Author: IQ TIMES MEDIA
Jonny Terrell was a healthy, happy baby — but a month before his first birthday, he came down with an infection. Days later, he was vomiting. Over the next few weeks, mom Emily Robichau took him to the doctor for ear infections, stomachaches, rashes, vomiting, diarrhea and more.”The list was so long I couldn’t remember it all,” Robichau recalled. She had three older children and knew that kids got sick. But she had never seen anything like the constant stream of ailments her 11-month-old was experiencing.The day after Jonny’s first birthday, in August 2024, his stomach swelled, “like watching a…
Traveling to space is brutal on the body.Spaceflight can cause astronauts’ bones to lose density, their brain and eye nerves to swell, and their genes to change expression. Research suggests spending time in space is akin to fast-tracked aging.NASA’s pioneering study of the identical twin astronauts Mark and Scott Kelly tracked signals of aging in both men while Mark remained on Earth and Scott spent 340 days in space.Some changes to Scott’s body — like DNA damage, reduced cognitive function and shortening of the telomeres that cap and protect chromosomes — persisted even after six months, according to a landmark…
NEW YORK (AP) — Davey Johnson, an All-Star second baseman who won the World Series twice with the Baltimore Orioles as a player and managed the New York Mets to the title in 1986, has died. He was 82.Longtime Mets public relations representative Jay Horwitz said Johnson’s wife, Susan, informed him of his death after a long illness. Johnson was at a hospital in Sarasota, Florida, when he died Friday, Horwitz said.Johnson played 13 major league seasons with Baltimore, the Atlanta Braves, Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs from 1965-78 and won the Gold Glove three times while being voted an…
CLEVELAND (AP) — Running back Quinshon Judkins has agreed to his rookie contract with the Cleveland Browns but is not expected to be active for Sunday’s season opener against the Cincinnati Bengals, a person close to the situation told The Associated Press.The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Saturday because the agreement has not been announced. Judkins is the last NFL draft pick who was unsigned.Judkins was a second-round pick and the 36th overall selection in April’s draft. His four-year contract is worth $11.389 million and is fully guaranteed. He will have a two-week roster exemption, which…
President Donald Trump’s Intel deal is earning him some measure of approval from an unexpected corner: progressives.After Trump announced a plan for the US government to take a roughly 9.9% stake in the iconic US tech company, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont offered cautious praise for the move. Other progressives say they have little problem with the investment itself, but would like to see other policies accompany it.It’s the latest indication of how the deal, which marks a substantial break from longstanding GOP orthodoxy around free market capitalism, is cutting across political lines in strange ways.While the president’s most loyal…
The past year has been all about getting rid of toxic traits and relationships. I ended romantic relationships that drained me. I distanced myself from false friends. I walked away from professional situations that left me burned out, and I cut back on alcohol after realizing it had become more of a crutch than a celebration.Each of those changes was deliberate. But there was one toxic relationship I hadn’t acknowledged — one I carried in my pocket every single day. My cellphone. More specifically, the apps that turned it from a tool into something that dictated how I spent my…
Graham Dugoni founded Yondr in 2014 with the idea of making phone-free experiences for concerts and comedy shows.While the entertainment side of the business is buzzing, Yondr has become best known for its use in schools, where the magnetic pouches lock up students’ phones for the day.Yondr has scored big deals with school districts (the pouches reportedly cost around $30 per student). Dugoni says the company, which is based in Los Angeles and has around 150 full time employees, is profitable.As more schools implement bell-to-bell phone bans, Yondr pouches are becoming an ubiquitous part of American teen life. (You can…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A scramble is underway for some Ohio families over a staple of the back-to-school season: rides on the big, yellow school bus.Public school districts canceled bus transportation for thousands of high schoolers again this year while in some cases still busing students to private and charter schools to avoid steep fines under state requirements. In Dayton, a stopgap effort that gives students public transit passes in lieu of school bus rides was temporarily restored by a judge last week. This came after the district sued, alleging the state illegally restricted the program.The crunch for rides emerged…
NAPLES, Italy (AP) — Since arriving emaciated in Italy from Gaza, little Shamm Qudeih has celebrated her second birthday and gained weight on a new diet that includes a special porridge — progress welcomed by doctors treating her for severe malnutrition worsened by a genetic metabolic disease.Just weeks ago, the toddler was all skin and bones as she clung to her mother in a hospital in southern Gaza, after months of being unable to get the food and treatment she needed because of an Israeli blockade aimed at pressuring the Hamas militant group to release hostages. Then she was evacuated…
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce that the use of Tylenol by pregnant women may be linked to autism in children, according to a report Friday in the Wall Street Journal — which the Department of Health and Human Services said was “speculation.”This comes after Kennedy said in April that HHS would undertake a “massive testing and research effort” to determine the cause of autism. Kennedy at the time said the plan was to release a comprehensive report in September. However, National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said later that month the findings could take…