When people talk about the ultimate American dream, they often think of one person as an example. Over the years she has been known to be the most powerful African American woman of the 20th century, as well as the Queen of All Media. Oprah Winfrey first became known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey […]
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This Video of a Woman Using Gorilla Glue to Style Her Hair Is Going Viral—and The Internet is Concerned
Picture it: you just finished styling your hair, a sleek braided ponytail with perfectly laid baby hairs. But when you reach for your holy grail (Got2B Glued Blasting Freeze Spray) to finish it, you're all out. So you reach for (what you think) is the next best thing: Gorilla Glue Spray Adhesive hoping to get […]
HEALTH NOTES: Going grey? Blame it on your ethnicity
HEALTH NOTES: Going grey? Blame it on your ethnicity The age we go grey depends on our ethnicity, according to researchers from Boston University in the US. By reviewing data from 69 publications on hair ageing, they found that the average age Caucasians begin greying is mid-30s, while for Asians it’s late 30s and for […]
Meghan King Edmonds Wishes Coparenting With Jim Edmonds Was Going 'Better'
Room for improvement. Meghan King Edmonds admitted that her coparenting relationship with Jim Edmonds isn’t perfect. “I wish it was better,” the Real Housewives of Orange County alum, 35, told Us Weekly exclusively on Friday, January 17, while promoting her, Brooke Burke and Lila Darville’s iHeart Radio “Intimate Knowledge” podcast. The former reality star and […]
How to avoid despairing when the world is going to sh*t
The past two weeks I’ve been having a bad time. I’ve been in a funk, you might say. I’m down in the dumps. It’s a case of the mondays, but every day. I’m having a severe depressive episode with suicidal ideation, if you want to get into mental health diagnoses. As someone with depression and […]
Going the distance: Brain cells for 3-D vision discovered
In stunning images captured under the microscope for the first time, the neurons were found in praying mantises. The work is published in Nature Communications today. In a specially-designed insect cinema, the mantises were fitted with 3-D glasses and shown 3-D movies of simulated bugs while their brain activity was monitored. When the image of […]
‘Going vegan made my hair fall out in just weeks’
‘Going vegan made my hair fall out in just weeks’: Millions of women suffer hair loss – and as this story reveals, what you eat can make a crucial difference Jessica Drue, of London, went vegan after daughter Kayla-Ria was born in 2013 Within months, she was feeling lethargic and noticed vast amounts of hair loss […]
Going to university will NOT protect you from dementia
Going to university will NOT protect you from dementia: Study debunks belief that being highly educated makes the brain more resilient against the memory-robbing disorder The University of California findings fly in the face of previous research Instead, education up to the age of 20 is the decisive factor, experts say Scientists studied more than […]
Becoming more sensitive to pain increases the risk of knee pain not going away
Becoming more sensitive to pain, or pain sensitization, is an important risk factor for developing persistent knee pain in osteoarthritis, according to a new study by researchers at Université de Montréal and its affiliated Maisonneuve Rosemont Hospital Research Centre (CRHMR), in collaboration with researchers at Boston University. Their findings were published Oct. 11 in the […]
Polio is not going away without a fight – it’s vital we step up our defences
The global initiative to eradicate polio has been extraordinarily successful. Over the last thirty years the number of polio cases across the world have dwindled from over 350,000 cases a year to just 20. The terrible toll on victims, such as lifelong paralysis and disability, are a fading memory for many countries, and it’s estimated […]