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Singing has been linked to numerous benefits for health, wellbeing, disease resistance, and recovery from injury, but when singing in a group, these benefits are seen to be superior to those seen in solo singers. The research, though not new, still makes for a pretty darn good reason to join a caroling group or church […] The post Singing with Other People Improves Health More Than Singing Alone appeared first on Good News Network.

News Supergirl The First Supergirl Trailer Is… Odd Don’t hurt the dog!!! Even though he’s CGI. By Molly Templeton | Published on December 11, 2025 Screenshot: DC Studios Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: DC Studios Our introduction to the latest version of Kara Zor-El came at the end of Superman, where she stumbled into the Fortress of Solitude to reclaim her feisty pet. Kara gets her own movie next summer, and we finally have our first look at it—and an odd look it is. This Kara (Milly Alcock) is walking the Jessica Jones/Yelena Belova/comic-book-Carol Danvers path of being a messy drinker (can we not find any other way to let superheroic women be prickly?) with an attitude. She did see her whole world get destroyed, so the attitude is certainly justified. When she meets a young girl on a quest for vengeance, she seems to find something to do with her super-life. Or, as the synopsis puts it: “When an unexpected and ruthless adversary strikes too close to home, Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, reluctantly joins forces with an unlikely companion on an epic, interstellar journey of vengeance and justice.” Supergirl seems to be following its source material quite closely. The movie is based on the comic series Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King and Bilquis Everly, in which Kara reluctantly teams up with Ruthye Marye Knoll (played here by Eve Ridley) whose father has been murdered by a fellow named Krem of the Yellow Hills (played by Matthias Schoenaerts). But there are a few beats outside the comic, including the brief appearance of Lobo (Jason Momoa), who you will literally miss if you blink. The movie also stars David Krumholtz (as Zor-El) and Emily Beecham (as Alura In-Ze). And what a strange movie it looks to be: Spunky and rebellious in character, but visually brown and dark. The use of Blondie’s “Call Me” is entirely in keeping with James Gunn’s DC universe, but it fits neither the visual vibe nor the overall tone. This trailer is one big mash-up that doesn’t quite land—though Alcock seems delightful. Supergirl is directed by Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya; Cruella) from a screenplay by Ana Nogueira (The Vampire Diaries, The Blacklist). It’s in theaters June 26, 2026.[end-mark] The post The First <i>Supergirl</i> Trailer Is… Odd appeared first on Reactor.

Books Horror Highlights Ancient Gods and Arachnids: Horror Highlights for December 2025 Add a little horror to your holiday reading list! By Emily C. Hughes | Published on December 11, 2025 Comment 0 Share New Share While December is a slow month for publishing as a whole, and especially for horror publishing, you’d be a fool not to keep an eye on the month’s new books, lest they sneak up behind you in a dark alley. Here are five I’m particularly excited about. Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher (Dec 1, 47north) Any new T. Kingfisher horror book pole-vaults to the top of my TBR pile (I like her fantasy very much as well, but horror always takes priority). This novella follows Selena, a woman fleeing a bad living situation for her late aunt’s desert home. Along with her dog, Copper, Selena starts to adapt to desert life—meeting her neighbors, making friends, and adjusting to a completely new ecosystem. But there’s something watching from the underbrush: an ancient god known as Snake-Eater. And it wants something from Selena—something her aunt promised it. One thing Kingfisher does especially well is writing the natural world in a way that’s reverent but not overly romantic—I loved her descriptions of the Appalachian woods in The Twisted Ones, and I can’t wait to see what she does with a whole new biome here. Plus, as with most Kingfisher novels, readers can expect an exceedingly charming cast of characters and a very, very good dog. Down Came the Spiders by Ally Russell (Dec 2, Scholastic) Now that I’m an adult, I have a healthy respect for spiders, even if I’d prefer they keep their distance. As a kid, however, I was significantly less chill about anything with eight legs. Andi, a spider-obsessed sixth grader, goes to a party hoping to get a good look at the host’s dad’s spider collection—and she gets way more than she bargained for. Soon, Andi and her friends are trying desperately to evade a veritable spider invasion, and the adults are nowhere to be found. It’s up to Andi to untangle this web. Nobody’s writing better horror for middle grade readers than Russell, and this one’s perfect for arachnophobes and -philes of all ages. Dark Sisters by Kristi DeMeester (Dec 9, St. Martin’s) DeMeester’s fiction is often concerned with forces that constrain women’s lives, and that’s certainly the case with her third novel. Dark Sisters is told across three timelines: in 1750, Anne, a healer fleeing accusations of witchcraft, starts a small settlement deep in the forest around a powerful, ancient tree. In the 1950s, Anne’s descendant Mary feels trapped in her existence as a housewife until she meets a woman who brings her to life again. And in 2007, Mary’s granddaughter Camilla, only daughter of the strict town preacher, is determined to unravel the mysterious power controlling the town—one that’s tied to the ancient tree at its heart. If you’re a fan of religious horror, feminist horror, cults, and/or witches, this one’s for you.  Midnight Somewhere by Johnny Compton (Dec 9, Blackstone) I consider it a gift when an author I like releases a short story collection—it’s like a tasting menu of the inside of their brain (not to torture a metaphor or anything). Compton’s 2023 debut novel The Spite House haunted me, and so I’m eagerly anticipating Midnight Somewhere, which features twenty one stories that span genres and themes. Of note: “The Merge Monster Incident: One Year Later,” about a roller coaster that comes to life and disappears with all its riders still aboard; “I Caught a Ghost in My Eye,” about, well, a haunted eye; and  “Doctor Bad Eyes is at the Top of the Stairs Again,” about a mother facing down the ghost who keeps scaring her kids. The Writhing, Verdant End by Corey Farrenkopf, Tiffany Morris, & Eric Raglin (Dec 9, Cursed Morsels) All three of these authors are making a name for themselves in the ecohorror space—Morris’ Green Fuse Burning, Farrenkopf’s Haunted Ecologies, and Raglin’s Extinction Hymns all come highly recommended (to you, by me). This volume contains new novellas from Farrenkopf and Raglin and several new short stories from Morris: tales of kudzu cities, unholy mutations, birds, bees, the Flower Man, and a birding vacation that glimmers with the promise of resurrecting an extinct species—at great cost. It never gets easier choosing just a few books to highlight from the many released each month—to see the full list of December’s new horror books and beyond, head over to my website.[end-mark] News and Notes The 2026 new horror list: The 2026 horror list is live! Head over to Read Jump Scares to start building your TBR for next year—we’ll have new books from Paul Tremblay, Ronald Malfi, Bethany C. Morrow, Gemma Amor, Monika Kim, V. Castro, Catriona Ward, Clay McLeod Chapman, Sarah Gailey, Nick Cutter, Daniel Kraus, Eric LaRocca, CJ Leede, Mónica Ojeda, Nat Cassidy, Adam Nevill, Philip Fracassi, Gwendolyn Kiste, Kylie Lee Baker, Cynthia Pelayo, and so many more. As always, I’ll keep updating the list throughout the year (many titles for fall and winter 2026 haven’t quite been announced yet at this point), and if you see that I’ve missed something, please tell me about it here! The year in horror: I picked my three favorites of the year for Talking Scared’s year-end State of the Horror Nation episode, and now I want to know: what were the best horror books you read in 2025? The post Ancient Gods and Arachnids: Horror Highlights for December 2025 appeared first on Reactor.

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Wikipedia is “Wokepedia,” complains Elon Musk. That’s because it’s become so left-wing. “It’s designed to push an ideological agenda that you can’t see,” says journalist Ashley Rindsberg in my new video. He runs “Neutral Point of View,” a Substack publication that exposes Wikipedia bias. “So what if it’s biased?” I ask. “It’s just one website.” “Wikipedia’s information spreads into everything online,” he replies, “ChatGPT, ... Siri, Alexa. Ask a question, it is all Wikipedia.” As a result, “a few thousand powerful editors determine what gets counted as information.” Those editors sure hate President Donald Trump. When he put undocumented immigrants in what people called “cages” at detention centers, Wikipedia editors listed the centers under “concentration camps.” Since Wikipedia says, “anyone can edit,” I tried to put that in perspective, adding, “President Obama built these cages.” Within a day, my edit was taken down. “Wikipedia has definitely been taken over by woke activists,” says Rindsberg. An editor of my page even posts pictures of Lenin and Che on his website profile! To make sure the content stays leftist, Wikipedia labels conservative media “unreliable.” Editors should not cite Fox News, The Federalist, The Daily Wire, the New York Post ... By contrast, Wikipedia labels CNN, and even MSNBC, VOX, Slate, The Nation, and Mother Jones, “reliable.” That’s nuts. Fox sometimes gets things wrong, but MSN and Slate don’t?  Another example: After years of leftist media labeling the claim that COVID leaked from a lab a “conspiracy theory,” most eventually acknowledged on the new evidence.      “COVID-19 likely originated from a laboratory leak in Wuhan, China,” summarized the “Today” show. But Wikipedia still says there’s “no evidence supporting laboratory involvement.” My own Wikipedia page is filled with not just mistakes but smears. Wikipedia editors make me look cruel. They claim that when I anchored “20/20,” I complained that AIDS research gets “too much funding.” But all I’d said was that AIDS research gets disproportionate funding compared to other diseases -- diseases that kill more people. Former President Bill Clinton said the same thing: “We’re spending 10 times as much per fatality on people with AIDS!” They don’t trash him, just me. Wikipedia’s socialists sure hate libertarians. It’s not fair. “There’s no recourse, there’s no accountability,” says Rindsberg. “Nobody for you to talk to and say, ‘This is wrong.’ If this was a news organization, there would be an avenue or a channel for you to at least address it. In Wikipedia’s case, that is not true.” At least things may be changing now, because there are new options, like SciencePedia and Justapedia, covering science and law. “Justapedia,” says Rindsberg, “was founded by a veteran Wikipedia editor who couldn’t handle the left-wing bias. ... This is exactly what we need ... people to be able to choose among different sources, so we’re not all forced into the Wikipedia information funnel.” Most importantly, since he has an extraordinary track record of success, is Elon Musk’s Grokipedia. It’s new and AI, so it makes mistakes, but Grok currently leads AI intelligence tests. When it comes to topics I checked out, such as the probable origins of COVID, and my page, Grokipedia does better. “Is there any way to fix Wikipedia?” I ask Rindsberg. “The best chance we have is for dedicated people who are really interested in these topics to get in there and become an editor that can make those kinds of changes. We only need a few dozen, maybe even fewer, to make an impact ... If enough people say ... ‘I’m going to give it a go.’ ... they actually can make an impact. The question is, are enough people going to take that leap?” I hope you who read this column will! Every Tuesday at JohnStossel.com, Stossel posts a new video about the battle between government and freedom. He is the author of “Government Gone Wild: Exposing the Truth Behind the Headlines.”