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Danielle Spencer, who played the precocious youngster Dee Thomas on the 1970s ABC sitcom What’s Happening!!, has died. She was 60. Spencer died Monday in a hospital in Richmond, Virginia, her What’s Happening!! so-star Haywood Nelson told The Hollywood Reporter. She was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy in 2014 and in 2018 underwent emergency surgery to relieve …

First reported by Automaton, veteran programmer Koji Sugimoto (Chrono Trigger, Xenogears, Final Fantasy 10) criticized modern games’ emulation of retro visual glitches, specifically the affine texture warping of the original PlayStation, a frequent feature of lo-fi, throwback indie games. On August 5, Sugimoto responded to a tweet from Unity Japan about a new tool in the engine to let devs …

A common pill prescribed to millions of Americans annually could lead to crippling depression, anxiety and mood swings, experts warn. About 18 million prescriptions are filled every year for prednisone, a corticosteroid used to treat everything from migraines to Crohn’s disease to allergic reactions.  Corticosteroids are meant to reduce inflammation by mimicking the effects of the ‘stress hormone’ cortisol and …

As U.S. health officials race to address Americans’ consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs), a new study further reveals their potential implications for health. Diets that center minimally-processed foods offer more significant benefits for weight loss than diets that primarily consist of ultra-processed foods, a randomized crossover trial published in Nature Medicine concluded. But what exactly makes a processed food, ultra-processed? …

Dot-com parallel leads to fear of what’s next for this record-busting stock market  MarketWatch Does the Stock Market Know Something We Don’t?  The Atlantic How one strategist is choosing between sky high valuations and value  CNBC Where can investors look for sanity in a market gone mad?  The Globe and Mail The Most Overvalued and Concentrated Equity Bubble in History  Discovery Alert Source link

Facebook Tweet Email Link President Donald Trump recently made his boldest claim yet in his longstanding promise to lower drug prices. “You know, we’ve cut drug prices by 1,200, 1,300 and 1,400, 1,500%,” he told reporters on Sunday, noting the reductions will start over the next two to three months. “I don’t mean 50%. I mean 14- 1,500%.” Trump has …

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — Justin Marks says that Trackhouse Racing development driver Connor Zilisch is eyeing how he can continue to race for the Xfinity regular season title after suffering a broken left collarbone in a fall from his car in victory lane Saturday at Watkins Glen. But Marks said when the 19-year-old returns to racing will be determined by …

MARTIN BERTRAND/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images MARTIN BERTRAND/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images After President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, economists and statisticians across the board were horrified. Because the firing raises the spectre of potential manipulation – and it raises the worry that, in the future, the numbers won’t be as trustworthy. So: we looked …

For over two decades, scientists have puzzled over bright, glowing patches of water in the Southern Ocean visible in satellite imagery. These unusual light reflections, concentrated in remote and icy waters near Antarctica, defied explanation — until now. According to research published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles, a combination of silica-rich diatoms and calcium carbonate–bearing coccolithophores are responsible for the dazzling …

In the aftermath of itch.io pulling the sale of over 20,000 pages of adult content, the creators of that work are left feeling betrayed, exhausted, and fearful. The number of platforms that permit the sale of adult material is shrinking, and there’s no guarantee the ones that remain will still permit it in the future. But now, with their livelihoods …