Maybe this year?

The lost nuclear bombs that no one can find

The US has lost at least three nuclear bombs that have never been located – they're still out there to this day. How did this happen? Where could they be? And will we ever find them?

Or will they?

The words

“The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable'...In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides. It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it: consequently the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.”

― George Orwell, Essays, 1946

London on London

In 1902 American author Jack London visited London, England, and lived incognito for several weeks on that city's East End among its poorest and most crowded inhabitants. He described his time there in The People of the Abyss (available, free, from Project Gutenberg, here).

Here's a sample from that report, concerning the phenomenon sometimes called "London fog":

“Leaving out the disease germs that fill the air of the East End,
consider but the one item of smoke. Sir William Thiselton-Dyer,
curator of Kew Gardens, has been studying smoke deposits on vegetation,
and, according to his calculations, no less than six tons of solid matter,
consisting of soot and tarry hydrocarbons, are deposited every week
on every quarter of a square mile in and about London. This is
equivalent to twenty-four tons per week to the square mile, or 1248
tons per year to the square mile. From the cornice below the dome
of St. Paul’s Cathedral was recently taken a solid deposit of
crystallised sulphate of lime. This deposit had been formed by
the action of the sulphuric acid in the atmosphere upon the carbonate
of lime in the stone. And this sulphuric acid in the atmosphere
is constantly being breathed by the London workmen through all the days
and nights of their lives.

Although significantly reduced by clean-air programs dating from the 1950s, London fog, renamed "smog," still bedevils the city, with automotive exhaust replacing the smoke from the last century's coal-burning engines.

Does this mean I have to drink 100 cups of coffee to get a cookie free?

Starbucks' Reward System is Changing Next Year. Here's What It Will Take to Get a Free Drink

Pardon my confusion here. I live in a place where there are no Starbucks (but we do have three Dunkins, so there's that).

This is not the only reason I'm confused, but it's definitely one of them.

One hundred seems to be a lot of stars. Three hundred seems like even more — although after that much coffee maybe it doesn't matter.

Remind me to find out how much coffee will get me a free donut. Now, that might be worth try.