In looking back on the show’s 17 years, Kimmel said, “Not since McSteamy fractured his penis have we seen anything this shocking on the show.” Then, he asked, “Remember that one where you carried a penis around in a cooler for the whole episode?” Of course, Pompeo did. But she also remembered another key episode involving genitalia in Season 2, when ABC wouldn’t let one of the show’s characters say the word “vagina....
RELATED: The Zodiac Sign Best at Lying, According to an Astrologer. Calculated and obsessive, Capricorns will stop at nothing to achieve their goal. And since they’re ruled by the authoritarian planet of Saturn, they can also have a pretty malicious power complex. “As serial killers go, they operate as the most efficient and strategic ones,” says Mysticsense astrologer Rachel Cooban. Capricorns enjoy playing “the long game,” says psychic Aycee Brown....
Spoiler alert: Sorry, Taurus, but you’re the least likely among the signs to get rich, according to the rankings. (This may be because you’re inclined to live in the moment in favor of carving out long-term financial plans.) Did your sign make the top six? Read on to find out. RELATED: The Most Glamorous Zodiac Sign, According to an Astrologer. Rounding out the top half among the richest signs is Cancer with an average net worth of $905 million among the women on the list....
“Quite simply, these states reopened before it was safe to do so—there was still frequent community transmission, measures to reduce transmission were not implemented (physical distancing requirements and masks in public places), and there were not sufficient test-and-trace capabilities in place,” Angela Rasmussen, PhD, a virologist at Columbia University in New York City, recently told Best Life. Now, Rasmussen is saying at least five additional states should consider doing the same....
The past two weeks have seen the national daily case average rise dramatically, increasing 203 percent to 737,415 as of Jan. 10, according to data from The New York Times. Unfortunately, while Omicron has been widely found to cause less severe disease in some people than previous variants, hospitalizations still reached a pandemic high of 132,646 patients on Jan. 11, surpassing the previous record of 132,051 set last January, per Reuters....
This 1983 tearjerker revolves around a complex mother/daughter relationship that’s only resolved after Emma Greenway (Debra Winger) is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Following years of being at odds, Emma makes peace with her mother (Shirley MacLaine) and says goodbye to her two young boys, the older of whom is already furious at her for leaving them. Emma’s death scene itself is wordless. While her husband sleeps next to her, she exchanges a look with her mother from across the room, sharing a secret that belongs to them and them alone....
There is a right and wrong way to say Wayzata. Don’t butcher it by announcing you’re in “Way-zat-ah.” You’ll politely be corrected to call the lakefront community “Why-zet-uh.” And for more grammar notes, check out the 23 Words You Need to Stop Mispronouncing. On first glance, this town in Texas Hill Country may seem like it would sound similar to the word “born.” However, it’s actually pronounced “Ber-nee” like Vermont Sen....
The report calculates the value of $100 compared to the average national prices across all 50 states. It proves that with the same amount of money, you could buy more in an affordable state that has lower-than-average prices and have to cut back on your budget in expensive states with higher-than-average prices, especially those with big metropolitan areas that come at a premium. Here, we’ve ranked every state from where your money stretches the farthest to where it’s worth the least....
Read on to discover which foods you may want to steer clear of next time your period comes calling. READ THIS NEXT: If You Can’t Stop Craving This, Get a Blood Test. Coffee is a go-to for so many of us; it can be hard to imagine starting the day without a mug of this magic brew to give us the caffeine jolt we need to get moving. But according to Flo Health, “Caffeine blocks a hormone that can make blood vessels (which are present in the uterus) smaller, slowing the flow of blood....
According to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 12 states have so far reached the milestone set by President Joe Biden in early May, with several others trailing within just a few percentage points of achieving the goal. But figures in places that have managed to administer the most vaccines are in stark contrast to other areas of the U.S., including some states that have administered one dose of vaccine to less than 50 percent of their population....
“The word ‘but’ is not an apology—it is self-protection disguised as an apology,” says Tasha Seiter, MS, AMFT, who owns her own marriage and family therapy practice in Fort Collins, Colorado. Seiter says the problem with the word “but” is that once it’s uttered mid-apology, it is the only word the listener will focus on. Even if you are sincere in saying sorry, the person you’re apologizing to “will immediately get defensive when they hear this word,” she says....
RELATED: If You and Your Spouse Do This Together, You’re 3.5 Times More Likely to Divorce. A group of psychologists examined the correlation between engagement length and divorce risk, publishing their research in a 2006 paper for North Carolina State University’s Forum for Family and Consumer Issues journal. According to the researchers, couples who are only engaged for a short period of time before they get married could be a higher risk for divorce....
But with so many options out there, which one should you choose? According to Andrea Paul, MD, founder and CEO of Health Media Experts, the best pillow for neck pain is the Level Sleep Restore Pillow. “I was facing a neck pain problem, but after using the Level Sleep Pillow, I felt a gradual improvement in my chronic pain,” Paul explains. She specifically notes that the pillow employs anti-snore technology (your significant other will thank you!...
According to the study’s researchers: “We aimed to identify demographic and environmental factors associated with aggressive behavior toward people in Finnish purebred pet dogs.” To accomplish this, they collected behavioral data from 13,715 dogs via online questionnaires completed by their owners. They then used a dataset of 9,270 dogs, including 1,791 dogs with frequent aggressive behavior toward people and 7,479 dogs without aggressive behavior toward people, to determine which breed was most prone to aggression....
We started off by calculating the percentage of the population that has recently moved out of each state. While locals don’t give reviews of their hometowns like they would a restaurant on Yelp, they do tend to vote with their feet, so we compared the population increase or decrease in each state to the national average of 0.6 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Next, we analyzed a Gallup poll of which citizens felt the most pride in their home states—defined as the percentage of people who agreed with the statement that their state is “the best or one of the best possible states to live....
But which beers are we reaching for on a hot day? As it turns out, the answer varies quite a bit based on where you live. Overall, Budweiser is the top pick—you don’t earn the moniker “King of Beers” for nothing—with Statista noting that the company is valued at more than $16 billion. But if you get down to a more granular level, you’ll find that beer choices are different state to state....
We all have our personal favorites that we return to every year for a requisite comfort-watch to get in the spirit of the season. But which film is the king of holiday cheer? A new survey, commissioned by Tubi and conducted by OnePoll, asked 2,000 Americans which holiday classic they revisit annually. Read on for the list of the top 30 most beloved holiday movies in the U.S., according to the survey, and for more on modern classics, here are 29 Famous Actors You Didn’t Realize Were in Hallmark Christmas Movies....
First, we turned to US News & World Report, which ranked each state based on the availability, cost, and quality of healthcare accessible to residents, giving them a score from 1, being the best, to 50, being the worst. Then, we gathered the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the next four metrics, beginning with the percentage of adults in each state who reported engaging in zero physical activity in the last 30 days....
In general, alcohol consumption has been rising in the U.S., as reported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), and COVID only made those rates soar higher. But some states, it turns out, are drinking more than others. VinePair used data from the NIAAA, collected from 1977 to 2019 (albeit pre-pandemic), to discover how many gallons of wine the average American drinks a year in each state....
Being overweight can lead to an array of serious health conditions, including heart disease. Yet, about one in three Americans are considered obese, according to the Cleveland Clinic. “If you’re overweight and you lose weight, your risk will be lower than it was before,” Nieca Goldberg, MD, medical director of the Women’s Heart Program and senior advisor for Women’s Health Strategy at NYU Langone Health in New York, previously told Best Life....
