How to get over your post-Olympics blues
Here's what to binge next.
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Everyone’s asking “what am I going to watch now that the Olympics are over?”. If this is you, please find a Bravo fan near you. Next, grab them by the shoulders, SHAKE THEM and demand they solve your existential crisis with a prescription for Season 15 of the Real Housewives of New York (the convincing won’t take very long). It starts on October 1, which leaves you ample time to watch seasons 1 - 10 (we don’t talk about seasons 11 - 13; season 14 you’ll need to watch as a primer) and calm your Paris 2024 withdrawal symptoms.
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We all scream for p-ice cream: Consider pairing your RHONY binge (if you’re in New York) with maybe the best invention since sliced bread: reverse cherry pie ice cream. Here’s how creative duo Maddie Nehlen and Erin Forden came up with the recipe for their brand, Betty Jo’s.
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Stonehenge might be 5,000 years old, but we’re still getting to know it. The prehistoric landmark was for the past century thought to have been built with rocks from just England and Wales, but a new discovery shows the site’s Altar Stone, which is at the center of the creation, was actually brought over from Scotland. That means Stonehenge is made up of rocks from all Great British nations. One of the researchers behind this discovery, Professor Nick Pearce, told the BBC: “Neolithic people must have been pretty well connected, far more connected than people give them credit for. They must have been very well organised.”
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“Is there something special about the structure of the nerve endings in the penis and the clitoris and the way they ultimately convey electrical messages to the brain?” asks David Linden, a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University, who explores what biology has to say about why and how certain parts of our genitals became “ground zero” of sexual sensation.
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San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora will be hosting Black Art Week in the city from October 1 - 6. Monetta White, the museum’s executive director, tells the New York Times why now is the time.
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These comics from McSweeney’s Shebani Rao perfectly convey what our plants are dying to tell us as they wilt in the summer heat (your snake plant might look alive and well, but she’s tired of holding it together).
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A note to end on: With Minnesota firmly in the headlines thanks to Governor Tim Walz, here’s a well-rounded soundtrack featuring musical legends from the state (and those paying tribute to it), from Prince to Janet Jackson.
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Isabel :)
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