Dr. Uma Naidoo, a nutritional psychiatrist, says the sugar found in many comfort foods hits our brains in the same pleasure center as street drugs do. But that's not the only reason we find comfort in such treasured dishes; there is also warm-and-fuzzy nostalgia.

I decided to embark on a perilous mission: watching every new made-for-TV movie — all 24 of them — in the Hallmark Channel's annual "Countdown to Christmas" lineup. Sure, millions of people do this annually, but I am not the Hallmark Channel’s key demographic. For me, a 40-year-old heterosexual male, this experiment would be my most daring act of Gonzo journalism.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A towering first-stage booster for an upgraded version of SpaceX's Starship rocket suffered a predawn testing failure in Texas on ​Friday, potentially complicating the company's push to prove the rocket's moon-landing abilities ‌for NASA, according to observers who captured it on video. Elon Musk's SpaceX had rolled the stainless steel booster out to ‌a testing pad on Thursday at the company's Starbase rocket facilities, saying it intended to test its redesigned propellant