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University of Texas researchers observed 240 study participants over the course of a month as some were selected to receive brief phone calls from volunteers, and published their findings in a JAMA Psychiatry study on Feb. 23. The calls, which were led by the participants, lasted about 10 minutes and were made two to five times per week, according to the frequency and time of day participants requested. According to the study, those who received calls reported nearly a 16 percent reduction in their feelings of loneliness....

“Huge achievements are much less likely than small wins, and if we wait for them to feel good about our work, most of us are going to suffer through vast deserts of tedium,” Teresa Amabile, a professor at Harvard Business School and co-author of The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work, recently told The New York Times. Instead, Amabile explained there’s an easy way to feel more accomplished and content with your life....

RELATED: Virus Experts Say If You Want a Booster, Don’t Do This Right Now. CVS started administering booster shots to all eligible recipients at more than 9,800 pharmacy locations in all 50 states on Oct. 22, according to its website. But the pharmacy is strongly urging anyone looking to get their booster at a participating CVS location to make an appointment beforehand. “Advanced scheduling is recommended for patients looking to receive a COVID-19 vaccine from a specific manufacturer to ensure that it is available at the clinic of their choice,” CVS explains in the frequently asked questions section of its website....

RELATED: If You Notice This at a Restaurant, Don’t Eat There, Virus Experts Warn. During an appearance on CBS’ Face the Nation on Nov. 28, Fauci warned that the latest spike in national infections could worsen in the coming weeks. “Well, we certainly have the potential to go into a fifth wave. And the fifth wave, or the magnitude of any increase, if you want to call it that it, will turn into a wave, will really be dependent upon what we do in the next few weeks to a couple of months,” he told host Margaret Brennan....

Most sporting events had to be postponed or take place without fans in 2020, but Fauci has high hopes for the summer—especially when it comes to the 2021 Major League Baseball (MLB) season, which is expected to start on April 1. When asked on Feb. 15 if he expects to be able to go to a MLB game this summer, Fauci told NBC, “I do, I can already taste that hot dog....

According to Fauci, there are three types of side effects that come along with a vaccine: immediate, intermediate, and long-term. And so far, the immediate side effects are the only ones he’s certain of. These can include “a little discomfort in the arm, a little swelling, maybe a little ache, [and] fever” for 24 hours. “The intermediate may be, you know, a few days later where you get a reaction—the way it has happened with other vaccines years and years ago, when there was Guillain-Barre associated with the pandemic flu vaccine,” Fauci explained....

A new study, which is set to be presented at a virtual event of The American College of Cardiology on May 17, found drinking more than two alcoholic beverages a day—or 14 drinks every week—can negatively impact your heart. Researchers obtained data from the Mass General Brigham Biobank health care survey of 53,065 people, with most of the participants over the age of 50 and nearly 60 percent were women....

1 Recent Day Was Milliseconds Shorter June 29, 2022 was 1.59 milliseconds shorter than the average day, scientist Leonid Zotov told CBS News. The normal length of a day is 24 hours, or 86,400 seconds. But in the past few years, the Earth’s rotation has picked up, trimming milliseconds off some days. “Since 2016 the Earth started to accelerate,” said Zotov, who published a study last March on what might be causing the changes in Earth’s rotation....

RELATED: Eating This One Thing Can Cut Your Cancer Risk in Half, New Study Says. A 2017 study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology analyzed how nut consumption could impact the risk of heart disease in terms of both cardiovascular disease and coronary heart disease, in particular. The researchers observed the nut consumption of more than 210,000 people for up to 32 years who had no signs of cancer, heart disease, or stroke at the beginning of the study....

Analyzing her skull and other remains, they created images of what she might have looked like while alive, the Daily Mail reports. Read on to find out how the scientists did it and their other surprising discovery about her life and death. 1 Who Was the Mysterious Lady? In the 1800s, the Mysterious Lady was discovered in royal tombs in northern Egypt. Scientists dated the body to the first century BC....

RELATED: The CDC Says These Are the “Least Safe” Places You’re Going Right Now. When asked whether it was premature for states to pull back on mask mandates, Fauci explained that the CDC’s recent revision wasn’t a green light for all areas to drop COVID precautions so suddenly. “It’s premature if you have a level of infection in the community that is really quite high,” he said. “If you pull back on masking, then you’re going to wind up having a danger of peaking again....

RELATED: UPS and FedEx Are Banning These Deliveries, Effective Immediately. FedEx is planning to test electric carts as a potential delivery method, CNBC reported on March 25. According to the news outlet, the company will use this method to make deliveries on its signature Express routes in 10 U.S. and Canadian cities throughout the year. The initiative has already started in two cities: New York and Toronto. But FedEx has yet to finalize what other cities will be added as part of the testing program in 2022....

1 Heavy Fish Questions were raised about Cominsky and Runyan’s victory over their fellow fisherman, which turned out to be justified: Every one of their fish had objects placed inside them to make them appear heavier, and the crowd was furious. Some threatened to call the police, as the pair might have cheated in other tournaments and unfairly won thousands of dollars. Keep reading to learn more and see the video....

A closed-circuit camera on a local farm caught hundreds of sheep walking in a clockwise motion inside their pen. Not all of the animals joined in at first, watching the action from the center of the flock before falling in line with the rest of the herd. Why might these sheep be plodding along without rest? Do other animals circle? Read on to find out more. Keep reading to learn more and see the video....

Read on to see what else the now 32-year-old star had to say and to find out how she’s doing today. READ THIS NEXT: Former Child Actor “Was in Danger” on Movie Set, Co-Star Admits. Panettiere got her start as a kid actor on the soap opera One Life to Live, and then moved on to another soap, Guiding Light, while also taking on movie roles. When the period sports film Remember the Titans, in which she plays a high school football coach’s daughter, was released, she was only 11 years old....

1 Trapped In a Sinkhole A mother and her teenage daughter had to be rescued on Monday when their Nissan fell into the sinkhole on Iverson road just south of the 118 Freeway, along with another pickup truck that fell on top of their car. The people in the pickup were able to safely exit their vehicle, but the mother and daughter were trapped. 2 Emergency Teams Respond The Los Angeles Fire Department, Los Angeles County Fire and Ventura Fire responded to the emergency and carefully extracted the mother and daughter from the sinkhole....

Buckingham Palace has announced Harry will attend Prince Philip’s funeral on Saturday but Meghan, who is pregnant with the couple’s second child, will remain in California on the advice of her doctors. Harry is reportedly flying to London on a private jet in the coming days after not having been in the U.K. since March 2020. Several royal experts have said that in going back to Britain for the funeral, Harry could start to repair the widening royal rift that was blown apart by the Sussexes’ interview....

However, when Queen Elizabeth died, the unexpected happened: Both Harry and Meghan reunited with the family, including King Charles, Prince William, and Kate Middleton at the funeral. Does this mean the couple will return to spend the holidays with Harry’s family? Unlikely, says a new report. Read to learn more—and to explore secrets of the Royal Family, don’t miss these The Biggest Royal Romance Scandals of All Time. 1 Harry and Meghan Are Allegedly “Unlikely to Attend”...

Though Almost Famous was released in 2000, early in his career, Fugit still feels close to the movie, telling Interview in 2016, “I love watching that film. There’s so much of that film that I did on purpose because we’d prepared it, but there’s also so much of that film that’s just naturally coming out of me as a 16-year-old in that time and in those circumstances.” Read on to learn what the former child actor has done since touring the country with Stillwater....

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