YouTuber Laurie Shaw is known for taking on a wide array of 30-day fitness challenges, from intensive Krav Maga and Muay Thai training, to attempting to master some of the most challenging calisthenics moves. In his most recent video, Shaw documents his efforts to improve his 50-meter swim time over a month-long period. “I’m hopeless …
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Given that The Crown is one of the biggest shows on TV, we notice when it crops up in the news. Especially, when it’s because Netflix has released a casting call for actors to play Prince William and Prince Harry in their teenage years. And then details, which have been making their way around the …
Swimmer Nathan Adrian is no stranger to challenge—there were plenty of them on his way to swimming in three Olympic games and earning eight Olympic medals. But in December 2018, at age 30, he met a new challenge: a diagnosis of testicular cancer. “Life, like swimming the 100 free, can come at you hard and …
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After a seemingly endless back and forth between the Academy and Will Smith, a definitive decision has at long last been passed down from the Academy’s Board of Governors. Will Smith has been banned from the Oscars and all Academy events for the next ten years. The ban begins on April 8, 2022 and extends …
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Since July 2017, FX’s drama series Snowfall has been a visceral reminder of how the war on drugs changed America forever. Co-created by the late director John Singleton, who helmed such iconic movies as Boyz n The Hood, the show delivered classic gangster flick-level quality every week, bringing the uncompromising gruesomeness and sociological commentary on …
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April 8, 2022 – It’s long been known that birth control pills have a checkered history. Before the era of informed consent in clinical trials, hormonal contraceptives were tested in vulnerable populations. The warning labels of blood clots and heart attack risk were only added to packaging inserts in 1978. The hormone-emitting NuvaRing birth control …
April 8, 2022 The COVID-19 symptoms caused by the Omicron variant tend to last about two days shorter than symptoms from the Delta variant, according to a new study published in The Lancet. In addition, among fully vaccinated people, a symptomatic Omicron infection was 25% less likely to result in a hospital admission as compared …
April 8, 2022 Some of the beef cattle in a no-antibiotics program tested positive for antibiotics, which could call into question the “raised without antibiotics” label on products, according to a new study in Science. Most cattle in the study — about 85% — tested negative for antibiotics. However, 10% came from lots where at …
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By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, April 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Supply chain problems are causing significant shortages of baby formula in the United States, and some retailers are now limiting how much people can buy at one time. About three-quarters of U.S. babies receive formula within their first six months, but …
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April 8, 2022 — Researchers from Australia and Israel have found evidence of forced organ harvesting in China on people who were not first declared brain dead. Searching for documentation that organs people need to live are being harvested from executed prisoners who did not give their permission — a practice that the China Tribunal confirmed …
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