When 18-year-old Tom Oswald opened up his cafe in July, no one showed up. The recent graduate said that university didn’t appeal to him. So he had spent the last couple years learning about business so he could get started as soon as he left high school. But all of his efforts did not lead...
Subway Sandwich Shops is a major fast-food chain. In 2023, it operates over 20,000 restaurants in the United States alone plus thousands more across the globe. However, it’s been losing steam for years now. Subway now has the lowest number of restaurants since 2005 after closing 572 franchises in the United States in 2022. [1]...
Tigers are magnificent but fearsome animals. They are definitely ones to admire from afar because of their incredible physical strength, aggression, and hunting skills. But seeing tigers interact with their cubs sheds new light on this species that can be caring, devoted, and gentle. And with so many tiger subspecies endangered, knowledge about them is...
Payment technology has progressed rapidly in recent years. Once upon a time, you needed cold hard cash to purchase groceries. Then, all you needed were plastic cards. Then all you needed was a smartphone. Now, all you need is the palm of your hand. Last year, Amazon launched palm-paying technology, called Amazon One, to over...
Christopher Nolan’s biopic Oppenheimer is a global box office success. But amidst all of its rave reviews comes a wave of backlash from the Hindu-right in India. In the center of the outrage is a sex scene where Oppenheimer, played by Cillian Murphy, reads from the Bhagavad Gita, a sacred text in Hinduism. A member...
Diving instructor Wang Cheng-ru was swimming off Taiwan’s coast when he came face-to-face with a creature of legend. It was an oarfish, a species that usually resides in extremely deep waters. As a result, it’s rare for a human to spot one, which has created myths around the oarfish. For example, the creature received the...
Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” is a new film starring Cillian Murphy in the titular role of J. Robert Oppenheimer. The biopic follows the story of American theoretical physicist Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb.” The three-hour film throws the viewers into his turbulent life, starting as a young man in the 1920s and continuing through...
After living in captivity for over 50 years, an orca named Lolita will return to her home in the Pacific. The Miami Seaquarium announced her release on March 30, in collaboration with the animal-rights group Friends of Toki. Lolita was captured from the Pacific coast when she was only 4 years old. She was named...
Minecraft is the best-selling video game in history. It sold over 238 million copies and has millions of active players. The game features a blocky, three-dimensional world with seemingly indefinite terrain where players can discover materials and build structures, machines, and other items. Different game modes offer competition or cooperation with other players. There’s survival...
The successful blockbuster Interstellar came out about 1 hour and 20 minutes ago. At least, that’s when it came out on Miller’s Planet, the aquatic planet explored in the film. But here on Earth, it was released just over eight years ago on November 5, 2014. And while many people enjoy the beautiful cinematography, emotional...
This past November, a chimpanzee was reunited with her newborn after two days apart. Resident of the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas, Mahale gave birth through an emergency C-section when the labor stopped progressing naturally. The baby, named Kucheza, couldn’t breathe very well on his own, so the medical team kept him in the...
Moon has been tracked by researchers for over a decade. Every September, the humpback whale swims from British Columbia, Canada, to Maui, Hawaii, to breed and feed on krill. In 2020, the researchers, based in the Fin Island research station in Gitga’at First Nations territory, celebrated when she appeared with a calf, showing her young...
