Hospitals Should Be Redesigned to Improve Care

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1542 words  |  Patria Henriques

Hospitals are such important places in our lives. It's where we are born, where we go for help when we’re not well, and where we turn to when cancer, a heart attack, or major injury leaves us hanging by a thread. It’s also where our loved ones spend their time anxiously waiting for us to get better, to hear good or bad news. So then, why are hospitals such miserable places? [Read More]

How to Kickstart a Decluttering Routine

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1185 words  |  Kelle Repass

None of the tidying clichés ever really clicked with KC Davis, a therapist in Houston and mom to two young kids. “I’ve always been a messy person,” she says. "I've never been able to 'clean as I go.'" Davis knew there were plenty of people just like her: those who wanted a serene space but lacked the time and energy to get started. After finding bite-size strategies that worked for her, Davis wrote How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing. [Read More]

How to Support a Colleague Who's Sick or Grieving

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1636 words  |  Tandra Barner

For all the talk about boundaries between work and home, especially during the pandemic, sometimes there’s real beauty to be found in the blurriness. Over the last five months, two events schooled me profoundly in this space: the death of my mother-in-law in February, and my bout with Covid earlier this month. In both cases, colleagues, neighbors, and associates stocked my home with soups, salads, fruit, flowers, Robitussin, pudding, cakes, cookies, cards, and CBD oil. [Read More]

In Defense of 'What a Pro Wants' Ad With NBA Stars

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1288 words  |  Billy Koelling

Perhaps the ad, which has run on an endless loop since the start of March Madness, just irks you. Maybe at this point it’s haunting your dreams, your soul, every freaking fiber of your DNA. If you’ve watched an iota of sports on television over the past few months, you know the spot in question: two stylish guys wearing dark jackets, who it turns out are young Oklahoma City Thunder star basketball players Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Chet Holmgren—though you might not know that if you aren’t a hoophead—walking out of a hotel, to the team bus, while singing a takeoff of the 1999 Christina Aguilera hit “What a Girl Wants. [Read More]

It's No Real Wonder the French Dislike Us

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  710 words  |  Martina Birk

How Americans look to themselves and to others, in three takes: 1) Some weeks ago, I was on the air with a radio talk show host in Texas, discussing the Confederate battle flag flying over the state capitol in South Carolina. The radio man was affable, polite, so I said — affably, politely — that I thought it was discourteous to fly a flag that offended so many of South Carolina’s citizens. [Read More]

James Chadwick (Physicist) - On This Day

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  297 words  |  Tandra Barner

Profession: Physicist Biography: James Chadwick was a British physicist who is best known for his discovery of the neutron in 1932. This groundbreaking work earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935, recognizing his substantial contributions to the field. His discovery of the neutron, a neutrally charged particle within the atomic nucleus, was a crucial step in the development of nuclear physics. Chadwick began his scientific career studying under Ernest Rutherford, a pioneer of nuclear physics, at the University of Manchester. [Read More]

Lawrence Phillips Ex-NFL Player Suspected in Murder of Prison Cellmate

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  246 words  |  Patria Henriques

April 13, 2015 8:41 PM EDT Former NFL running back Lawrence Phillips is suspected of murdering his cellmate at a California prison, prison officials said Monday. Phillips’s cellmate, Damion Soward, was found unresponsive in their cell at Kern Valley State Prison shortly after midnight Saturday morning. He was taken to a local hospital and died Sunday evening at 5:30 p.m. Soward was serving 82 years to life for first-degree murder. [Read More]

Lena Dunham Directs Jack Antonoff for Bleachers Music Video

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  151 words  |  Kelle Repass

May 2, 2017 5:11 PM EDT While the final season of Girls has wrapped, that doesn’t mean that Lena Dunham is letting any grass grow under her feet. She assumed a director’s role once again to helm the latest music video for Bleachers, starring Dunham’s boyfriend Jack Antonoff, who’s the lead singer and songwriter for the band. The music video is for Bleachers’ song “Don’t Take the Money” and feels more like a short film thanks to spoken interludes and a gripping visual narrative that involves Antonoff getting married in a bedazzled blazer — that is, before his fiancee’s ex crashes the wedding ceremony with disastrous results. [Read More]

Lin Yu-Ting Wins First Match Amid Olympic Boxing Controversy

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1023 words  |  Billy Koelling

Maybe Olympic boxing hysteria can remain calm for a moment. For a day, at least?  Lin Yu-Ting, the Taiwanese boxer competing for the Chinese Taipei Olympic delegation defeated Sitora Turdibekova of Uzbekistan in a unanimous decision in her opening bout at North Paris Arena on Friday. Unlike Khelif’s controversial quick victory over Italy’s Angela Carini yesterday, the Yu-Ting-Turdibekova fight was more tactical—the boxers bounced around the ring in the first round, sizing each other up—than brutal. [Read More]

MACHINE TOOLS: Warner & Swasey for Sale

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  655 words  |  Patria Henriques

When National Defense talk began in Washington, the first industry to be branded a “bottleneck” was machine tools. In a normal year, most U. S. industrial production—notably the $2-3,000,000,000 a year of automobiles—could not be turned out without $100-150,000,000 worth of machine tools. Key to mass production, the machine-tool industry consists of some 800 small family-owned units wherein mass production plays little or no role. Few machine-tool companies are big enough to have a listed stock. [Read More]