Author: Shekari Philemon

Even the most disciplined people have days when the last thing they want to do is exercise. That is not laziness. That is just being human. Research in behavioral science confirms that our resolve shifts constantly in response to sleep quality, stress levels, hormones and how heavy our workload feels on any given day. Waiting to feel motivated before lacing up your trainers is, unfortunately, a losing strategy. A 2018 review published in Perspectives on Psychological Science found that long-term behavior change relies far more heavily on habits and environment than on motivation or willpower alone. The people who exercise…

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show has officially entered the record books. More than 4 billion people around the world watched the Puerto Rican superstar perform, making it the most viewed halftime show in the history of the event and one of the most watched live musical performances ever recorded. The NFL, Roc Nation and Apple Music confirmed that the show drew 4.157 billion views within 24 hours of the performance. That figure spans the global live broadcast, YouTube replays and activity across social media platforms, painting a picture of a moment that transcended the game itself and landed on…

One of Hollywood’s most beloved awards nights has a new name, and the man leading the union behind it wants people to understand why. Sean Astin, president of SAG-AFTRA, recently addressed the decision to rebrand the Screen Actors Guild Awards as the Actor Awards, a change that has drawn attention from industry insiders and entertainment fans alike. The reasoning, as Astin laid it out, is more intuitive than it might first appear. The statuette handed to winners has always been called the Actor. Presenters have said the words “the Actor goes to” on that stage for 30 years. The trophy’s…

Amazon Web Services confirmed Tuesday that drone strikes had damaged three of its data center facilities in the Middle East, triggering widespread service disruptions that the company warned could take an extended period to resolve. It was the first time the company publicly acknowledged that its physical infrastructure had been directly struck in the ongoing regional conflict. Two facilities in the United Arab Emirates sustained direct hits, while a third site in Bahrain suffered infrastructure damage after a strike landed nearby. The company said customers across the region are experiencing elevated error rates and degraded service availability as a result,…

Apple kicked off a three-day product release stretch on Monday with the arrival of the iPhone 17e, its most accessible smartphone yet, paired with two refreshed iPad Air models. The announcements came ahead of a planned company event on March 4 and signal that Apple is leaning harder into value at a moment when consumers are watching every dollar. The iPhone 17e carries a starting price of 599 dollars with 256 gigabytes of storage, making it 200 dollars cheaper than the base iPhone 17. For shoppers who remember last year’s iPhone 16e, which launched at the same price but shipped…

Charles Barkley has told a lot of gambling stories over the years, and most of them do not end well. Losses in the tens of millions, six-figure setbacks in a single evening, a candid admission that the rush of the game has cost him more than most people will earn in a lifetime. So when a story surfaces about Barkley actually winning big, it tends to stand out. During a television appearance in 2014, Barkley described one of those rare triumphant nights, a blackjack session that ended with him walking away $700,000 richer. By any measure, that is an astonishing…

The military operation was swift and decisive. The economic consequences are proving far less predictable. In the hours following U.S. and Israeli strikes against Iran on Saturday, oil markets delivered an uncomfortable signal, with the main American crude benchmark opening Sunday night above $75 per barrel, a jump of more than 10 percent in the first trading session since the attacks took place. The strikes, which resulted in the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, triggered an immediate Iranian response targeting oil tankers moving through the Strait of Hormuz. That narrow waterway carries more than 20 percent of…

Long before Michael Jordan became the measuring stick by which every basketball player is judged, he was a supremely talented young guard on a mediocre Bulls team, watching the front office make decisions he did not always agree with. One of those decisions arrived during the 1985 offseason when Chicago acquired George Gervin from the San Antonio Spurs, and Jordan’s response to the news was as unambiguous as it was brief. He was unhappy. He said so himself, and he did not feel the need to elaborate further. Two scorers, one roster and no clear answer The acquisition of Gervin…

There are players who win games and players who elevate everyone around them. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, according to Julius Erving, was both at once. The NBA icon recently made a striking assertion about his longtime rival, suggesting that Abdul-Jabbar’s presence throughout his career was directly responsible for sending somewhere between eight and ten players to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. It is a remarkable claim, and it lands with even more weight coming from someone who spent years competing against Abdul-Jabbar on the sport’s biggest stages. A rivalry born on the grandest stage Erving and Abdul-Jabbar were two of…

A civil rape trial more than five decades in the making is now underway in Santa Monica, California, and the man at the center of it is nowhere to be found. Bill Cosby, once among the most beloved figures in American entertainment, will not appear in court as his accuser seeks justice for an alleged assault she says occurred in 1972. According to legal filings connected to the case, his absence is a deliberate choice rooted in indifference rather than circumstance. Donna Motsinger, now 84 years old, filed the lawsuit against Cosby and has pursued it with a resolve that…