The second Tuesday in June is World Pet Memorial Day, and that means it’s on June 10 this year. Losing a pet is painful and grieving afterwards is entirely natural. It’s an extension of saying goodbye to someone you loved, whether two-legged or four-legged. Wanting to have a pet memorial (something that reminds you of […]
Solar Summer is Here: How is it different from Meteorological and Astronomical Summer?
The sunniest time of the year is here. Solar Summer – one of the lesser-known versions of the season – has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere. As AccuWeather reports, there are many ways to quantify the season. Memorial Day weekend signals the start of summer for beachgoers and vacationers across the United States. Weather forecasters […]
Google Gemini Handles Scheduled Tasks like a Real Assistant
Google is taking another step toward making Gemini a more helpful assistant. As The Verge reports, it’s rolling out “scheduled actions,” a feature AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers can use to ask the AI assistant to perform tasks at specific times, like providing a summary of their calendar at the end of each day or […]
And the Creative Director Musical Chairs stops on… Jonathan Anderson for House of Dior
The game of Creative Director Musical Chairs continues. Four days after Maria Grazia Chiuri announced she would be stepping down from her role as Dior’s creative director of women’s fashion after nine years, the LVMH-owned house has confirmed that Jonathan Anderson will take on the overarching role of creative director, leading women’s, men’s and haute couture collections for the fashion house. As Fashionista reports, this […]
It’s True! The McDonald’s Snack Wrap is Back!
Foodie snackers all over the nation mourned when McDonald’s discontinued the Snack Wrap in 2016. This savory, tortilla-wrapped delight was one of the most notable menu items that customers had loved and lost (and the Google search data backs it up!). While some individual franchises continued to offer the fan favorite, all U.S. locations removed the item […]
Houzz Releases its 2025 U.S. Emerging Summer Trends Report
Houzz just released their U.S. Emerging Summer Trends Report for 2025, which has identified new home design trends based on the latest search insights from its community of U.S. homeowners, home design enthusiasts and home professionals. As Kitchen & Bath Business (KBB) reports, this summer homeowners are embracing bold, expressive and highly-personal design choices — many […]
Apple’s WWDC 2025 kicks off today– Here’s What to Expect
Apple’s WWDC 2025 show kicks off at Apple Park at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST on June 9, 2025 – which, as Techradar reports, means we are now very close to seeing the next generation of software for iPhones, MacBooks, Apple Watches and more. So what should we expect from one of Apple’s biggest […]
Gizmo Has Joined Sunny in Flight!
Proud Big Bear Eagle parents Jackie and Shadow are now empty nesters. The younger of the two Big Bear eaglet sisters took to the sky for her first flight on Saturday, June 7 when the Friends of Big Bear Valley cameras caught Gizmo flapping her wings and taking off at 8:27 a.m., Popular Science reported. “Gizmo did it!” […]
Record Levels of Sargassum Seaweed have hit Mexico Beaches and could be Headed Your Way
Tracking seaweed might sound like a boring job, but the scientists at the University of South Florida Optical Oceanography Lab take it very seriously. As AccuWeather reports, at the end of May, they sounded the alarm: Sargassum seaweed is forming earlier and in more abundance than ever this season in the Atlantic — worse than the […]
It’s National Chocolate Ice Cream Day!
What’s better than Chocolate? And Ice Cream? So put those two things together, and National Chocolate Ice Cream Day on June 7th is one of the best days of the year! Here’s a little-known chocolatey morsel of info for National Chocolate Ice Cream Day… according to National Today, chocolate ice cream was actually invented before […]