Scientists quantify energetic costs of the migratory lifestyle in a free flying songbird
19 Sep
Lifestyle

Scientists quantify energetic costs of the migratory lifestyle in a free flying songbird

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Lifestyle A wild blackbird being released. Credit: Christian Ziegler / Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Millions of birds migrate every year to escape winter, but spending time in a warmer climate does not save them energy, according to research by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (MPI-AB). Using miniaturized loggers implanted in wild blackbirds, scientists recorded detailed measurements of heart rate...
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Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop took wellness mainstream. How did it lose its edge?
19 Sep
Lifestyle

Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop took wellness mainstream. How did it lose its edge?

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Lifestyle In This StoryFor more than 15 years, Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle empire, Goop, has been ever-present in the cultural conversation. Goop has been a newsletter, an e-commerce company, a podcast, a wellness summit, a magazine, and even a show.Suggested ReadingOpenAI's Safety and Security Committee is going independent and they have some suggestionsSuggested ReadingIt has also been the subject of derision. Its guide to yawning, promotion of an eight day goat milk cleanse, and advice to speak kindly to your water, are just a few examples of its content dragged by the masses. Perhaps most infamously, Goop gave readers frequent, dubious advice about their vaginas. The site advised people to treat yeast infections by only eating one piece of fruit a day. The Goop store sold a $66 egg-shaped jade or rose quartz stone that could...
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Watch: New Documentary Film Explores a Lynching and a Police Killing 78 Years Apart
19 Sep
Health News

Watch: New Documentary Film Explores a Lynching and a Police Killing 78 Years Apart

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Health News tamfitronics In 1942, a young Black man named Cleo Wright was removed from a Sikeston, Missouri, jail and lynched by a white mob.Nearly 80 years later, another young Black man, Denzel Taylor, was shot at least 18 times by police in the same small community.In the hourlong “Silence in Sikeston” documentary film broadcast on WORLD’s “Local, USA,” KFF Health News and Retro Report explore how the impact of these men’s killings tells a story about trauma and racism, but also resilience and healing.Stemming from a reporting trip by KFF Health News Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony in 2020, this film takes the audience to Indiana, Alabama, and where it all began in the southeastern corner of Missouri known as the Bootheel.Wright’s lynching...
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