Author: Michelle Korhonen
Last week, as American sports fans’ eyes moved from football to baseball, a great cry—or at least a significant grumble—was heard from MLB players arriving at spring training: The new uniforms are bad.The MLB announced the uniforms, which have been redesigned by Nike for all of the league’s 30 teams, in a press release last Tuesday. It included praise from some of the biggest baseball names on Nike’s endorsement roster. As images of the uniforms began to circulate, however, a number of other players voiced, shall we say, differing opinions. Many were upset that they’d no longer been given the…
David Beckham is envied by men around the world for his chiseled facial features, toned physique and ever-changing hairstyles.But now men are paying thousands to have their nipples reconstructed to look more like the soccer star’s, top plastic surgeons have told DailyMail.com.‘This is a thing, people want David Beckham’s nipples,’ said Dr Marc Everett, who runs a clinic on Manhattan, New York.Dr Elie Levine, who also has a practice in the Upper East Side, said it was ‘definitely a growing trend’. He is now carrying out around one procedure every two weeks, which involves extracting breast tissue from underneath the nipples and…
Over two dozen abortion-rights supporters attend a rally outside the South Carolina State House in Columbia, S.C., on Aug. 23, 2023. The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled to uphold a law banning most abortions except those in the earliest weeks of pregnancy. James Pollard/AP hide caption toggle caption James Pollard/AP Over two dozen abortion-rights supporters attend a rally outside the South Carolina State House in Columbia, S.C., on Aug. 23, 2023. The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled to uphold a law banning most abortions except those in the earliest weeks of pregnancy. James Pollard/AP Taylor Shelton said she isn’t ready…
In my childhood home, an often-repeated phrase was “All disease begins in the gut.” My dad, a health nut, used this mantra to justify his insistence that our family eat rice-heavy meals, at the exact same time every day, to promote regularity and thus overall health. I would roll my eyes, dubious that his enthusiasm for this practice was anything more than fussiness.Now, to my chagrin, his obsession has become mainstream. Social-media testimonials claim that improving your “gut health” not only helps with stomach issues such as bloating and pain but also leads to benefits beyond the gastrointestinal system (easing…
The winning entries in this year’s Underwater Photographer of the Year contest have just been announced, and Alex Dawson was named Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024 for his image of a whale skeleton on the seafloor, beneath the ice, in Greenland. Prizes and commendations were handed out in categories including Wide Angle, Macro, Wrecks, Behavior, Portrait, Black & White, Compact, Up & Coming, and more. Contest organizers were once again kind enough to share with us a selection of this year’s honorees, with some captions written by the photographers.
Women only need to do half as much exercise as men to reap the same heart health benefits, a study found.Those who cycle, swim or run regularly are significantly less likely to die from a heart attacks or stroke compared to men – even when they put in less effort.Overall, women and men with active lifestyles were 24 and 15 per cent less likely to die early compared to those leading sedentary lives.Women were also 36 per cent less likely to suffer a fatal heart attack, stroke, or other cardiovascular event, compared to a 14 per cent among men, researchers…
While clearing out a storage room filled with books, I came across a slim volume, A World Split Apart, the text of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Harvard commencement address. I remember listening to the speech at the time and being disconcerted by the petulant commentary it elicited. Solzhenitsyn had been in the United States only three years, having been expelled by the Soviet government and living as a recluse in Vermont. The consensus—certainly among the great and the good of Cambridge, Massachusetts—was that he was an ultranationalist, a reactionary, and, above all, an ingrate. At the time, I thought the reaction…
Marie Osmond stays fit for her family.She told DailyMail.com exclusively that she is trim so she can keep up with her grandchildren. ‘If I’m at the end of the life I want to spend time with my family,’ said the singer, who also stays active with power walks.‘One reason I stay in good shape is because I wanna go bike riding with my grandkids I wanna be the fun grandma and you can’t do that if you don’t feel great,’ added the Paper Roses crooner. ‘Those are my priorities for me I want my grandkids to know me the real me not…
Guillermo A. Santos on his high school graduation day in 2021, with his father, Guillermo Jose Santos. The elder Santos died later the same year of a drug overdose. The Santos-Honkala Family hide caption toggle caption The Santos-Honkala Family Guillermo A. Santos on his high school graduation day in 2021, with his father, Guillermo Jose Santos. The elder Santos died later the same year of a drug overdose. The Santos-Honkala Family In 2021, after years of societal neglect and denial around the issue, the number of overdose-related deaths in the U.S. reached more than 100,000, the largest it had ever…
As a progressive legal scholar and activist, I never would have expected to end up on the same side as Greg Abbott, the conservative governor of Texas, in a Supreme Court dispute. But a pair of cases being argued next week have scrambled traditional ideological alliances.The arguments concern laws in Texas and Florida, passed in 2021, that if allowed to go into effect would largely prevent the biggest social-media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, X (formerly Twitter), and TikTok, from moderating their content. The tech companies have challenged those laws—which stem from Republican complaints about “shadowbanning” and “censorship”—under the First…