Good Men

By news aktuell Bremervörde (Germany) – From autonomous driving to advanced safety technologies – the innovations presented at the IAA Mobility captivate car enthusiasts. However, one key comfort factor is often overlooked: the car seat. To meet the demand for ergonomic design, the production has become increasingly complex – up to 12 percent of a car’s development costs are attributable to the seat. “But not every seat advertised as back-friendly, actually is,” says Detlef Detjen, Managing Director of Aktion Gesunder Rücken (AGR) e. V. (Campaign for Healthier Backs). With its internationally respected seal of approval, the German organization offers guidance for back-…

During the live-streamed JUJUTSU KAISEN 5th Anniversary Special, the first teaser trailer for JUJUTSU KAISEN Season 3 was shared, which also announced that it will air in January 2026. Here it is! – Also referred to as JUJUTSU KAISEN The Culling Game, it has been decided that Crunchyroll will stream the third season of the hit anime series exclusively worldwide, excluding Asia, with new episodes premiering weekly, same-day as Japan. Seen in the teaser trailer is Yuji Itadori in conflict and despair after believing he has killed many people from the “Shibuya Incident.” Also shown is a fierce battle between Yuji and Yuta Okkotsu, the main protagonist from the fi…

By Jessica Scott-Reid The advice to eat less beef and more chicken has become a common refrain — at least in certain climate circles. Proponents point to beef’s outsized emissions and chicken’s comparatively smaller carbon footprint, arguing chicken is much better for the planet. Some regenerative chicken farms are capitalizing on that advice: one New York City restaurant, Coqodaq, is charging $42 per person for a bucket of regenerative chicken (and sides). Regenerative farmers say the way they farm is better, for both the environment and the birds, but research suggests there are tradeoffs. A switch from factory farmed chicken to chicken from higher welfare and more env…

Matbucha will blow you away with its bold, savory, and smoky flavors! This Moroccan dish combines cooked-down tomatoes, roasted red bell peppers, and garlic with spices to create a thick, jam-like dip that pairs well with a variety of dishes. A Note From Kristen The first time I tested a matbucha recipe, I was blown away by how bold and flavorful it turned out. It takes a little patience to make, but it is absolutely worth it as the whole kitchen fills with the most incredible aroma while it simmers. Over time, I’ve created my own version that hits that perfect sweet, smoky and spicy balance. It is one of those dishes that proves you do not need a long list of ingredient…

By Peter Dizikes | MIT News In World War II, Britain was fighting for its survival against German aerial bombardment. Yet Britain was importing dyes from Germany at the same time. This sounds curious, to put it mildly. How can two countries at war with each other also be trading goods? Examples of this abound, actually. Britain also traded with its enemies for almost all of World War I. India and Pakistan conducted trade with each other during the First Kashmir War, from 1947 to 1949, and during the India-Pakistan War of 1965. Croatia and then-Yugoslavia traded with each other while fighting in 1992. “States do in fact trade with their enemies during wars,” says MIT po…

By Kelly Malcom While the grip of the opioid epidemic is loosening, thanks in part to extensive public health efforts and rescue medications like Narcan, deaths from accidental overdose still threaten those who use synthetic opioids like fentanyl. The drug is increasingly mixed with other potent substances, including animal tranquilizers such as xylazine, making it even more dangerous. States across the country, including Michigan, are seeing a drastic increase in xylazine-involved fatalities, according to a report from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. However, very little is known about how the sedative, which is not approved for human use and cau…

By Frida Garza, Grist “This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” Not long ago, Guillermina ran into a coworker at her doctor’s office. The two women work together at a McDonald’s near San Jose, California. When Guillermina asked what her coworker was doing at the doctor, she responded that she’d been feeling ill, adding, “You know how hot it gets in the kitchen.” Guillermina understood. She is the shift manager at McDonald’s, and has worked in fast food for 22 years. The air-conditioning in her building is old, she said, and isn’t designed for the scorching summer temperatures experienced today. Last year, the employees …

In episode 20 of the Roadmap to Secure Love podcast, Kim and Kyle unpack a topic that is essential: vulnerability in committed relationships. Prompted by a listener’s request, they explore the challenges men face in embracing vulnerability, particularly when societal messages and past experiences label emotional openness as unattractive. Vulnerability in committed relationships is far from weakness; it is the bridge to authentic connection, the foundation of emotional safety, and the gateway to secure intimacy. However, vulnerability can lose its allure when a relationship becomes one-sided, slipping into an unbalanced caretaking dynamic. Similarly, suppressing emotions …

By John P. Ruehl This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Home to almost 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies, Delaware’s reputation as America’s “corporate capital” has faced challenges in recent years. Tesla’s and SpaceX’s high-profile exits to Texas in 2024 highlighted other cracks in Delaware’s seamless relationship with large corporations, compounded by other states jockeying to attract businesses. Delaware’s government has launched a legislative charm offensive in response, passing several amendments in March 2025, which have eased restrictions on insider deals and reinforced the state’s commitments to low taxes an…

By Leo Babauta One of the questions I get asked a lot is how to choose what to do. It seems like a simple question, but for most people, it’s actually not simple at all. In fact, it’s an overwhelming question! What gets in the way: A thousand things on my list A never-ending pile of emails and messages to answer A thousand browser tabs open Ten thousand things to do in my daily life (finances, cooking, shopping, cleaning, etc.) Interruptions and new demands on my time Things never go according to plan Projects, books, courses, and more that are waiting for me to start (or continue) them As you can see, it’s not so simple to choose. No wonder people get stuck on the q…

By Deyatima Ghosh Crows and other corvids exhibit remarkable intelligence — including tool use, problem-solving, memory and even social awareness — challenging long-held assumptions that such cognitive abilities are exclusive to humans or primates. Scientific research and experiments, some inspired by popular fables about clever crows, show that these birds understand cause and effect, plan for the future, and adapt their behavior based on context, environment and who’s watching. Urban crows thrive due to cognitive flexibility, as shown in an ongoing experimental project in India, which highlights their strategic foraging, memory and ability to learn and adapt in huma…

We all like to imagine that we are rational adults, capable of handling our affairs with poise and firmness. Yet when it comes to ending a relationship, many of us suddenly resemble timid interns trying to tell the boss we accidentally erased the company’s entire financial database. We know we want out, we fantasize about escape routes, and yet the moment of truth keeps slipping away. There we are, holding our breath, inventing new deadlines like “after the holidays,” “after their birthday,” or “after my next reincarnation.” The great paradox is that we are often less afraid of a lifetime of mediocrity than of one single hour of sobbing, wailing, and tissue pyramids. …

‘Jurassic World: Rebirth’ Is out now on Digital I have enjoyed all of the Jurassic World movies. Each one has told an action packed story and taken audiences of all ages on an intense journey. When news of a new Jurassic World film came out, like many I wasn’t sure if it would be good or not. Yet it ended up being way better than I expected it to be and took me on a pretty thrilling ride. I was able to get a digital copy of this sequel and here is what I thought of it. (c) Universal Pictures Home Entertainment You can read the plot for this movie here: A new era is born. A covert extraction team races to the most dangerous place on Earth, an island research facility wh…

Some places are therapeutic, meaning they bring out the best in people; others bring out the worst. If you need an example of those that consistently bring out the worst, think of a maximum-security prison, a busy highway, the cafeteria of a middle school, or the parents’ bleachers at a basketball game. I wish I could give you a list of settings that consistently bring out the best in people, but I can’t. A home, a marriage, a gathering of friends, a workplace, or a church are all places that could be therapeutic but often aren’t. If you want to enjoy the therapeutic properties of a well-functioning place, you either have to be very lucky to find yourself in one, or you…

Most people who are reading have never met me in person, and will likely never meet me in person. But on first impression and interacting with me in a professional or casual setting, many people think of me as a “chill guy.” My voice does not ever give off a ton of emotion, and I speak at a slow pace. I never show getting rattled by a crisis, no matter how severe (despite internally being bothered or rattled). My wife says that on first impression, I sounded like a Californian surfer dude who did not have a care in the world. A lot of people who have interviewed me or have not known me for a long time have described me as “soft spoken” and “quiet”, which is likely what o…

When Sylvester Magee died in 1971, he was thought to have been the last living person to have endured enslavement in the United States. Magee was born in 1841 to enslaved people Ephraim and Jeanette, who worked on the J.J. Shanks plantation. There were few aspects of slavery he didn’t experience. In a wide-ranging interview he gave in 1969, he discussed times he was whipped, sold multiple times, separated from his family, and forced to serve in both the Confederate and Union armies. There are questions about some of the stories he told later in life, including his age, which was purported to be 130 when he passed. Civil War historians say his account of the Battle of Vic…

A recent paper by six Apple scientists, “The Illusion of Thinking”, has sparked significant debate in the tech community. The work challenges the ability of current language models to perform complex reasoning, arguing that despite appearing to engage in sophisticated thought processes, these models collapse when faced with more complex tasks. Using well-known classical mathematical puzzles like The Tower of Hanoi, River Crossing, Conway’s Soldiers or Blocks World, the researchers observed that model accuracy drops drastically as problem difficulty increases, sometimes falling to zero and therefore of no use. This phenomenon raises a fundamental question: what do we mea…

 In this episode of Championship Leadership, we are excited to have with us Luke Mickelson, Executive Director of Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc. – a non-profit organization dedicated to building, assembling and delivering top-notch bunk beds to children and families in need. Luke shares a moving story of how the organization started and what made him decide to finally focus on his passion of helping and quit his job. With his strong desire to reach out and provide more kids with its own bed, Luke Mickelson was able to influence not just his kids but other people to volunteer and be a part of something bigger than them. Ten years later, the organization has grown and eve…

My favorite BLT is a sandwich. My second favorite is behavioral loss tolerance. We’ve discussed before that each of us has a “willingness, ability, and need” to take on risk. More specifically, your need and ability for risk are objective and numerical. Your need to take risk relates to the amount of objective investment growth required to meet your financial goals. Your ability to take risk is based on your capacity to withstand or recover from losses (either temporary or permanent). Whereas need is a function of required growth, ability is a function of recovery from loss. But your willingness to take on risk is subjective and a matter of feelings and psychology. I…

By Wiley Reading Depression is a drag. Everyone who has it experiences it differently, but we all agree that it sucks. Sometimes, however, I wonder if people who don’t have it understand – like really truly understand – just how overwhelmingly painful it is. For example, while it seems that people most commonly use the term to express fleeting feelings of sadness or disappointment, depression is actually a chronic physical illness with symptoms that are mostly invisible. And although we’ve come a long way in our ability to treat it, we still don’t really know what causes it or why treatments work and don’t work. It’s an exasperating disease to live with because being…

“Colleen,” says my friend. “I know you want to go this alone. But you may need to consider meeting someone and getting married again one day.” “Nope,” I say. “I want to be my own hero.” My friend is a wonderful guy. We are catching up over coffee. We haven’t seen each other in years. His advice stems from a place of concern. His background is in finance. He’s also one of the guys I foolishly turned down when I was young. He knows my situation is dire. He understands my financially abusive divorce. It was. But I don’t want a man to rescue me financially. It’s one part — I want to be my own hero. And it’s one part — my children need to see a strong example. A mother …

Papa was a headbanger. No, I didn’t call my father Papa, but when I wrote “Dad was a headbanger,” the Temptations song Papa was a Rolling Stone popped into my head. I needed to change what I wrote. Of course, Suzy is a Headbanger by the Ramones could have just as easily sprung up in my brain. Then I would have had to write “Jerry is a Headbanger.” Sheesh, it’s hard to get started on this story. Regardless, Papa, Dad, Jerry, he was a headbanger. And by headbanger, I don’t mean a metalhead with goth tattoos and long, greasy locks he tossed in time with Sabbath or Metallica or Napalm Death. I mean he banged his head on shit. All the time. From my earliest memories, I knew …

Forever Forward In 2017, while sitting in a Love Beyond Walls meeting, I received several back-to-back phone calls from one of my older sisters, Tasha. When I didn’t pick up, she sent a text message I read her text over and over again, hoping that it did not say what I had just read. I stepped out of the meeting and called my sister back. “I just received a phone call that said Tyrone has just had a stroke, and it is not looking good,” she said. “Tyrone was on the phone with one of his friends named Red, and Red believed that he was having a stroke right then.” Tyrone, my father, was being rushed to the emergency room at Grady Hospital, the very same hospital where …

During COVID, I had a client who was a germaphobe. He said to me, “I’ve been preparing for this my whole life.” Being prepared made it much easier for him to comply with hand-washing and mask wearing. He actually had less anxiety then, not more. I wish I could say the same about the rising fascism in the United States. Being prepared hasn’t made dealing with encroaching fascism any easier for me. The need to fight once again to maintain freedom and Democracy, something supposed to be embedded in our founding and Constitution, is cause for highly increased anxiety, not less. All my clients feel that anxiety now. Like my client during the pandemic, I’ve prepared for the…

Sapira Cahana is a New York-based mental health counsellor (MHC-LP) at Authentically Living Psychological Services and is an interfaith chaplain-in-training specializing in existential and relational therapy. In this interview, Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Cahana explore the nuances of loneliness, aloneness, and relational identity. Cahana emphasizes that absolute aloneness does not exist—human beings are always born into relational contexts and networks of meaning. Loneliness, she explains, arises when subjectivity is denied, echoing thinkers like Simone de Beauvoir, Julia Kristeva, and bell hooks. Together they discuss solitude, dissociation, trauma, spiritual framings …