Campbell’s is far from the first to attempt such as makeover. From Dunkin’ to KFC, a handful of other food companies have also rebranded themselves over the years
As far as we can tell there is no truth to the rumor that U.S. Steel will be calling itself U.S. (But Nippon seems to be in the running.)
…which, as I'm looking at it right now is just a live picture of an empty bird nest…but who knows what might be going on there when you look?
Webcams are a much under-appreciated feature of the internet. Here, for example, you can keep an eye on the front gate of Chicago's Wrigley Field, live, and in HD.
There’s little Western research on the risks and efficacy of the oil, but an article published in 2020 in an Azerbaijani science journal reported that the oil has been found to work as an antiseptic and to have a “peculiar hormone-like effect on the function of sex hormones.”
Maybe, if you put it that way. But…ick.
A sale of Chrome “will permanently stop Google’s control of this critical search access point and allow rival search engines the ability to access the browser that for many users is a gateway to the internet,” Justice Department lawyers argued in their filing.Or…crazy idea here…a person could google the best alternatives to Google search and find stuff like this.
Whatever the future, the decentralized nature of some clean energies, in particular wind and solar, has allowed Ukraine to quickly restore power in ways that would be impossible with Ukraine’s more traditional energy sources, such as coal-fired power plants.
…and that wind turbine on the back 40 turn out to be a national security asset in more ways than one.
“This sort of information sharing capacity on this scale across all these agencies. tapping into everything from local utility records and DMV records to school records has the potential to be deployed in any number of chilling scenarios.”
From Wired, an explanation of how fusion centers, established by the Department of Homeland Security after 9/11 to counter terrorism, already give ICE access to local data from schools and abortion clinics, license plate location data, databases of photos, and a lot more.
Ben Franklin famously said “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
And here we go. Again.
“It’s a complicated picture,” said Lauren Fry, a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory.
One complication (not suggested in the photo here) is that Lake Michigan's not just Chicago — it's also a whole lot of Wisconsin and Michigan. Another is, it's a Great Lake that actually has sandy beaches, unlike some others I could name.
A bigger beach is good.
He likes to talk about vitamins and has been known to post videos of himself lifting weights, shirtless. He has also been linked to a lot of dead animals, so the question seems like fair game, so to speak.NYTimes ("All the News That's Fit to Print,' even just barely) fearlessly investigates ("conversations with people familiar with his eating habits") Kennedy's plate.
Also from this morning's Times…
How Do I Decide What Socks to Wear?Germans have long sat comfortably atop the world of competitive forklift driving, a point of national pride. There are songs, tattoos and fully functioning kid’s models dedicated to the humble industrial vehicle. The best drivers are treated like rockstars.
The scammers have found a particularly American security hole: our reliance on paper checks. On average, there were some 30 checks per person written in the U.S. in 2021, nearly twice as many as the French, the world’s second-biggest check users, according to the Federal Reserve. In many European countries, electronic payment networks have completely replaced paper checks.
Among the suspects: volatile organic compounds and substances not removed by wastewater treatment plants, such as pharmaceuticals.
Maybe there really is a silver lining in everything — unless you're a silver carp.
“I’m so flipping excited,” said Paul Preston, founder of New California State, which has declared all the counties outside of Los Angeles, the Bay Area and Sacramento as independent and named him governor pro tempore.
And welcome to "New Illinois."
“The idea that someplace in Illinois wants to kick out another place in Illinois should not be on the ballot,” said Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker in a news briefing before the election.History and, well, the Constitution seem to agree.
“What you buy when you buy Cattelan’s ‘Comedian’ is not the banana itself, but a certificate of authenticity that grants the owner the permission and authority to reproduce this banana and duct tape on their wall as an original artwork by Maurizio Cattelan,” Galperin said.
Wait. Let's review.
You provide your own wall, your own tape, and your own banana, and then you pay $1 million for permission to tape the banana to the wall and call it art.
Of course after not-many-days the banana will turn to mush and then do you have to pay another million to tape another banana to the wall? Do you have to use the same tape? Can you use the same wall?
Can you still call it art?
What about, say, a grapefruit?
