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Daisy Edgar-Jones stars as Kate Cooper, a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. She is lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi to test a groundbreaking [Read More]

New research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Education and Human Sciences shows that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and acute stress disorder (ASD) diagnoses have risen significantly in American college students since 2017. Published in JAMA Network Open, researchers studied more than 392,000 college students from 2017-2022. The rates of PTSD [Read More]

Back-to-school can be an exciting – and overwhelming – time for both kids and parents. The sun-filled days of summer shift into the scheduled school days of fall, often with new routines, new teachers, and new classmates. Mornings before school can be hectic and stressful, especially at the beginning of [Read More]

The National Center on Health, Physical Activity, and Disability at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has now marked 25 years of pioneering inclusive health promotion and wellness programs for people with disabilities. “Inclusion in health promotion is a fundamental human right, much like the impact of curb cuts, ramps and accessible bathrooms decades [Read More]

Starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, Fly Me To The Moon is a sharp, stylish comedy-drama set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon landing. Brought in to fix NASA’s public image, sparks fly in all directions as marketing maven Kelly Jones (Johansson) wreaks havoc on launch director Cole Davis’s (Tatum) already difficult task. When the White House deems the mission too important to fail, Jones is directed to stage a fake moon landing as back-up and the countdown [Read More]

You’ve seen birds in your backyard or at the local park. Now you can become a young ornithologist and learn all about the scientific study of birds. Author, birder and outdoors researcher Erika Zambello presents a kids’ introduction to birding. This children’s book, ideal for early and middle-grade readers, conveys [Read More]

On July 23, 2018, Katie Talley Dawson, suffered from a rare and unpreventable birth complication known as an Amniotic Fluid Embolism (AFE) during the birth of her daughter. Her life was unexpectedly threatened on what should have been one of the most joyous times of her young life. The doctors [Read More]

Summer is here, and families are getting ready to go on summer vacations. Many will be hitting the water. Whether that’s by boating, swimming in a community pool, or spending quality time at a beach or lake. It’s important, however, to remember that summer safety is more than just re-applying [Read More]

In the first Despicable Me movie in seven years, Gru, the world’s favorite supervillain-turned-Anti-Villain League-agent, returns for an exciting, bold new era of Minions mayhem in Illumination’s Despicable Me 4. Gru, Lucy, Margo, Edith, and Agnes welcome a new member to the family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting [Read More]

Felicitations! Enjoy the graduation festivities and cherish the memories of your child’s K-12 educational experiences. Hopefully by now you have survived the U.S. Department of Education’s (“ED”) new and “simplified” Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) experience. Was it more stressful than simple? Have you received an Award Letter [Read More]