The annual Perseid meteor shower is underway. If you look up at the night sky over the next month or so, you’ve got a pretty good chance of seeing a shooting star. A good day to view them is Thursday, July 24 during the new moon when the sky is darker. Another good time is Wednesday,…… read more »
In the PGA, The Open Championship gets started today, MLB’s second half starts tomorrow, the WNBA All-Star Game is Saturday, NASCAR is at Dover on Sunday. So, lots of sports on TV, but don’t feel guilty about parking yourself on the couch to check it out. Watching sports can boost your mental health: It increases production…… read more »
A NY GameStop was recently in the news after a bunch of Nintendo Switch 2’s got ruined, because an employee stapled receipts directly to the boxes. Some of the staples went through the box and into console’s screen, which they replaced, but now GameStop is auctioning off the first Nintendo Switch 2 that got stapled…… read more »
Horse racing jockeys in Peru raised money for charity by racing without their horses. They lined up at the starting gates and just sprinted down the track. The only gripe from racing fans was they couldn’t bet on it………. An 80-year-old runner from Florida named Bob Becker just became the oldest person to complete what’s…… read more »
A study found there’s one trait that can make you happier the rest of your life. No matter how old we are, TRUSTING other people makes us happier, and it gets easier and easier to do. Trusting people makes us happy, and being happy makes us want to trust people. So one leads to the…… read more »
An annual convention for furries happened in Pittsburgh last weekend. It’s in the news after attendees donated over $89,000 to the charity Nose 2 Tail Cat Rescue……….. A 72-year-old Montana woman got pinned under her riding mower for about four hours after it tipped over, but two 14-year-old boys saved her life. She got pinned…… read more »
Michigan State Police shared footage of a helicopter crew finding an 83-year-old woman in a swamp on Tuesday. She has dementia and wandered off. They found her about a mile away from her home, and she’s okay…………… How’s this for a tribute? “BBC News” did a story on a heavy metal guitarist named Mark Wood,…… read more »
A woman on TikTok got her wedding ring back 20 years after it went missing. She thought there was a chance it fell down under a bathroom cabinet, so she filmed the cabinet being removed during a recent renovation, and there it was. (Here’s the video.).… ……25-year-old Deaubrey Philson walks nearly four miles to his…… read more »
Police and firefighters in Detroit are praising four brothers who saved two toddlers that got out onto the roof of a house. Two of the brothers saw them up there, and went and got their two older brothers, who climbed a ladder. It turned out the toddlers had gotten out through an open window, but…… read more »
Some recent animal rescues have made the news: Massachusetts cops used crackers to catch someone’s pet pig after it got out of its pen. They joked that it showed some “serious CHOPS” on the run, but they got it back home, which made for a “PIGture-perfect day.”……Cops rescued a kitten from the engine compartment of…… read more »