Just think, we may have never gotten the “Oh, oh, oh, Ozempic!” jingle stuck in our heads if it wasn’t for a creepy, bottom-dwelling fish. Dr. Joel Habener of Massachusetts General Hospital unexpectedly discovered GLP-1 in the 1980s while analyzing the pancreatic genes in anglerfish. Habener’s team identified the precursor to GLP-1, a hormone that regulates … Read more
Talk about a kid with a lot of heart. A 14-year-old from Frisco, Texas, developed a groundbreaking smartphone app to detect early signs of heart disease in just seven seconds. Circadian AI records heart sounds, filters out ambient noise and analyzes the data using a cloud-based machine learning model — all by placing a smartphone … Read more
PepsiCo won the dismissal of a lawsuit by a former executive who said the food and beverage company defrauded and defamed him by denying that he invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. In a decision on Wednesday, US District Judge John Holcomb said Richard Montanez, who retired from PepsiCo in 2019 to become a full-time motivational speaker, did … Read more
Zoomers claim they’ve reinvented the “meal.” Gen Z has seemingly cornered the market on creating things that have already existed, from “girl dinners” to “silent walking.” Now, 20-somethings are being roasted online after espousing the health benefits of “water-based cooking” — with critics claiming that they’ve simply discovered “soup.” In a clip with more than … Read more
Identical twins Matthew and Michael Youlden can speak 26 languages — one of which can’t be found in the annals of etymology. Inspired by the multicultural landscape of their hometown of Manchester in the UK, the polyglots who now run their own language learning company became interested in foreign language studies from an early age. … Read more
Times Square is about to be shaken, not stirred. The historic Knickerbocker Hotel is paying a year-long tribute to the iconic cocktail with martini ice cream, a martini rooftop garden,“martinis on demand” and “masterclasses” on the mixed drink. The “Year of the Martini” comes almost a century after legendary Italian mixologist Martini de Arma di … Read more
Mary Quant, the visionary fashion designer whose colorful, sexy miniskirts epitomized Swinging London in the 1960s and influenced youth culture around the world, has died, her family said. She was 93. Quant helped popularize the miniskirt — some credit her with inventing it — and the innovative tights that went along with it, creating dresses … Read more
Time to toast another clever kitchen hack! Finding himself “bored” one day, Joan Manuel Hidalgo devised a hands-free, but margarinally complex machine that toasts and butters bread, Jam Press reports. In the ultimate fete of lazy genius, the Argentina-based creator recently showcased his toast conveyor belt on TikTok, breaking 1.5 million views and rising! Viewers … Read more