Nobody wants to waste food. So when you see something hairy in your cream cheese or suspicious spots on your bread, it’s tempting to scrape the mold away and chow down. But in most cases—including the two just mentioned—munching moldy food is a bad idea, says Kristin Kirkpatrick, a registered dietitian and wellness manager at Cleveland Clinic.
Kirkpatrick says that when visible mold is present, its tentacles—called “threads”—have likely penetrated deep into your food, contaminating even those parts that appear to be mold-free. Read More...
George Widman Photography LLC for the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia This holiday season, would you consider giving friends and family the skull of a guy who cut off his testicles? We’re dead serious.
With a $200 donation, you can “adopt” one of the 139 specimens in the Hyrtl Skulls collection at the Mütter Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, which is devoted to medical history. Read More...
For the uninitiated, Ṣàngó is a Yoruba deity and is historically recognised as the third Alaafin of the old Oyo Empire. Considered one of the most powerful Yoruba rulers ever, a film about him makes sense, and Obafemi Lasode produced and directed one that he released in 1997. Ṣàngó remains one for the ages, and watching it at a young age is one of the most significant reasons I fell in love with Yoruba epic films. Read More...
