Warning: This post contains spoilers for Season 2 of Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty. TWO EPISODES INTO the second season of HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, Jerry Buss’s (John C. Reilly) concern about his and his team’s legacy is starting to manifest in erratic ways. In the season …
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Greg Harden was counseling athletes at the University of Michigan when a player named Tom Brady came into his office. Brady says Harden “pushed me to wake up and grow up.” This kind of pushing one’s own potential is something Harden learned for himself early on and has instilled in other athletes including Michael Phelps …
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Netflix’s Painkiller, a fictionalized account of the Sackler family’s culpability in this country’s on-going opioid crisis, makes for some tough watching. Based on Patrick Radden Keefe‘s New Yorker story “The Family That Built an Empire of Pain” and Barry Meier’s nonfiction book Pain Killer, the six-episode series follows an ensemble cast of characters that revolves …
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YOU WON’T FIND a five-minute workout class at Barry’s, the high-energy boutique group fitness studio—but compressing some of the brand’s signature intensity is possible if you’re willing to keep up your effort for the whole period. That was the strategy for this killer five-minute routine from Charlie Meredith, NASM-CPT, Barry’s Chief Curriculum Lead in New …
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Singer, rapper, actor and fashion designer Kid Cudi can add “Calvin Klein model” to his ever-growing resume. In a photoshoot for the brand’s fall campagin—which also includes Jung Kook of the K-Pop boyband sensation BTS, Euphoria star Alexa Demie, and reality personality and model Kendall Jenner—Cudi poses and dances with aplomb, showing off his lean …
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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain An analysis of randomized controlled trials has found that the use of low-dose glucocorticoids was not associated with substantial weight gain or hypertension in patients being treated for rheumatoid arthritis. The analysis is published in Annals of Internal Medicine. Glucocorticoids are often used in the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Weight …
MIT and Boston University researchers and colleagues report a smart pill the size of a blueberry that could be a game changer in the diagnosis and treatment of bowel diseases. Here (L-R) Qijun Liu of Boston University, Maria Eugenia Inda of MIT, and Miguel Jimenez of MIT pose with prototypes of the pill and a …
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Prostate cancer cells. Credit: NIH Image Gallery To explore why prostate cancer disproportionately sickens and kills Black men, researchers are looking to another disorder, diabetes, which alters metabolism. They used this approach in a preliminary clinical trial and today report the identification of four metabolism-related biomarkers linked to an increased risk of metastatic prostate cancer …
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Kale microgreens (left) and leaves from the mature plant (right) have different nutritional profiles but both can limit weight gain in mice. Credit: Thomas Wang/USDA Young vegetables known as microgreens are reputed to be particularly good for health. Now, researchers are trying to find out whether microgreens—which can easily be grown at home—are the superfood …
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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A diagnosis of a brain tumor can be frightening. Of the more than 100 types of brain tumors, meningioma and glioblastoma are two of the most common. Dr. Wendy Sherman, a Mayo Clinic neuro-oncologist, explains the differences in these brain tumors and why research is crucial to help move towards a …
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