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Retired Diamondbacks pitcher focuses on healthy eating with his Koibito Poke franchise
After 15 seasons as a Major League Baseball pitcher, Todd Stottlemyre decided to give the finance world a whirl. So it wasn’t that much of a surprise when the World Series champion and second-generation professional ballplayer quickly figured out that sitting still at a desk wasn’t quite a fit. “I woke up one day and realized…
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Blackberries: 7 Superfood Benefits and Key Nutrients
Blackberries are known for their intense flavor, often described as sweet and tart. The purple-hued fruit is native to Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. Blackberries are loaded with vitamins, minerals, fiber, and antioxidants. Including blackberries in your diet could help reduce the risk of several diseases, such as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.…
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The Beatles: ‘final’ song Now and Then to be released thanks to AI technology
Now and Then, the long-awaited “final” Beatles song featuring all four members, is to be released next week thanks to the same AI technology that was used to enhance the audio on Peter Jackson’s documentary Get Back. “There it was, John’s voice, crystal clear,” Paul McCartney said in a statement. “It’s quite emotional. And we…
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Boosting kids’ health literacy
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain October is National Health Literacy Month. Health literacy refers to the ability of people to find, understand, and use information and services to make informed health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others. In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Dr. Angela Mattke, a pediatrician with Mayo Clinic’s Children’s Center, explains how Mayo…
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Power Players: The Women Reshaping The Gaming Industry – And Entertainment As We Know It
As a member of the UK’s The Women in Esports Committee, one of Alexandra’s focuses is encouraging women into gaming. As such, “I haven’t been super outspoken about this issue,” she says, “because my attitude has always been: normalise it. Normalise women in gaming. Push women to game and to feel free to game. For…
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The Complicated Return of the Celebrity Tell-All
It was the last major “Where were you?” moment in pop culture. Where was I? It was November 2021, and it was my friend Jeff’s 30th birthday bash in north London. I was dancing in a crowd that, as a cautious estimate, was made up of 99% gay men and women. Suddenly, the music stopped.…
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NFL Week 8 odds, picks, spreads, best bets: Bills bounce back, plus three shocking outright underdog winners
What’s my one condition when it comes to picking games? You have to treat every pick like a pass attempt and be completely willing to forget you threw an interception. Now, oftentimes in this business you’ll have a bad game and throw a lot of picks. Having said that… There’s no chance in in his…
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2023-24 #AEHoops Preview: NJIT Men’s Basketball
Story Links Nine Teams, Nine Days – Over the next nine days we’ll take a look at each of the America East’s nine men’s basketball programs in a lead up to the 2023-24 season. The regular season begins on Monday, Nov. 6 with eight teams in action and the full schedule of contests can be…
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TBT: The “Artistic Necromancy” of Uday Shankar
In the October 1933 issue of The American Dancer, the predecessor to Dance Magazine, writer Basanta Koomar Roy profiled Uday Shankar on the eve of the Indian dance artist’s second U.S. tour. Roy wrote that Shankar was “endowed with such sensitive arms and hands that he is able to paint the Mudras in the air…
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Clicking, searching and surfing: on technology in our classrooms
Back in the day, when one thought of college education, one would imagine rows of students sitting in a lecture hall or classroom with large textbooks in front of them; the professor would be writing on the blackboard or reading from an overhead and students would be vigorously writing notes in notebooks or on paper.…