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The time has come again with Daniel Craig stepping down after No Time To Die and a new person needing to fill the role. But who will it be? Apparently, a Marvel star is now the leading contender as the next Bond. US-Bookies.com, a betting web portal, has been interesting in which actor is more likely to land the role. Using data “based on betting markets offered by UK/European/worldwide operators regulated in jurisdictions where wagering on these props is legal,” there’s a new person in the lead role as the favorite for James Bond, overtaking Tom Hardy....

Back in November, Vin shared a public post on Instagram extending an invite to The Rock to reprise his role as secret agent Lucas Hobbs for the upcoming movie – which will be the tenth installment of the Fast franchise. While Vin’s message a few months ago read to fans like he was extending an olive branch to his former co-star, The Rock saw the whole thing as “manipulative.” And in a recent interview with CNN, The Rock pretty clearly shut down any idea that he would return to play Hobbs again – while criticizing Vin’s decision to take this conversation public....

“While on the one hand the disgust system seems to act like super sensitive alarm, it also has to be flexible so as not to impede essential activities like sex, maintaining our own hygiene, and caring for family,” Trevor Case, an evolutionary psychologist who authored the original study demonstrating this among mothers, told Fatherly. “This is a very robust effect—just ask any mother and they’ll likely say that they prefer their own baby’s diaper....

Why is your favorite brown spirit taking the brunt of the tariffs? It’s all thanks to a decades-long spat with the European Union over the way member nations had subsidized the airplane manufacturer Airbus. Recently the World Trade Organization deemed European nations ran afoul of international rules, and gave the green light to the US to add $7.5 billion in additional tariffs on a variety of European goods, including Italian cheese, French wine, Spanish ham, and Scotch whisky....

Parental attention is crucially important to the healthy development of babies and young children. You don’t need the still face experiment to understand that. But it does pretty effectively drive the idea home. Found in various corners of YouTube, videos of this 40-year-old test are as relevant than ever, showing us just how important it is to pay attention to our children. To be fair, Edward Tronick, the creator of the still face experiment, didn’t conclude that parents needed to bathe their kids in unending attention....

EFM entered hospitals in the 1970s after a big push from the monitoring industry — but with no clinical trials proving that they’re safe and effective. At the time, there were other methods of tracking the baby’s heart rate and rhythm during childbirth. But EFM had an advantage over the others: It would bring an end to cerebral palsy. Or so the industry claimed. But EFM was entirely experimental — a fact unknown to the many women it was used on....

While we look to tomorrow’s horizon and see an increasing number of rays streaming towards us, I wonder what we may lose in a ‘normal’ world as we sprint back to restaurants, vacations, and office buildings. It’s something I think about an awful lot lately. I’ve made it a habit that for any work call that starts at or runs past 4:30 pm to take it on my headphones. While I participate, I’m also lacing up my shoes, getting jackets on, and leashes out....

What Is the Secret Disney World Door? If you are at Disneyland or Disney World, you may stumble upon a seemingly normal door that says “33” and not even realize you’ve stumbled upon one of the most exclusive clubs on earth. Well, kind of. That door is actually just a prop, while the real entrance is around the corner and requires verification for you to enter Club 33. What Makes Club 33 So Special?...

And this was a tough list to compile, as there are literally dozens of memorable spots we just don’t have room to include. We’re talking Andy Samberg, Scarlett Johansson, Bob Barker as Bob Barnacle, R. Lee Ermey doing his R. Lee Ermey thing, John Goodman as a stop-motion Santa Claus, the stupendous Charles Nelson Reilly, Davy Jones as Davy Jones, Kristen Wiig, J.K. Simmons spoofing Whiplash, Pat Morita, Pink, Biz Markie, Marion Ross as Grandma Squarepants, and on and on....

The one thing I know for certain is this: Living single is much different this time around. For one thing, two kids living a couple of miles down the road call me dad. Those kids crash at the house every other weekend, so I’ve got to keep the place tidy, food shop, buy toilet paper, and use the notes only for their intended purpose. In this situation, the goodbyes get longer while the hellos are much grander....

Here’s what to know about continued payment rollouts, those plus-up payments if the IRS underpaid you for your stimulus check, how long the IRS has to send all of the stimulus checks, and what to do if you still haven’t gotten your payment. The Payments Are Still Rolling Out, So Don’t Worry If you haven’t gotten your third stimulus check yet, don’t worry. While the majority of third stimulus check payments have gone out to the people who are owed them, the IRS has until the very last day of 2021 — December 31 — to send out all of the third checks....

Meal-time in the Watson household, which consists of Watson, his wife, and their two sons who are three-years-old and two months-old, is a phone-free chance for the family to connect. “We just take this time to come together as a family and stay up to date on what’s going on in each other’s lives,” he says. “That’s more important than ever in today’s world.” “The Dad Special” is a celebration of food, family, and fathers who cook....

Dartmouth professor David Blanchflower has studied humans all over the world and found that all humans, regardless of location and economic well being, experience a U-shaped happiness curve that hits its lowest point in the late 40s. For people in developed nations it’s 47.2; in developing nations it’s 48.2. “It doesn’t seem to matter about income or gender or race or anything, you get the same pattern,” Blanchflower says. “And you get the same pattern if you’re a parent or not a parent, although we certainly see some evidence about the difficulty of having school-aged kids....

In real life, there were four custom-made Aston Martin DB5s used in Goldfinger. But, bizarrely, one of these four cars was stolen from a collector in 1997 and remains missing to this day. To make matters more like a real-life Bond heist, the car was stolen right alongside other priceless cars, including a roadster owned by Amelia Earhart, indicating that whoever was behind the theft only wanted the Bond car....

Here’s a map of the best and worst states for working dads: WalletHub focused on four key factors in their analysis: economic and social well-being, work-life balance, childcare, and health. Each state’s final score is the weighted average of its grade on a 100 point scale (so even Connecticut, at 72.58, is barely scratching a C grade). Consider New York—a solid middle contender, ranking 18 out of all 50 states, with an overall score of 55....

Essentially, the old man test boils down to standing on one foot, barefoot, and putting on your sock and shoe and tying it before you put down your other foot. Then, you balance on your other foot while repeating the same process. This balance test with distraction and multitasking built into the mix evaluates your single leg balance (clearly), stability, mobility, and concentration, says Hardikkumar “HD” Unjia, a physical therapist in Woodbridge, New Jersey, with SportsMed Physical Therapy....

According to the report – in which 45% of respondents reported being LGBTQ youth of color and 48% transgender or nonbinary, making it the most diverse survey yet – 45% of LGBTQ youth considered suicide in the last year, and nearly 20% of transgender and nonbinary youth attempted suicide. LGBTQ youth of color were more likely to report suicidal ideation and attempt than their white peers. It is not surprising that LGBTQ mental health, particularly that of young people, is in decline....

The news is a good step forward in the fight to combat hunger across the United States, and it’s also great news for kids who won’t have their automatic eligibility for a free meal of the day taken away from them. When Trump was still president in 2019, his administration issued a rule that would have limited eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, otherwise known as SNAP. The move would have been particularly cruel as SNAP delivers “more nutrition assistance to low-income children than any other federal program,” per the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities....

The document focuses largely on the mitigation strategies needed as part of an approach to re-open schools safely, and how to layer those strategies. It goes further than the July guidance and also provides a chart that categorizes COVID-19 by color and provides mitigation strategies recommended by which zone the schools are in, vaccination guidance, screening testing guidelines, and more. At a time when Biden’s plan to reopen schools within 100 days feels more pipe dream than reality, the guidance is a necessary step forward in the nationwide reopening push he’s been calling for, alongside billions in dollars to school districts to actually make what the CDC asks for possible....

When we’re buying a new car, we all know the value depreciates the second we drive it off the car lot. Then every year that follows, you would expect to get less money back if you were to sell the car. That’s just how car-ownership works unless you own a rare, collectible vehicle. But if you want, say, a family car, you’re looking for something safe and dependable that will last you a long time and you’re not necessarily looking to make a big buck if you sell it to someone later....