From cash registers to escalators to shopping carts: 11 important firsts in bricks-and-mortar retail history
By Mary Beth Quirk From Consumerist These days you can shop from the comfort your couch in your soft pants, ordering up a flat of cat food, paper towels, and a smartphone with one click. So it’s easy to forget…
Are cigarette warnings that show actual harm more effective at getting people to quit?
By Mary Beth Quirk From Consumerist Imagine you’re holding a package of cigarettes you’re thinking about buying. Which would encourage you to quit: a label with a written warning, or a label with a photo of a throat cancer patient…
New blue iguana exhibit opens at WCS’s Bronx Zoo
By Raymond A. Edel , A new exhibit in the Reptile House at World Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo features the Grand Cayman iguana (Cyclura lewisi), also known as the blue iguana. The exhibit is now open to the public and…
Scientists copy climate change data in fear of a Trump crackdown
By Jon Fingas From engadget And the Energy Department is refusing Trump’s request to name climate change workers. Donald Trump’s incoming presidency won’t be kind to climate change science, and that’s making both scientists and government divisions nervous — to…
Parents of twin baby girls in Oklahoma charged in alleged ‘worst case of child abuse’ authorities had seen
By People From Yahoo News The parents of two allegedly neglected and malnourished twin baby girls were arrested in what doctors and police in Oklahoma say was “the worst case of child abuse they had seen,” PEOPLE confirms. Kevin Fowler,…
Private Equity bigwigs bask in Caribbean Billions
By Pitch Book From Value Walk For some of the biggest names in private equity, nothing sounds better during the holiday season than a Caribbean vacation. Just ask TPG, KKR and Bain Capital, all of which were recently involved in…
Relationships: When did sweethearting become the ‘norm’ of behaviour?
By Dr Edrica D. Richardson From Caribbean News Now The term “sweetheart” has been accepted for many years now across the Caribbean for a much more painful and oftentimes destructive problem of infidelity. Infidelity has been the cause for divorces,…
South China Sea weaponized as fortifications sprout on islands
From Newsmax China appears to have installed weapons, including anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems, on all seven of the artificial islands it has built in the South China Sea, a U.S. think tank reported Wednesday, citing new satellite imagery. The Asia…
Visiting yachtsmen warned about new scam in St Lucia
From Caribbean News Now MARIGOT BAY, St Lucia — Caribbean Safety and Security Net (CSSN) has reported a first-hand account of a new scam perpetrated on visiting yachtsmen from a cruiser anchored In Marigot Bay, Saint Lucia. On a particularly…
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