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ANDREW LIMBONG Updated September 28, 202112:09 PM ET Yes, we know they’re technically called “MacArthur fellows.” We also know that the MacArthur Foundation doesn’t love that the term “genius” has stuck around for so long. (The term is “both too narrow and too broad,” it says.) But when we’re talking about people researching pediatric brain cancer treatments…

Read More This Year’s MacArthur ‘Genius Grants’ Were Just Announced—Here’s The Full Winner List

“As a response to the #MeToo era, and in particular, the allegations of sexual harassment and assault in the political arena, a non-partisan panel of female lawmakers hopes to rewrite the rules of the workplace. In February of 2018, State Senator Melinda Bush, State Representative Carol Ammons, and State Comptroller Susana A. Mendoza formed the Anti-Harassment,…

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BY CHRISSY STROOP  OCTOBER 6, 2021 After 60 years at the helm of his Christian Broadcasting Network, and 55 hosting its signature “news” magazine broadcast, The 700 Club, the 91-year-old Southern Baptist minister and Christian media mogul Pat Robertson is retiring. The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political…

Read More AS PAT ROBERTSON RETIRES, HERE ARE 10 OF HIS MOST CRINGEWORTHY MOMENTS

By Emma Crist  Updated September 29, 2021 Pumpkin puree is not pumpkin. It’s squash. Pumpkin puree: You know, the canned orange stuff that’s lining the supermarket walls right now? The stuff you use to make all your favorite fall desserts that’s labeled “100% pumpkin”?! Yes, well, it’s actually made from 100% not pumpkin. The mix is made from a…

Read More I Just Found Out Canned Pumpkin Isn’t Pumpkin At All, And My Whole Life is Basically a Lie

BY DAVID WEISSMAN UPDATED OCTOBER 07, 2021 10:52 AM Pain Killer Beach Twenty years ago in Myrtle Beach, authorities shuttered one of America’s first “pill mills.” No one knew the nation’s opioid crisis was just getting started. Myrtle Beach has no shortage of popular tourist attractions, so it was curious that throngs of out-of-town visitors…

Read More The dark history of the deadly SC opioid epidemic begins at a Myrtle Beach pain clinic

When Bruce Aidells was growing up, his family’s Hanukkah-Christmas celebration always meant brisket, and this was one of their favorite ways to prepare it. Look for the leaner, flat-cut, or first-cut brisket with a layer of fat that’s at least 1/8 inch thick. If you can’t find a 6-pound piece, buy 2 smaller pieces. Like…

Read More Holiday Beef Brisket with Onions

According to a study by Fisher et al, “States with the lowest levels of mask adherence were most likely to have high COVID-19 rates in the subsequent month, independent of mask policy or demographic factors.” In other words, states where people don’t wear masks have higher rates of covid. So what should you do? “We just…

Read More Mask Mistakes You’re Making Now

In light of recent revelations about various public figures regarding their personal shortcomings, how do we handle those shortcomings when balanced against whatever good they contributed to society? I’m looking at what we say about Thomas Jefferson and other possible sexual predators (slaveholders) who served in the upper levels of government when compared with unelected,…

Read More How Do We Handle Sexual Acting Out by Public Figures?

Ingredients 1/4 cup butter, cubed 1/2 cup chopped onion 2 garlic cloves, minced 4 cups fresh broccoli florets (about 8 ounces) 1 large carrot, finely chopped 3 cups chicken stock 2 cups half-and-half cream 2 bay leaves 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon pepper 1/4 cup cornstarch 1/4 cup water or additional…

Read More Cheesy Broccoli Soup in a Bread Bowl

Shelly Lott September 29th, 2021 Let’s talk about some “symptoms” you may notice if you are a victim of hacking. #1 – Running Slowly There are many reasons why your computer, tablet, or smartphone may run slowly, but one reason can be a malware infection. If a hacker installs malware or a keylogger on your computer, tablet,…

Read More 9 Ways To Know if You Have Been Hacked

Fire Shut Up in My Bones is in the running for best American opera of the 21st century. By James Jorden • 09/28/21 12:13pm After over a year and a half of silence, the Metropolitan Opera came roaring back last night with a captivating new opera to open its 2021-2022 season. Terence Blanchard’s tuneful Fire Shut Up in My…

Read More Premiere of ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ Sets the Reopened Met Ablaze

Is having an accurate estimate of your lifespan helpful to you? Do you want to plan for your retirement? What about ways to live longer? After all, it isn’t the years in your life, but the life in your years! If you live in the USA, go HERE or HERE or HERE (not a favorite) or HERE. (I got different results from…

Read More How Much Time Do You Have Left?

Yara Shahidi Jessica Szohr Mariah Carey Dwayne Johnson  Keegan-Michael Key Tracee Ellis Ross Gabrielle Reece Val Kilmer Jason Momoa Naomi Campbell Christina Aguilera Norah Jones Wentworth MIller Derek Jeter Shay Miller Keanu Reeves Olivia Munn Vanessa Hudgens Halsey Adriana Lima How many of these celebrities could “pass?” Is “passing” even a thing these days? How…

Read More Mixed-Race Celebrities – Did You Know?

“In 2004, at the Unity journalists of color convention in Washington, Gwen Ifill coined the phrase “missing white woman syndrome,” joking that “if there is a missing white woman you’re going to cover that every day.” It is not that these white women should matter less, but rather that all missing people should matter equally. Race should…

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