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| People are finding John Morales’ genuine empathy refreshing, and very much needed. |
| Venerated meteorologist John Morales couldn’t help but get choked up during his report on the potentially devastating impact of Hurricane Milton closing in on Florida—a mere two weeks after being pummeled by Hurricane Helene. |
| “It’s just an incredible, incredible, incredible hurricane,” Morales began, the weather forecast map almost completely in red. |
| Tears welled up in his eyes as Morales tried to notify viewers that “it has dropped 50 millibars in 10 hours.” |
| To most of us, those wouldn’t mean anything. But the anguish in Morales’s voice says it all. |
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| Tears all around. |
| There are lots of great singers out there, but only a small handful can rightfully be listed among the greatest vocalists of all time. Icons like Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Mariah Carey and Céline Dion earned their place on that list long ago, and Kelly Clarkson has made a strong case for herself ever since she came to fame as the first “American Idol” winner in 2002. |
| Clarkson has serious pipes, there’s no question about it. That woman can sing her face off, and she just seems to be getting better and better year by year. |
| Céline Dion apparently agrees. In a heartfelt video shared on social media, Dion enthusiastically praised Clarkson’s performance of “My Heart Will Go On” before sharing the video of it from “The Kelly Clarkson Show.” |
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| We were lied to. |
| If you grew up in the 70s or 80s, there was one rule: |
| No metal in the microwave! |
| None. Nada. Don’t do it, ever, under any conditions. If you put metal in the microwave, it would spark and explode. That was how science worked back then. |
| So you can imagine the surprise that Gen Xers and millennials who might have been browsing Reddit this week are feeling. |
| A Reddit user recently shared a confusing warning label on their microwave, seemingly encouraging them to leave a (presumably) metal spoon in any liquids while heating. |
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| This is heaven for some of us. |
| Not all bookworms are introverts and not all introverts are bookworms, but it’s probably safe to say there’s significant overlap between the two. And while some introverted bookworms might enjoy a traditional book club where everyone reads the same book and discusses it at length, others might not. For some, that much forced talking isn’t desirable, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they don’t want some kind of social experience connecting them to other readers. |
| There’s an ideal solution for those folks—the silent book club. |
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