Would you have your baby’s genes sequenced at birth? A groundbreaking trial that used whole-genome sequencing to predict newborns’ future health, is starting to reveal the impact it has had on the whole family, seven years down the line Health 22 August 2022 By Katharine Gammon Would you want to find out about your child’s future health prospects from birth?Olesyam/Getty Images ALYSSA CARTER had just given birth when a doctor asked if she would like to find out more about her baby’s genes. With a few spots of blood, researchers could sequence her son’s whole genome. She would receive a…
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13 Oct 2022 New Biography/Memoir Books to Inspire, Educate, and Motivate Reading biographies or memoirs of others can help educate us on topics we aren’t familiar with or can help us feel not so alone in life’s struggles. Check out these new biography/memoir releases by bestselling authors below to get inspired! Underestimated: A CEO’s Unlikely Path to Success by Donald Thompson Release Date: October 11, 2022 Underestimated is the story of a Black male who faced the challenges of contemporary America, fought to find his place, and fulfilled his dreams—even when the odds seemed stacked against him. Donald Thompson followed…
Frank’s decision not to endorse anyone in the Manhattan DA’s office caused a lot of drama. People kept showing up in his office, some of them irate on Erin’s behalf, but he refused to budge. Blue Bloods Season 13 Episode 2 had a happy ending to an entirely ridiculous conflict. Frank’s policy has always been to treat Danny and Jamie the same way he would non-related police officers, so why should anyone be surprised that he didn’t want to treat Erin differently than any other candidate? It wasn’t as if he had endorsed her opponent. He declined to make any…
Courtesy “I’ve always loved dressing for the stage,” Maggie Rogers tells ELLE.com. “There’s so much playfulness and movement—it’s such a creative place to think about texture and ways it can amplify the music.” Though the singer didn’t technically perform at Ralph Lauren’s spring 2023 show last night, she did put on a sartorial show of sorts. Dressed in a black three-piece suit by the designer, Rogers attended the highly anticipated collection reveal at The Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California with her BFF and college roommate in tow—but not before getting ready with some loud music (courtesy of Fred…
Samsung is moving briskly towards completing the development of its three nanometre (nm) foundry processing chip, that would be able to facilitate the mining of Bitcoin. The South Korean tech giant is reportedly ready to start the trial production of this special chip. These ‘application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs)’ chips are energy efficient hardware units, that can help make the process of Bitcoin mining less detrimental to the environment. The launch of Samsung’s AISC chip is already awaited by several tech players around the world.As per reports, Chinese firm called PanSemi will be the first customer of Samsung’s to be purchasing…
In retrospect, the much revered “classic” lineup of Guns N’ Roses was together a relatively short time, with the first significant changes in the band coming in the early ’90s, but even with the initial alterations to the group, it was still one helluva ride the band was enjoying after monstrous success of their debut album Appetite for Destruction and the follow-up compilation Lies.While it could have been easy to capitalize on the early successes and churn out another album quickly, the band instead chose to double down on their work and release an ambitious two-volume collection on Sept. 17, 1991 called…
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Most viral infections negatively affect an organism’s health, but one plant virus in particular — soybean vein necrosis orthotospovirus, often referred to as SVNV — may actually benefit a type of insect that commonly feeds on soybean plants and can transmit the virus to the plant, causing disease, according to Penn State research. In a laboratory study, the Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences researchers found that when soybean thrips — small insects ranging from 0.03 to 0.20 inches long — were infected with SVNV, they tended to survive longer and reproduce better than thrips that were not infected. Asifa…
13 Oct 2022 Over 50 Books. $0.99 each. Celebrate National Book Month with these amazing deals and by supporting female authors this Fall! The Fall eBook Sale is Brought To You by She Writes Press and SparkPress. This sale ends on Tuesday, October 25th, 2022. Fiction Nonfiction Young Adult Related grant scrolls_pure; if (shouldBeFixed && !isFixed) { header.addClass(“sticky”); isFixed = true; } else if (!shouldBeFixed && isFixed) { header.removeClass(“sticky”); isFixed = false; } e.preventDefault(); }); }); }); ]]> Read The Full Article Here
Did the family understand Frank’s decision? On Blue Bloods Season 13 Episode 2, Erin was blindsided when he revealed he would not be endorsing her run for district attorney. Meanwhile, Danny and Baez investigated a bloody crime scene at a hotel. Elsewhere, Jamie’s new job as a field intelligence sergeant revealed some shocking flaws in the police system in the U.S. Use the video above to watch Blue Bloods online right here via TV Fanatic. Catch up on all your favorite shows and reviews and join in the conversations with other fanatics who love TV as much as you. TV…
Researchers find that drumming in woodpeckers is neurologically similar to singing in songbirds. Credit: Attribution withheld at license-holder’s request (CC-BY 4.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Researchers led by Matthew Fuxjager at Brown University, U.S. and Eric Schuppe at Wake Forest University, U.S. have found regions in the woodpecker forebrain that show characteristics that until now have only been associated with vocal learning in animals and language in humans. Publishing in the open access journal PLOS Biology on September 20, the study shows that instead of being related to vocalization, activity in these brain regions is related to the characteristic tree drumming that gives…
As POPSUGAR editors, we independently select and write about stuff we love and think you’ll like too. If you buy a product we have recommended, we may receive affiliate commission, which in turn supports our work. Halloween gives you the chance to embody a new character, even for a brief moment. Take, for example, Megan Thee Stallion, who recently paid homage to the popular Japanese manga series “Sailor Moon” in a custom uniform mirroring the main character Usagi Tsukino’s costume. She wore a blue-and-white corset and pleated skirt for a performance, illustrating how you can step into another identity for…
Edtech major Byju’s on Thursday said that less than 500 people have been laid off at WhiteHat Jr and Toppr, but sacked employees have claimed that 1100 staff had been retrenched at Toppr alone.The layoff at Toppr comes alongside Byju’s group firm WhiteHat Jr retrenching 300 employees in addition to the resignation of 250 employees from the company in April-May.”To recalibrate our business priorities and accelerate our long-term growth, we are optimising our teams across our group companies. This entire exercise involves less than 500 employees from across Byju’s group companies,” Byju’s spokesperson said.Toppr’s sacked employees said that they got…
beabadoobee put a rocking spin on Vanessa Carlton’s “A Thousand Miles” during her performance at the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge. The 22-year-old is at the forefront of what you might call indie rock’s derrière-garde, a backwards-looking movement that finds inspiration in classics from the 1990s and early 2000s. Our former Artist of the Month has reinvigorated sounds first explored by Pavement, and now she’s doing the same with Carlton’s radio-ready piano pop. beabadobbee’s spin on “A Thousand Miles” opens with roaring crunchy guitars, though her voice remains conversational, even gentle. Also during her set for BBC Radio 1, beabadoobee performed “The…
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Ancient microbial life on Mars could have destroyed the planet’s atmosphere through climate change, which ultimately led to its extinction, new research has suggested.The new theory comes from a climate modeling study that simulated hydrogen-consuming, methane-producing microbes living on Mars roughly 3.7 billion years ago. At the time, atmospheric conditions were similar to those that existed on ancient Earth during the same period. But instead of creating an environment that would help them thrive and evolve, as happened on Earth, Martian microbes may have doomed themselves just as they were getting started, according to the study published Oct. 10 in…
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Fall TV is officially back, and while the season might have just started, we’re already taking a look at ratings — which can be indicative of whether we’ll see our favorite shows back for 2023-2024. (We already know of a few that will be back, thanks to multi-season renewals.) So which new and returning shows had the most-watched premieres? We take a look below (and include the ratings in the key demo among adults 18-49) at the top 25 with the most people tuning in. Some aren’t too surprising (One Chicago, The Voice), while others (NCIS, hitting an all-time low)…
A three-year study in northeastern Illinois and northwestern Indiana found that — even at small scales — emergent wetlands or ponds support many wetland bird species. The study also found that, at least in the years surveyed, the level of urbanization had little effect on most of the studied species’ use of such sites, provided the right kinds of habitat were available. The new findings are reported in the journal Ecosphere. Emergent wetlands are shallow-water sites usually found along the banks of rivers, ponds or bogs, where plants like cattails, sedges and rushes grow. Many wetland birds rely on emergent…
Photography via Imaxtree Toxic expectations of thinness plagued the early 2000s. So why, given that Gen Z champions inclusivity, is the Y2K aesthetic trending? By Meaghan Wray Date September 9, 2022 In the early 2000s, I dreamed of being thin. I flipped through issues of CosmoGirl and J-14, longing for a flat stomach like the pop stars they so frequently featured. I didn’t look like them; in fact, I never would look like them: I was a bullied fat kid who wore soccer shorts and Gap hoodies to school while the popular girls rocked platform flip-flops and jewelled tank tops.…
I turn my attention to Dublin, where I find Fabian (not his real name), a former moderator who, until earlier this year, worked for Twitter via the outsourcing company CPL. Unlike another moderator I’ve spoken to who worked for Twitter, he remembers seeing accounts the company had internally labeled as “suspicious.” He doesn’t know who—or what—labeled those tweets. “I guess the system used to do it,” he told me. “Or maybe there is a team dedicated to it.” Talking to him, I’m sure that someone, somewhere, is moderating Twitter bots and that this effort is new, starting only in the…
Questlove will executive produce a feature documentary on J Dilla. Dilla Time is adapted from Dan Charnas’ recent biography Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, The Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm. Co-directed by Summer of Soul producer Joseph Patel and Darby Wheeler, the film “will be part biography, part musicology, and part musical meditation,” according to a press release, and is being produced in cooperation with the late Dilla’s estate.In the press release, Questlove said, “Explaining musical genius is my mission. To be able to tell the world about the musician that had the most influence on…
A couple of seasons from the original Beavis and Butt-Head run are hitting Paramount+ this week.Starting Wednesday, October 12, the streaming service will add Beavis and Butt-Head Seasons 5 and 7 to its available content. The original Beavis and Butt-Head ran on-air for seven seasons from 1993 to 1997 on MTV. A theatrical film, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, was released in 1996. The cast features Mike Judge voicing Beavis, Butt-Head, and many other characters while Tracy Grandstaff is Daria Morgendorffer and Mrs. Stevenson.RELATED: Star Trek 4 Gets Pulled From Paramount’s 2023 ScheduleAdditionally, Paramount+ subscribers can watch Noah starting Monday, October 10. Darren Aronofsky directed this take on the biblical story…
Superheroes have been around a long time, and most of the characters and genre conventions are pretty well established. But did every character always look and act the way we expect them to today? In this series, I’ll be looking at the first appearances of iconic superheroes to see what’s familiar, what’s fallen by the wayside, and what’s goofy as heck. Today: Black Adam! Black Adam, like all of the Marvel Family, has a complicated history. I’ve written about it at length here, but the short version is that back in the 1940s, a publisher called Fawcett Comics introduced a…
Saturday Night Live‘s entering a new era as the long-running NBC sketch comedy series welcomes several new cast members to its ensemble in the wake of a mass exodus. Ahead of Season 48’s debut, it was announced the cast members Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Kyle Mooney, Pete Davidson, Alex Moffat, Melissa Villaseñor, Chris Redd, and Aristotle Athari wouldn’t be returning after appearing in Season 47. Instead, Season 48 made way for four new cast members. Marcello Hernandez, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow, and Devon Walker (Credit: Mary Ellen Matthews/NBC) Just ahead of the October 1 premiere, NBC revealed fresh faces Marcello…
The flu (short for influenza) is a viral respiratory disease that affects the throat, nose and lungs. There are different types of influenza viruses, and they evolve from year to year.For most people, the flu is an inconvenience that subsides in a few days. For others, influenza can lead to health complications, hospital visits and even death. Globally, there are an estimated 1 billion cases of flu each year, and 3 million to 5 million of these cases are severe, leading to about 290,000 to 650,000 deaths annually, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) (opens in new tab).In the…
Photography courtesy of Lancôme Plus, Tatcha just dropped its first-ever body care line. By Natasha Boateng, Sarah Mariotti Date September 10, 2022 Lancôme dropped a new longwear foundation Photography courtesy of Lancôme When you’re selecting a go-to foundation for everyday use, there’s one characteristic that should be non-negotiable: long-lasting. Because what’s the point of gushing over a makeup base that’s only going to fade, cake or crease by midday? Infused with hydrating hyaluronic acid and skin-smoothing mandelic acid, Lancôme’s new 30-shade Teint Idole Ultra Wear Care & Glow Foundation is a dependable radiance-boosting option that promises all-day medium coverage that…
The same approach to teaching Astro with gestures and words could in the future be extended to all kinds of furniture and objects in a home, Washington says. The underlying AI technology could also help the robot make sense of what people are doing. “Artificial intelligence has reached this amazing inflection point,” he says. “It’s fully within reach to know ‘This is a chair,’ and ‘There is someone sitting in a chair.’” Amazon is also planning a software update this year that will allow Astro to identify cats and dogs and automatically record videos of them, a feature users had…
At least three rappers associated with New York’s drill scene have been removed from the lineup of this weekend’s Rolling Loud music festival at request of the City of New York Police Department, The New York Times reports. Those who have been named are the Bronx’s Sha Ek and Ron Suno, as well as Brooklyn’s 22Gz. The removals come just one day before the weekend-long festival is set to begin at Queens’ Citi Field.This is not the first time that Rolling Loud and the NYPD have clashed. In 2019, five drill rappers were removed from the festival’s New York pitstop,…
The biggest mystery in David O. Russell’s Amsterdam — far bigger than the one surrounding the dead body at the film’s center — is how did a movie with so many stellar elements turn out so mediocre? This movie has an absurd number of A-list stars, a.promising premise, a timely message, maybe our greatest living cinematographer, and a director who has made some excellent movies in the past. And yet even with all those outstanding components, something feels off about the end result. Sometimes you can get all the ingredients in the recipe right and still bake a bland cake. That’s Amsterdam: Looks fantastic, totally…