Posts by Sophie Clearwater
Chrissy Teigen Claps Back at Criticism After Freeing the Nip on Instagram
Chrissy Teigen is getting her feelings off her chest. After the Cravings cookbook author sparked conversation photos of herself(no comma) in which her nipple could be seen through her sheer button-up shirt, she defended her decision to bare it all in an unapologetic response. “I think because they have been cut into disks and reattached…
Read MoreNFL Alum Chris Johnson Details Getting ALS Diagnosis at 39
Eric Dane Dead at 53: Everything the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Star Said About His ALS Battle Chris Johnson is detailing his private health battle. The former NFL player shared that he was diagnosed with ALS—also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease—last year at the age of 39. “There’s no history of ALS in my family,” Johnson told Michael Strahan in…
Read MoreThe Frick Legacy: Taste, Ambition and a Collector’s Monument
What began as modest collecting in Pittsburgh became a model of ambition and taste with lasting influence. Sir Gerald Kelly, Portrait of Mr. Frick in the West Gallery, 1925, oil on canvas. 48 x 40 in. © Frick Art & Historical Center, 2009 (Editor’s note: This article was originally published on September 23, 2025.) Art…
Read MoreIntroducing ‘No. 10 North’: U.K.’s Likely Next Prime Minister Andy Burnham Lays Out Devolution Plans
Andy Burnham delivers a speech at The People’s Museum in Manchester, England, on June 29, 2026. —Jeff J Mitchell––Getty Images Westminster “is broken,” said Andy Burnham, as he laid out his policy plans in his first major speech since announcing his bid to replace Keir Starmer as Prime Minister. If Burnham’s planned leadership bid remains…
Read MoreWhy People Still Get Worked Up About Jasper Johns’s ‘Flag’ Painting
Jasper John, Three Flags, 1958. Jordan Riefe (Editor’s note: This article was originally published on February 21, 2018.) Defined by motifs that occur throughout his body of work, including targets and numbers, Jasper Johns’s career began with Flag, which sparked a revolution when it appeared in 1958. The art world was nearly a decade deep…
Read MoreJeff Bezos Missed the LLM Boom. Now He Wants to Build an A.I. Engineer
After ceding the early spotlight in large language models, Bezos is making a high-stakes play for the next frontier of A.I. Chesnot/Getty Images Jeff Bezos may have missed the first wave of A.I., dominated by large language models. But with his startup Prometheus reaching a $41 billion valuation this month, he is betting on the…
Read More10 Things Doctors Want You to Know About Hearing Aids
Get their attention first. Say your loved one’s name, or wait until they’re looking, before you start the sentence. The brain needs a beat to switch into listening mode. Face them. Visual cues help. When a patient’s kids tease that he’s reading lips, Gural-Toth tells them: “He’s reading my lips—but that’s a good thing.” Rephrase,…
Read MoreA Rare Comet Made History as the Third Known Interstellar Object to Fly Through Our Solar System. Studies Are Now Revealing the Mysterious Conditions in Which It Formed
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In the latest research, telescope observations of 3I/ATLAS examine its chemical structure and suggest that it took shape in a peripheral region of a relatively calm planetary system Jay Bennett | Former Associate Web Editor, Science June 29, 2026 12:02 p.m. Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, imaged here with its broad coma of gas and dust, has…
Read MoreMary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen Make Rare Public Appearance at Brother Trent’s Wedding
Dave Olsen and Jarnette Olsen Dave Olsen never expected daughters Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen to enter show business. “I didn’t even want to be bothered with it,” the golfer-turned-real-estate-professional shared in 1991 with The Washington Post—which noted his then-wife, former ballerina Jarnette Olsen, gave a talent agency a photo of their twins at the…
Read MoreUT Austin researchers develop jacket that pulls drinking water from the air
Researchers at UT Austin have developed a wearable textile that pulls moisture from the atmosphere and converts it into drinking water, potentially helping hikers, farmers and emergency responders stay hydrated. Source link
Read MoreThe 12 Essential American Road Trips, Just in Time for the Country’s 250th
The country is hard to read at a distance right now, politically caricatured from afar by algorithm bubbles. The 250th arrives this summer and the official run-up has been mostly conferences and merchandise. Meanwhile, the people who do the actual work of American history—preservationists, archaeologists, descendants and at least one Pulitzer winner—have spent the last…
Read MoreWhy Americana Is the Only Collecting Category of Its Kind
A Cox/FDR jugate button, considered a Holy Grail among collectors of American presidential campaign artifacts, achieved $185,850 at Hake’s Auctions in 2022. Courtesy Hake’s Auctions In 1920, it seemed clear to most political observers that Ohio Governor James M. Cox was not going to beat Warren G. Harding in the presidential election. People had had…
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