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If You’re a Serious Bowler, You Need to Know About Bowling Lane Oil
Each time EJ Tackett steps to his lane to throw a shot in the upcoming Professional Bowlers Association World Championships, he’ll be thinking about more than just ball spin or angle. Tackett has won the last three world titles, and there’s a convincing case that he’s currently the best bowler on Earth. While his ability…
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The key to Trump’s destruction is working — there’s just one major obstacle
Back in 2019, Donald Trump pointed at Hunter Biden’s brief “cup of coffee” with a Chinese banker during a 2013 ride on Air Force Two and turned it into the single biggest line of attack he ran against Joe Biden for the next five years. The grift! The corruption! The selling-out of America! Oh, the…
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Gene Therapy Causes Patient to Grow Alarming Tumor
Gene therapy — attempting to help a patient by modifying a gene expression in their body, basically — has shown immense promise for treating a growing range of severe illnesses and disabilities, from Huntington’s Disease to congenital deafness. But using a gene-hacked virus to tinker with the genetic code of a living human, which has…
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At least 4 people killed in largest Ukrainian drone strike on Moscow in months
At least four people, including three near Moscow, died in one of the largest Ukrainian overnight attacks against Russia since the start of the war, according to Russian local authorities. A woman was killed after a drone hit her home in Khimki, a city just northwest of Moscow, and two men died in the village…
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The First Atomic Bomb Test in 1945 Created an Entirely New Material
During the Trinity nuclear test on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert—the world’s very first test of an atomic bomb—a new material spontaneously formed. It was discovered only recently, by an international research team coordinated by geologist Luca Bindi at the University of Florence, which identified the novel clathrate based on calcium, copper,…
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Gaza Is Rebuilding With Lego-Like Bricks Made From Rubble
Inside a makeshift workshop in Gaza, rebuilt after it was damaged by Israeli air strikes, Suleiman Abu Hassanin stands among piles of broken concrete, trying to give them a new form. His voice over the phone sounds tired, carrying the weight of what he is trying to do: rebuild in a place where building materials…
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The axed Coca-Cola drink that still sparks nostalgia for fans
A popular Minute Maid citrus drink that vanished from store shelves decades ago still lives on in the memories of kids who grew up drinking it in the 1980s. Coca-Cola, Minute Maid’s parent company, quietly discontinued Five Alive around 1995. But nostalgic social media posts keep wondering why. “When did Five Alive fall off?” a person on…
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Gucci transforms Times Square into runway as label debuts new collection with Cindy Crawford, Tom Brady
Gucci’s creative director Demna presented his first Cruise collection for the Italian luxury brand on Saturday night in New York, transforming Times Square into a runway as owner Kering seeks to revive its struggling flagship label. The splashy show, livestreamed on billboards in one of the most visited places on the planet, was a nod…
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Julianne Moore slammed for saying she doesn’t want to act in movies with ‘explosions and guns’
Julianne Moore ruffled some feathers online after saying she doesn’t like movies with “explosions and guns.” During a recent interview with Variety at the Kering Women in Motion Talk at the Cannes Film Festival, the 65-year-old actress sparked backlash when she shared the kinds of projects she is interested in acting in at this point in her career,…
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Will Ferrell closes ‘SNL’ season with Paul McCartney and doppelganger Chad Smith
Will Ferrell has done the Will Ferrell thing for so long — playing embarrassingly self-absorbed doofuses, both fictional and based on real people — that it’s easy to forget that when it counts, he can still serve as the glue on “Saturday Night Live.” For his sixth time hosting the show since leaving the cast…