Today’s Brexit Vote: Everybody Hates Everything, But Maybe There’s Light at the End of the Tunnel
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. British members of parliament don’t care much for Theresa May’s Brexit deal, but they also don’t like the idea of crashing out of the EU with no deal. That’s led to a deadlock, so last week the rabble seized control of the whole process from…
Money Talks, and It Says Climate Change Is Real
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s an interesting chart from a research paper flagged by a reader. It turns out there’s a Chicago futures market for weather, mostly used by utilities and growers to hedge against the possibility of unusually high or low temperatures. However, since weather forecasts are nearly…
People Are Very Upset About the Way This Dude Cuts His Bagels
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Twitter user Alek Krautmann ignited controversy this morning with his photo of vertically sliced bagels. Today I introduced my coworkers to the St Louis secret of ordering bagels bread sliced. It was a hit! pic.twitter.com/XNGbljtpYz — Alek Krautmann (@AlekKrautmann) March 26, 2019 First things first,…
Who’s Being Pandered To This Year?
Photo credits, clockwise from top left: Ringo Chiu, Preston Ehrler, Brian Cahn, Richard Ellis, Nancy Kaszerman, Brian Cahn, all via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I am deliberately not paying too much attention to the Democratic candidates for president. It’s just too early. It won’t be until late in…
Researchers Just Found a Way to Map Trump’s 10 Most Embarrassing Moments Using Twitter
Joe Mahoney/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The past two-plus years have been a ride. President Donald Trump’s tenure so far has been peppered with such a range of awkward, upsetting, disturbing, and downright horrifying moments: from talk of grabbing pussies to “covfefe” to the paper towel tossing in Puerto Rico to calling former…
Why Are Generations So Short These Days?
The alphabet beyond Z, according to Dr. Seuss.”On Beyond Zebra” Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Hmmm: Here’s your generational cheat sheet.As of today: Gen Alpha: 1-6 years oldGen Z: 7-22 years oldMillennials: 23-38 years oldGen X: 39-54 years oldBoomers: 55-73 years oldSilent Gen: 74+ — Jack Appleby (@JuiceboxCA) March 25,…