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“…Creating — whether it be through art, music, cooking, quilting, sewing, drawing, photography (or) cake decorating — is beneficial to us in a number of important ways,” says Catherine Carey Levisay, a clinical neuropsychologist and wife of Craftsy.com CEO John Levisay. Levisay isn’t just referring to physical benefits reaped from crafting — e.g., what a  neat sweater! — but cognitive and neural benefits that might even battle societal scourges like depression and dementia. An article recently published by CNN explains that while few studies have focused on crafting specifically, researchers are beginning to see parallels between the benefits of doing crossword puzzles,...

Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell in “Groundhog Day.”Sony When weatherman Phil Connors (played by Bill Murray) travels to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to cover the Groundhog Day festivities, he is assured the incoming blizzard will miss the town. The blizzard does not miss the town, burying the community in snow and halting all outward bound travel. Related Groundhog Day 2023: Phil predicts 6 more weeks of winter Connors goes to bed that night, and awakens the next morning trapped in a pesky time loop. Over and over he lives out the same day — binge eating, causing chaos and getting to know...

Ukrainian soldiers prepare a U.S.-supplied M777 howitzer to fire at Russian positions in Kherson region, Ukraine, Jan. 9, 2023.Libkos via Associated Perss I preface these remarks with a mea culpa: I did not oppose George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq. I was not a gung-ho supporter, but my position was that the “official intelligence” indicated hidden weapons of mass destruction. This was long before the days when the term “official intelligence” became an instant trigger for justified skepticism. If the intel was correct, I reasoned, there would be a national interest rationale for securing and destroying those weapons.Of course, in hindsight,...

AMD's Ryzen 7000X3D gaming-focused processors finally have a release date - or rather, two release dates. The Ryzen 9 7900X3D and 7950X3D will debut on February 28th, with the 7800X3D arriving on April 6th. AMD announced prices for its new CPUs too, with the eight-core 7800X3D at $449, the 12-core 7900X3D at $599 and the 16-core 7950X3D at $699. For context, the original eight, 12 and 16-core Ryzen 7000 models have MSRPs of $399, $549 and $699, respectively, so this is at most a $50 premium in terms of MSRP - although of course retail prices have dropped significantly since...

Movies are a medium that plays with your emotions -- for better and for worse. When they're not scaring you out of your skin, most films try to 'woo' you with romance. Human connections form the central basis for most big screen outings, and more often than not, filmmakers want to leave viewers with some form of a happily ever after -- but not always.Like in real life, some relationships are more complex, nuanced, fractured, and frayed than any third-act resolution can adequately resolve. Our interactions with those we love are frequently messy and not always guaranteed to end well....