In February, just weeks after starting as editor in chief of Marie Claire, Aya Kanai jet-setted to Europe for fashion week in Milan and in Paris. It was there that she started planning the magazine’s September issue, considering what trends to highlight in what is heralded as fashion magazines’ marquee product. Kanai did not know…… MORE
Feed Posts
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission prepares for touchdown on an asteroid
This week, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft conducted a final rehearsed of all of the maneuvers it will need to touchdown on the asteroid Bennu and collect a sample from it in the fall. The collection will occur on October 20, making it NASA’s first spacecraft to collect a sample from an asteroid and return it to…… MORE
Trump orders TikTok’s Chinese-owned parent company to divest interest in US operations
President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday evening directing ByteDance, the Chinese-owned parent company of TikTok, to divest interest in the app’s US operations within the next 90 days. Trump explained in the order that he believes there is “credible evidence” that ByteDance “might take action that threatens to impair the national security of…… MORE
Nurses in a San Antonio hospital organize a patient’s wedding to help lift his spirits
A San Antonio man who was hospitalized with Covid-19 the same week as his wedding got the chance to say “I do” with the help of compassionate hospital staff. Carlos Muniz and Grace Leimann were scheduled to marry in mid-July when their nuptial plans were put on hold after Muniz became ill with the virus,…… MORE
Disney confirms its first bisexual lead character, who is also multi-cultural
Diversity is making its way onto the Disney Channel. Disney has confirmed it has a bixsexual lead character on “The Owl House” series. The 14-year-old Dominican-American girl, Luz Noceda, is not Disney’s first LGBTQ+ character. Pixar featured a gay main character in a short film on Disney Plus, but Luz is the first bisexual character…… MORE
The National Zoo’s giant panda, with a yearly window of 24-72 hours to become pregnant, may be expecting
When Mei Xiang went in for an ultrasound on Friday, her results were shared around the world. The 22-year-old giant panda could deliver a cub in the next few days, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo announced, after imaging revealed what appeared to be a fetus. Mei Xiang has had a team of experts supporting her through…… MORE
Man wanted in connection with Ranch2 Fire in California is believed to be ‘violent,’ police say
Authorities in Azusa, California, are searching for a man who they say intentionally started the 2,500 acre Ranch2 Fire in Los Angeles County. Osmin Palencia, 36, is wanted in connection with the fire that Azusa Police Department, Los Angeles Country Fire Department and the US Forest Service responded to Thursday around 2:45 p.m., according to…… MORE
Starting this weekend, Walmart is converting its parking lots into free drive-in theaters
Tired of movie nights at home? Walmart has the perfect solution for bored quarantiners. Starting August 14, the retail giant is transforming 160 of its US store parking lots into drive-in movie theaters. The showings, which are free, won’t require any contact and cars will be parked far apart to comply with social distance guidelines.…… MORE
The father of a 5-year-old boy killed in North Carolina says the suspect was a neighbor for eight years
The grieving father of a 5-year-old North Carolina boy allegedly killed by a neighbor is sharing details on the final moments leading up to the shooting. Cannon Hinnant was riding his bike outside his father’s home in Wilson on Sunday when a man walked up to him and shot him in the head, witnesses told…… MORE
US considering coronavirus strain for potential human challenge trials — but there’s no intention to use it, Fauci says
The nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, confirmed to CNN on Friday that scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases are working to have a strain of coronavirus created that could be used in human challenge trials of a Covid-19 vaccine. In challenge trials, researchers give study subjects an experimental…… MORE
Question of the Day
Aug 14
Q: Nearly 10-percent of people say this is something they never like to do, no matter what…. A: Hug someone
Aug 13
Q: LAST YEAR ABOUT 1/3RD OF PEOPLE SAID THEY HOPED TO DO THIS DURING THE SUMMER…THIS YEAR IT’S 50-PERCENT… A: Go to the drive-in
Aug 12
Q: IT USUALLY TAKES PEOPLE ABOUT 11-SECONDS TO LOOK AT THIS… A: Something in a museum