Since the early 1970s, Stratton’s family has been nurturing evangelical Christian talent from its home base in Taylors, South Carolina. The museum has booked Logos for two more shows in 2025, including a yet-to-be-named adaptation of a C.S. Lewis novel. (Ritzel, The Washington Post)
Read MoreCoca-Cola solely used artificial intelligence to generate this year’s Christmas advert instead of casting a person to play Santa Claus. The 15-second recreation of its famous “Holidays are Coming” ad is the fizzy drink brand’s first extensive use of generative AI in a television Christmas campaign. (Montgomery, The Telegraph)
Read MoreThe study, published on Thursday in The Lancet, reveals the striking rise of obesity rates nationwide since 1990 — when just over half of adults were overweight or obese — and shows how more people are becoming overweight or obese at younger ages than in the past. (Agrawal, The New York Times)
Read MorePreliminary data shows roughly 97,000 fatal overdoses over a 12-month period. That's down roughly 14.5% from a year earlier. Public health officials say the drop translates into more than 16,000 lives saved and marks the lowest level of drug deaths in nearly four years. (Mann, NPR)
Read MoreHundreds of posters depicting several Jewish faculty members as "wanted" were spread across the University of Rochester campus in upstate New York over the weekend, university officials said. (Marbury & Nguyen, USA Today)
Read MoreMultiplying the power of pop celebrity for a good cause, Do They Know It’s Christmas? by Band Aid was recorded on November 25, 1984, and released just two weeks later. It became a runaway sensation, a number one single for three weeks that raised £8 million in its first year towards combating famine in Ethiopia. (McCormick, The Telegraph)
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