‘Bridgerton’ Star Says Netflix And Shondaland Ghosted Her After ‘Psychotic Breaks’
LOADINGERROR LOADING “Bridgerton” star Ruby Barker said the makers of the period drama series ignored her after she suffered two serious mental health episodes. (Watch the video below.) “Not a single person from Netflix, not a single person from Shondaland, since I have had two psychotic breaks from that show, have even contacted me or […]
What to Know About Hank Green’s Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Diagnosis
YouTube star and novelist Hank Green revealed his cancer diagnosis in a Vlogbrothers video on Friday that has garnered 6.6 million views as of Tuesday afternoon. The popular internet personality will soon begin treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a form of blood cancer that affects the lymphatic system. He opted to first share his personal health […]
Should Child Acting Just Be Banned Already?
Illustration: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost; Photos: Getty/Alamy When Alexa Nikolas was a 12-year-old child star on Nickelodeon’s “Zoey 101,” she felt uncomfortable around the show’s creator, Dan Schneider. “My childhood brain was just like, ‘I don’t like being around this person, I don’t feel my best around this person, I don’t feel safe around this person,’” she […]
Welcome to Hell: Brittney Griner and the Russian Prison System
Brittney Griner, a WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist, recently returned home after what she described as a 10-month-long “battle at every turn,” referring to her experience in the Russian prison system. Even though she was deemed well enough to return home to Arizona after spending a week at a medical facility and military […]
Selena Gomez Says She Is ‘Constantly Working On’ Managing Her Mental Health
BOSTON (AP) — Pop star and actor Selena Gomez has made no secret of her personal mental health struggles — they’ve made her an outspoken advocate for awareness and getting other young people the help they need. “I hope that by using my platform to share my own story … I can help others feel […]
Opinion | A Death Knell for Cadavers
If “video killed the radio star” and Zoom squelched the commute, it seems certain that virtual reality and 3D imaging will be the death knell for cadavers. Recently, NBC Nightly News did a story featuring staff members from Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine using the metaverse and 3D imaging to map out the […]
Dead star’s cannibalism of its planetary system is most far-reaching ever witnessed: White dwarf sheds light on the systemic chaos that occurs when a star dies
The violent death throes of a nearby star so thoroughly disrupted its planetary system that the dead star left behind — known as a white dwarf — is sucking in debris from both the system’s inner and outer reaches, UCLA astronomers and colleagues report today. This is the first case of cosmic cannibalism in which […]
Physicists embark on a hunt for a long-sought quantum glow: A new approach could make it possible detect the elusive Unruh effect in hours, rather than billions of years.
For “Star Wars” fans, the streaking stars seen from the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon as it jumps to hyperspace is a canonical image. But what would a pilot actually see if she could accelerate in an instant through the vacuum of space? According to a prediction known as the Unruh effect, she would more […]
Naomi Osaka Pulls Out Of Wimbledon
Tennis star Naomi Osaka will not be playing in the upcoming Wimbledon tournament. Osaka’s agent said in a statement Thursday that the 23-year-old four-time Grand Slam winner “is taking some personal time with friends and family,” but is still expected to play in the Summer Olympics. Osaka, who is ranked second in the world in […]
Astronomers may have discovered first planet to orbit 3 stars: Potential discovery of a circumtriple planet has implications for bolstering our understanding of planet formation
In a distant star system — a mere 1,300 light years away from Earth — UNLV researchers and colleagues may have identified the first known planet to orbit three stars. Unlike our solar system, which consists of a solitary star, it is believed that half of all star systems, like GW Ori where astronomers observed […]