This is Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider's biggest pet peeve. Where are the TV scripts about the elderly grandmothers dying of heart failure at home? What about an episode on the daughter still grieving her father's fatal lung cancer, ten years later? (Dembosky, NPR)
Read MoreIf you can’t get enough of new religious movements, high-control groups and religious sects, here are 16 films and TV series on the subject to add to your queue. (Blake, Los Angeles Times)
Read MoreA Bud Light boycott in 2023 reshuffled the beer industry, vaulting Modelo Especial to the top spot in America. At the same time, many people simply stopped drinking beer altogether. U.S. beer shipments fell more than 5% in the first nine months of the year and by year’s end are expected to hit their lowest level in a quarter-century, according to industry tracker Beer Marketer’s Insights. (Maloney, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreFor better or for worse, a wave of couples saying “I do” in Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve could set a record for the city’s busiest wedding day ever. That’s because 12/31/23 is known in the massive Las Vegas wedding industry as a “specialty date,” thanks to the repeating 1-2-3 1-2-3 pattern, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. (Associated Press)
Read MoreCanada already has one of the most liberal assisted death laws in the world, offering the practice to terminally and chronically ill Canadians. But under a law scheduled to take effect in March assisted dying would also become accessible to people whose only medical condition is mental illness, making Canada one of about half a dozen countries to permit the procedure for that category of people. (Isai, The New York Times)
Read MoreKanye West issued an apology in Hebrew to “the Jewish community” on Tuesday for past anti-Semitic outbursts, saying he sought forgiveness and regretted any pain that his remarks had caused. The rapper sparked outrage last year after posting a slew of remarks about Jews on social media that led to him being dropped by sponsors and suspended from X, formerly known as Twitter. (Millward, The Telegraph)
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