Category: Odds and Ends

A hospital in the UK has admitted liability after a woman claimed she was left with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after remaining conscious during an operation. The patient, who is in her late 30s, went to the Yeovil District Hospital for a routine gynecological operation in 2018. When the medical team began operating on her, she says that she was able to feel surgeons cutting into her abdomen but was unable to alert them. “We went into theatre and I actually screamed out when the surgeon cut my belly button,” the patient who doesn’t…

The world’s largest rainforest may be reaching its “tipping point” as a key player in the global carbon cycle, according to a new commentary written by leading researchers in the environmental fields. “Although 2019 was not the worst year for fire or deforestation in the Amazon, it was the year when the extent of fires and deforestation in the region garnered full global attention,” wrote the authors in a commentary published in Science Advances. “The precious Amazon is teetering on the edge of functional destruction and, with it, so are we.”…

Kanye West obviously had a vision with the music video for his new track Closed On Sunday. As we can see now with the finished product having been released yesterday, it very clearly stars his close and extended fam — making it quite the thing to see! The Jesus Walks rapper released the new music video on Thanksgiving Day, and it immediately hit among the top trending topics on YouTube. Based on the way the outdoor scenes in the video look, it appears he shot it at his sprawling Wyoming ranch, with some very…

Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images News/Getty Images These Tweets About Greta Thunberg As ‘TIME’s Person Of The Year Cheer This Huge Step By Madhuri Sathish Dec 11, 2019 In August 2018, a then-15-year-old activist named Greta Thunberg sat outside the Swedish parliament building with a sign that read “Skolstrejk för klimatet” — meaning, “School Strike for Climate.” Thunberg was alone then, skipping school to make a statement about the international climate crisis. But in just over a year, Thunberg inspired millions of people around the world to rally around climate justice. That’s…

ShareTweetPin We’ve all heard of the list of girlfriends every woman should have or needs in their life. But what about the friends that every woman actually has? It’s no wonder that people say women’s friendships are complicated. We are a multifaceted group that tends to stick together through thick and thin, as well as thinner and thinnest. Sometimes our group of girlfriends can look like the cast of The Usual Suspects leaving our husbands and others wondering about our ability to adult. But what they don’t know is that…