Are you in the dark about your vitamin D levels? Experts are shedding light on whether or not you might be lacking an important vitamin when the days get shorter. Vitamin D is important for multiple bodily functions and is most responsible for helping the body absorb calcium, essential for strong and healthy bones, according … Read more
Marina Kostina shouldn’t have survived. A persuasive friend convinced the Chicago-based clinical hypnotherapist to go skydiving on Father’s Day in 2022. When she decided to make the leap from 13,500 feet, Kostina, a Moscow native, had been struggling with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as well as the rocky aftermath of a failed marriage. She also … Read more
She is ruing this ruff day. Proud pet owner Abby Hay, 28, claims she was left with life-changing injuries after she tripped over her chihuahua, Rue, while walking upstairs in June 2020. Her beloved dog was playing on the steps as she was going up — she tried to step over the pooch while wearing … Read more
Humans are said to be getting uglier — and it’s got nothing to do with aging, according to one expert. Shafee Hassan, a founder of facial aesthetics consultancy firm QOVES, explained the phenomenon in response to a question about why old high-school yearbooks “contained [so] many attractive people… was it something in the water?” Hassan … Read more
Vex on the beach. Photos of a creature — resembling a “mermaid alien” — washed ashore on an Australian beach have sent the internet into a collective tizzy online as viewers scramble to guess the mystery critter’s identity. The macabre-looking flotsam first came to light via a post in the Marine Biology Facebook group that’s … Read more
A UK woman went outside for what she thought was a relaxing cigarette break — but it ended up changing her life forever. In 2019, Cary Edby was nearly paralyzed after she lost her footing and fell 12 feet a few days before Christmas. She landed face first in a gap near the basement apartment … Read more
Loneliness is not just bad for men’s mental health — it may be bad for their bones, too, according to a new study. And while social isolation may have a negative impact on the bone health of men, this is not true of women, the researchers found. Dr. Rebecca Mountain, of Maine Health Institute for Research in Scarborough, Maine, … Read more
A man may have started his life again on the wrong foot, but it literally saved him. Ibrahim Abdulrauf, 22, was shocked to wake up from surgery and see his foot sewn on backward after being injured during a sports game. The injury alerted doctors to a more dire diagnosis — bone cancer. Abdulrauf was … Read more
Life’s a beach — or is it a boneyard? A skeletal hand appendage washed up in Brazil this week — and a horrified couple was shore it was “alien bones.” Leticia Gomes Santiago and her boyfriend Devanir Souza were taking a romantic stroll on the beach when they happened upon it. The pair filmed the … Read more
And here we thought the “Call Me By Your Name” peach was controversial. In director Luca Guadagnino’s latest romance film, once again starring Timothée Chalamet, what’s on the menu isn’t juicy summer fruit — but bloody human flesh. Yes, “Bones and All” is a surprisingly effective and affecting cannibal love story. You chuckle — or … Read more