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Brain aging may have sped up during the pandemic, even in people who didn’t get sick from Covid, a new study suggests. Using brain scans from a very large database, British researchers determined that during the pandemic years of 2021 and 2022, people’s brains showed signs of aging, including shrinkage, according to the report published in Nature Communications. People who …

Micheal Ward plays the sole Black character in Eddington. Of course he’s a police officer. Richard Foreman/A24 hide caption toggle caption Richard Foreman/A24 If you know nothing of Ari Aster’s Eddington going in — or of the nature of his previous films, including Hereditary and Midsommar  — the time stamp that appears on the screen within the first few minutes …

‘Eddington’ Review: Once Upon a Time in the Pandemic  The New York Times Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ takes the tension of the pandemic to a violent end  NPR Review: Doomscrolling is a disease in ‘Eddington,’ a fever dream about COVID conspiracies  Los Angeles Times Ari Aster, Hollywood’s Master of Dread, Is Afraid of Everything  The New York Times ‘Eddington’: The early days of covid seen …

Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal in ‘Eddington’ Ari Aster and Darius Khondji/A24 hide caption toggle caption Ari Aster and Darius Khondji/A24 Films known as “period pieces” take viewers back to the Renaissance or Victorian England, for example. Are you ready for a period piece about the pandemic? Eddington takes its name from a fictional small town in New Mexico in …