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How Americas First Film With Nudity Ended Up Banned in DC Tobias Carroll, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Audrey Munson was a model-turned-actress before that was a viable career path. In a 2016 article at The Mary Sue, Maddy Myers looked back over Munson’s life and career, noting that she essentially created the template for supermodels in the early years of the 20th century. Munson’s likeness appears on a host of statues created during that time, including New York City’s Munson made...

Texas Is the Latest to Embrace the "Wildlife Overpass." Other States Should Follow. Tanner Garrity, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail San Antonio opened a new overpass last month, called the Robert L.B. Tobin Land Bridge. It stretches 150 feet over a major arterial highway and took over two years to build. Pretty standard fare. Only, this infrastructure isn’t intended for automobiles, or even specifically for humans. It’s a “wildlife crossing,” built to offer animals in the area safe pa...

Just Four Seconds of Intense Exercise Can Boost Fitness for Adults Tanner Garrity, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail According to a recent study published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, four-second intervals of high-intensity training could help improve overall fitness in sedentary adults. Exercise physiologists at the University of Texas recruited 39 men and women, aged 50 to 68, and had them train in a performance lab three days a week. While there, the volunteers were put on a s...

Why You Should Never Lift Weights in Running Shoes Tanner Garrity, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail When I first started lifting back in high school, I would stand in the corner of a New York Sports Club with a barbell that was about 20 pounds too heavy for me and swing it repeatedly towards my sternum. It was a 16-year-old’s clumsy take on the bicep curl, and it involved a disturbing amount of back. One day, one of the gym’s trainers — who I can only guess couldn’t take it anymore �...

Giving Head Might Be Giving You Cancer Kayla Kibbe, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail When we talk about performing oral sex, we tend to phrase it as an act of “giving,” but it turns out head-givers might be getting something out the experience as well. Unfortunately, it’s cancer. Recent research from Johns Hopkins University found a link between performing oral sex and getting human papillomavirus, or HPV. The findings, published in the American Cancer Society’s peer-reviewed journal C...

South Korea Faces Backlash for Telling Pregnant Women They Shouldnt Gain Weight Bonnie Stiernberg, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Pregnant women already have to put up with plenty of unsolicited advice from loved ones and strangers alike, but this is beyond the pale: a set of guidelines posted online recently by the South Korean government has been removed after being called out for its sexist suggestions that pregnant women try not to gain weight, prepare meals for their husbands and do the...

What Draws So Many Boomers to Americas Largest Retirement Community? Charles Bramesco, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The retirement mega-community known as “The Villages” sprawls out over a slice of central Florida approximately 14 miles long and five miles across, a thick rectangle of land just northwest of Orlando. The geriatric paradise offers every form of recreation known to man against an immaculately manicured backdrop, making it one of America’s fastest-growing communities at ...

Sex Workers Speak Out Against "Sell/Buy/Date" Documentary Kayla Kibbe, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Last week, playwright and performer Sarah Jones announced Sell/Buy/Date, a forthcoming documentary about the sex industry based on her 2016 stage production of the same name. News of the project, which reportedly boasts Meryl Streep and Rashida Jones as producers, quickly attracted criticism from sex workers, with many in the sex industry taking issue both with the documentary’s content a...

The Story Behind the Greatest Movie Spike Lee Never Made Tobias Carroll, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail David Byrne’s American Utopia — seeing wide release and critical acclaim. Over the course of his career to date, Lee has made a host of films on a variety of scales, from sprawling epics to filmed theater pieces. But, as is the case with nearly every great filmmaker, there are also a few notable projects that never quite materialized and leave an intriguing sense of what might have bee...

Michael Apted, "Up" Series and "The World Is Not Enough" Director, Dead at 79 Tobias Carroll, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Coal Miner’s Daughter and the James Bond adventure The World Is Not Enough. Apted’s most lasting legacy as a filmmaker, however, may come from his work as a documentarian — The Up Series, which followed the same group of people at 7-year intervals for over half a century, is regarded as a towering achievement in documentary film. The Hollywood Reporter and othe...