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Adam McCullough/Shutterstock I don’t mean to imply that this article is an excuse to share that meme of the Cadillac sign flickering with Billy Joel singing “Cadilac-ac-ac-ac” from “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)” overtop. I mean to say that explicitly. That meme is perfection.  Oh, also there’s a rumor that Joel owns a …

Smartwatches are useless for measuring actual stress levels, study says  TechSpot Smartwatches offer little insight into stress levels, researchers find  The Guardian New Study Finds Smartwatches Aren’t That Good at Measuring Stress  Gizmodo Your Smartwatch Doesn’t Know Much About Your Mental State and Here’s Why  nextpit.com Is Wearable Tech Making Us Healthier—or Just More Neurotic?  The Daily Beast Source link

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Matt Toohey, 42, the land manager at Forge Energy III in San Antonio, Texas. He has watched every episode of the television drama, Landman, which follows a fictional landman and is in production for its second season. It has been edited for length and clarity. I barely knew what being a …

The internet’s latest health villain has arrived, and it’s hiding in your kitchen cabinet. Seed oils—canola, soy, sunflower, and their botanical brethren—are being blamed for everything from brain fog to heart disease. Social media influencers call them the “Hateful Eight,” while wellness gurus claim they’re more toxic than industrial waste. Here’s the thing: the science doesn’t back up the hysteria. …

Turns out, you’re not exactly ‘child’ at heart!A new nationwide study has shed light on a concerning trend: most American adults have hearts that are older than their real age, sometimes even by over a decade. Using the PREVENT Heart Age Calculator developed by researchers at Northwestern Medicine, scientists found that the average heart age is 4 to 7 years …

When clinicians talk to patients about preventing heart disease, they typically describe risk in dry percentages such as “eight out of 100 people like you may have a heart attack in the next decade.” Many Americans find that hard to grasp – and the numbers do not always move them to action. A research team at Northwestern University Feinberg School …

Adrian Rocha planned to win a lot of bread this summer on Big Brother. Instead, he was sent out of the house with a loaf of actual bread on Thursday’s live eviction episode. Adrian was evicted by a vote of 8-4 after Kelley took herself off the block by winning the BB Block Buster competition. That set up an Adrian …

Key Takeaways Walking 7,000 steps daily is linked to significantly lower risks of death and heart disease—making it a realistic and effective alternative to the 10,000-step goal. Younger adults benefit most around 5,400 steps per day, while for older adults, more steps continue to bring more health benefits with no clear upper limit. Daily walking—especially over time—is shown to reduce …

Most U.S. adults have a “heart age” older than their chronological age because of factors like lifestyle and heart disease. Northwestern University’s online tool calculates heart age using health data such as cholesterol levels and blood pressure. Observational data showed gaps in heart and chronological ages based on education and race. You know how many birthdays you’ve had. But how …

Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are in a hurry to build their superintelligence tech. The company has been poaching AI researchers, while Zuckerberg announced on Monday that Meta is building a 5-gigawatt data center called Hyperion. The urgency is palpable. As SemiAnalysis reported last week and Business Insider noted, Meta is so eager to boost its computing power that it’s …