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  • Who ‘saved’ Jimmy Kimmel’s life?

    Who ‘saved’ Jimmy Kimmel’s life?

    Jimmy Kimmel credits ex-girlfriend for ‘saving’ life

    Jimmy Kimmel dated Sarah Silverman from 2002 to 2009. Now, as she appeared on his late-night show, the host credited him for “saving” his life.

    It was a reference to when he faced a shocking health scare. “Remember when your appendix burst?” the 54-year-old asked him. “Remember when your head swelled?”

    The 57-year-old, in reply, said, “You saved my life that day. You really did. We went to the hospital, and they were not treating it.”

    In response, the I Smile Back star said, “I do remember going, like, full Shirley MacLaine from Terms of Endearment. I went bananas. I’ve never seen anyone in more pain.”

    Jimmy, meanwhile, remembered his time at the hospital. “They put me in a little office, you remember? Not for me, but because there are HEPA situations where, if somebody takes a picture of me lying on the ground in a waiting room at the ER, they’re in trouble.”

    “But, they put me in a little office and then they did not come back for hours,” he continued, “Yeah, you never know when the appendix is going to burst, and no one was coming in.”

    “I do remember you got very assertive with them. I was, like, ‘Thank God.’ And you know what? I went to work the next day.”

    The late-night host previously shared that it took a while as they became friends again after parting ways.

    “I would say that it took some time, definitely. It was never like where we didn’t like each other, hated each other or anything like that,” he said on Watch What Happens Life With Andy Cohen in 2019. “It definitely took some time to be comfortable enough to be friends again.”

    In the meantime, Jimmy married Molly McNearney in 2013. They share two children.


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  • Chewable Flu Medications : Chews Cold & Flu

    Chewable Flu Medications : Chews Cold & Flu

    Mucinex Children’s has introduced an innovative solution to pediatric medication administration with its new Mighty Chews Cold & Flu line. The brand maintains that this is the first chewable over-the-counter medicine specifically formulated for children’s cold and flu symptoms. The product is offered in both daytime and nighttime versions.

    Mucinex Children’s Mighty Chews Cold & Flu formula addresses a universal parenting challenge by transforming traditional liquid medications into convenient, pre-dosed chewable tablets. The daytime version targets fever, cough, headache, sore throat, and body aches, while the nighttime formula additionally addresses runny nose and sneezing. Both versions feature a mixed berry flavor designed to improve palatability.

    Mucinex Children’s Mighty Chews Cold & Flu line is backed by Reckitt’s extensive research and development efforts.

    Image Credit: Mucinex Children

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  • Frozen in Time: The Hidden Trick That Keeps Human Eggs Alive for Decades – SciTechDaily

    1. Frozen in Time: The Hidden Trick That Keeps Human Eggs Alive for Decades  SciTechDaily
    2. Human eggs don’t accumulate as many mutations with age as we thought  New Scientist
    3. New Research Reveals Egg Cells Have a “Fountain of Youth” for DNA  ShiaWaves
    4. Women’s egg cells shield DNA from the effects of aging  Earth.com
    5. Human eggs are protected from age-related genetic mutations, mtDNA study finds  Medical Xpress

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  • Edible Mushroom Research Revealed New Flavors

    Edible Mushroom Research Revealed New Flavors

    The history of flavor research in the United States dates back to the first half of the 20th century — though a look at the USDA’s website reveals that a lot of that early research focused on fruits, vegetables and meat. Those aren’t the only things found in nature that humans eat, though, and research into the world of edible fungi like mushrooms is helping to expand scientists’ knowlege of what flavors are possible.

    A paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry helps to demonstrate what this research can reveal — and how much we have left to learn. The paper’s authors write that “[a]lthough numerous mushrooms taste bitter, the corresponding substances and receptors are unexplored.” The work described in this paper sought to reveal more about how the brain processes these under-represented flavors.

    What did they learn? “Mushroom bitter compounds may be among the most potent natural bitter substances,” they conclude — and call for more research into the connections between mushroom flavors and our sense of taste.

    The paper also works to dispel one myth surrounding the taste of mushrooms: that their levels of bitterness correspond to toxicity. “From a biological perspective, it may seem somewhat odd that the mushrooms analyzed here are considered extremely bitter-tasting but not poisonous and thus edible,” the authors write. They also note that the accurately-named death cap mushrooms reportedly taste far better than some of their edible counterparts.

    In an article for Scientific American, K.R. Callaway expanded on some of the researchers’ findings. This goes beyond simply learning more about how the body processes mushrooms as food. The University of Miami’s Nirupa Chaudhari cited the relationship between taste and insulin as one area where this resarch could help improve our overall health as well.

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  • West Indies level ODI series with Pakistan as Chase stars – France 24

    1. West Indies level ODI series with Pakistan as Chase stars  France 24
    2. WI opt to bowl in bid to level series; Pakistan make three changes  ESPNcricinfo
    3. All-round West Indies bag series-levelling victory  PCB
    4. West Indies vs Pakistan 2nd ODI Live Score Updates  NDTV Sports
    5. Hasan Nawaz sparks Pakistan to 5-wicket ODI win over West Indies  Dawn

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  • Doctor Says He Sacrificed His 20s To Build Wealth — Now He’s Asking Other ‘Rich’ Men If Marriage Is Worth the Risk When She Makes Less Money

    Doctor Says He Sacrificed His 20s To Build Wealth — Now He’s Asking Other ‘Rich’ Men If Marriage Is Worth the Risk When She Makes Less Money

    If you’ve ever spent your 20s pulling all-nighters, racking up student debt, and delaying every ounce of fun in the name of “the grind,” you’ll probably relate to one doctor’s dilemma.

    After years of sacrifice, delayed gratification, and living on hospital coffee, he finally made it. He’s wealthy. He owns a home just outside a high-cost-of-living area. He drives the same car he had in residency. And now, he’s thinking about getting married. But there’s a catch.

    As he explained in a post on the Rich subreddit, he spent “the best years of his life in medical training,” and now he’s wondering if tying the knot is financially wise—especially since, statistically, his future wife will likely earn less than he does. If things don’t work out, he asked, what would that mean for his wealth? Could everything he built during his youth—while his peers were partying and traveling—end up divided?

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    “Statistically, my future wife would make less income,” he wrote, “so if it doesn’t work out, what’s my outlook financially?”

    The responses poured in, and they weren’t just from armchair philosophers. Many had the net worth—and experience—to back up their opinions.

    One Redditor, also wealthy and in his thirties, put it simply: “Marriage only really works if you’re both all in… the best protection you can have in marriage isn’t a prenup, it’s choosing a wife that values you and making sure you always value your wife.”

    Another added that fears of “giving half your money away” are missing the full picture. “If your spouse makes sacrifices in their life to ensure that you reach your earning potential… they are adding immense value to your life.” He noted his own experience as a stay-at-home partner while his spouse advanced professionally, calling it a mutually beneficial trade-off, not a financial liability.

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    Some responses were more blunt. “People who don’t get married for fear of losing money are straight up pathetic,” one user wrote. Another pointed out, “Most wealthy people are married. They have all this money, and they make it work. Only the poor and the middle class talk about marriage like it is financial doom.”

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  • Australia's Santos extends due diligence deadline for $18.7 billion ADNOC-led offer – Reuters

    1. Australia’s Santos extends due diligence deadline for $18.7 billion ADNOC-led offer  Reuters
    2. The $36b Santos deal (brought to you by Stephen Conroy)  AFR
    3. Santos takeover not in national interest, Beach Energy declares  The Australian
    4. Ryan Stokes recruits ‘agent of infection’ before Santos fight  AFR
    5. Santos smells a rat: the unseen hand in the $36.4b game  AFR

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  • Thai creative legend with a smile that lit up the industry – Campaign Brief

    Thai creative legend with a smile that lit up the industry – Campaign Brief

    August 11 2025, 8:38 am | BY Ricki Green | No Comments

    The global creative industry is mourning the loss of one of its most respected and loved creative leaders. Sompat Trisadikun, Chief Creative Officer at Grey Thailand, passed away suddenly yesterday following a heart attack. Sompat was well known to the Australian industry and was a regular international awards judge – he most recently was in Sydney as a judge for the 2025 AWARD Awards.

     

    Sompat — known affectionately by his Thai nickname “Khae” — was a legend of the Thai advertising industry, highly respected and warmly liked by peers across the Asian ad world.

    In addition to being an inspirational creative powerhouse, Sompat was a fun, charismatic presence who lit up any room with his smile. Always ready with encouragement, advice, and help, he was generous with his time and genuinely invested in the success of others. Meeting him at the many ad festivals in Thailand and around the world was always a joy and a lot of fun.

    Sompat built a strong creative reputation in Asia’s creative community, amassing more than 800 international and regional awards, including Cannes Lions, D&AD, One Show, Clio Awards, London International Awards and AdFest and Spikes Asia. At this year’s Cannes Lions, he led the Grey Thailand team to win a Gold, Silver, and Bronze Lion.

    He was frequently invited to judge at major global advertising shows, serving three times as a Cannes Lions jury member. In 2020, he was named in Adweek’s Creative 100 list and placed first in the ECD Rankings by Best Ads on TV.

    Before joining Grey Thailand, Sompat spent more two decades at Leo Burnett Thailand, joining in 2003 and rising to Chief Creative Officer in 2012. Under his leadership, the agency became one of the global network’s shining lights.

    Vale Sompat ‘Khae’ Trisadikun: Thai creative legend with a smile that lit up the industry

    Former Global Chief Creative Officer Mark Tutssel shared this note with Campaign Brief Asia last night, alongside this photo (above) from Cannes Lions 2007:

    “I remember this day like it was yesterday, the pride I felt standing on the steps of the Palais des Festivals at Cannes Lions 2007 after Sompat and team won their first two Cannes Gold Lions for Clima Bicycle Locks. This brilliant visual masterpiece went on the win at D&AD and was the most awarded print ad and campaign in the world in 2007. The first of many world-class pieces of work to originate from Leo Burnett Bangkok.

    “I had the privilege and pleasure of working with Sompat for decades. He was a prolific creative talent. A wonderful, kind, generous human being. He radiated sunshine and his dedication to his craft was second to none. Funny, insightful, curious, open and humble. He passionately believed in a strong culture and put people & creativity at the heart of everything he did. The industry has sadly lost one of the true greats.”

    Singapore-based creative director Chris Chiu (below, 2nd on left) is a close friend and former Leo Burnett Bangkok and Asia work colleague and he penned this tribute:

    “Although I worked with K for 2 years in the mid-2000s in Leo Burnett Bangkok, we have continually been in touch for the last 20 years. Easily enough when we were attending Leo Burnett GPCs around the region and the world, but just as easily whenever we happened to be judging at the same shows or made little stopovers in our respective countries. His friendship was fiercely loyal, and that’s what I will greatly miss.

    “Effortless is also how I would best describe him. Effortless in bringing optimism, enthusiasm, and creative talent, obviously. But perhaps most of all, effortless in bringing joy. In the office and out of it, where there was K, there was fun and laughter.

    “Thai creativity is well established and thoroughly deserves all the plaudits. And in that market, K will forever be amongst the names that have continued to represent all that is wonderful — for his agencies and his nation. Rest in peace, dear friend.”

    Vale Sompat ‘Khae’ Trisadikun: Thai creative legend with a smile that lit up the industry
    Vale Sompat ‘Khae’ Trisadikun: Thai creative legend with a smile that lit up the industry

    And fellow Thai creative legend Jureeporn Thaidumrong (pictured above, middle) has penned this tribute on Facebook to Sompat, who left Leo Burnett Thailand two years ago to join her agency GREY nJ United Thailand and replace her in the CCO role as she stepped back from day to day duties at the agency.

    Said Thaidumrong: “I’ve known P’Khae for such a long time. We started out in advertising as creatives in the same generation, beginning our careers at the same time and walking this long advertising path together.

    “He was both a friend and a competitor, with a working style completely opposite to mine. While I was intense, dedicated, serious, stern, stressed, strong, fierce, and head-on, P’Khae was easygoing, kind, always smiling, polite, understanding, and empathetic — always surrounded by people who wanted to be close to him. And he’s been like this ever since I’ve known him.

    “He was like a racehorse — full of experience, passion, and joy for every competition, every field — and great at playing as part of a team. Whether competing in the world’s biggest arenas or small domestic events, he was a leader filled with compassion and kindness, and also an outstanding team player with great ability and perseverance.

    “He was a good, talented person whom everyone loved and wanted to be around. He had a magnetic pull that brought people together and inspired so much to be said about him.

    A little over two years ago, when we were sitting and talking at House 20, we touched hands with joy and warmth. We both felt lucky to have followed the career path we loved. And secretly, I was thankful for the good fortune of having P’Khae step into my place at the company. I knew he would bring happiness, smiles, and comfort to everyone at GREY nJ UNITED, as well as to everyone in GREY Global and WPP.

    “I was also quietly pleased that I had succeeded right to the last moment — to hand over my “child,” the company, into P’Khae’s warm hands. And he did the job flawlessly — even better than when I was in charge.

    “This loss is too great to put into words right now. But what P’Khae has left for all of us is love, compassion for fellow human beings, and goodness in body, mind, and speech. He embodied desire, diligence, focus, and discernment — qualities that brought him success in life and the joy of pursuing his craft with intensity in every breath.

    “P’Khae was the real deal in the advertising world — an icon loved by everyone. I respect you from the bottom of my heart. May you rest in a place of happiness, P’Khae. P.S. I’m sure your son is so very proud of his father.”

    Sompat’s passing is terribly sad. It leaves a profound void in the Thai industry he helped shape. He will be remembered not only for his creative achievements and leadership but for the warmth, humour, humanity, friendship and fun he brought to everyone he met.

    RIP Sompat.

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  • Study on Mice Suggests Nose-Picking Has a Surprising Link With Alzheimer’s : ScienceAlert

    Study on Mice Suggests Nose-Picking Has a Surprising Link With Alzheimer’s : ScienceAlert

    A study published in 2022 found a tenuous but plausible link between picking your nose and an increased risk of developing dementia.

    In cases where picking at your nose causes internal tissue damage, critical species of bacteria have a clearer path to the brain, which responds to their presence in ways that resemble signs of Alzheimer’s disease.

    There are numerous caveats here, not the least of which is that the supporting research so far is in mice rather than humans, but the findings are definitely worth further investigation – and could improve our understanding of how Alzheimer’s disease starts, which remains something of a mystery.

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    A team of researchers led by scientists from Griffith University in Australia ran tests with a bacterium called Chlamydia pneumoniae, which can infect humans and cause pneumonia.

    The bacteria has also been discovered in the majority of human brains affected by late-onset dementia.

    It was demonstrated that in mice, the bacteria could travel up the olfactory nerve (joining the nasal cavity and the brain). What’s more, when there was damage to the nasal epithelium (the thin tissue along the roof of the nasal cavity), nerve infections got worse.

    This led to the mouse brains depositing more of the amyloid-beta protein – a protein which is released in response to infections. Plaques (or clumps) of this protein are also found in significant concentrations in people with Alzheimer’s disease.

    Illustration of amyloid-beta protein plaques, in orange. (NIH/Flickr/PD)

    “We’re the first to show that Chlamydia pneumoniae can go directly up the nose and into the brain where it can set off pathologies that look like Alzheimer’s disease,” said neuroscientist James St John from Griffith University in Australia back in October 2022, when the study was released.

    “We saw this happen in a mouse model, and the evidence is potentially scary for humans as well.”

    The scientists were surprised by the speed at which C. pneumoniae took hold in the central nervous system of the mice, with infection happening within 24 to 72 hours. It’s thought that bacteria and viruses see the nose as a quick route to the brain.

    While it’s not certain that the effects will be the same in humans, or even that amyloid-beta plaques are a cause of Alzheimer’s, it’s nevertheless important to follow up promising leads in the fight to understand this common neurodegenerative condition.

    “We need to do this study in humans and confirm whether the same pathway operates in the same way,” said St John.

    “It’s research that has been proposed by many people, but not yet completed. What we do know is that these same bacteria are present in humans, but we haven’t worked out how they get there.”

    Nose picking isn’t exactly a rare thing. In fact, it’s possible as many as 9 out of 10 people do it… not to mention a bunch of other species (some a little more adept than others). While the benefits aren’t clear, studies like this one should give us pause before picking.

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    Nose picking: not just a habit for small children. (Jupi Lu/Pixabay)

    Future studies into the same processes in humans are planned – but until then, St John and his colleagues suggest that picking your nose and plucking your nose hair are “not a good idea” because of the potential damage it does to protective nose tissue.

    One outstanding question that the team will be looking to answer is whether or not the increased amyloid-beta protein deposits are a natural, healthy immune response that can be reversed when the infection is fought off.

    Alzheimer’s is an incredibly complicated disease, as is clear from the sheer number of studies into it and the many different angles scientists are taking in trying to understand it – but each piece of research brings us a little bit closer to finding a way to stop it.

    “Once you get over 65 years old, your risk factor goes right up, but we’re looking at other causes as well, because it’s not just age – it is environmental exposure as well,” said St John.

    “And we think that bacteria and viruses are critical.”

    The research was published in Scientific Reports.

    A version of this article was first published in November 2022.

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  • Kylie Jenner enjoys therapeutic birthday amid Timothee Chalamet split buzz

    Kylie Jenner enjoys therapeutic birthday amid Timothee Chalamet split buzz

    Kylie Jenner celebrates 28th birthday with wellness day amid Timothee Chalamet breakup speculations

    Kylie Jenner is relishing in therapeutic activities on turning 28.

    Kylie Jenner enjoys therapeutic birthday amid Timothee Chalamet split buzz

    The Kylie Cosmetics founder began with a daytime celebration on Sunday, packed with group art therapy and an IV drip stop.

    “Art for my birthday hahah,” the beauty mogul wrote on one of the snaps she shared via Instagram Stories.

    By the look of the pictures, the whole group appeared to be working around the same theme, painting a sun with their own face inside it.

    Kylie Jenner enjoys therapeutic birthday amid Timothee Chalamet split buzz

    The outdoor setup was kept vibrant and summery with sunflowers, umbrellas, and long benches for the group to sit together.

    For the daytime celebration, the mom-of-two dressed in a black ruffled crop top with lace details, a pair of low-waist blue jeans, black slippers, and a belt.

    Kylie Jenner enjoys therapeutic birthday amid Timothee Chalamet split buzz

    The Kardashians star later changed into a cosy brown set to undergo an IV drip treatment and enjoy her meal, which came with a surprise birthday tribute in what appeared to be ketchup.

    The reality star also posted a nostalgic moment from her childhood in a separate Instagram post, writing “happy birthday to meeee.”

    Birthday tributes piled up from her mother and all her sisters, including Kendall Jenner, as well as Kim, Khloe, and Kourtney Kardashian.

    However, notably absent was her actor boyfriend Timothée Chalamet, who posted a motivational snap on social media but made no public mention of Jenner’s big day.

    Speculations of a breakup have already been going strong as the couple hasn’t been seen together for a month. Only a few days ago, Jenner revealed via Instagram Stories that she was listening to breakup songs on repeat.

    The couple have been romantically linked since early 2023 and have made several PDA-packed public appearances at awards shows earlier this year. 


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