The YMCA wants Kids and their whole family to celebrate health on Healthy Kids Day®, celebrated this year on Saturday, April 20! Healthy Kids Day® is the Y’s national initiative to improve the mental and physical health and well-being of kids and their families. For over 30 years, YMCAs and their communities hosted free community events […]
An animal nonprofit is looking to reunite various military members with animals they bonded with while serving overseas. As People magazine reports, last week, Paws of War — a nonprofit organization that “assists military members and their pets, rescues and trains dogs to be service dogs, and provides companion animals to veterans and first responders,” per a […]
Tax Day (April 15th) is here and many fast food and sit-down restaurants across the U.S. are offering customers freebies and discounts to celebrate the end of the stressful season. But how many of them create a new cocktail to commemorate the occasion? TGI Friday’s did, that’s who! From now through April 30, participating TGI Friday’s […]
Could lossless streaming on Spotify actually be happening this time? We’ve been through so many twists and turns with this saga already, but there’s new cause for hope. Code snippets in recent builds of Spotify for Android yet again tease the possibility of the company’s long-delayed lossless audio coming in the near future. After originally being known […]
SpaceX launched its second national security mission of 2024 last week with a Falcon 9 rocket lifting the U.S. Space Force mission USSF-62 into orbit. According to space.com, the mission took off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on April 11 at 10:25 a.m. EDT. The mission sends a Weather System Follow-on Microwave satellite, or WSF-M, to […]
An oft-overlooked early Spring Maintenance To Do is performing simple fireplace maintenance. Many choose to skip this home maintenance task because the budding spring tide signals that our Fireplaces will be turned off and put away until fall. But does this mean you leave your fireplace totally alone until then? Absolutely not! Spring is the […]
Crocs is on an absolute roll with its food-focused partnerships, and its latest collab announcement will surely make chip fans happy. As Food & Wine reports, on April 11 the shoe company announced an all-new set of kicks with Pringles. And no, it’s not just slapping mustaches on everything, but rather, it’s making footwear that’s actually useful […]
A rare double-emergence of cicada broods is about to swarm the eastern United States in the coming weeks, scientists say. As AccuWeather reports, Brood 13, which emerges every 17 years, and Brood 19, which emerges every 13, will join together for the first time since 1803. To put that into perspective, that’s when the Louisiana […]
The Oura Ring is getting a bit more experimental. Now, Oura users will get access to a new Oura Labs feature, which allows them to opt in to experimental features. The first will be something called Symptom Radar, which detects early signs of physiological strain. As The Verge reports, Symptom Radar isn’t quite illness detection — a […]
This week was chock full of weather phenomena in the skies. Over the path of totality, the solar eclipse wowed millions. And over Italy, Mount Etna, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, was showing off again. Last week, the Sicilian volcano began emitting an unprecedented amount of vapor rings from the mouth of a […]