Looks like it’s going to be the Mojo Dojo Casa Oscars. (Again.) Tuesday’s Oscar nominations included eight nods for “Barbie,” the highest-grossing movie of the year — but none for director Greta Gerwig, who created its singular, wildly popular vision, or lead actress Margot Robbie, who was, you know, Barbie. It’s a forehead-slapping pair of […]
These Japanese beef croquettes are so popular there’s a 43-year waitlist
If you order a box of frozen Kobe beef croquettes from Asahiya, a family-run butcher shop in Takasago City in western Japan’s Hyogo Prefecture, it’ll take another 43 years before you receive your order. That isn’t a typo. Forty. Three. Years. Founded in 1926, Asahiya sold meat products from Hyogo prefecture – Kobe beef included […]
Not MAGA enough: 2020 election skeptic quit his job after facing blowback from angry election deniers
When Bob Bartelsmeyer accepted the job as the elections director of a sprawling rural county in Arizona last spring, it seemed like the perfect move. It was a step up professionally in a place where the Trumpian values of the community matched his own. After all, Bartelsmeyer, 67, believed the falsehood subscribed to by millions […]
Climate change was big driver of historic Amazonian drought, study finds
Scientists say El Niño weather phenomenon was not significant influence on extreme heat and water scarcity A historic drought that left swaths of the Amazon rainforest parched for much of last year was caused primarily by climate change, according to a new study, rather than naturally occurring weather patterns. The research by 18 scientists from […]