Blog A Fuzzy Invasion When Alicia Griggs steps outside her suburban Fort Lauderdale home, Florida’s latest invasive species comes a-hoppin’ down the street: lionhead rabbits. The bunnies, which sport an impressive flowing mane around their heads, want the food Griggs carries. But she also represents their best chance of survival and moving where this domesticated breed belongs: inside homes, […]
Blog Farmers Insurance Pulls Out of Florida Farmers Insurance pulls out of Florida, affecting 100,000 policyholders Farmers Insurance will stop offering its policies in Florida, including home, auto and umbrella policies, in a change that will force thousands of people to change their insurance provider. The company said in a statement that its decision to get out of Florida was a business […]
Blog Moving From California to Texas A move from California to Texas could save a million dollars. Many Americans are opting in. The exodus of people from California to Texas is picking up steam. In 2021, it was the most popular interstate move in the country, with 111,000 people – or 300 people a day – headed to the Lone Star […]
Country Guides Philippine Tourism Video A Philippines advertising agency has apologized for using footage of other countries in a promotional tourism video. The campaign used images of rice terraces in Indonesia, sand dunes in the United Arab Emirates and an aircraft landing in Switzerland. The agency, DDB Philippines, apologized for the “unfortunate oversight”. Philippine’s tourism secretary, Christina Garcia Frasco, said […]
Animals Who Pays For Rescues? When wealthy adventurers take huge risks, who should foot the bill for rescue attempts? When millionaire Steve Fossett’s plane went missing over the Nevada range in 2007, the swashbuckling adventurer had already been the subject of two prior emergency rescue operations thousands of miles apart. And that prompted a prickly question: After a sweeping […]
Animals Florida County Under Quarantine A portion of a Florida county has been placed under quarantine as state officials work to get rid of a giant African land snail (GALS), the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) said Tuesday. The quarantine comes weeks after state officials found the snail in the Miramar area of Broward County, Florida, according […]
Blog Captivated by the Multiverse and Alternate Realities? Loved “Everything Everywhere All at Once?” Can’t get enough of “The Flash” and “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” this month? Then this list is for you. We’ve compiled a non-exhaustive sampler of fiction about alternate universes and multiverses — from movies to TV to comics to books. It’s a great starter kit if your media tastes […]
Animals Zoo Welcomes Endangered Baby Pygmy Hippo There’s a new member of the Pittsburgh Zoo family – an adorable baby pygmy hippopotamus named Hadari. The 1-year-old baby boy was moved in on May 23, the zoo announced on Wednesday, coming from Alabama’s Montgomery Zoo. And he’s already making himself at home in the zoo’s Jungle Odyssey area. “Hadari is trying out everything, […]
Blog Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is a 2023 American science fiction action film based on Hasbro’s Transformers toy line, and primarily influenced by the Beast Wars storyline. The film is the seventh installment in the Transformers live-action film series. Serving as a standalone sequel to Bumblebee (2018) and prequel to Transformers (2007), the film was […]
Animals ‘Humongous’ Catfish ‘Humongous’ catfish caught in Pennsylvania nabs angler a state record. See the catch When Michael Wherley felt a tug on his line on a Pennsylvania river, he knew there was something big on the other end. He was right. Hooked on his line was a 66-pound flathead catfish. “When it finally came to the surface, […]