Across New York, overdose deaths are skyrocketing. But state officials are stalling on an evidence-based model that works.
Albany, NY—At the front of the rally, a middle-aged woman in a pink fur coat held a cardboard tombstone with a name: Jeff Dugan. Someone had also pasted two photographs on it: In one,
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In 2020, the Wisconsin city of Appleton brought No Mow May to the United States. Each spring, by temporarily forgoing mowing and letting residential lawns grow with flowers, residents could support bees and other insect pollinators, proponents claimed. Indeed, they even said the practice was backed by their own published scientific study.
But a little more than two years later, critics
Cutting the calories? It can be tedious tracking exactly what you’re eating everyday, so making some simple changes to your diet is an easy way to lower your calorie count, whilst still enjoying your food.
Because ultimately, the fundamental rule of weight loss is calories in versus calories out.
Adam Enaz, a personal trainer and registered clinical dietician, explains that calories are essentially the energy present in the food we eat.
‘If we consume more calories than what our bodies
A man who has ‘Britain’s largest penis’ says the accolade comes with a number of problems but he doesn’t plan on getting size reduction surgery.
Matt Barr, 40, a Cambridge university graduate, first realised he had a bigger penis (measuring in at more than 12 inches) than his peers during showers after PE at school.
But being so well-endowed has actually come with a whole host of problems, including difficulties while dating, and people getting the wrong idea during a
An embattled NPR editor denouncing the network’s practices fails to understand them—or the practice of journalism.
The National Public Radio headquarters in Washington, DC.
(Samuel Corum / Bloomberg)
I’ve never liked NPR. Throughout its long and venerable half-century run, the public radio network has served as a seamless delivery system for lifestyle smugness. When my mother would reflexively flip it on during long car rides in my adolescence, I’d greet its confident dispatches from the East Coast citadels
As the Biden administration continues to give weapons to Israel, thousands of people across the country are protesting by refusing to pay their taxes.
A rally in solidarity with Palestine near the White House.
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Sarah Gambino does not want to pay for the war on Gaza. “Enough is enough. Like, I’m not going to be part of this anymore,” the 36-year-old Arizona resident said. After attending protests and calling lawmakers to no avail,
JERUSALEM – Following Secretary of State Antony
March 20, 2024
National security is best advanced not by endlessly preparing for war, but by fostering peace.
In June 2017, US soldiers maneuver an M-777 howitzer so it can be towed into position at Bost Airfield, Afghanistan.
(AP Photo / US Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Justin T. Updegraff)
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In an age when
The Princess of Wales issued an extraordinary mea culpa yesterday after admitting she ‘edited’ an image showing her celebrating Mother’s Day with her children.
In a rare personal message on Twitter, signed ‘C’ for Catherine, the future queen said she ‘occasionally experimented’ as an ‘amateur photographer’.
And she apologised for any ‘confusion’ the photograph had caused. It came after six global picture agencies sensationally pulled the image from their wires and libraries – an unprecedented reaction to an official royal
Hainikoye hits Accept and a young woman greets him in Hausa, a gravelly language spoken across West Africa’s Sahel region. She has three new cows, and wants to know: Does he have advice on getting them through the lean season?
Hainikoye—a twentysomething agronomist who has “followed animals,” as Sahelians refer to herding, since he first learned to walk—opens an interface on his laptop and clicks on her village in southern Niger, where humped zebu roam the dipping hills and dried-up … Read more
