But you can do that even better with ice cream

The surprising reason supermarkets sell flowers

"You might not be able to afford a $200 dinner now, or to be able to take that road trip," she said. "But you still can go pick up a bunch of flowers and feel like, 'OK, I'm still treating myself.'"

And you can read the rest if you want to

From AM to PM, the fickle force of government is with you

The government makes sure you can see the nutrients in your cereal. It fusses over your toast, insisting that the flour it comes from has no more than 75 insect fragments and one rodent hair per 50 grams.…

Oh yes. It goes on. And on. 

Never mind UCLA joining the Big Ten

Sports in Space Will Be Out of This World

Ken Harvey, a former linebacker for the Washington Redskins (now Commanders) experienced weightlessness in 2008 aboard a flight with Zero Gravity Corporation, an Exploration Park, Fla.-based company that operates flights from airports in the U.S. He says his initial reaction was: “This is cool, but what do you do when you get bored?”

Exactly. If you're going to fly from Rutgers to Southern California you might as well go to Mars.  

And you thought the squirrels were a problem

Bear perches on Minnesota family's bird feeder

"Northern Minnesota can be WILD."

Redefining the red-eye down under

Airline debuts next-level bunk bed ‘pods’ for economy fliers

The beds come with full-size pillows, bedding, ear plugs, a reading light, a USB port and a ventilation outlet, according to CNN, and the bedding will be changed between sessions to maintain hygiene.

When wargames become game wars

The US Military Is Building Its Own Metaverse

The key technologies needed for the metaverse—augmented and virtual reality, headmounted displays, 3D simulations and virtual environments built by artificial intelligence—are already found in the defense world.

Not as fuzzy as Zuck's. 

[This story is also available, of course, in Wired's printed version,]

Junior high school was a long time ago but I still have flashbacks

G7 leaders mock Vladimir Putin over shirtless horse-riding picture

Maybe, just to be safe, we should take away their keys to the nukes.

Eat nature: More about fish

New England waters are teeming with fish species. The problem is we eat too few of them.

And while phytoplankton soup isn’t likely to appear on many menus anytime soon, Lucey explains that as certain species dissipate, others come in to fill their niche. Cod may eventually be replaced by another species like spiny dogfish, for example. “The ecosystem itself is pretty resilient,” he says. It’s consumers who can be more resistant to change.

[The Boston Globe is, alas, behind a paywall, but a limited number of free pages are allowed.]