Business Spotlight: Lush Part 1 Posted March 26, 2022 In November 2021, cosmetics retailer Lush took a dramatic step for a 21st-century company — it suspended some of its social media accounts. Though done as a stance against online …
News Mash-up: Animals Posted March 25, 2022 Biden family welcomes Willow, a Pennsylvanian farm cat, to White House The Biden family finally has a cat. First lady …
Armchair Traveler: Atacama Desert (Chile) Posted March 24, 2022 Chile’s Atacama Desert is the world’s driest desert. It has been arid for 150 million years, and some parts are thought to be like Mars. NASA even tests equipment…
French brewer uses algae to make blue beer Posted March 23, 2022 A French brewer has started using algae with a naturally occurring pigment to turn its beer blue. The beer, with the brand name “Line,” is the result of a
Letters delivered 50 years after they were posted Posted March 22, 2022 A letter written to a 12-year-old girl in Lithuania was delivered in December, almost 51 years after it was sent by a pen pal in Poland. “I thought that someone was pra…
News Mash-up: Celebrities Posted March 21, 2022 Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver are finally divorced, after more than 10 years Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Sh…
Amazon heads to the mall with prototype clothing store Part 2 Posted March 20, 2022 Continued from Part 1… Amazon unseated Walmart as the largest clothing seller last year during the pandemic as more people began shopping online. Wells Fargo estima…
Amazon heads to the mall with prototype clothing store Part 1 Posted March 19, 2022 First, Amazon competed with malls. Now, it’s moving inside one. The online retailing giant said that it plans to open a clothing store in a Southern California mall later this …
News Mash-up: Popular Entertainment Posted March 18, 2022 Netflix raises subscription fees in US, Canada Netflix Inc. has raised its monthly subscription price by $1 to $2 (¥114 t…
25 Greatest Inventions of the 20th Century: Talkies Posted March 17, 2022 Movies have been around since the mid-1890s, but at the start they were “silent” — actors moved their lips but you couldn’t hear their words. Audiences read dialogue on cards that…