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Laura High’s hormones have been out of whack since she was as young as 13 years old. Her period was “all over the place,” so her doctors put her on birth control, but the hormonal issues continued to plague her. As she got older, things only became worse; she was gaining weight quickly and easily, and her anxiety was through the roof. “I could tell something was wrong,” says High, who is 34 years old and works as a stand-up comedian in New York City.But getting to the bottom of the problem was complicated—since High only…

Photo: Julian SchraderThe natural world is filled with moments of wonder and terror—and it’s those moments that are captured in the finalists of this year’s BMC Ecology and Evolution image competition. The photo contest, now in its second year, is intended as a creative showcase of the work that ecologists and evolutionary biologists perform out in the field, as well as the tightly interconnected relationships between animals and their environments (humans included).The 2022 winner is something that would fit right at…

Breadcrumb Trail Links Life Eating & Drinking Culture Books 'So crisp, you could even skip the tortilla,' says Ali Slagle Crispy potato, egg and cheese tacos from I Dream of Dinner. Photo by Mark Weinberg Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Article content Our cookbook of the week is I Dream of Dinner (so You Don’t Have To) by Ali Slagle. Over the…

Australia is experiencing a national egg shortage. Prices are rising and supermarket stocks are patchy. Some cafes are reportedly serving breakfast with one egg instead of two. Supermarket giant Coles has reverted to COVID-19 conditions with a two-carton limit. We…

Image via Marvel Studios With Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 still about a year away from coming to theaters, writer-director James Gunn is teasing an Easter egg for the forthcoming movie in the franchise’s first installment. Gunn took to Twitter Tuesday to announce he would be “putting an official moratorium on responding to guesses about the Easter egg in GotG Vol 1 until after Vol 3 is released, because I don’t want to affect anyone’s enjoyment of Vol 3 if by some chance someone gets the whole thing. Sorry!”…

Sony/Marvel Does Sony’s upcoming Madame Web take place in the same universe as Sam Raimi’s 2004 masterpiece Spider-Man 2? That’s one conclusion one could take away from a set photo prop of the forthcoming superhero movie, even though it is still somewhat ambiguous. The set photo leak in question is a series of dispenser boxes for the fictional Daily Bugle newspaper as well as for The New York Times and the New York Post. At first, the image seems innocuous. Considering Madame Web will be part of Sony’s…

Just because a human egg is fertilized does not mean the embryo will survive to birth. In the first few weeks of conception, there's a whole lot that can still go wrong.When a fertilized egg first begins to divide, it must duplicate its entire genome – that's all the DNA instructions stored in the cell – so that each of the two resulting cells can receive an exact copy. This process must be immaculately repeated each time a cell divides.   But sometimes, it can miss a chromosome or make an extra copy of one.Scientists…

Since Disney acquired Fox, fans have been eagerly awaiting the introduction of Deadpool to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and while that hasn’t quite taken place yet, the character has finally seen some acknowledgment. Disney’s Avengers Campus at Disneyland Paris is set to get a new ride called Avengers Assemble: Flight Force and some lucky fans have had a chance to check out this experience at a pre-show. One attendee managed to capture footage of the adventure that will see visitors help Iron Man and Captain…

Amazon Prime Video has released a second trailer for its Lord of the Rings TV show.The new series – titled  Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power – will run for eight episodes when it arrives this September.An earlier teaser for the prequel series, released in February, saw viewers hail it as “incredible”, “jaw-dropping” and “magnificent”.A second trailer was released on Thursday (14 July) and fans have doubled down on their praise, with many calling it the “most promising” snippet of the forthcoming series they have seen…

Paleontologists have found a never-seen-before fossil of a complete baby dinosaur curled up inside its egg. The fossil showed the remarkable similarities between theropod dinosaurs and the birds they would evolve into, according to a new study. The 70-million-year-old fossilised embryo has been named “Baby Yingliang” after the museum in China which houses it. The embryo is curled up inside its 6-inch elongated eggshell. At this stage, the embryo looks like that of a modern bird, but it has small arms and claws rather than…