Posts by Sophie Clearwater
Andy Cohen Crashes CNN to Surprise Anderson Cooper on 59th Birthday
Get ready to watch what happens when Andy Cohen crashes live TV. The Bravo host made a surprise appearance on BFF Anderson Cooper‘s CNN show, hilariously interrupting the journalist’s June 3 broadcast to wish him a happy 59th birthday. “Happy birthday, you Gemini stud,” Andy—carrying a giant bundle of balloons—remarked in a TikTok video posted…
Read MoreTrump Accuses California Democrats of ‘Cheating’ Over Pace of Vote Counts
Incumbent Mayor Karen Bass has advanced to the November runoff. She’ll be the city’s first sitting mayor since 2005 to fail to earn the 50% of votes needed to avoid a runoff. It remains to be seen whether former reality TV star Spencer Pratt or Los Angeles city council member Nithya Raman will be the…
Read MoreAlzheimer’s patient gets back speech, continence and memory after 5 grams of experimental drug
What a trip. After a decade of cognitive and functional decline, an 80-year-old patient with advanced Alzheimer’s disease showed remarkable signs of recovery. All it took was a single dose of an experimental hallucinogen to get her speaking more than she had in years — and that’s just the top of the list of her…
Read MoreWhat Will the Carbon Footprint of the 2026 FIFA World Cup Be?
“The bigger an event, the more people attend, the more that fly to the different venues, the higher it emits,” says Alexis Normand, co-founder of Greenly. “That’s the reason the U.S., Mexico, and Canadian World Cup is going to be basically a record setter [emitter], because it’ll have nearly three times more spectators than the…
Read MoreAnna Faris, Chris Pratt’s Son Jack, 13, Nearly Towers Over Mom at Scary Movie 6 Premiere
Anna Faris’ Son Jack, 13, Makes Rare Public Appearance at Scary Movie 6 Premiere Anna Faris and Chris Pratt’s son Jack is now old enough to see scary movies. Case in point: the 13-year-old joined his mom for the global premiere of Scary Movie 6 at Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles June 3, where he…
Read MoreA Blip on a Telescope in a Colorado Parking Lot Bolstered a Space Mission That Has Found Thousands of Planets … and Counting
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The Kepler telescope changed how we saw the sky. It’s just one of the devices we’ve sent out beyond the reach of humans to search our solar system Source link
Read MoreHow to Know Whether to Greet Someone With a Hug, Handshake, or Wave
The most powerful way to recover is to address it head-on. “If you don’t make it a big deal, then it doesn’t become a big deal,” Cobb says. Something as simple as, “I misunderstood, let’s shake hands” tends to dissolve the awkwardness almost instantly. “That usually leads into some chuckling on both sides, and the…
Read MoreThis 1 Question Will Change How You Use Your Phone
Here is a reframe that changed how I relate to my phone: Every scroll is a prayer. Not in a religious sense, but in the most literal one. A prayer is an act of directed attention; you turn toward something and say, this matters. Every time you open an app, swipe down a feed, or…
Read MoreInside the AI Boom’s Arctic Outpost
The demand for computing power is so fierce that OpenAI’s departure barely mattered to Nscale, which has quickly become one of Europe’s hottest startups, valued at $14.6 billion. Known as a “neocloud,” so called because it is built primarily for the needs of new AI models, it is part of an emergent category of tech…
Read MoreThe Wild Battle to Win Manhattan
The candidates hoping to represent New York’s 12th Congressional District sat shoulder-to-shoulder in a wood-paneled room on the fifth floor of the New York Society for Ethical Culture, a white stone building just off Central Park. They squirmed in their seats as the temperature outside hit 95, waiting for an unscreened Q&A from the nicest…
Read MoreThe Devastating True Story Behind ‘The Murder of Rachel Nickell’ and ‘The Witness’
Alex allegedly saw Nickell’s killer wash the blood off his hands in the nearby stream. “He just disappeared off into the distance like a ghost,” he said. Alex tried to revive his mother without realizing she had been killed. “There was blood everywhere. Everything was silent,” he recalled. “I said, ‘Get up, Mummy’ and she…
Read MoreWhy My Family Left Iowa
My children, now in kindergarten and third grade, are finally old enough to be good company in restaurants. There’s no tripping of waiters, very rarely a spilled lemonade. The restlessness they used to exhibit in public has been replaced by an almost scholarly interest in tic-tac-toe and, miraculously, the food itself. When this change happened,…
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