Merciless monkeys beat, attempt to drown rat for stealing food: video

Merciless monkeys beat, attempt to drown rat for stealing food: video

No mousetrap, no problem. Footage captures the horrifc moment vengeful monkeys beat and attempted to drown a thieving rat for stealing their food at a zoo in China. Video of their medieval justice-serving method is currently going viral online. “I guess they were not impressed at the rat stealing their food,” the anonymous videographer told … Read more

Son of Ecuadorian immigrant, who beat the odds to get into Stuyvesant HS, accepted by elite college

Son of Ecuadorian immigrant, who beat the odds to get into Stuyvesant HS, accepted by elite college

A Stuyvesant High School senior who was once told getting into the elite institution was “practically impossible,” just beat the odds again — landing a spot at the top college in the world. Sebastian Acevedo — who grew up with an Ecuadorian immigrant mom and a supermarket manager dad, neither of whom went to college … Read more

Flood, fires, pandemic: Brooklyn BBQ restaurant owners beat jinx

Flood, fires, pandemic: Brooklyn BBQ restaurant owners beat jinx

Talk about having the patience of Job. Many Big Apple eateries bravely survived the pandemic-era shutdowns and the challenges that followed. But for one local family of restaurateurs, the coronavirus was just one more cross to bear in a biblical-level string of bad luck. When Peter and Penny Glazier and their son Matthew welcomed diners … Read more

How to Beat Your Nighttime Cough (and Finally Get Some Sleep)

How to Beat Your Nighttime Cough (and Finally Get Some Sleep)

Photo: Zmaster (Shutterstock) When you’re overcoming the cold or flu, you can get trapped in a hellish cycle of needing sleep to recover, but losing sleep due to lingering symptoms. Even after your cough has disappeared during the day, it often creeps back at night—making you (and everyone else in your household) miserable. Here’s what … Read more

This Could Be the Only Way to Beat COVID for Good

This Could Be the Only Way to Beat COVID for Good

The novel coronavirus, like all viruses, mutates and evolves. Fast. Variant after variant. Subvariants between the variants. The virus is active. But our efforts to contain it are reactive. Thirty-four months into the COVID-19 pandemic, we still haven’t figured out a way to get ahead of the virus—and offer people immunity that endures even as … Read more