After what seemed a relatively stable fall season, COVID-19 is on the rise once again all across the United States, just before Americans prepare to celebrate the holidays. In the past two weeks – since Thanksgiving, actually – COVID cases and hospitalizations have jumped more than 25%. Test positivity rates, ICU admissions and the levels of […]
A favorite childhood memory of many is stringing popcorn to create garland for a Christmas tree, even though it meant withstanding pricks and pokes from the needle. The perk was getting to secretly munch on the popcorn stash as you worked. How did this tradition get started? It goes back to the beginning of another […]
If you love the fruit, you are welcome to enjoy them almost all year round, but December is really the time to celebrate the bounty of pears, because it’s National Pear Month. Pears are an extremely versatile recipe ingredient – they can be used in desserts like tarts and crumbles, sliced with salads, in a […]
Whitney Houston was an internationally renowned singer, actress, and icon. She was also a style icon, known for embracing glamour in both her fashion and makeup. Just in time for the holiday season and in conjunction with the release of the biopic “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” MAC Cosmetics is celebrating the late superstar by launching a […]
The National Weather Service (NWS) can send warnings for inclement and dangerous weather, such as flash floods, destructive severe thunderstorms, tornadoes and snow squalls, directly to your cell phone by using the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system, but new criteria from the NWS has changed how many snow squall alerts are being sent to people’s […]
A one-eared dog named Van Gogh created such favorable impressions with his artwork that he achieved his masterpiece: finding a loving forever home. It’s a remarkable turnaround for the 7-year-old pit bull mix, who lost his left ear after being used as a bait dog in a dogfighting ring in North Carolina. As NBC’s The […]
NASA’s Orion spacecraft has successfully returned to Earth! The uncrewed capsule safely splashed down into the Pacific Ocean off of Mexico’s Baja California around 12:40PM ET on Sunday, marking the end of the landmark Artemis I mission. As The Verge reports, the capsule reached speeds of about 24,500mph as it returned to Earth, while its […]
Last week, International Superstar Celine Dion cancelled her tour and revealed she has been diagnosed with Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS), a rare neurological disorder with features of an autoimmune disease. The French Canadian singer told her 5.2m Instagram followers the condition makes her muscles spasm uncontrollably. Dion said it has led to difficulties walking and […]
At a “show and tell” event on last week, Elon Musk said that his brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, could implant one of its devices in someone’s head within the next six months, i.e. not till next year. During the presentation, Musk said that the company had submitted most of the paperwork needed for a human clinical […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Switzerland-based Ferring Pharmaceuticals’ fecal transplant-based therapy to reduce the recurrence of a bacterial infection, making it the first therapy of its kind to be cleared in the United States. The therapy, “Rebyota,” targets Clostridium difficile, or C. difficile, which is a superbug responsible for infections that can […]