Keto is a challenging diet. If it isn’t difficult, you aren’t doing it correctly. The diet is marketed as a miraculously pleasurable diet in which you may eat as much fat as you like while avoiding carbs. However, the ketogenic diet (commonly known as keto) was never meant to be enjoyable. It was planned to…
William Hayes begins his quest after the sun has set. He sets out into the southern California desert with nothing but a blacklight in search of biological treasure. Although the UV light does not adequately illuminate the way, it will aid him in spotting his stinging, pinching, eight-legged prey: scorpions. The biology professor from Loma…
The duck was decked out for a day at the beach. He was dressed in an orange dry suit, black gloves, and flippers, and a yellow helmet with goggles and a snorkel attached, ready to jump out of our hovering chopper and into the sea for the first time. Outside and above its wide side…
The COVID-19 pandemic, which began on March 11, 2020, when the World Health Organization proclaimed the viral epidemic a worldwide occurrence, is now in its second year. It’s also been more than a year since the World Health Organization (WHO) stated on January 5, 2020, that a strange virus had emerged in Wuhan, China. More…
Emoji could become the digital cave art of our time in hundreds of years. At least, that’s what Mayank Kejriwal, an industrial and systems engineering research assistant professor at the University of Southern California, thinks. His most recent study of Twitter emoji usage has prompted him to consider whether our collective real-time social media behavior…
To play ла млxи р, a traditional Mongolian game that translates to “Multicolored Turtle,” you don’t have to look attractive, but the elders kneeling around the board on plush rugs do. Deels are bright loose-fitting tunics tied at the waist with silken sashes and decorative buckles, and the ladies wear dangling earrings, rings on each…
Some sections of the globe are beginning to see more heavy rain than they had anticipated. Floods hit cities across the Northeast earlier this month, including one in New York City that completely flooded subway stations. It isn’t just the United States; huge flooding wreaked havoc in Germany just last week, and central China had…
Children are bombarded with gender signals from the minute they are born. Girls wear pink, while boys wear blue; girls are delicate, while guys are tough; girls are ballerinas, while boys are construction workers. These messages aren’t always obvious, but they’re there nonetheless. Kids take these signals and try to make sense of the world…
Gluten-free labels have become increasingly common in the grocery store, even on drinks and snacks that shouldn’t contain gluten, to begin with. However, if you’ve made a joke about gluten-free oats, you might want to retract that remark. Although oats do not inherently contain gluten, research shows that the great majority of the packages in…
It’s safe to say that digital treatment is here to stay. Therapy applications were already gaining traction among people dealing with issues ranging from stress to serious mental disease when the COVID-19 epidemic struck. When offices turned virtual, they carved out a niche for themselves in the mental health industry. While some applications, like Talkspace…