• Why canned wine can smell like rotten eggs while beer and Coke are fine

    Sulfur dioxide in the wine reacts with the aluminum to make hydrogen sulfide.

  • It sounds like she ‘hated’ the dog: Dana Perino

    'The Five' co-hosts discuss how South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is defending

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    306: Seemed Like A Good Idea at the Time

    A girl signs up for a class. A couple hires an accountant. A group of co-workers decides to pool their money and buy a couple of lottery tickets. In the beginning, they're full of hope and optimism — and then something turns. Stories of good ideas gone bad. Prologue: Paul was a cop. One night he was pulling second shift when he had a perfectly good idea: He'd stretch out in the back seat and take a little nap during his break. He fell right asleep, and slept well until he woke up and realized...

  • Grandma's seeking next generation of volunteers like Behning

    Volunteers like Duluth's Judy Behning have been a staple of Grandma's Marathon for over three decades now, but the race needs more people to get involved with record numbers anticipated for 2024.

  • 5 Safety Tips That Sound Like Mean Jokes

    You know what will save hundreds of lives every year? More scary wolves

  • The big idea: what would culture look like without nightlife?

    Live music venues, clubs and bars feed creativity and drive social change. But they’re increasingly in dangerA few weeks ago, I decided to walk from London Bridge, up through Soho, to Marylebone, to catch a train home to the West Midlands. It was late-ish on a Friday afternoon, early spring was in the air, and I had time to kill. I was expecting the familiar mass of people finishing work, spilling out of pubs, standing around on corners, but the city streets were dead. It felt more like an early...

  • Emma Stone would like to be called by her real name, if you don't mind

    If you thought Emma Stone was Emma Stone's real name, you are sorely mistaken. The two-time Oscar winner shared this week that she would like to be called by her given name — Emily Stone — despite her many years in show business using that other moniker. In a joint interview with "The Curse" co-star Nathan Fielder, Fielder said that he would be using the "La La Land" and "Poor Things" actor's actual name during the interview — in line with her close friends and collaborators. "Before we...

  • Sophia Bush: ‘I Finally Feel Like I Can Breathe’

    In 2023 actor Sophia Bush made headlines when she filed for divorce one year after a storybook wedding. By the fall it was public knowledge that she was in a new relationship. With a woman. The internet seemed to be foaming at the digital mouth for a scandal, but to those who knew her, it was clear she’d never been more herself. Here, in her own words, Bush speaks to the power of finally learning to listen to her intuition. In April of 2022 I was close to calling off my wedding. Instead of...

  • Thousands of mysterious jellyfish-like creatures wash up on California shores

    Southern California beachgoers may notice a plethora of jellyfish-like creatures washed up on local shores – but sea jellies these blue blobs are not. Thousands of Velella velellas, or by-the-wind sailors, have recently emerged on Golden State beaches from San Diego to Marin County. Pictures taken on April 28 in San Clemente show thousands of gelatinous hydrozoans strewn across a single beach. Point Reyes National Seashore, a National Park Service (NPS) preserve located in the Bay Area,...

  • Government denies losing track of thousands of likely Rwanda deportees

    Some asylum seekers earmarked for Rwanda could abscond before they are detained, the Home Office admits.

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    Thousands attend Houston Rolling Stones concert at NRG Stadium

    The Rolling Stones kicked off their Hackney Diamonds Tour at NRG Stadium on

  • Emma Stone says she would like to be called by her real name: Emily

    Oscar winner reveals she would enjoy fans using her given name despite using Emma professionallyHer films have racked up more than $1bn at the box office and she has won two Oscars under her stage name, but Emma Stone says she would now prefer to be called by her given name: Emily.In a joint interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Nathan Fielder, her co-star in the surreal TV show The Curse, revealed that actors and crew members she worked with called her Emily. Continue reading