@thelolgic.bsky.socialA 61 year old grandmother of 12 held a plank for 5 straight hours at the Huntsman World Senior Games in Utah on Oct. 6.
DonnaJean Wilde’s current Guinness World Record is 4 hours, 30 minutes and 11 seconds.
Guinness is now reviewing the new record attempt.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialHistorians have long treated Elizabeth Gaskell as a gossip after her 1857 Brontë biography led to a public retraction.
Brontë specialist Graham Watson says that admission was false and that she was a whistleblower silenced by those she tried to expose.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialYou cannot see it from shore, but a warm Pacific Kelvin wave is raising West Coast sea level by around 6 to 12 inches.
NC State’s Dillon Amaya says even 2 to 4 inches can double flood risk in low-lying areas as the super El Niño reaches the Americas.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialThe Clean Label Project tested 100 top selling cat foods bought at retail and found lead in 99% of samples.
Fish based foods had about 18 times more mercury than other proteins.
Author Molly Hamilton says contaminants may accumulate over a cat’s lifetime.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialDwarf crocodiles in Gabon's Abanda Caves can be bright orange.
Matt Shirley suspects acidic bat guano tanned their skin.
They eat fallen bats and are genetically separate from forest crocs.
Elsewhere, tens of thousands are shipped for food each year.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialNo one knew marine mammals could spread rabies. Now it's moving through Cape fur seals in South Africa.
More than 100 cases confirmed since 2024. Sequencing traced it to jackals and dates its entry to around 2015.
No transmission to humans has been reported.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialHBO Max and Paramount+ are expected to merge after Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery closed a $110 billion merger as Skydance on October 6.
It has nearly $80 billion in net debt, aims to rival Disney & Netflix, and will make at least 30 films a year.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialNicolas Cage told Fan Expo Dallas the MCU is becoming "a well funded and glorified WWE" and wants it to stop cutting to the fight.
He praised Spider-Noir as a detective story with a mystery. Prime Video did not renew it. Cage called its one season "perfect."
@thelolgic.bsky.socialFossilized beaks suggest a 60 foot octopus, longer than a city bus, may have been a top Cretaceous predator.
Hokkaido University's Yasuhiro Iba says beak wear indicates bites through shells and possibly bone.
Another paleontologist calls the size quite extreme.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialAvengers: Endgame is the highest-grossing film ever again.
Its Encore re-release lifted it to $2.9255B worldwide, just ahead of Avatar at $2.9237B.
Avatar held the record for a decade before Endgame took it in 2019.
Avengers: Doomsday arrives December 18.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialAnne Hathaway says if Scarlett Johansson wants a brunette sidekick in Jurassic World, she is completely down.
She told Good Morning Britain she loves being in movies & maybe she could bring her dino knowledge to the franchise.
Nothing would make her happier
@thelolgic.bsky.socialParamount & Warner Bros. Discovery will become one company called Skydance when their $111 billion deal closes October 6
CEO David Ellison named it after his original film production company so both studios stay in the spotlight
Ynon Kreiz will co-lead
@thelolgic.bsky.socialJim Carrey has married his girlfriend of several years, Min Ah, in a small private ceremony in Los Angeles.
His representative confirmed it.
It is his third marriage. At the César Awards in Paris, he called her his "sublime companion" in a French speech.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialNo one knows if Angola's ghost elephants left and returned, or were always there, hiding.
They move mostly at night and avoid people.
Stanford's Katie Solari says they are genetically distinct and most similar to elephants in Namibia, hundreds of miles south.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialPygoscelis kerguelensis looks like every other gentoo, yet its DNA says it is a species of its own. It lives on the Kerguelen Islands and is the first new penguin species named in over 100 years.
UC Berkeley and Chilean biologists found four gentoo species.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialOver half of US adults take supplements.
Herbal and dietary supplements are linked to 20% of US drug induced liver injury, up to 43% in some analyses.
Among transplant list patients with drug induced liver failure, supplement related cases rose from 1% to 7%.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialSpider-Man: Brand New Day is getting a theatrical re-release featuring extra unreleased footage.
The new cut of Destin Daniel Cretton's $2.495B blockbuster includes Rosario Dawson's previously cut scenes as Claire Temple.
No official release date is announced.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialSleeping eight hours doesn't guarantee full recovery.
Penn State's Orfeu Buxton says the brain needs cortisol to drop and the parasympathetic system to activate, something
Stanford's Anna Lembke says constant digital stimulation and artificial light disrupt.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialUp to 12% of women may have lipedema, a painful fat disorder often mistaken for obesity.
First described in the 1940s, it still has no blood test or cure, though University of Virginia researchers are now developing MRI tools for a real diagnostic standard.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialHistory's first named author was a woman.
Around 2300 BC, Mesopotamian princess Enheduanna wrote powerful hymns to Inanna, goddess of love & war, to reclaim power after a rebel leader forced her into exile & scribes copied her words for centuries after.
