Miracle

A professor has rediscovered a miracle plant previously used by the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and Romans. The plant, which was expected to have gone extinct over two thousand years ago was known as silphion (or silphium) by the ancient Greeks. The professor discovered what he believes to be a botanical survivor, which could open new doors to medicines we haven’t seen in two millennia. Historians believe that the ancient Greeks used this miracle plant by crushing, roasting, sautéing, and even boiling it to…

In his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway offers a succinct, highly quoted answer to the question of how a person goes bankrupt. “Two ways,” he writes. “Gradually, then suddenly.” “Gradually, then suddenly” may also describe how Mortal Kombat, a game with precisely nothing to do with Hemingway (although Motaro, the Centaurian sub-boss of the third game in the series, looks a little bit like a bull), came to exist. And shook up both the fighting game genre and the stuffy establishment in the process. In…

2023 will be the 30th anniversary of Counting Crows’ seminal debut album, ‘August and Everything After’. ‘August….’ was one of the zeitgeist albums of the 90s with songs like ‘Mr Jones’ dominating MTV and the radio airwaves. Lead by charismatic lead singer, Adam Duritz, Counting Crows cemented themselves in the cultural window of the times. Over the years, the band have released a number of albums and stayed true to their Folk/Indie/Rock roots, touring relentlessly and never resting on their laurels, continuing to…

With his multifaceted Entergalactic experience now on the horizon, Kid Cudi is giving fans an intimate look at where he’s at in his life, both personally and artistically.Image via NORMAN JEAN ROYIn an expansive new cover story interview for Esquire, Cudi speaks from the heart about a thrillingly wide variety of topics, including his mental journey and his time in rehab back in 2016. As writer Clover Hope notes in the piece, Cudi “had a stroke and was hospitalized” two weeks into rehab. Following this incident, Cudi is…

Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road Transport & Highways in the Government of India is pushing for electric vehicles in India. He was recently spotted checking out the Yulu Miracle which is an electric two-wheeler. Yulu is an application through which you rent electric two-wheelers in a particular zone. The minister sat on Yulu Miracle. The electric two-wheeler has a top speed of 25 kmph. It has a unisex frame design so males and females can ride it comfortably. The manufacturer gave special attention to keeping the…

North London’s Miraa May has finally graced us with her debut album, Tales Of A Miracle, which delivers on the potential we know she has in abundance.The singer and songwriter has consistently blessed us over the years with her soul-laced cuts—including “Nobody”, “Angles” with Jme, and a memorable feature on Juls’ “Blessed”—all without an album to her name. Having released her debut EP, N15, back in 2016—followed by the 2018 Care Package project—May has taken her time in curating her first album, and this is evident in…

Since her fantastic 2016 EP, N15, British Algerian singer-songwriter Miraa May has been a lesser-known but essential part of UK pop. Her debut album arrives at 17 songs long, an ambitious feat that she just about pulls off, with polished instrumentation, unapologetic candour and a cavalry of superb features from British female artists, including Jorja Smith and Raye.Drawing on the contemporary, playing with sounds from two decades ago (interpolations of songs by Mya, 50 Cent and Sisqo feel more inventive than the recent…

Sam Asghari has recently thanked his followers for the support he and fiancée Britney Spears have received since announcing that they lost their “miracle baby.” The actor took to Instagram’s story and penned, “We have felt your support. We are taking things positively and moving forward with our future. It’s hard but we are not alone.” He continues, “Thank you for respecting our privacy. We will be expanding our family soon.” The couple shared the news of pregnancy loss in coordinating Instagram posts on Saturday,…

Making a blockbuster movie under any circumstances is never an easy task, especially a globetrotting behemoth that marks the penultimate installment in one of cinema’s highest-grossing franchises ever, but Fast X has been laboring under a different set of trials and tribulations than any of the previous entries. Once Justin Lin stepped away from the director’s chair when production was already underway, everyone instantly assumed that the filmmaker’s decision had something to do with Vin Diesel. While that hasn’t been…