Like the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and pumpkin pie, the National Dog Show is an American holiday tradition. As many as 2,000 of the top American Kennel Club sanctioned dogs competed this year in the most widely viewed dog show in the United States, which took place Nov. 18-19 at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center […]
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Articles featuring advice from centenarians seem to abound these days, with people age 100 or older graciously offering tips for a long and happy life. Indeed, there are more men and women in the demographic alive today than there have been in the past two decades. Many factors are at play in that increase, but
Some promising news for people who struggle to fit exercise into their daily routines: Research has shown that short bursts of activity derived from simple, household tasks are tied to lower risks of heart attack, stroke, and death. Publishing their work in the journal The Lancet Public Health, scientists out of Australia and the U.K.
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Danish artist Thomas Dambo boasts an impressive collection of trolls — and we don’t mean the 4-inch figurines with gems in their bellies (though, coincidentally, those were originally created by a Danish man named Thomas Dam). For over a decade, Dambo has been carving massive wooden sculptures of the mythical creatures and displaying them in natural
Christmas is fast approaching, and if you’re planning on counting down the days to the Dec. 25 holiday with an Advent calendar, now is the time to pick one (or two or three) out. Advent, derived from the Latin word for “arrival,” is the four-week period beginning on the nearest Sunday to the feast of
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A Canadian woman is being heralded for the extraordinary number of trees she planted in the Great White North. Across three summers, Leslie Dart planted 372,290 trees, often documenting her progress on TikTok, with one of her videos earning a whopping 8.7 million views. Some may see her as a modern-day Johnny Appleseed, but Dart
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Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China have developed a revolutionary desalination system inspired by the ocean and powered by the sun — and it could produce drinkable freshwater that is more cost-effective than tap. In a recent study, the researchers describe a passive device that takes in
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Take a look at the popularity of risque, high school-set series like Sex Education and Euphoria, and it’s not altogether unreasonable to assume that most young people prefer to see passion-fueled plotlines acted out on screen. But according to new research, adolescents are actually longing for more friendship and less romance in movies and television.
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A new review paper out of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography proposes tapping into the global diving community to advance marine conservation and help achieve UN Sustainable Development Goal No. 14: Life Below Water. Publishing their work in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science, researchers highlighted how the diving sector — comprising tourism, instruction, and
What comes to mind when you hear the word neighbor? For most Americans, it’s the person who occupies the apartment next door or the house across the sheet. Conversely, the individuals outside our homes, those who don’t have shelter of their own, may not even register as belonging to our communities — as being, in
