The 13 Sassiest Brands on Twitter

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  61 words  |  Martina Birk

The Mexican fast food chain is well known for the witty one-liners and pop culture references it regularly slings to its nearly 1 million followers:

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But the brand earned especially high marks as a social media sass-master when it playfully fought back at disparaging remarks made by Old Spice in 2012:

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The hunted heir to a dictator who met death in exile

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1086 words  |  Patria Henriques

The absence of Kim Jong Nam — the eldest son of the family, who was bound by Korean tradition to preside over the funeral — was all the evidence outside analysts needed to see how isolated he had become from the center of power in North Korea, the world’s most secretive regime. Never fully accepted by his family, sidelined by his powerful stepmother and haunted by fears of assassins, Kim Jong Nam lived much of his life wandering abroad, in Moscow, Geneva, Beijing, Paris and Macau, the Chinese gambling enclave. [Read More]

The Latest Trend in College Admissions: Parents Write Letters of Recommendation

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  519 words  |  Martina Birk

Image Source / Getty Images We’re coming up on a super-stressful time of year for high school seniors: some already have learned via early admission which colleges accepted or rejected them, but many more will find out in April where they’ll be spending the next four years of their lives. Increasingly, their parents may have played a role in whether the news calls for celebration. In an era of helicopter parenting, perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that mom and dad may be penning letters of recommendation for Junior. [Read More]

The Midwest is Winning Some Climate Migrants

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1898 words  |  Martina Birk

Jake Via, a 39-year-old who has lived everywhere from Brazil and Seattle to Sun Valley, Idaho, and Austin, Texas, calls Milwaukee “the greatest city on earth.” And he’s serious. When Via and his wife Anabel planned to relocate from Salt Lake City in 2021, they made an extensive list of cities, and they are grateful that they ended up in Milwaukee instead of other cities they considered like Charlotte, Pittsburgh, or Phoenix, where his parents live. [Read More]

TIME's 20 Most Successful Technology Failures of All Time

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2371 words  |  Kelle Repass

The graveyard of technology is riddled with failed products: remember the Apple Newton? Or Microsoft’s Zune? How about Amazon’s Fire Phone? And yet in Silicon Valley “failing fast” is heralded as a virtue and, sometimes, even failing slowly can have unforeseeable benefits. Cutting-edge products may die an embarrassing death, but they often also lay the groundwork for better, more well-timed ideas that flourish later on. This is a list of failures, yes, but failures that led to success or may yet still lead to something world-changing. [Read More]

Top 10 Disappointing Blockbusters

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  141 words  |  Kelle Repass

EverettDirector: Kevin Reynolds Year Released: 1995 Cast: Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tina Majorino, Michael Jeter Get This MovieReleased: July 28, 1995 Estimated Budget: $175 million Domestic Opening Weekend: $21,171,780 Domestic Gross:$88,246,220 There are plenty of things $175 million can buy, but commercial success is not one of them. At the time of its production, Waterworld set a record for most expensive movie ever made (although it would be surpassed two years later by Titanic). [Read More]

Why African Americans are returning to African religions

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  378 words  |  Patria Henriques

Written by Nakia Brown, it tells the story of a young woman disenchanted by the Christian religion who would later embrace Yoruba culture and Ifa religion. This article picked my interest because I have noticed that this is a new wave of sorts. Some African-Americans are dumping Christianity and adopting African religions especially the Yoruba religion. One of such African-Americans is rapper 21 Savage. Born Shayaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, the 24-year-old trapper is an Ifa worshiper. [Read More]

Why Simone Biles Pulled Out of the Team Event at the Tokyo Olympics

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  10 minutes  |  2069 words  |  Billy Koelling

Simone Biles is the greatest of all time, and was expected to lead the Team USA squad to another Olympic gold in the team event. But minutes into the competition on July 27, Biles sat on the sidelines, in earnest conversation with a trainer and then left the field of play. She returned a few minutes later, but clearly not preparing to warm up for the next event. She hugged her teammates, put on her warm up jacket and pants, and minutes later USA Gymnastics (USAG) confirmed she had withdrawn from the team competition. [Read More]

Why Surgeons Dread Redheads

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  568 words  |  Tandra Barner

As the authors of a recent study published in BMJ attest, society’s red-haired members don’t always get a fair shake. Hoary stereotypes, such as the idea that redheads are also hot heads, are mixed together with actual physiological differences — such as a heightened sensitivity to pain. Now science is getting a better understanding of redheaded physiology than ever before. In numerical terms, people with red hair are a decided minority. [Read More]

World Series: The Happiest Photo of the Chicago Cubs

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  291 words  |  Patria Henriques

It was a torturous night. But this picture, a scene that fans might be used to seeing on a regular basis, was 108 years in the making. It was the Chicago Cubs’ first appearance in a World Series in 71 years, and their first title since 1908 – a year when construction on the Titanic had not even begun. As Javier Báez and Addison Russell jumped in the air at the end of 10 grueling innings, millions of Cubs fans were celebrating the end of the longest championship drought in American sports. [Read More]