Month: November 2019

The World Health Organization on Wednesday released guidelines on screen time for young children, recommending no “sedentary screen time” for one-year-olds and curbed access for older kids. For the guidelines, the Washington Post reported, the “WHO drew on emerging—but as yet unsettled—science about the risks screens pose to the development of young minds at a…

Wildfires burning  in the Amazon and Siberia, unrelenting heat waves, 100-year floods happening yearly are signs of our times—the worst of times. A global climate change movement is emerging as we face the real threats to life and  to global civilization posed by accelerating climate change. This is a matter of survival, not a blinkered…

From where I stand inside the South Dakota cornfield I was visiting with entomologist and former USDA scientist Jonathan Lundgren, all the human-inflicted traumas to Earth seem far away. It isn’t just that the corn is as high as an elephant’s eye—are people singing that song again?—but that the field burgeons and buzzes and chirps…

Saget, of course, famously portrayed her father Danny Tanner on Full House, so you get where we’re going with this. Olsen posed with Adam Duritz, John Oliver, and George Lopez. And while that’s great, it’s the fact that she stands next to Saget that really does warm our hearts. Ashley, Mary-Kate, if you’re reading this,…

Labour Party politicians and pro-democracy groups celebrated Wednesday as more than 100,000 people reportedly registered to vote in a 48-hour period this week amid mounting chaos in the U.K. government in anticipation of a possible general election in October. On Monday, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced harsh criticism within his own party, about 52,000 people registered, followed…

On Thursday a video of American royalty Beyoncé and Jay-Z (and Queen Mother Mama Tina) surfaced, and it brought us an unfathomable amount of joy. In said video, which Tina shared on Instagram, the trio, joined by other friends and family members, do the electric slide en masse. Queen Bey, clad in an oversize navy…

The Nixon impeachment inquiry had dragged on for more than six months when a group of mostly moderate lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee—four Republicans and three Southern Democrats—began meeting in secret, in July of 1974, at the office of Tom Railsback, a popular Illinois Republican who was a leader in the Party’s reform movement.…

When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle get married in May, they won’t be the only ones celebrating. The event could generate an economic windfall for Britain —as much as $680 million, according to a new estimate. That’s because of an expected influx of tourists, along with locals spending extra money as they celebrate the big…

According to Bill McKibben, the internationally renowned climate activist, author and founder of 350.org, today’s record-breaking hurricanes should not be labeled with such innocuous names as “Dorian” or “Maria.” Rather, they should be named after Exxon Mobil, Chevron and BP—major fossil fuel corporations that have been the driving force behind global warming and the subsequent…

Bill Hader has officially filed for divorce from wife Maggie Carey. On Thursday, Hader, 39, filed court documents citing irreconcilable differences as the cause of the split and is seeking joint physical and legal custody of their children, according to court documents obtained by The Blast. The actor, who starred in Trainwreck, also stated that…