Taco Tuesday happens every week. (Thank goodness.) But National Taco Day, which this year falls on Tuesday, October 4, comes only once a year. So for sure you’ll want to circle it in hot-sauce on your calendar. According to CNET, although the roots of this popular Mexican dish stretch back to long before the Spanish […]
More than 1,200 prescription drugs rose in price faster than the rate of inflation between 2021 and 2022, according to a new report released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Friday. Between July 2021 and July 2022, the prices for 1,216 drugs rose more than the 8.6 percent rate of inflation, […]
As WIRED reports, Iran’s restrictive government imposed severe and extensive internet blackouts and blocked numerous digital services around the country in an attempt to shut down country-wide protests sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in “morality police” custody in September, impacting most of Iran’s 80 million citizens. However, in a show of global solidarity, […]
The cleanup continues in Florida from Ian, which the majority of Floridians will tell you is “the worst hurricane I’ve ever lived through.” The total economic impact is still undetermined, the damage assessments continue, and the death toll rises, but here are some of the early measures of Ian’s catastrophic impact, via Reuters: DEATH TOLL […]
Ready to be the #TheNextFentyFace? To celebrate the brand’s five-year anniversary, Fenty Beauty is looking for the face of its 2023 campaign on TikTok. According to the website, to enter, after you follow @FentyBeauty on TikTok, all you need to do is “post a video on TikTok that shows us a look that brings out ya bad […]
Mexican Pizza had its moment. Now a new Taco Bell item is set to return from menu banishment. And the fast-food chain is leaving it up to customers to choose. Just in time for both National Soft Taco Day (October 3) and National Taco Day (October 4) Taco Bell has announced it will bring back one of […]
NBC News reports that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning about the spread of a common childhood virus that can cause muscle weakness or paralysis in rare cases. According to their report released just last week, the CDC recorded 260 cases of “enterovirus D68,” aka EV-D68, which most commonly leads to respiratory illness […]
NASA wasn’t about to miss the chance to capture its historic ambush of an asteroid through the eyes of its most powerful space observatories. As CNET reports, last week, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) released new images taken by the Hubble and James Webb telescopes showing the moment the DART spacecraft crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos. […]
In the wake of Ian, AccuWeather meteorologists are monitoring specific zones of the Atlantic basin where new tropical development may occur in the coming week or two. Experts say the season is far from over, with its official close not until November 30. It took over four months into the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season for the basin’s […]
A dolphin habitat at a hotel on the Las Vegas Strip has been temporarily closed after the third mammal death at the attraction in just five months. Officials at the Mirage Secret Garden and Habitat said an 11-year-old bottlenose dolphin named K2 died Saturday. The cause of death remains unclear, but officials told the Las […]