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Reese Witherspoon is sparking a heated debate about whether it’s safe to eat snow after sharing a video of herself making a “Snow Salt Chococinno” on Friday.“Oh my gosh, it’s so good,” she gushed on TikTok after adding salted caramel sauce, chocolate syrup, and cold-brewed coffee to the snow she had scooped off her covered grill.The deluge of concerned comments prompted Witherspoon, 47, to make not one, but three, follow-up TikToks to address worries. In the first, she microwaved the snow to produce clear water in an attempt to combat the “dirty” snow rumors.“So, we’re kind of in the category of, ‘you only live once,’ and it snows maybe once a year here,” Witherspoon explained in the second follow-up clip.

said Caroline Palmer, a professor in the department of psychology at McGill University and co-senior author of the study.“But this didn’t seem precise enough. So, we set out to investigate whether the tempo — the rate at which a passage is produced and one of music’s core elements — could influence its capacity to reduce pain.”Previous research has shown that every person has a unique, natural rhythm when performing actions like walking, clapping or playing an instrument.

a new study that discovered how listening to music can not only trigger memories but can also change how people remember them.Ren’s mentor, Thackery Brown, and University of Colorado Boulder music experts Sophia Mehdizadeh and Grace Leslie also participated in the study, which analyzed the connections between music, emotion and memory.They developed a 3-day episodic memory task with separate encoding, recollection, and retrieval phases to get to their primary hypothesis.

An annual study conducted by the University of California, Los Angeles’ Center for Scholars & Storytellers found that over half of the teenagers who were surveyed prefer watching stories about friendship, rather than romance or sex, in entertainment media.“Nomance,” has its being called, is in a much higher demander with teenagers than in 2023.The “Reality Bites: Teens and Screens” survey was conducted in August 2024 and involved 1,644 10-to-24-year-olds participants. People ages 10 to 13 were not asked about sexually explicit content.63.5% of the total adolescents said they “strongly agree” in wanting to see “more content that focuses on platonic relationships/friendships” in the shows and movies they’re watching.That number was 51.5% last year.

study conducted by data scientist Stephen Follows for the Economist found. Follows compared the level of sex content in the 250 top-grossing films of each year since 2000 and found a clear trend.As time has passed, moviemakers have put less and less skin-on-skin contact in their films.

that they’re prudes, or anything.“While it’s true that adolescents want less sex on TV and in movies, what the survey is really saying is that they want more and different kinds of relationships reflected in the media they watch,” study co-author Dr. Yalda T.

Psychology and Aging, found that musicians do marginally better on cognitive ability tests than those who didn’t play an instrument.“Music can be such a joyful and enriching experience at all ages, regardless of expertise or musical genre,” Professor Katie Overy of the University of Edinburgh said. “We are keen to investigate musical experience further, including music listening and singing, and we look forward to developing the new volunteer database.”The study — funded by Age UK and the Economic and Social Research Council — included 420 participants who were born in 1936 in the Edinburgh and Lothian areas of Scotland.Of those 420 people,167 had at least some experience playing a musical instrument, mainly the piano and primarily as a child or teenager, and 39 were still playing an instrument at 82 years old.These participants were given tests to measure brainpower every three years, between the ages of 70 to 82.Researchers at the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Napier University found that those with musical experience had a slight link to greater results in tests that looked at processing speed and visuospatial reasoning.“We see these results as an exciting starting point for further investigation into how musical experience from across the life course might contribute to healthy aging,” lead author Dr.

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour wasn’t creating enough of a groundswell, Swifties caused such a ruckus during the Seattle, Washington leg that they generated the equivalent of a 2.3 magnitude earthquake — rivaling the legendary “Beastquake” of 2011.“This was much bigger,” Western Washington University geology professor Jackie Caplan-Auerbach told King 5 after comparing the tectonic activity.The groundbreaking phenomenon occurred over the weekend while the “Antihero” singer had performed sold-out back-to-back shows to over 144,000 fans at Lumen Field, the Seattle Times reported.Little did the Grammy winner know that her concert would prove earth-shattering in the seismic sense: The activity from the three-and-a-half-hour marathon caused quite a commotion on a seismometer located next to the stadium, which prompted Caplan-Auerback to conduct a study to see if it surpassed the previous Lumen record caused by the Beastquake. For those unfamiliar with Seattle sports lore, this seminal event occurred in 2011 after Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch scored a touchdown and fans went wild.To see how the two events compared tectonically, Caplan-Auerback first analyzed data from the two Swift shows.

UK cleaning brand Method has over a fifth of 18- to 24-year-olds confessing they don’t wash their hands at festivals. The survey of 1,500 Brits revealed a staggering 26% of them only wash their hands once a day when they attend a three- or four-day event.A shocking 1 in 10 said they don’t clean their hands because “it’s a festival,” and they “don’t need to.”44% blamed a lack of facilities at the event, and 28% cited not wanting to wait in line.Dr.

“The Drew Barrymore Show” that was shared last week.Cord banking entails storing the blood from the umbilical cord so it can be used later to treat diseases, with manystorage companies likening it to a “biological insurance policy” — just in case anything happens later in life that the precious cells are needed for.Stem cells collected from an umbilical cord — as opposed to bone marrow — are particularly useful, as they can work even if some of the proteins don’t match, meaning more people can use them, as well as benefit from a shorter processing time.According to Dr. Christine Sterling, an OB/GYN and spokesperson for stem storage company Cord Blood Registry (CBR) — which sponsored the segment on Barrymore’s show — the umbilical cord is a rich source of stem cells with the potential to act like a “body’s own personal repair kit.”However, both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association say the potential benefits of storing umbilical cord blood as “insurance” are outweighed by the high cost of storing blood that may never be used. Initial collection and processing alone could cost up to $3,000, according to a 2022 Forbes story and, after that, annual storage fees could reach $1,300 — or more.

told the Associated Press. “And for physicians, it has always been a mystery what was really behind it.”Before his death at the age of 56 in 1827, Beethoven himself requested in 1802 that “his disease be described and made public,” according to the study, which was published Wednesday in journal Current Biology.

“Abbott Elementary” or the employees of “The Office” get into shenanigans as a way to alleviate anxiety.Further, 56% of participants said they turn to “comfort shows” that they watch regularly, sometimes up to 18 times when they feel bored or stressed out. And, oddly enough, nearly twice as many people from the Northeast do this than in the West, so maybe the fast pace of life in New York is causing more people to turn to “The Bachelor” or “Bridgerton.”But, just what kinds of shows are people tuning into in order to de-stress? Like everything else, it depends on the generation.

people actually can hear you scream (or sing), it turns out. Groundbreaking data collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover is able to replicate how people would sound on Mars compared to Earth.The space agency even boasts an online tool that allows Earthlings to simulate how they’d sound on the red planet from inside our homes.

a study conducted by Toronto’s York University discovered that “slim-thick” imagery online causes more body dissatisfaction amongst young women.The study actually named the Kardashian mogul and her sister Kylie Jenner as influencers who contribute to the discontent women feel about their bodies because of their online content.The “slim-thick” body ideal — defined by the researchers as “a curvier or more full-body type, characterized by a small waist and flat stomach but large butt, breasts and thighs” — has become more idolized in mainstream media in recent years.“The hashtags #thick, #thicc and #slimthick have 6.2 million, 3.4 million, and 1 million posts on Instagram respectively, and the hashtag #slimthicc has 134 million tags on TikTok,” the researchers said of 2021 social trends.While a thin, Kate Moss-esque frame might have been ideal in years prior, that trend is out and the Kim K’s of the world are in.But those curves aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.The family of influencers is regularly outed for egregious photoshop fails, including this week when Kim’s leg fell victim to some heavy-handed editing, prompting its removal from her Instagram.It’s become routine to digitally alter photos, the York University study said, “thus making the thin ideal even thinner and less attainable for the average woman.”While it’s not illegal to alter a photo or get plastic surgery, of course, body acceptance influencer Mik Zazon, 26, told The Post it’s “manipulating authenticity” by not being transparent about it.A post shared by Mik Zazon (@mikzazon)The Ohio-based content creator, who has over one million followers said one example is when Kim shared her psoriasis outbreak on her face in a selfie posted to Instagram, which made

well-stubbled sex machine with a piercing stare might not be far off. A recent study found that bountiful beards and brown eyes are the biggest indicators of whether a man is an assassin in the sack.