Ever wonder why Easter is not "set"? Christmas is Dec 25. Never have to wonder when Christmas will land, but the other side of it is that Christmas lining up with a weekend is always sliding. The nice thing about Easter is, "it's on Sunday this year" and every year for that matter. We've had Easters...

As studios drastically dial back the volume of film and television produced in the Los Angeles area, Hollywood workers have been under conditions that resemble a recession: there was a 30 percent drop in employment off the late 2022 peak for people who work in motion pictures and television, as the number of newly star...

Nike's Converse brand of skate shoes has been declining, as sales approach a 15-year low. Converse sales appear to be coming in at an estimated $1.27 billion this year, the lowest since 2012 when Converse posted $1.32 billion in sales, and well under the recent peak of $2.43 billion notched as recently as 2023. Nike ma...

China holds a relatively small slice of the global smart glasses market, but thanks to government subsidies and local tech giants going all-in on the product, China is seeing an uptick in adoption of wearables. In 2025, the 2.5 million pairs of smart glasses shipped to the Chinese market made up 16.7 percent of the glo...

Americans, in general, have a much smaller appetite for seafood compared to people in other countries. Globally, the average comes in at 45 pounds of seafood per person per year, with some European countries coming in around 90 pounds per capita and outliers like Iceland coming in with 200 pounds of fish per capita con...

Keen EagleCam viewers catch a glimpse of a chick in the nest Eagle chick (circled in red) in the nest on March 26. DNR staff were alerted to the chick's arrival and confirmed the sighting thanks to the many keen EagleCam viewers watching closely. Based on observations, staff believe the first chick hatched Thursday, Ma...

The government of Utah used to cap the number of mountain lions a person could hunt to one per year, but it recently removed that limit and began to encourage hunters to kill the predators. Indeed, the cougar population has been in decline in Utah since 2016; the population fell from 1,900 mountain lions to just 1,100 ...

Since January 2020, the number of business and first class seats on domestic flights rose 27 percent, vastly outpacing the rate of coach seats, with economy class seats up just 10 percent over the same period. All of the airlines are significantly increasing the number of premium seats in their aircraft. In 2016, Delta...

People are spending more money on veterinarian visits, and lo and behold, people are going to the vet less. Pet care costs were up 5.1 percent in February year over year, more than double the rate of overall inflation. Meanwhile, total vet visits were down three percent in the fourth quarter of last year, notching the ...

Australia has the most expensive cigarettes in the world, following a devoted anti-tobacco campaign. While the campaign has been incredibly successful in reducing the smoking rate - the percent of Australian adults who smoke daily fell from 22.3 percent in 2001 to 10.6 percent in 2022 - the $1.50 (Australian dollars) p...

..yes... Sales of vinyl records increased by 7.9 percent in the United States year over year, increasing from 43.4 million units moved in 2024 to 46.8 million units in 2025. That pushed revenue from $954.4 million to $1.043 billion. One thing fueling that growth was the release of Taylor Swift's Life of a Showgirl, whi...

The proportion of available cars sold for less than $20,000 in 2010 dollars (about $30,000 in 2025 dollars) is lower than it has been in ages. In 2010, there were 243 vehicle models available that cost more than $20,000, and 25 models sold for under $20,000. As of 2025, there are now 328 vehicle models available that c...

In the NFL, 15 teams play on natural grass while 17 play on artificial turf. New data from the NFL Players Association team-by-team scorecards reveal what's already been generally known: the players love grass. The median grade for home fields was a B+ for grass teams and a D for turf teams. All nine of the teams that ...

U.S. cities and states spend north of $4 billion every year on snow operations. And they're actually getting much better at managing snow thanks to increasingly precise GPS tracking and new tech that facilitates the plow rollout. Municipalities are achieving new levels of response and saving money as a result; Syracuse...

Vail Resorts, one of the two companies that control a large chunk of American ski and snowboarding resorts, is reporting a rough winter. Thanks to low snowfall in the Mountain States where Vail's footprint is disproportionate, business has been bad, with season-to-date skier visits down 11.9 percent season-over-season ...

New high-resolution camera and sound enhance user experience Falcons in the nest, photo taken with new camera in 2026 The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources' FalconCam is live for the 2026 nesting season. This year's livestream is using a new camera that offers a much sharper view of peregrine falcons - and, for...

Amazon's costs to ship its deliveries reached $102.7 billion in 2025, up from $95.8 billion the year before and well above the $83.5 billion notched in 2022. That said, efficiency has also increased considerably since then. In 2025, Amazon's shipping costs were 17.5 percent of its North American and International sales...

NIke? For the past several years, as the brand leaned more into fashion, Nike had lost some of its grip on the sports world to upstarts like Under Armour and old foes like Adidas. Since swapping in a new CEO 15 months ago, sports are once again the focus for the retail titan. While Jordans remain a massive business - r...

ACL injuries are getting more and more common among high school athletes, with the average ACL injury rate increasing 26 percent from 2007 to 2022. Girls have had their knee injury rate sharply increase compared to boys; the ACL tear rate for high school female athletes grew 32 percent over the period, compared to 14.5...