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How Long Does the Flu Shot Last? For those extra-responsible citizens who finished their beach vacation and thought, “flu season is just around the corner,” first of all, bless you. Second, you might have screwed yourself. The flu vaccine is expected to protect an individual for a period of 6 months. After this, dwindling antibody levels cause its potency to wane. Vaccine effectiveness declines 8%-9% each month after getting the flu shot, according to a new study....

Who is Ms. Marvel in the comics? Created by Sana Amanat, Stephen Wacker, G. Willow Wilson, and artists Adrian Alphona and Jamie Mckelvie, Ms. Marvel became Marvel’s first Muslim character to headline her own series in 2014. Like so many great Marvel characters, Ms. Marvel explores the difficulties of being a teenager with superpowers. In Kamala’s case, she finds out she’s an Inhuman (think cosmic mutants) after a Terrigen bomb is set off in her home state of New Jersey....

The real reason people are treating FUPAs like the hottest accessory to have this fall is because Beyoncé is choosing to fully embrace the power of the FUPA instead of pretending like it doesn’t exist. This is something most women who have given birth can relate to and seeing the world’s most beloved superstar show off her dense, fatty, lower abdomen pouch will hopefully allow new moms everywhere to feel pride towards their own FUPAs....

Lynn Barendsen, executive director of The Family Dinner Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education can rattle off a laundry list of improved outcomes from decreased drug use to increased vocabulary for children who eat with their parents. There is no developmental panacea, but if there was, it would be that. Barendsen says all the potential benefits lead back to the same place. “It all points to bonding,” she says....

“I scared the kitty,” he laughs. “Be nice to the kitty,” I warn. For the most part, this pastime is harmless. He doesn’t pull their tails or yank on their fur. Our cats are able to escape of their own accord. They only endure vexation. Still, since this behavior started, I’ve noticed myself developing an equally worrisome habit: chastising my son before he does anything to the cats. A cat enters the room, my son’s gaze immediately turns toward his feline victim, a small smirk emerges, and, before he can spring; I bark....

Prior, informal surveys suggest that men lie about three times per day, compared to women, who lie about twice per day. More rigorous findings analyzed dishonesty diaries for men and women, and found that they lie with about the same frequency, just about different things. Men tend to lie in a self-serving way — either to deflect blame, embarrassment, or simply to avoid getting their feelings hurt. Women instead lie in a way that’s meant to make others feel better....

There are a lot of reasons to believe this movie will be a disaster. There’s the fact that Len Wiseman, the film’s rumored director, is largely responsible for the underwhelming Underworld franchise which, much like its characters, won’t seem to die. Then there’s the fact that the film’s prequel/sequel sounds a lot more like a cheap plot device to give Willis less screentime than an innovative storytelling tool. But the primary reason to be concerned is that all the Die Hard movies besides the original are just terrible....

The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA), which passed the House in June and has strong bipartisan support in the Senate, would provide almost $1.4 billion per year to state wildlife agencies to protect and restore plant and animal species. Per Vox, the bill, touted as the biggest wildlife bill since the Endangered Species Act of 1973, could pass the Senate “as soon as this fall.” The bill couldn’t come at a better time, with the recent announcement that the iconic Monarch butterfly has been placed on the endangered species list....

Those who cannot travel will not be able to, and the outcomes of their lives will be profoundly changed by their inability to access a basic right — to choose how to live their lives in dignity. The socioeconomic, and mental health, consequences for those who cannot get the abortions they want — historically people who are already parents — will be dire. And today, the Supreme Court will weigh in on the lives that many Americans — not just Texans, as some 26 states are likely to pass their own abortion bans if the Supreme Court protects the abortion law — will live....

Despite being a Halloween “kids movie,” in 1993 Hocus Pocus was perplexingly released in July to capitalize on children being on summer vacation or something. Perhaps non-coincidentally, it underperformed at the box office. Where summer was unkind to Hocus Pocus, Halloween proved its salvation. The movie became a cult classic thanks to constant airings on the Disney Channel throughout various Octobers. The Disney Channel’s target audience is of course children....

“There should be a law passed by congress that tomatoes are only allowed to be eaten when they’re in season in your area,” he says. “This BS of picking tomatoes on the West Coast green, gassing them in a truck, and sending them to us or anywhere else. They’re just grainy and tasteless. It’s an insult to a tomato, really.” But during the three to four months of summer when tomatoes are in season and Martin can find fat, multi-hued heirlooms at the farmer’s market, or pluck his own from one of the 93 tomato plants in his garden?...

Two such companies, Allstate, The United Services Automobile Association (USAA), and American Family Mutual, are returning some of the money they’ve saved due to the drop in accidents to their customers. Allstate personal auto insurance customers will receive a 15 percent discount on their April and May monthly premiums. The “Shelter-in-Place Payback” will also be extended to policyholders with Esurance and Encompass, two brands owned by Allstate. In total, 18 million customers will receive $600 million in refunds....

The firstborn study, which only examined Swedish boys, found that firstborn children were more likely to stay in school, do their homework, and possess higher IQs. “The differences among siblings had everything to do with family dynamics in the children’s early years,” The Atlantic reports. “First, having more children means parents can spend less time on each child, and as parental investments decline, so may IQ. Second…as siblings compete for their parents’ love (or ice cream, or toys), they occupy certain niches — older siblings demonstrate their competence and power, while younger siblings cultivate more creative strategies to get attention....

The FBI released a warning about “Zoombombing,” a form of cyber-harassment where hackers break into Zoom meetings, throw out racist slurs or stream pornography and genitalia to classrooms of minors or college students. The practice has become so prevalent that the FBI warned users of “multiple reports” of the trolling happening across the country. One teacher was hosting a class for her high school students when an unidentified hacker broke into her meeting and yelled her personal address....

Like the popular NBC competition, American Ninja Warrior Junior is an obstacle course race that tests strength and endurance ⏤ but for ages 9- to 14-years old. It was filmed in July and kids competed against in one of three age brackets: 9-10, 11-12, 13-14. It’s hosted by the same two guys, Matt Iseman, and Akbar Gbajabiamila, but they’ve added Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez as a sideline host. “The obstacles look exactly like the ones on American Ninja Warrior because they are,” says executive producer and director Kent Weed....

Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Don Cheadle, and Mark Ruffalo all took turns reading from the faux-book, which resulted in a ton of profanity, and at least three references to the fact that Thanon’s chin does really look like a giant purple scrotum. On top of that, the surviving Avengers also bickered about who was really to blame for Thanos winning at the end of the movie. On the one hand, it seems like Thor didn’t really come through....

(Note: Very light spoilers for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald ahead.) Opening on Friday in movie theaters everywhere, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald will continue the story of Magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) and his fascination with magical creatures that range from totally adorable to completely terrifying. It will also continue the story of the bigotted and murderous wizard named Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) who is the immediate predecessor to Voldemort in terms of big-bad evildoers in the Harry Potter universe....

Here are the answers to a few burning questions you will probably have after seeing Hamilton. Were Hamilton, Laurens, Lafayette, and Mulligan really a friend group? In the play, Alexander Hamilton meets John Laurens, Marquis de Lafayette, and Hercules Mulligan (coolest name ever) while grabbing a drink with Aaron Burr in New York City in 1776. After agreeing that freedom is good and the British are bad, they all get drunk and become best buds....

The answer to both questions is… No. The sun would still rise just fine without Camp Cretaceous, which is streaming now on Netflix, but a lack of need never ever stopped any conglomerate from spinning off its next potentially lucrative iteration of a blockbuster, long-running property. That said, Camp Cretaceous delivers the goods and it does so in large part because it embraces the scares right from the get-go. Apparently, the makers of this eight-episode first season heeded the advice of executive producer and Jurassic Park mastermind Steven Spielberg, who, upon conferring his blessing upon the project, implored the team not to go all “kiddie” with the material....

No spoilers ahead for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. With Avengers: Infinity War, you totally needed to stick around for that post-credits scene. With Incredibles 2 there isn’t one but the credits themselves are exhilarating enough to sit through. However, not all post-credits scenes are created equal, and despite the fact that Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is a fun (sometimes brainless) dinosaur romp, dangling plot threads aren’t specific enough to warrant a post-credits scene....