Tag: weekthatwas
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The week that was
Quirky stories from the week prior.
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The week that was
Monday was April Fool’s Day which is always busy day at SmartNews because even the most sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms have a hard time detecting satire. Now, onto the news that was, unbelievably, real. Scientists published a paper that concluded that music by dubstep star Skrillex can keep mosquitoes from biting. “By coincidence, and rather…
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The week that was
A truck spilled several bags of marijuana across a San Francisco area freeway (880 in Emeryville if you must know). CHP posted on twitter, “Roses are red, violets are blue, your spilled weed is green and we have a citation just for you!” A Florida man decided he wanted to get all his neighbors high…
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The week that was
Jelly Belly, the California-based jelly bean company that was a favorite treat of Ronald “just say no” Reagan, debuted a cannabis-infused jelly bean. The national pharmacy chain CVS announced that it began selling CDB products in 8 states. Worlds collided over at Porsche where they announced they will be releasing an all-electric 911 car bringing…
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The week that was (Ides of March)
Fed chairman Jerome Powell used a piece of fine art to illustrate how too much focus on the details can sometimes obscure the bigger picture. “We have artificially created a state that evolves in a direction opposite to that of the thermodynamic arrow of time,” said Gordey Lesovik, a quantum physicist from the Moscow Institute…
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The week that was
The wonder of shrimp cocktails, surviving on Taco Bell Fire Sauce, and a $380k flying jet motorcycle.
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The week that was
Scientists are trying to figure out how an 8-foot humpback whale ended up in the Amazon jungle. Harvard University wearily denied published rumors that Rapper Lil Pump was replacing German Chancellor Angela Merkel as this year’s commencement speaker. A brewer decided the world needed a Lucky Charms-flavored beer. Morning Marshmallow IPA goes on sale on…
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The week that was
Chimpanzees from the Belfast Zoo in Northern Ireland used downed branches from a recent storm to fashion a ladder to get them up and over their enclosure wall and take a bit of a walk-about. What started out as a prank snowballed into a full-fledged movement. Someone created an online petition to sell Montana to…
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The week that was
A library in Maryland received a book in the mail (ironically titled The Postman) that was checked out back in 1946. A member of the Slovenian parliament stepped down after admitting to stealing a sandwich. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are investigating the heist of melted iceberg water from a vodka distillery in Newfoundland. They…