Cayman Islands Lobster Season closes 1 March
The Cayman Islands lobster fishing season closes Friday, 1 March. The National Conservation Law (NCL) sets the closed season for lobster fishing from 1 March through 30 November each year. No one may take lobster from Cayman waters, or purchase,…
Crossing the Alps
Crossing the Alps by Train: Three rail routes from Switzerland to Italy From Eurocheap “I want to see the Alps by train, so I’ve the booked a ride south from Berne into Italy,” said Margot. We didn’t have the heart…
Digital gaps
By Paul McGowan From PS Audio It’s common wisdom that because digital breaks up sound into bits there’s missing information between those bits—information not lost with analog. But is that accurate? The comparison between the uninterrupted straight line picture of…
Prince William and Kate Middleton are the king and queen of draught beer
By Laura Byager From Mashable Prince William and Kate Middleton just proved that they, like many of their fellow Britons, love a good pint. Or at least they like pouring them. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge served up two…
US bans cargo shipments of lithium-ion batteries on passenger planes
By Jon Fingas From engadget Cargo flights will also have to carry mostly-drained batteries. The US government just added a new wrinkle to receiving lithium-ion batteries. The Department of Transportation and the FAA have issued an interim rule banning the transport of…
Canada: One Caribbean Television now available on Bell Fibe TV
TORONTO, Canada (February 28, 2019) – One Caribbean Television, the 24/7 television channel with original and informative programming about the Caribbean and its people, is now available to Bell Fibe TV subscribers on Channel 2481 in Canada We’re excited about…
Trump-Kim summit breaks down after North Korea demands end to sanctions
From BBC A summit between Donald Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ended with no agreement after the US refused North Korean demands for sanctions relief, the US president has said. “It was all about the sanctions,” Mr…
US Senate Report: China-funded institutes threaten academic freedom
By Solange Reyner From Newsmax Chinese-funded institutes on more than 100 U.S. college campuses are a threat to academic freedom and should be shut down, Senate investigators warn in a new bipartisan report, per NBC News. Confucius Institutes “depict China as…
Post Nike sneaker fiasco, a footwear design expert shares how and why basketball shoes can fail
By Emily Engle From Core77 Keep the below image in the back of your head for the next few minutes, as we’ll be dissecting how and why Duke basketball player Zion Williamson’s pair of Nike PG 2.5 basketball sneakers literally…
4 US journalists excluded from a dinner with Trump and Kim Jong Un at the summit in Vietnam
Reuters From Business Insider The White House barred reporters from Reuters, the Associated Press, Bloomberg and the Los Angeles Times from covering a dinner between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday after two of…