Heide Brandes

1 week ago | eatingwell.com | Heide Brandes

Just this week and last week, we saw patients as young as 16 years old [being diagnosed with colorectal cancer]," said Pashtoon Kasi, M.D., medical director of gastrointestinal oncology at City of Hope, Orange County. "It was a challenging conversation." Just a few years ago, this would have been an anomaly, a case study for medical journals. Now, it's becoming disturbingly common. Colorectal cancer was once considered a disease that primarily affected those in their 60s and beyond.

1 week ago | beerconnoisseur.com | Heide Brandes

The sun was setting over the Okavango Delta, painting the sky in shades of amber and gold, when a family of elephants emerged from the tall grass at the edge of our small island camp. I froze, a drink suspended halfway to my lips, as the matriarch led her clan toward the water. A baby elephant, no higher than my waist and sheltered between two adults, swung its tiny trunk in perfect mimicry of its elders. “Don’t move,” whispered our guide Shoos. “They know we’re here.

1 week ago | chron.com | Heide Brandes

In the heart of downtown Macon, Georgia, blues vocalist EG Kight leans into the microphone at Capricorn Sound Studios. "This is history in Georgia," she said between takes. "This is where Macon made a name for itself in music."The studio looks almost identical to when Duane and Gregg Allman laid down tracks here in the early 1970s. The vintage soundproofing still lines the walls, the same wood paneling remains, even that distinctive studio smell lingers.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Heide Brandes

6 hours agoNigel Farage plans to visit Scotland in the coming months as Reform UK ramps up its election campaign. The party had huge success in Thursday's local elections in England, gaining more than 600 seats and winning control of 10 local authorities, while also winning the Westminster by-election for …

2 weeks ago | okl.coop | Heide Brandes

Cherokee Nation’s mission to preserve cultural crops The passionflower vine twists skyward, its alien-like purple blooms unfurling like cosmic dancers against the Oklahoma sky. Nearby, a battalion of purple coneflowers stands sentinel, their spiny orange centers surrounded by lavender petals drooping toward the earth.