A new estimate puts the plastic waste resulting from just Coca-Cola products at 1.33 billion pounds annually by 2030. This comes after the world's largest producer of beverages backs off pledges to improve recycling and cut plastic use. As a result, the company's plastic use is projected to exceed 4.13 million metric t...

Whatever remains of "Napster" has been sold off for the umpteenth time to a media company that you've never heard of for $207 million, continuing the legacy of a filesharing service bringing the music industry to its knees before imploding. Launched originally in 1999 as the most successful of the peer-to-pee...

Last year Mount Fuji in Japan drew 204,316 hikers, down from the 221,322 hikers in 2023 thanks to new fees implemented to access the trails in an attempt to reduce overcrowding. Last week authorities announced they would introduce a flat 4,000 yen (US$27) fee to hike all 4 of Mount Fuji's main trails, increasing the 2,...

A new study published in JAMA found that patients who got medical procedures right before the weekend tended to suffer more complications than those who got surgery at the beginning of the week. The study analyzed over 450,000 patients receiving one of the 25 most common surgeries from 2007 to 2019 and found that overa...

It sure looks like the penny's days may be numbered, with 42 percent of Americans saying they support the elimination of the penny, up 8 percentage points in just over ten years. At the same time, opposition to its elimination has plummeted from 51 percent in 2014 to just 30 percent in 2025. The real impediment here is...

A new analysis dove deep into the phenomenon of the two-hit wonder: those artists who managed to escape the notoriety of being just a one-hit wonder by managing a second popular hit but never really broke out far beyond that. Looking at the Billboard Hot 100 charts from its inception to 2010, there have been 3,271 arti...

Expensive travel leagues have supplanted simple extracurricular sports. Leagues are catering to the kids (and their parents) who want them to be among the 7 percent of teenage athletes who will advance to the collegiate level of their sport, bringing in some scholarship money. One effect is that the amount of money spe...

A new survey from the Pew Research Center found that on average, Americans said that the best age to get married is 26.5, the best age to have a kid is 27.3, the best age to buy a home is 28.8 and the best age to retire is 61.8. While not included in the survey, I can indeed confirm that the best age to delusionally an...

March Madness is here! And just like the super bowl, advertisers are going all out. Well at least State Farm Is. WATCH:

by Doug Leier (2017 originally) In North Dakota 1976 school consolidation hadn't begun to change the landscape of competition. Today entire counties and "Areas" compete as a single team. Even in the 1990s there were massive sports co-ops and towns such as Mayville-Portland-Clifford-Galesburg were one team w...

I admit: I'm a rock n roller. You can't play rock music for your radio career for just about 40 years & not be. And I'm a sucker for a good rock n roll story. This is a good one. Fans can own a piece of Iron Maiden's Boeing 747-400 tour plane. The Plane is known as "Ed Force One" and has been dismantled...

Who doesn't love the #monarch butterfly? We know they need some help! U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Reopens Public Comment Period for Monarch Butterfly Endangered Species Act Listing Proposal The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reopening the public comment period for a proposed rule to list the monarch butterfly as ...

Coca-Cola is continuing to run headlong into the alcohol business and will launch a vodka-based version of Minute Maid lemonade and pink lemonade with 5 percent ABV soon. This will expand the current batch of wine-based Minute Maid Spiked, which has included Blue Hawaiian and Strawberry Daiquiri flavors. Canned cocktai...

At an event outside Tokyo in 2006, Akira Haraguchi set an unofficial world record for reciting the most digits of pi: 100,000 over more than 16 hours. So, how'd he do it? In his mind, he linked each digit with a syllable and created a collection of epic stories from the words those syllables formed. For Haraguchi, pi i...

All things considered, electric vehicle sales are doing pretty great, with global EV sales up 30 percent and sales in the United States up 28 percent year over year. Some of that is probably Americans looking to get into an EV while the subsidies are good - EV sales were up by 8 percent last year - but EV markets are d...

According to annual surveys of new car buyers, those who had positive feelings about the intuitiveness of their vehicle's controls have fallen from 79 percent in 2015 to just 56 percent as of 2024. This trend is also holding steady for driver perceptions of dashboard displays and screen interfaces. Some problems seem t...

A DVD will remain in working order for 30 to 100 years if properly cared for, but Warner Brothers Discovery has confirmed the existence of a serious problem with the DVDs of its films manufactured between 2006 and 2008. Some titles have begun to suffer from early DVD rot, a phenomenon where the DVD begins to separate a...

The Inflation Reduction Act established an $85 per metric ton subsidy for geologic carbon sequestration, which has been great news for the ethanol industry, making money by injecting the carbon it generates underground. Places like Central Illinois have some extremely favorable geology for the task. Archer-Daniels-Midl...

It is a commonality across the country that kids in middle school tend to be less happy than kids in elementary school, and that the transition from the last year of elementary school (fifth grade) to the first year of middle school or junior high (sixth grade) tends to be a pretty rough adjustment. For instance, while...

Malaysia's government agreed to resume and expand the search for MH370, the Boeing 777 that disappeared after taking off from Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing in 2014 with 227 passengers and 12 crew onboard. A U.S. exploration firm, Ocean Infinity, has been enlisted to continue the search. The company was involved in t...