Vipology Staff Writer

Get Ready for Season Five of ‘Fixer Upper’

Mark your calendars now, Fixer Upper devotees. HGTV says the date is official and it’s all happening. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll laugh some more — and it all gets underway starting November 21 in the familiar Tuesday night time slot. Just in quantitative terms, here’s a bit of what’s on deck for Fixer Upper‘s fifth season: no less than […]

Celebrate Atari’s 50th Anniversary by Playing this New Collection

One of the biggest challenges in video game preservation is figuring out how to actually present old games. As The Verge reports, there is an expansive new release, made by Digital Eclipse to celebrate Atari’s 50th anniversary, which experts say is simply the best way to experience a retro collection. Available on just about every […]

November 10th is International Tempranillo Day!

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The organization TAPAS (Tempranillo Advocates, Producers and Amigos Society), is a nonprofit trade association of over one hundred wineries, growers, and amigos, whose mission is to promote Tempranillo and other varietal wine grapes native to the Iberian Peninsula, and wines produced from them in North America. So it makes sense that in 2011, they started […]

The 2022 American Humane Hero Dog Awards will be announced on Veterans Day!

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The American Humane organization is hosting its annual Hero Dog Awards — with the announcement of the winner coming on Veterans Day 2022.  American Humane was founded in 1877, and was the country’s first national humane organization committed to animals.  The Hero Dog Awards is a competition held to recognize America’s Hero Dogs in seven different categories: law […]

Meta Announces Massive Job Cuts

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Meta has announced it will lay off 11,000 employees or around 13 percent of the company’s total staff. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the news in a blog post, saying he was at fault for being overoptimistic about the company’s future growth based on a pandemic surge. “At the start of Covid, the world rapidly moved online and the […]

CDC Updates Opioid Prescribing Guidelines

As CNN reports, for the first time since 2016, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its guidelines for clinicians and patients on the use of prescription opioids to treat short-term and long-term pain. The update comes as drug overdose deaths have risen dramatically in recent years, although the majority of those deaths […]

The Controversy around Johnny Depp’s Appearance at the Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 4

In the middle of Rihanna’s celebratory showcase of fashion, music and dance in her “Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 4” is a 30-second appearance from controversial actor Johnny Depp. Around the 20-minute mark of the 40-minute-long show, now streaming on Amazon Prime, Depp struts toward the camera wearing the Savage X Fenty men’s mesh tank paired with pants, a trench coat and […]

A Fierce Storm is about to bring an Early Dose of Winter to the Northern U.S.

After dumping feet of snow across the highest elevations of California, a strengthening storm will unleash an early dose of winter weather across the central U.S, with blizzard conditions forecast in some areas of the northern Plains, according to AccuWeather meteorologists. Periods of snow persisted on Wednesday morning across portions of Utah, Idaho and up to Montana. The storm will emerge in […]

Puma CEO sprints to Adidas to Help the Shoe Company over its Hurdles

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As Yahoo News! reports, Bjorn Gulden, who has led Puma since 2013, will move to the sportswear maker’s bigger rival, Adidas, as chief executive as of January 1, 2023, Adidas said on Tuesday. He will replace current CEO Kasper Rorsted, who is set to step down earlier than planned amid mounting problems at the company. […]

New Drug may Help People with Uncontrolled High Blood Pressure

As NBC News reports, an experimental drug could eventually offer hope to millions of people struggling with uncontrolled high blood pressure, new research has found. Patients who took a daily dose of the drug, baxdrostat, were able to reduce their blood pressure substantially, compared to a people who got a placebo, according to the study published […]