Nina Guilbeault.  The Good Eater: A Vegan’s Search for the Future of Food.  Bloomsbury, 2024. I did a back-cover blurb for this book: The Good Eater is a vegan sociologist’s remarkably open-minded exploration of the historical, ethical, health, environmental, and social justice implications of

Getting in shape for a role has been commonplace in Hollywood for a long time, particularly in recent years due to the wave of superhero movies. But while Reacher star Alan Ritchson doesn’t even play a superhero, he’s certainly built like one. For his role as Jack Reacher in the hit Prime Video

A press release from Stanford University announced: Twin research indicates that a vegan diet improves cardiovascular health. A Stanford Medicine-led trial of identical twins comparing vegan and omnivore diets found that a vegan diet improves overall cardiovascular health. In a study with 22

Anyone who has watched The Bear or Shameless knows that Jeremy Allen White has been in quite good shape for some time now. For his new role in the Oscar-buzzy A24 film The Iron Claw, however, White has to take things to a whole new level. In order to play Kerry Von Erich, the 32-year-old Allen had

Here are three announcements I received this week. I.  Pringles shoots for spider history.  The Kidney Garden Spider bears an uncanny resemblance to the Pringles logo – sparking a mission to get the arachnid community to officially recognise it as the Pringles Spider…. Read more II.  Milk cows