The Press: Grit | TIME
Posted on August 16, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
One day in October a Manhattan detective had just settled down to enjoy the latest issue of Bernarr Macfadden’s True Detective Mysteries when a face staring from the pages made him jump. The face was that of a man whose furtive behavior he had marked while strolling his beat a few days before. The caption identified him—Walter Clyde Davis, wanted in Colorado Springs for embezzling $500,000. Last week the detective found his man again, arrested him.
[Read More]The Scientist Pushing to Bring Lab-Grown Seafood to Your Plate
Posted on August 16, 2024
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| 1030 words
| Billy Koelling
Sandhya Sriram is impatient. The stem-cell scientist wanted to put her knowledge to use developing cultivated seafood, but no one was doing that in Singapore. So four years ago, she set up a company to create lab-grown crustacean meat. Eagerly, she registered her company, Shiok Meats, at 3 a.m. in August 2018. “Nobody was doing crustaceans,” says Sriram, Shiok’s Group CEO and co-founder. “What do Asians eat the most? Seafood. It was a simple answer … And they’re so delicious.
[Read More]The sex appeal of these 5 Nigerian women is undeniable
Posted on August 16, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
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[Read More]The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Posted on August 16, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
Barbara Kiviat
September 25, 2008 12:00 AM EDT
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life By Alice Schroeder Bantam Books; 976 pages
Warren Buffett the investor is widely known: his $5 billion bet on the battered Goldman Sachs on Sept. 23 surely came as no surprise to fans of his coolheaded strategy of buying good firms on the cheap. Buffett the person, on the other hand, is quite a surprise–an emotionally needy husband and absentee father who avoids anyone he fears might criticize him.
[Read More]The True Story Behind 'Society of the Snow'
Posted on August 16, 2024
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| Tandra Barner
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Society of the Snow.
From Lord of the Flies to Lost to Yellowjackets, fictional stories about plane crashes leaving people stranded in the wilderness have long been fodder for popular entertainment. These narratives generally delve into the dark side of human nature, often centering on how the survivors eventually turn against one another under the stress of such dire circumstances.
But in Society of the Snow, now streaming on Netflix, director J.
[Read More]These are the top 25 best hotels in Africa
Posted on August 16, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
TripAdvisor has released the winners of its 2019 Travellers' Choice awards for hotels just in time for you to serve some serious travel inspiration for the year. The annual awards, currently in their 17th year, showcases top hotels across the continent. They are ranked across several categories including Luxury, Bargain, Romance, Family, Small, Best Service, B&Bs and Inn, Romance. Reviews and opinions gathered from millions of TripAdvisor visitors are also considered.
[Read More]Twisted Metal Is TV's Stupidest Dystopia Yet: TV Review
Posted on August 16, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
Do you enjoy ironic pop-music syncs? Would you cheer at the spectacle of a cop car exploding to the guileless, pubescent harmony of Hanson’s “MMMBop”? Does the thought of an aerial apocalypse scored by Len’s cartoonishly upbeat “Steal My Sunshine” absolutely crack you up? Do you thrill at the prospect of watching a bad guy get shot between the legs, on the roof of a speeding car, as Oasis’ coruscating “Champagne Supernova” blares in the background?
[Read More]Utahs Passes Laws Restricting Social Media Use for Minors
Posted on August 16, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
Utah just passed legislation that is set to limit minors’ social media use and require parental permission for kids to use platforms like Instagram, TikTok and Facebook, but there’s no clear plan on how it would be enforced. Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed two bills into effect Thursday that prevent children from using social media from 10:30 P.M. to 6:30 A.M., require age verification to join social media and offer the opportunity to sue companies on behalf of children who can claim they were harmed by social media.
[Read More]Victoria Beckham Turns 40: Revisit the Spice Girls Then and Now
Posted on August 16, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
April 17, 2014 10:16 AM EDT
We don’t know what Victoria Beckham really really wants for her 40th birthday, but because you can never have too much of a good thing, take a minute now to catch up on what the girl power pioneers have been up to since they zig-a-zig-ah‘d their way to global stardom. After stomping onto the scene with towering platform shoes in the late 1990s, the women behind the best-selling female pop group of all time have gone to become mothers, writers, designers, television personalities and solo pop stars in their own right.
[Read More]What Do Astronauts Eat in Space?
Posted on August 16, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
You have a degree in astrophysics and you know how to fly a jet. You’ve endured years of preparation and training, logged thousands of hours of flight time and even survived NASA’s terrifying “vomit comet” weightlessness test. Now you’re up in space for the very first time, floating around the shuttle’s cabin, and as you look out of the window, you realize something: you’re hungry. What are you going to eat?
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