I Spent a Week As My Friend’s Facelift Nurse. Here’s What No One Tells You.

Even hours of FaceliftTok couldn't prepare me for 400 stitches, 30 staples, pounds of ice, and a little spiraling (mostly ...
Illinois Entertainer

Cover Story: The Church • A Warm Cocoon

I mean, I did the art, but I can’t take any credit for the deck.” The Church has also kept up with the post-Patreon/pandemic ...
Discover Wildlife

18 ridiculous animal body parts that don’t make any sense (until you learn why...)

Discover the origin and purpose of the structures of living things, from why baboons have swollen bottoms to the ...
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Rectal Cancer Battle Diary [Episode 13] "It's just the IV now" — The day I slowly returned to daily life from being a patient

The day began with the usual morning vital check. Body temperature 36.2 degrees Celsius. Blood pressure is good. Blood sugar level is good. Everything is stable again today. For a while after the ...
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Hysterectomy Diary Part 12: Meeting My Uterus and Fibroids in Photos (Post-Op Edition)

Around noon, the incision on my abdomen started to hurt. It wasn't a sharp, throbbing pain, but more of a heavy, pulsing ache. I took the Loxonin I had been given beforehand, but it didn't work. I was ...
SciELO

Foreign Cloth, Local Habits: Clothing, Regalia, and the Art of Conversion in the Early Modern Kingdom of Kongo

From their king’s decision to embrace Catholicism at the turn of the sixteenth century to the advent of imperial colonialism in the late eighteen hundreds, the men and women of the central African ...