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...

no..but they are in.... In several regions of China, donkey meat was a regional specialty. As the price of donkey meat soars, restaurants across the country are making do and replacing the key ingredient. Prices are up as much as 50 percent year over year, and donkey is now twice the price of beef. Realistically, the s...

Gym juggernaut Planet Fitness is the largest gym company in America, now reporting 20.8 million members. Since 2011, membership has increased by 617 percent, but the actual location count is only up by a merely breathtaking 493 percent. As it stands, your average Planet Fitness location claims enough members to fill a ...

The Energy Information Administration released the full-year data from the country's electrical generation in 2025, with solar energy continuing its massive string of growth. Solar energy accounted for seven percent of U.S. electricity generation, surpassing hydroelectric's six percent share. Overall, solar generation ...

March in Minnesota means the sun is higher in the sky, and plants are getting ready to come back from dormancy. When that combines with a cycle of daytime temperatures in the 30s and 40s and overnight temps below freezing, one gets perfect the conditions for maple sap to start flowing. The Minnesota Department of Natur...

Demand for green tea from Japan jumped 98 percent in 2025, reaching 72.1 billion yen (US$463 million), with exports jumping 43 percent to reach 12,612 metric tons. That's the first time that the export volume came in above 10,000 tons in 71 years of tracking, and it's in no small part thanks to the surge in interest in...

AMC moviegoers last year didn't have to settle for seats in the first row as often as they did the year before. Yesterday, the company reported mixed results for Q4: It shrunk its losses, but theater attendance was down 10% for the year. The problem isn't just domestic: In fact, US attendance fell just 7.5% compared to...

Axe bottles are now down from four ounces to 2.9 ounces, Deodorant brand Axe is adjusting its bottle, with the new design featuring a more controlled spray. While no self-respecting consumer product would try to make its consumers use less, the minds at Axe have come to realize that teenage boys spraying an entire bott...

The new, more complex figure skating scoring system implemented by the International Skating Union has not appeared to eliminate a judge's bias toward skaters from their own country. An analysis of the scoring from the 2026 Winter Olympics found that there was a statistically significant skew for judges' own countrymen...

..remember when a larger was bigger than a medium? Before Family Size and Extra Large? Sizing is erratic and inconsistent across women's garments. An analysis of the sizing from 15 different brands found no cross-brand consistency and no brand actually aligning with the ASTM standard. When numbered sizing is reduced fu...

In the kind of boring but important news bulletin that you'd typically hear at the beginning of, say, a James Bond movie, a mysterious group of wealthy shipping tycoons is buying up the oil supertankers. A Seoul-based firm has bought about 120 very large crude carriers over the past month or two, a position so large th...

? peanut butter ? A new study found that the most popular condiments among Americans were peanut butter (79 percent love or like), jam or jelly (76 percent), honey (76 percent), followed by ketchup, maple syrup, barbecue sauce and salsa (each 75 percent). A banner performance for tomatoes, great job. Among the more pop...

..it's not what you say..it's how you say it? A survey of Americans in relationships asks which topics were the most likely to be the subject of arguments. The key conclusion is that it's mainly about how we're talking to each other. All told, 36 percent said that they at least "sometimes" argue about tone of...

At OpenAI, alarm bells came from three different employees this week: A researcher quit after two years due to "deep reservations" about ChatGPT's new ad strategy, namely "a potential for manipulating users," she wrote in an essay for the New York Times. A top safety executive was fired after opposi...

New data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York indicated that about one million borrowers defaulted on their federal student loans last year, with 9.6 percent of balances at least 90 days past due. As of September, 3.3 million borrowers were between 31 and 270 days late on payment and 3.6 million were technically i...