Can You Ski With a Torn ACL?

Can You Ski With a Torn ACL?

Skier Lindsey Vonn said she plans to still compete at the upcoming Milano Cortina Winter Olympics despite sustaining a serious knee injury about a week before her first race.  Vonn, 41, wrote in a Feb. 3 social media post that she “completely” ruptured the ACL, or anterior cruciate ligament, in her left knee after crashing…

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Will Salmon DNA Improve Your Skin? Here’s The Truth About PDRN, According to Experts

Will Salmon DNA Improve Your Skin? Here’s The Truth About PDRN, According to Experts

What are the benefits of using PDRN skincare? According to Dr. Vaidya, “Its benefits include improved skin healing and barrier repair, reduced inflammation, and enhanced hydration, all of which support healthier, more resilient skin.” It can also suppport skin elasticity, regeneration, and recovery as well as boost collagen. So, is it similar to snail mucin?…

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Morgan Buck Sees A.I. as a Rare Chance to Reimagine Creativity

Morgan Buck Sees A.I. as a Rare Chance to Reimagine Creativity

Morgan Buck, We’re the Only Winners, 2025. Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 31 inches. Photo: Mario Gallucci; Courtesy the artist and ILY2 These days, Morgan Buck doesn’t make paintings that look like paintings. With their airbrushed surfaces and grainy, digitized haze, his canvases look like screenshot shitposts pulled from the weirder corners of the internet—and…

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Carrie Underwood Breaks Down in Tears Over American Idol Contestant’s Song About String Cheese

Carrie Underwood Breaks Down in Tears Over American Idol Contestant’s Song About String Cheese

Carrie Underwood was blown away by one contestant’s story. In fact, the American Idol judge felt such a strong emotional connection to contestant Hannah Harper’s song “String Cheese,” about her personal experience with postpartum depression, that Carrie was left in tears. As for the song’s backstory? “I was sitting on my couch wallowing,” Hannah told…

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Larissa De Souza Builds Myth from Memory at Albertz Benda

Larissa De Souza Builds Myth from Memory at Albertz Benda

Installation view: “Larissa de Souza: Phenomenal” at Albertz Benda. Photo: Jason Mandella Art often finds people in the most unexpected ways: as an illumination, a call, or a sudden rediscovery of a symbolic world that has always existed within them. This is especially true for those who weren’t exposed to art early in life and…

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Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman Calls for Global Cooperation as Aid Funding Slumps

Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman Calls for Global Cooperation as Aid Funding Slumps

Mark Suzman warns that shrinking health budgets are already costing lives in the world’s poorest countries. Photo by Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for Semafor There’s no question it’s been a turbulent year for global health. Foreign aid has fallen by more than 25 percent, wealthy countries are making 11-figure cuts to health and development funding, and…

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Filmmakers Andreas Dalsgaard and Christoph Jörg Unpack the Art World’s Biggest Scandal

Filmmakers Andreas Dalsgaard and Christoph Jörg Unpack the Art World’s Biggest Scandal

‘The Oligarch and the Art Dealer’ traces the rise of an influential art dealer and the legal battle that reshaped conversations around transparency in the art world. Courtesy the Sundance Institute For more than a decade, a bitter feud between a Russian oligarch and a Swiss shipping tycoon-cum-art dealer has played out in courtrooms, magazines…

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