6 dead at Florida nursing home due to intense heat, loss of power after Irma

More than 100 people were evacuated from a Florida nursing home Wednesday after six people were reported dead at the Hollywood facility, whose residents were suffering from intense heat caused by a lack of electricity after deadly Hurricane Irma swept through. Irma may have moved on from Florida, but lingering dangers caused by the storm, including […]

Why Hustling May Be Bad For Your Health, According To A Wellness Guru

American millennial working culture is often inundated with the idea that you should always be “hustling.” We pat each other on the back and tell one another we’re “killin’ it” — a phrase that brings with it the notion of being in constant, maximum capacity work mode, focusing on productivity and achievements above all else. This […]

The Philippines slashes its human rights budget to $20

Image: AP/REX/Shutterstock/@phatfreemigeul/twitter/mashable composite The value of human rights in the Philippines is now worth just $20, apparently. Philippine legislators have voted to reduce the annual budget for the country’s Commission of Human Rights (CHR) to just 1,000 pesos ($20).  SEE ALSO: The death of a 17-year-old boy has put a face on the drug war […]

Check Out These Stunning New Images Of Jupiter

If fears of World War 3 have got you down, don’t fret. We’ve got some glorious new pictures of Jupiter to hopefully take your mind off things. These latest snaps were taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its seventh science flyby over Jupiter. The spacecraft is in a wide orbit around the planet, swooping down […]

Syphilis Really Was Rife In 18th-Century English Cities

Understanding historical rates of disease could be very useful for those working to control the same diseases today. Unfortunately, detailed epidemiological record-keeping is a recent invention. However, the coincidence of two remarkably detailed studies of the city of Chester and its surroundings in the 1770s have given scientists a unique snapshot of the era, and […]

Sleep Is the Most Effortless Workout You Can Do And It Actually Counts

My yoga pants have seen more action running errands than actually running, and based on my actual workout habits, my Daily Burn account should be more accurately dubbed the Bi-Weekly Burn. Maybe it’s because I never played sports in high school (does a short-lived stint on the Ultimate Frisbee team count?) or because I used to […]

On ‘Checkup Day,’ here’s how you can help improve the health of your loved ones

Facing the United States’ history of the modernization of medicine is a tough pill to swallow. For populations who weren’t white or male, their roles in healthcare were often dehumanizing and criminal. Doctors treated them as test patients for myriad studies such as the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, or procedures related to the U.S.’s Nazi Germany-rooted […]

The 40 best Netflix original series

House of Cardsin 2013, Netflix has produced more than 50 programs in seven languages—and that’s not even counting miniseries like , (LilyhammerDegrassi: Next ClassBlack Mirror), Obviously, not every Netflix original series is created equal, and it can be daunting to know where to start. We pulled our staff and curated reviews from all of our […]

This Animal Is On Drugs

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South Asia floods kill 1,200 and shut 1.8 million children out of school

Hundreds dead in India, Nepal and Bangladesh, while millions have been forced from their homes and 18,000 schools shut down across the region Heavy monsoon rains have brought Mumbai to a halt for a second day as the worst floods to strike south Asia in years continued to exact a deadly toll. More than 1,200 […]