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Jane Powell, Golden Age star in 'Royal Wedding,' dead at 92

Explore More Jane Powell has died at the age of 92, leaving the pool of surviving stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age even smaller. Susan Granger, a family friend of Powell’s, confirmed to Deadline that she died peacefully on Thursday at her home in Wilton, Connecticut. Powell was born Suzanne Lorraine Burce in 1929 in Portland, Oregon. She was married five times and had three children and two granddaughters. Her last husband, actor and publicist Dickie Moore, died in 2015.

No, genetically modified pet fish are not going to wreak ecological havoc

In 2003, a flashy little fish swam into the U.S. market, becoming the newest fad — and the newest controversy — among U.S. aquarium enthusiasts. GloFish, as they’re called, are fish that have been genetically modified by scientists into fancier, more colorful versions of themselves by using genes snatched from other organisms, such as sea anemones. These “transgenes” — genes taken from one organism and inserted into another — code for fluorescent proteins, which are what put the “glow” in “GloFish.

Tami Roman Weight Loss: Why Is She So Skinny? Does She Have Body Dysmorphia?

Let’s take a look at “Tami Roman Weight Loss: Why Is She So Skinny?” Famous from Basketball Wives After receiving criticism from her followers for being excessively thin, Tami Roman has become more upfront about her health. In Mount Vernon, New York, Tamisha Akbar was given the name Tami Roman. She is a model, entrepreneur, rapper, and television personality who gained notoriety as a result of her appearances on the MTV reality series The Real World: Los Angeles.

The moment great white shark attacks kayaker

Explore More In a terrifying scene straight out of “Jaws,” a kayaker is seen attacked by a great white shark in California’s Monterey Bay. The newly released video shows diving instructor Brian Correiar paddling March 18 when the shark struck his 14-foot kayak. “I heard a loud bang as my kayak and I flew into the air. I landed outside my boat, look back to it and to my horror saw a large great white shark no more than three feet away had my kayak in its mouth,” Correiar wrote in a blog post,the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

The mystery of parenting teen girls is Untangled with author Lisa Damour

Damour takes the confusing, infuriating, and sometimes even frightening behavior of teenage girls and breaks it down into what’s normal (almost all of it) and what to worry about (not as much as you think). Untangled puts sassy backtalk, the ups and downs of friendships, baffling emotional upheaval, and much, much more into a the clear context of seven necessary transitions that teens must undergo on the way to adulthood. In other words, it’s probably a good thing that your daughter’s personality and interests seem to have changed dramatically, and Damour explains exactly why.