Published on: 2025-04-20 05:39:24
FROSTBITE: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves, by Nicola Twilley Consider the improbable fact of the supermarket banana. In “Frostbite,” an exploration of the vast system known as the cold chain, the journalist Nicola Twilley follows the banana through a “seamless network of thermal control.” This series of refrigerated trucks, rail cars, shipping containers and warehouses ends in the ripening room, with its temperature gauges and gas immersion baths, all to meet our
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-23 23:12:44
The only catch is you have to sign up for an AAdvantage account. American Airlines has announced plans to finally offer free Wi-Fi on flights. The company said that its AT&T-sponsored program will start offering free, high-speed Wi-Fi "across more than 2 million American flights per year" in January 2026. To be able to access free Wi-Fi you'll have to be a member of American's AAdvantage loyalty program, but once you're signed up, all you'll need to do is log in to access the internet. Wi-Fi w
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 11:13:36
American Airlines is the most popular airline in the US, and an especially great option for Apple fans thanks to free Apple Music and Apple TV+ offers. But unlike some of its competitors, it has always charged for Wi-Fi connectivity. Fortunately, that practice is about to end: free Wi-Fi is coming to American Airlines soon. American Airlines free Wi-Fi coming January 2026 In a new press release, American Airlines has announced that free connectivity is on the way. Starting next year in Januar
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 10:56:59
Mars is back on the agenda. During his address to a joint session of Congress in March, President Donald Trump said the United States "will pursue our Manifest Destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars." What does this mean? Manifest destiny is the belief, which was particularly widespread in 1800s America, that US settlers were destined to expand westward across North America. Similarly, then, the Trump administration believes it i
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Mars is back on the agenda. During his address to a joint session of Congress in March, President Donald Trump said the United States "will pursue our Manifest Destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars." What does this mean? Manifest destiny is the belief, which was particularly widespread in 1800s America, that US settlers were destined to expand westward across North America. Similarly, then, the Trump administration believes it i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 19:30:36
The colonial victory against the British in the American Revolutionary War was far from a predetermined outcome. In addition to good strategy and the timely appearance of key allies like the French, Continental soldiers relied on several key technological innovations in weaponry. But just how accurate is an 18th-century musket when it comes to hitting a target? Did the rifle really determine the outcome of the war? And just how much damage did cannon inflict? A team of military weapons experts a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 23:05:43
Ankylosaurs, a group of dinosaurs often compared to Pokémon, were built like walking tanks, with bony armor plating their backs and sides. They lived during the Late Jurassic (164 to 145 million years ago) and Cretaceous (145 to 66 million years ago) periods, and consisted of two main subgroups: the nodosaurids, which lacked tail clubs and typically had four toes on both hands and feet; and the ankylosaurids, which had distinctive clubbed tails and usually three toes on their hind feet. While pa
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-01 19:00:16
While the overall reaction to Captain America: Brave New World was decidedly mixed, there was one thing everyone agreed on. The action scene featuring Captain America (Anthony Mackie) and the Falcon (Danny Ramirez) soaring all around Celestial Island was awesome. The flying, the explosions, the stakes, it all came together for arguably the best scene in the film. Creating a scene like that is no easy feat and, on the upcoming home release for the film, the special features dive into that. On Ap
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 23:00:36
An American Eagle jet set to leave Washington, D.C. for New York on Thursday afternoon clipped wings with another aircraft on the runway at Ronald Reagan National Airport. One of the planes had at least seven members of Congress on board, according to a report from NBC News. No injuries were reported as a result of the incident, and both planes were able to return to the terminal for inspection, according to a statement from American Airlines given to the BBC. The two flights involved in the gr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 19:19:08
Last weekend, A Minecraft Movie made $15 million in China in its opening weekend. Thanks to President Donald Trump’s new tariffs on the country, that success story might be the last of its kind, for a while at least. On Thursday, Trump announced 145 percent tariffs on Chinese goods, even as he has placed a 90-day pause on some of the hefty tariffs he’d imposed on other countries around the world. As part of the country’s response to the escalating trade war, the China Film Administration announ
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-04 20:15:39
China says it will cut the number of US films that are imported into the country in retaliation against the latest wave of tariff increases imposed by the Trump administration. A statement issued by the Chinese Film Administration (CFA) on Thursday, which we’ve translated using Google, said that the decision to increase tariffs against China to 125 percent was “the wrong move,” and will “further reduce the domestic audience’s favorability” towards American-made movies. “We will follow market ru
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-07 22:21:44
As Americans fret about what their future looks like amidst Donald Trump's heightening trade wars, the people of China have a suggestion: get used to sweatshops. A wild AI-generated post depicting schlubby Americans toiling in dingy factories has gone viral on Chinese social media before leaking out onto US trending tabs. It pokes fun at Trump's so-called "reindustrialization" gambit to bring factories back to the US — and anyone foolish enough to believe the billionaire's policies will benefit
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-08 03:40:03
As Donald Trump’s unprovoked trade war against the world continues, countries are starting to look to respond in ways that will erode more than just America’s bottom line. According to the Hollywood Reporter, China is looking into banning American-made films and TV shows from its market, cutting into the United States’ cultural influence. The reporting cites two influential media figures in China, who apparently shared a very similar report at the same time. Liu Hong, a senior editor at the sta
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 11:11:55
When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: Iceland, the Grand Canyon, the Himalayas. “Nobody ever says Connecticut,” says Long, a geologist at Yale University in New Haven in that state. And yet Connecticut—along with much of the rest of eastern North America—holds important clues about Earth’s history. This region, which geologists call the eas
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 09:12:00
In a nutshell: Chinese-owned TikTok faced a US ban on April 5 unless it could divest its American operations to a stateside buyer. The Trump administration was reportedly finalizing a deal involving several investors, but Beijing withdrew in response to new US-imposed tariffs, prompting the White House to extend the deadline. President Trump recently signed an executive order to extend the delay on TikTok's US ban for another few months as negotiations to sell the Chinese-owned social network t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-07 14:20:56
The philosophy that animates Ira Glass’s This American Life can be summed up by a simple come on: “Let me tell you a story.” News, almost by definition, rarely conforms to what Aristotle deemed the essential element of storytelling: plot. It consists of dispatches from geographically disparate locales and varying worlds (politics, foreign affairs, finance, sports), and it doesn’t adhere to a scenario. Article continues after advertisement Of late, the proliferation of offerings from online out
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 22:24:26
As the world economy reels from President Donald Trump's so-called "reciprocal tariffs," the trade war between China and the US is escalating to new heights. Nowhere is that more evident than in China's wild clapback in the form of an AI-generated music video blasting the United States, which came hours after Trump announced a 34 percent tax on Chinese imports. The English-language China Global Television Network (CGTN) released the song, called "Look What You Taxed Us Through" ahead of Wall S
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 03:18:20
It's well-established that, on the whole, Americans die younger than people in most other high-income countries. For instance, an analysis from 2022 found that the average life expectancy of someone born in Switzerland or Spain in 2019 was 84 years. Meanwhile, the average US life expectancy was 78.8, lower than nearly all other high-income countries, including Canada's, which was 82.3 years. And this was before the pandemic, which only made things worse for the US. Perhaps some Americans may th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 19:49:32
On Wednesday, President Donald J. Trump announced a sweeping new round of tariffs on goods coming into the United States. Standing in the Rose Garden, he declared the moment “liberation day,” though it was hardly the first time the government has tried to protect domestic manufacturers from foreign competition. The practice dates to America’s founding. After states ratified the Constitution and seated the first Congress, James Madison sponsored, and his colleagues passed, the country’s first ma
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-16 19:55:05
A former canvasser for Elon Musk’s America PAC operation—which mobilized voters to sign a sketchy “petition” during last year’s presidential election—has sued the billionaire, accusing him and his political organization of failing to pay him at least $20,000. The former canvasser, who is described as a Philadelphia man, hasn’t revealed his real name, for fear of retaliation. “For his safety and security, Plaintiff John Doe is proceeding under a pseudonym,” the suit states. During the president
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-16 23:45:26
TikTok was temporarily saved from a US ban earlier this year, but a key deadline is coming up that could see the ban reinstated. According to a new report, President Trump’s plan to stop that from happening is a new company called “TikTok America.” New TikTok America company would have split ownership, but likely wouldn’t impact user experience Kaya Yurieff writes at The Information: President Donald Trump plans to announce later on Wednesday his plan for a new company called TikTok America,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 04:23:06
First posted September 15, 2005 Revised December 1, 2015 A puzzling tsunami entered Japanese history in January 1700. Samurai, merchants, and villagers wrote of minor flooding and damage. Some noted that no parent earthquake had been felt; they were wondering what had set off the waves. They had no way knowing that the tsunami had been spawned during an earthquake along the coast of northwestern North America. This orphan tsunami would not be linked to its parent earthquake until the middle 199
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 15:00:00
In Recent years, Netflix and Apple TV+ have been duking it out to have the most prestigious film offerings, but some of the best movies are on Amazon Prime Video. The streamer was one of the first to go around picking up film festival darlings and other lovable favorites, and they’re all still there in the library, so if they flew under your radar the first time, now is the perfect time to catch up. Our picks for the best movies on Amazon Prime are below. All the films in our guide are included
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-29 07:37:26
The US has added 80 organizations and companies to a trading export blacklist in an effort to prevent China from acquiring computing technology for military purposes. The new restrictions announced by the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) are the latest attempt to block foreign access to cutting-edge American chips, despite prior objections from Nvidia and semiconductor industry groups. More than 50 of the new entities added to the list are based in China, with o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-31 21:00:00
A few weeks ago, when I was at the digital rights conference RightsCon in Taiwan, I watched in real time as civil society organizations from around the world, including the US, grappled with the loss of one of the biggest funders of global digital rights work: the United States government. As I wrote in my dispatch, the Trump administration's shocking, rapid gutting of the US government (and its push into what some prominent political scientists call “competitive authoritarianism”) also affects
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-01 09:08:25
Every programmer I know has at some point longingly expressed how “[they] want to work with [their] hands”. Some say they wish they were a carpenter, some want to be in the fields on a farm, some want to raise chickens, or milk cows. It is however inevitable that I either hear someone say it or agree with it at some point. Often, the sentiment is accompanied by a general dissatisfaction with the impact of the speaker’s work or profession. Maybe someone just got a particularly mind-numbing featur
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DNA EVIDENCE SAYS FIRST AMERICANS CAME FROM ASIA Natives Americans are believed to have descended from Asian people who arrived in North America via the Bering Strait. The DNA of ancient American bog people is closer to the Japanese than Americans. Glenn Hodges wrote in National Geographic: “In recent years geneticists have compared the DNA of modern Native Americans with that of other populations around the world and concluded that the ancestors of Native Americans were Asians who separated f
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Manicured grass yards are ecological dead zones. So why are they being forced on people by their neighbors and homeowner associations? Credits Oliver Milman is a New York-based journalist and environment correspondent for The Guardian. When Janet and Jeff Crouch sought to enliven their front yard in suburban Maryland with native black-eyed Susans, Joe-Pye weed, asters and coneflowers, they had no inkling that they were doing anything controversial. “It was a garden full of life and color,” Ja
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government of Efficiency from accessing Americans’ personal data at the Social Security Administration. On Thursday, District Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander argued that, while Musk’s minions claim they are on a mission to root out fraud and abuse at the agency, they haven’t provided any evidence of their claims, nor have they shown why it requires access to millions of Americans’ sensitive information. “The DOGE Team is essentially
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 22:33:00
What just happened? Hundreds of stars and Hollywood executives have signed an open letter urging the Trump administration to deny proposals from AI companies that would allow their systems to be trained on copyrighted work without obtaining permission. Over 400 actors, musicians, filmmakers, writers, and more signed the letter sent to the White House, including Ben Stiller, Mark Ruffalo, Cate Blanchett, Paul McCartney, and Ron Howard, reports The Wrap. The letter, which is not avialable public
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