Marine researchers had a strange encounter during a recent dive in California’s Monterey Bay. A squid mom hauled a spawling sheet of eggs through the water. “During a recent deep-sea dive, MBARI researchers encountered this incredibly rare sight — a deep-sea squid (Bathyteuthis sp.) grasping hundreds of eggs in her arms,” the Monterey Bay Aquarium…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
I like tweets. You like tweets. We all like tweets. Well, sometimes tweets can be pretty awful. But sometimes Twitter is hilarious. It has the absolute funniest and the worst people in the world, all in once place. Isn’t that something? Anyway, to celebrate the end of the week, we once again collected the best…
Princess Cruises Taking a cruise could be your cheapest vacation option amid a summer of expensive and chaotic travel. There are currently 45 cruises sailing for $50 a day or less through 2022. Cruise Sheet has seen a 17% drop in average cruise fares compared to the same time in 2019. Vacationing this summer has…
Steve Bannon. Win McNamee/Getty Images Steve Bannon told aides that Trump “would lie about anything,” per a new book. The quote comes from a new book by the Politico reporter Jonathan Lemire, cited in The Guardian. A recent report said Bannon told associates before the 2020 election that Trump was already planning to declare victory….
Abortion rights supporters hold signs of U.S. Supreme Court Justices as they participate in a rally and march on May 14, 2022 in New York City. Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images The Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion, but the abortion wars are not over. The June 24 ruling overturning Roe v. Wade…
President Joe Biden. Alex Wong/Getty Images Biden is expected to carry out broad student-loan relief before payments resume September 1. That’s less than two months away, and Democrats and the GOP have concerns about its implementation. The Education Department says it’s prepared to carry out whatever Biden decides. A lot is at stake for millions…
McDonald’s in UK vs Singapore. Abby Wallace & Marielle Descalsota/Insider We tried and compared seven popular menu items from McDonald’s in the UK and Singapore. We found more than half of the items we tried cost more in the UK than in Singapore. The only exceptions were the cheeseburger, McFlurry, and large fries. The UK…
Bob’s Watches Rolex watches are on track to erase all the price gains they made this year on the resale market. The drop follows steeper crashes for stocks and crypto that are hitting new collectors’ wealth. Even with the decline, experts say Daytonas and other top-tier timepieces are still a resilient asset class. After a…
Elden Ring is the best-selling game of 2022. Research firm NPD Group – which originally asserted Elden Ring was one of the top 10 best-selling games in history before retracting the claim due to “incomplete data” – reports in an updated statement that From Software’s action RPG has “placed first in dollar sales in four…
Mediatonic has apologised for a bug that was causing players to make “accidental” premium purchases in Fall Guys. The issue first popped up on the game’s subreddit, with dozens of players complaining that items had been “auto-purchased” when previewing them in Fall Guys’ in-game store. Other issues included Show Bucks going mysteriously missing, hidden key…