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Processed meats have officially been classified as Group 1 carcinogens by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, placing them in the same category as tobacco and asbestos in terms of the strength of scientific evidence linking them to cancer. Foods such as bacon, ham, hot dogs, and sausages have been strongly associated with colorectal cancer. Researchers say the risk is largely connected to the way these meats are processed. Methods like curing, smoking, and salting can create harmful compounds including nitrosamines, which may damage DNA over time. Preservatives such as nitrates and nitrites, along with high temperature cooking methods like grilling or frying, can also increase the formation of carcinogenic chemicals. Health experts stress that this does not mean eating a slice of bacon carries the same overall danger as smoking cigarettes, but it does mean the evidence that processed meat can cause cancer is considered conclusive. Many specialists recommend reducing intake of processed meats and choosing alternatives such as fish, beans, or other plant based proteins more often. For people who continue eating red or processed meat, cutting back on portion size and frequency may help lower long term cancer risk and support overall health and longevity. Source: International Agency for Research on Cancer. IARC Monographs evaluate consumption of red meat and processed meat. World Health Organization.

The neurodivergent experience is talking about your brain as if it's a separate entity from your self

Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers. When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it. They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long. In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it. The flowers attract a standing army to our fields. We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.

The film has a 10-minute sex scene. The director made the actresses shoot it for 10 straight days. He made them redo a single 30-second street-crossing scene over 100 times before he was finally satisfied. The film won the biggest prize at Cannes for it. Four months later, both actresses said they would never work with him again. The film is Blue Is the Warmest Color, directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, starring Léa Seydoux (the actress from the last two James Bond films) and Adèle Exarchopoulos. In 2013, Steven Spielberg led the Cannes jury and gave the top prize to all three of them on the same stage, something the festival had never done before. The shoot was supposed to take two and a half months. It took twice as long. They shot 750 hours of footage to end up with a 3-hour film. After one of those takes, Seydoux laughed. Kechiche picked up his screen monitor and threw it into the street, screaming that he couldn't work under those conditions. For the long sex scene, the actresses wore fake body parts made from molds of their actual bodies. In May 2013, the French film crew union filed a complaint against the production. Workdays were running 16 hours but logged on timecards as 8. Overtime was unpaid, and multiple labor laws were broken. People had quit mid-shoot. By September, both actresses sat down with a reporter and called the atmosphere a form of harassment. Kechiche fired back with an open letter calling Seydoux an "arrogant, spoiled child" for criticizing him and threatened to take her to court for libel. The woman who wrote the graphic novel the film was based on, Julie Maroh, had already gone public. She called the sex scenes "porn" and said what was missing on the set was lesbians. By the time the film hit U.S. theaters that fall, none of the three Palme winners were speaking to each other. In 2017, Kechiche put his Palme d'Or trophy up for auction to fund his next movie. Its 2019 sequel premiered at Cannes with a 13-minute unsimulated oral sex scene. Audiences walked out in groups. Critics gave it a 0% score on Rotten Tomatoes. A source claimed the actors had been pressured to drink alcohol to finish. That October, a French actress went to the police and accused Kechiche of sexual assault. Paris prosecutors dropped the case in 2020 for lack of evidence. He denies the allegations. Hollywood was changing too. By October 2018, HBO required intimacy coordinators on every show with sex or nude scenes, people who protect actors during intimate filming. America's actors union released the first official rules for them in January 2020. The first union contract for intimacy coordinators in U.S. film and television took effect on February 22, 2026, three months ago. The clause Seydoux now writes into every contract, the right to approve which nude scenes stay in the final cut, has become standard practice for most lead actors.

adhd ruins my life everyday it pisses me off when people talk about it like some quirky personality trait. do you understand how horrific it is to know you have to get something done and your brain is on red alert screaming at you to do it but you just physically cant

Obsessed with how mad this British man is at the way people make their beds

Jonathan Bailey training for ‘JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH’