany). However, former US President Donald Trump withdrew the US from the deal in 2018 and reimposed harsh sanctions on Iran. One major consequence of the deteriorating US-Iran relations is the US killing Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in 2020.

In July 2024, reformist Masoud Pezeshkian was elected as president of Iran, beating the hard-line, former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili. His predecessor, Ebrahim Raisi, also had an uncompromising stance in nuclear talks."

Japan is facing an aging population crisis, characterized by a rapidly increasing proportion of elderly citizens, a declining irth rate, and a shrinking workforce. This demographic shift is a result of several factors, including increasing life expectancy and low fertility rates.

Proselytisation refers to organised efforts from religious institutions to encourage their followers to persuade non-believers to become followers of their religion

Philanthrocapitalism is based on the idea that capitalist models are the best way to create economic and social progress. Under philanthrocapitalism, charities are run as business models that employ market-based solutions to problems. The focus is on entrepreneurship, efficiency and quantified costs and benefits. Most philanthrocapitalist organizations are funded and run by the extremely wealthy. Some examples are Bill and Melinda Gates (Gates Foundation) and Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan (Chan Zuckerberg Initiative).

"Generative AI was used in Oscar-nominated films like the Brutalist and Emelia Perez to enhance acting performances, like fixing Adrien Brody's Hungarian accent. Brody is currently the frontrunner for the Oscar for Best Actor, having won the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and other precursor awards. Similarly, Emelia Perez used it to enhance Selena Gomez's Mexican Spanish accent. There has been a rise in the use of generative AI for purposes ranging from production, design to enhancing acting performances.

As of now, after the strike by the Writers Guild of America, the union and studios reached an agrrement that union writers will not work on any film production that relies AI for writing."

Universities in the US  are typically divided into three colleges. 

College of Engineering (sometimes termed a School of Engineering and Applied Science). Offers engineering degrees generally in 10-15 majors, including chemical engineering, civil engineering, etc. 

College of Business. Offers business degrees generally in 5-8 majors, including, finance, management, entrepreneurship. 

College of Art and Science (also called College of Letters and Sciences). Offers ‘liberal arts’ degrees in 50-80 subjects, including history, media, economics, philosophy, physics, mathematics, statistics etc.

Accounting is not a generally a major, and is imparted through vocational training.