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Sleep is necessary for the body to function properly — for tissue and muscles to rest, for the immune system to recharge, for the cardiovascular system to slow down, and to keep metabolism in rhythm. It’s crucial for your mind to work the way it’s supposed to too: It helps the brain clear away clutter and consolidate important information learned during the day. “Sleep is one of our basic functions, and it is important because being awake is very energy-consuming, and it’s very stressful,” says Sara Mednick, Ph....

Many people wondered why these wealthy people, in good health and with great financial stability, didn’t spend their time organizing charity donations or donating some of their personal wealth to help workers on the front line like UPS drivers, doctors and nurses, and grocery store employees. But one celebrity has come out with his own dance video — and it works. That celebrity is, of course, Jack Black. Jack Black, best known for the all-time classic School of Rock, Nacho Libre, and more early-aught classics, as well as his membership in Tenacious D, just joined TikTok....

This week, a new 700-page tome titled Nobody Does It Better hit bookstores and online booksellers and it’s really, really fucking cool. Written and compiled by longtime pop culture historians and journalists Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman, this book takes you through the entire 58-year-history of the James Bond movies, one film at a time. Ever wondered what it was like when they were trying to recast Bond? Curious about how those early Connery films pulled off those massive set pieces and crazy stunts?...

That’s right, the star of The Angry Birds Movie 2 scored the role of Bike Scout Trooper #1 alongside Bike Scout Trooper #2, played by Adam Pally. The pair appeared in the penultimate episode of the series killing Kuiil and scooping up the Child, but it’s their appearance in the open of the finale that’s earning Sudeikis internet opprobrium. The pair appear speeding on their floating speeder bikes, presumably shortly after securing the Child, who is in a bag on Trooper #1’s shoulder....

At the center of all these cases are parents who worry that innocent children will be somehow distracted or tempted into sexual deviancy by their teachers’ bodies. But here’s the truth: Teenagers can make anything sexual regardless of whether it’s “pornographic” or not. Teacher porn isn’t popular because there’s something inherently sexy about chalk. It’s popular because people come of age in classrooms and sexual imprinting is inevitable. Having a kid who is “hot for teacher” might not be ideal, but it’s not the end of the world and blaming the teacher won’t help....

Well, that’s about to change. As of today, Lego Creator is now selling the Expert 10261 Roller Coaster set, a 4,120-piece fully functional chain lift coaster that stands almost 2-feet high and comes complete with a ticket booth and covered boarding station. It’s equipped with 44-pieces of track, two gravity-powered trains with low-friction wheels (each with three cars), and 11 minifigs, including five riders with “reversible heads to display different emotions....

Because this heavy-duty carrier converts most bicycles into a cargo vehicle, it saves you from having to buy either a separate kid trailer or a second, garage-hogging utility bike (and face it, you’re not a 2-bike guy). The best part is that you don’t need to consult your Zinn And The Art Of Bicycle Maintenence just to hook it up. According to the LIFT team, it takes less than a minute and involves only three connection points....

Researchers studied more than 27,000 kids in Vancouver to see how living in greener areas might affect development. They compared the percentage of greenery nearby a child’s home to their Early Development Instrument (EDI) score, an assessment done by kindergarten teachers to score children on five measures: (1) physical health and wellbeing; (2) social competence; (3) emotional maturity; (4) language and cognitive development; and (5) communication skills and general knowledge....

It’s a bright, breezy afternoon in Bridgton, Maine. We’re sitting in Lowry’s house, a charming country home next to cheerful barn that looks like something from the sort of sunny storybook she’d never write. I’m explaining why I gave my daughter a gender-neutral name between bites. Lowry, the award-winning author of the classic children’s novels The Giver, Number the Stars, and Taking Care of Terrific, made the sandwiches has now gotten some of the tomato slop on her shirt....

Here’s a map of divorce rates per state, compared to countries from around the world, including America (way to be average Illinois): The country data in this map comes from Eurostat, the European Union’s own statistical branch. The state data comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. To figure out the percent of marriages that end in divorce for each state, we borrowed the EU’s method and divided divorce rates by marriage rates for 2016, and then multiplied the solution by 100....

The Sussexes recently won a privacy settlement in December against Splash News UK for taking and publishing images of Meghan, Harry and baby Archie during “a private family outing in a remote rural setting” in Canada. In addition, Markle has also been pursuing legal action against the publishers for, in 2019, printing out portions of the private letter she sent to her father about her wedding. Judge Mark Warby, who granted summary judgement in Markle’s favor, said, “had a reasonable expectation that the contents of the letter would remain private....

My wife is about to have our first baby. I’m feeling pretty solid about the breath coaching and stuff. The house is baby proofed and all the furniture is built. But I’m having trouble figuring out what I really need in our go-bag. What should I bring to the hospital anyway? Gino, Aurora, Colorado * When you say your wife is about to have a baby are we talking hours?...

Clarice plays with the familiar chronology of this fictional universe, and also dives into the source material of the various Thomas Harris novels. But, make no mistake, this show is not about Hannibal Lecter or even Buffalo Bill, it’s about Clarice herself and the challenges she faces both within the FBI and without. Technically, Cudlitz plays one of Clarice’s colleagues in the FBI, but because this show is set in the ’90s, Krendler is not always the most enlightened guy....

In that post, McCullar wrote that the shirt came in a box of hand-me-downs from a friend. McCullar insisted that she had not had time to properly go through the box of clothes before giving them to her son. In fact, most of the teachers at his elementary school didn’t notice either. Still, McCullar did vow to be more vigilant in the future: “Once again, my sincere apologies to the teachers and staff at Travis Elementary....

The Juno probe is part of NASA’s New Frontiers Program and was launched into space in 2011 to get close to Jupiter and learn more about the distant planet. According to NASA, the probe reached its destination in 2016, and the new photos were taken when the probe made its closest pass in 22 years to the icy moon known as Europa. “Rugged terrain features are easily seen, including tall shadow-casting blocks, while bright and dark ridges and troughs curve across the surface....

“The fact that the toy guns are available to children, and yet can cause such significant bleeding in the eye, was surprising,” study co-author and ophthalmologist Mukhtar Bizrah told Fatherly. “It was worth doing because it is a public health issue.” Past research has sounded the alarm about other toy guns, besides Nerf. One study of 32 children found that airsoft guns, which shoot plastic pellets, can cause long-term vision damage and, occasionally, require surgery....

If you do, then you recall what the cinematic world felt like after 1983. For some of us, this was a world in which we were told that Lucasfilm, the production company that made Star Wars and Indiana Jones was just getting started. In 1989, I had a Lucasfilm calendar, which had images from the classic Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones, and also a biopic called Tucker, which stars Jeff Bridges and is just kind of okay....