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☆ Google reveals the 10 most popular travel destination trends of 2019
▼ + stars: | 2019-12-13 | by ( Monica Pitrelli | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

1 travel destination trend in the U.S., per Google's "Year in Search 2019" results. 3) Bora BoraSunset from the Four Seasons Resort Bora Bora. In 2009, Club Med Bora Bora shuttered its doors. Home to a crystalline lagoon and sugary sands, Bora Bora is a good spot to swim with sharks (the pleasant kind), rays and even whales. Americans search for "all-inclusive" resorts as well as specific hotels, such as the Four Seasons and St. Regis properties.

☆ How many 'unavoidable defects' are in peanut butter and other foods you eat?
▼ + stars: | 2019-10-04 | by ( Sandee Lamotte | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

That dark, delicious bar you devoured might contain 30 or more insect parts and a sprinkling of rodent hair. That means each 2 tablespoon-peanut butter sandwich would only have about eight insect fragments and a teensy bit of rodent filth. (“Filth” is what the FDA calls these insect and rodent food defects.) Did you know there can be 450 insect parts and nine rodent hairs in every 16-ounce box of spaghetti? “Do we have particularly high insect parts or was it a particularly buggy time of year when the food was harvested?

Persons: CNN — Brace, gosh, ”, Ben Chapman, Chapman, “, ” Chapman, I’ve, Will Organizations: CNN, Food and Drug Administration, FDA, North Carolina State University Locations: America

☆ The December solstice is here. Here's how it works and why it starts winter and summer at the same time.
▼ + stars: | 2018-12-21 | by ( Marianne Guenot | Shayanne Gal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The 2022 winter solstice happens on Wednesday 21 December at 4:48 p.m. It is the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere but the summer solstice in the southern. This is due to Earth's tilted axis as it orbits around the sun. How the December solstice worksThe winter solstice is the point when the sun will stay closest to the horizon all day. At that point, the sun's most direct rays reach the Tropic of Cancer, summer starts for the northern hemisphere, and winter begins for those south of the equator.

☆ Vegemite and more: An A to Z of the top foods and drinks Australians love most
▼ + stars: | 2018-01-20 | by ( Brooke Chenoweth | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

“During the Second World War, Vegemite captured the Australian market. Marmite was unobtainable and the Australian Army supplied Vegemite to its troops,” says the museum in a post highlighting defining symbols of Australia. “In the 1950s and 60s, despite acquisition by the American company Kraft, Vegemite became a distinctively ‘Australian’ food. 🥳No round-up of Aussie foods would be complete without this ubiquitous salty brown spread, which turns 100 on October 25. For those living in countries where it’s not yet exported, Vegemite comes in massive 560 gram jars and travel-sized tubes.

Persons: CP, Fred Walker, Vegemite, Marmite, ”, “ Bertie, Bert Appleroth –, grandma, Bowen, Egypt –, Expats, they’re, Kevin Rudd, ” Rudd, Hilary Whiteman, Allen’s, Cadbury Cherry Ripes, Caramello Koalas, Violet Crumbles, snacking, gyros, Lord Lamington, Cameron Spencer, Pavlova, pavlova, Vince Caligiuri, quince, Maggie Beer’s quince, GREG, Bundy, barbie, Ian Waldie, expats, Tim Tams, Tam, Tobys, we’re, ike “, ove, ou., rab, abby, abbies, ritter, ake Organizations: CNN, National Museum of Australia, CP Callister, Australian Army, “, American, Kraft, Aeroplane, tradies, OSCAR RIVERA, AFP, Getty, Weis, Arnott’s, Cadbury Australia, Nestlé, Sydney Fish Market, antipodes, Bundaberg Rum's, Producers, Geographic Locations: Australia, Melbourne, British, “, Australian, Bega, ”, Sydney, American, Queensland, Bowen, Kensington, Christmas, Egypt, AFP, mayo, Switzerland, United States, Asia, Bundaberg, Balmain, Moreton, Niseko, Japan, ried

☆ The white-gold black-blue dress controversy raised scientific questions about visual perception. The psychology of the illusion.
▼ + stars: | 2016-02-26 | by ( Dina Spector | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Some people saw a blue and black dress, while others saw a white and gold dress. How the brain interprets the dress illusionIn person, the dress is clearly blue and black. It makes the blue part look white and black part look gold. In other words, our individual sensitivity to the blue background lighting of the photo is changing how we see the object in the image. The blue bars are the same at the top, bottom, and middle but appear to change color (look darker) as your eyes move down the figure.

Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" delves into the design and development of the atomic bomb. But nuclear experts say the atomic bomb is nowhere near as deadly as its nuclear cousin. Hydrogen bombs can be up to 1,000 times more powerful than atomic bombs. The device on the left is an implosion-type fission bomb, like the Fat Man bomb detonated over Nagasaki, and it compresses everything inward. Below is a second graphic showing a boosted atomic bomb and a hydrogen bomb.

Persons: Christopher Nolan's, Oppenheimer, J, Robert Oppenheimer, Little Organizations: Service, Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory, Little Boy, Reuters Locations: Wall, Silicon, Japan, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Korea

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