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Pizza Hut set all-time digital order sales record by halftime of Super Bowl 50

MarketWatch.com 

Pizza Hut, a subsidiary of Yum Brands Inc. serving pizza, pasta and wings, said it broke its all-time digital sales record by halftime of Super Bowl 50 on Sunday. It had nearly $12 million in digital sales by day's end, the company said in a Monday release. The previous record was nearly $10 million. More than 60% of digital orders were placed on a mobile device, exceeding orders placed on desktop computers for the first time. Yum Brands shares are down 3.7% in Monday trading and 9% for the past 12 months. Читать дальше...

Video | Gigantische bende door confettikanon in Boekelo

Tubantia 

BOEKELO - Het begint een beetje treurig, het confettikanon in Boekelo, maar na een paar seconden is er geen houden meer aan. Gelijkende een flinke sneeuwbui zitten de toeschouwers van de carnavalsoptocht zondag binnen mum van tijd volledig onder de confetti. 

Nasa taps sports balls to decode aerodynamics

«The Times of India» (indiatimes.com) 

Nasascientists, including one of Indianorigin, are studying the aerodynamics involved in sports balls moving through the air in order to learn how to make aircraft more Earth-friendly or help a spacecraft take the most efficient route to Mars.



Offseason Tip: Condition Deer to Your ATV

OutdoorLife 

 Photograph by John Hafner

I grew up hunting the big timber of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. If you’ve never visited the U.P, it’s a fairly easy place to describe. You cross the mighty Mackinac Bridge, a 7-mile passage over a pair of Great Lakes (Michigan on the left, Huron on the right).

Once on land, you’ll see a mixed forest comprised primarily of conifer with stands of aspen interspersed with a dash of hardwoods here and there. And you will see that for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of miles. Читать дальше...

Verizon (VZ) Taps AOL's Tim Armstrong To Lead A Yahoo Deal: Report

International Business Times 

SAN FRANCISCO -- Verizon has tapped AOL CEO Tim Armstrong to lead preliminary discussions of a potential purchase of Yahoo, according to Bloomberg, citing "a person with knowledge of the situation." Armstrong joined Verizon last year after the company acquired AOL in May for $4.4 billion.

Take a deep breath: Scientists locate the part of the brain that controls sighs

Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) 

Your life depends on your ability to sigh.

Yes, we sigh when we're exhausted or stressed -- and when the weight of the world feels like too much to bear -- but it turns out that sighing is also an essential life-sustaining reflex that is necessary to keep our lungs from collapsing.  

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Review: Unique And Freaky Polish Cannibal Mermaid Musical 'The Lure'

«Indiewire» 

In mermaid tales — the old ones, before Disney — hybrid fish-women use their glorious voices to lure men into the depths. In some regions mermaids are harbingers of doom; in others, vengeful spirits of women who were themselves lured to the water by treacherous, violent men. The Polish cannibal mermaid musical "The Lure" cherry-picks from various traditions to create its own unique folkloric creatures in a darkly freaky riff on Hans Christian Anderson's "The Little Mermaid." As a family of musicians sings on a beach at night... Читать дальше...

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X-rays, nanoparticles can kill cancer

«The Times of India» (indiatimes.com) 

Nanoparticles used in combination with X-rays are a viable method for killing cancer cells deep within the living body, a new study has found.


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