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Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Three men were found dead on Mt. Baldy on Monday, days after a winter storm blanketed the peaks of the San Gabriel Mountains with snow. At around 11:30 a.m., search and rescue teams responded to a request to find an injured man, 19, who had fallen 500 feet while hiking near Devil's Backbone, a sharp ridge flanked by steep drops that leads to the summit, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said in a news release. A friend who had been traveling with him had hiked to an area with cell service and provided GPS coordinates to rescuers, officials said. A sheriff's air rescue team recovered the bodies Tuesday at about 2 p.m., the department confirmed Tuesday evening. read more


President Donald Trump has been mocked online after he appeared to confuse a bald eagle with a falcon. Trump shared a post on Truth Social on the evening of Tuesday, December 30, which showed a dead bird lying in front of a windmill. The post read, "Windmills are killing all of our beautiful Bald Eagles!" However, the image used in that post was taken in Israel, rather than the United States, and shows a falcon, rather than an eagle, and is dated to 2017. In response to the post, there has been a wave of criticism and mockery directed at Trump. The left-wing media network MeidasTouch replied directly to the U.S. Department of Energy and wrote, "Why are you posting images of dead falcons in Israel from 2017?" Spencer Hakimian, the founder of Tolou Capital management, meanwhile, wrote on X in a post viewed over 140,000 times, "Grandpa is drinking again."


Saturday, December 20, 2025

A federal jury has acquitted a South L.A. man who was charged with stealing government property by towing an immigration agent's vehicle ... read more


Saturday, December 13, 2025

Indiana's contentious mid-decade redistricting fight was a test of President Trump's hold on the Republican Party. read more


Wednesday, November 26, 2025

A court official has dismissed a Justice Department complaint that accused a federal judge of "hostile and egregious" misconduct during hearings for a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's ban on transgender troops ... read more


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#8

Well, seems like we've identified the ignoramus. Buddy, it's you.

Before you buy orange juice, it's probably been stored for up to two years in a two-story stainless steel tank containing 265,000 gallons of a viscous brown paste. It's still orange juice, but with the water and volatile flavor molecules removed. The result is a simple syrup that's six times sweeter than the original juice and has none of the orange's fruity, floral freshness.

Bananas? They may not be refrigerated in the supermarket, but they're the quintessential refrigerated fruit. Only thanks to what Nicola Twilley calls "a continuous network of thermal control" have they managed to become a global commodity rather than a luxury. And that bag of salad you picked up for dinner? It's not just a plastic bag, but, as Twilley explains in his new book Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves , "a technologically engineered respiratory apparatus designed with layers of semipermeable films to slow the metabolism of spinach, arugula, and endive and extend their shelf life."

Three-quarters of everything in the average American diet, she explains, passes through the cold chain"a network of warehouses, shipping containers, trucks, refrigerated display cases, and home refrigerators that keep meat, milk, and other products chilled during their journey from farm to plate. As consumers, we place great trust in terms like "fresh" and "natural," but artificial refrigeration has created a blind spot, Twilley says. We've become so efficient at preserving (and storing) food that, as she writes, "we know more about how to extend the shelf life of an apple than we do about a human being," and most of us never think about this extraordinary process.

But it's not all good: Refrigeration is a major contributor to global warming and ozone depletion, so much so that Project Drawdown, a climate solutions nonprofit, points to refrigerant management as the single most important action we can take to mitigate climate change.

"What we eat, how our food tastes, where it is grown, and how it affects both our health and the planet: these issues shape our daily lives and our survival as a species," Twilley writes, "and all of them have been completely transformed by artificially produced cold."

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