Patrick Mahomes’ helmet has been the talk of the town. Why? In the Chiefs vs. Dolphins showdown, he had broken his helmet. If it weren’t for the helmet, it could lead to some serious damage for the player. Concussions would become much more frequent. So, how much does a QB helmet cost? And what goes into making one? Moreover, helmets right now are pretty good at protecting players. But as technology advances, we’re sure to come up with better helmets that could make concussions a thing of the past.

When Sabrina Carpenter released her fifth studio album “Emails I Can’t Send,” she knew it could be a career-defining album, or the worst mistake of her life. “I just hid and went into this hole of a shelter for a year, and then I was like, ‘I’m gonna put it out,’” Carpenter tells Variety, chuckling to herself.

From mass-market candy to high literature. The 50th-anniversary reissue of Valley of the Dolls has prompted a flood of celebrations of Jacqueline Susann’s supposedly disposable chronicle of pill-popping. One reason for that novel’s enduring popularity? Its status as an all-time-great Beach Read. That’s a slippery category, but the formula is pretty straightforward. Whether mass-market candy or high literature, a beach read needs narrative momentum, a transporting sense of place, and, ideally, a touch of the sordid.

Vincent van Gogh This article is more than 7 years oldVan Gogh 'cut off his ear after learning brother was to marry'This article is more than 7 years oldNew research casts doubt on popular theory that painter took razor to his ear after row with fellow artist Paul Gauguin It is the most famous act of self-mutilation in the history of art, but the exact motivation – love? Jealousy? Rage? – for Vincent van Gogh’s decision to cut off his ear has remained unknown for more than a century.

MountaineeringObituaryDoug Scott obituaryFirst Englishman to climb Everest who dedicated his later years to Buddhism and helping the people of Nepal Doug Scott, who has died aged 79 from cancer, was the first Englishman to climb Everest, but it was what happened afterwards that made him famous in the mountaineering world. Scott and his Scottish partner, Dougal Haston, were part of Chris Bonington’s 1975 expedition to climb Everest the “hard way”, via the south-west face.