WEIRD FACTS
These holiday mainstays are potent fire hazards. By Alexandra Pattillo – A single spark from a broken string of lights or a jumping flame from a fireplace can transform Christmas trees from magical decorations into raging infernos. The holidays are a notoriously bad …
By Bridget Borgobello – Canadian entrepreneurs Mike Medicoff and Damien Vince have created a toothpaste that comes in the form of a tablet. Change Toothpaste. – In order to combat the hundreds of millions of empty toothpaste tubes that are destined for landfills …
Food trends are far more political — and economically motivated — than it seems. By Martin Cohen and Frédéric Leroy – If you were to believe newspapers and dietary advice leaflets, you’d probably think that doctors and nutritionists are the people guiding us …
By Kim Komando – Special to USA TODAY – Image courtesy Forbes.Com. The scene plays out like a thriller: You pull out your phone, and you see an ad for AirPods. Wait a minute, you think. Didn’t I just have a conversation about …
By Sandee LaMotte, CNN – Nepali Buddhist nuns practise kung fu at the Amitabha Drukpa Nunnery on the outskirts of Kathmandu. – (CNN) Blades swirl around their bodies, coming perilously close to piercing flesh. Swords flashing in the morning sun, the young women …
No harm done this time, but it’s an ominous occurrence. By Scotty Hendricks, 17 December 2019 – Photo by Soumil Kumar from Pexels. Late last week, the city of New Orleans was hit by a ransomware attack. Government offices were able to avoid …
By Mike Hanlon – The winner of the Peninsula Classics 2019 Best of the Best Award will be decided by a panel of 25 well-qualified judges, ranging from collectors to automotive designers. Drawing its contestants from the winners of eight elite Concours events …
Beloved cartoons, which had been retired for 24 years without any official internet presence, now have an archive site with new work in the pipeline. By Alison Flood – Tue 17 Dec 2019 – Well, they’re back … Gary Larson’s TheFarSide.com. Illustration: Gary …
We’re about to kick off the sixth great extinction event. And we’ll follow shortly after. By Philip Perry – – Easter Island moai statues with heads visible in quarry Rano Raraku Like any other system, capitalism has its positive and negative qualities. Inarguably, …
By Rich Haridy – An injunction temporarily blocks enforcement of the Arkansas law prohibiting non-animal meat products from using meat-related terminology. SundryPhotography/Depositphotos. – Plant-based meat producers have had a win in the ongoing battle over what can and can’t be labeled a meat product …
