A student designed the recycling symbol for $2,500
Gary Anderson was 23 when he won a 1970 contest to design a recycling logo. The EPA now says his arrows mislead on plastics that are hard to recycle.
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Air fryer corn on the cob: how heat changes the cooking time
Kitchn air fries corn at 400F for 6 to 8 minutes for a light char. BBC Good Food softens it at 180C for 15 to 18, and foil stops the kernels drying.
Kaley Cuoco started producing before Big Bang Theory ended
Kaley Cuoco set up a production company before The Big Bang Theory ended. Critics see her Flight Attendant and Vanished heroines as ordinary women in trouble.
Texas started a US map war that the Supreme Court then widened
Since 2025 US states have redrawn House districts mid-decade, led by Texas. The Supreme Court's Louisiana v Callais ruling made racial bias harder to prove.
Home loans become bonds, and the bank picks which ones go in
A mortgage-backed security pools home loans into one bond. US bonds mostly pass income straight through, while the EU counts only bundles cut into risk tiers.
Fox News parts with Maria Bartiromo and gives no reason
Fox News Media dropped Maria Bartiromo on 2026-09-03 and gave no reason. Trump called her "a true warrior", and a Smartmatic lawsuit still names her.
Why a blast furnace makes iron, not steel
A blast furnace strips oxygen from iron ore to make pig iron, which carries too much carbon to be steel until a second furnace treats it.
US Senate races barely mention Social Security's 2032 deadline
The US Social Security trust fund runs dry in 2032, and benefits drop 22% unless Congress acts. Few Senate candidates are discussing it.
Sinners is North America's biggest original hit since Inception
Ryan Coogler's original vampire film, set in 1932 Mississippi, drew doubters, then broke box office and Oscar records. It began with an uncle's blues records.
The US doesn't use the two-quarter rule to call a recession
A private committee at the NBER makes the call, weighing jobs, income and output. The UK's ONS calls the shorthand a technical recession.
Patrick Mahomes returned from ACL surgery unbeaten
Patrick Mahomes tore his ACL in December, then threw three touchdowns in an overtime win nine months later. The Chiefs are 2-0 since his return.
Researchers say QWERTY came from telegraphy, not jams
The usual story says QWERTY stopped typebars jamming. A 2011 Kyoto University paper traces the layout to the needs of telegraph operators.
Patent trolls make money by threatening suits, not products
A patent troll buys patents it never uses, then threatens costly lawsuits until targets pay. IP Nav says its fees topped $700m.
Great Britain and Ireland win Walker Cup in record comeback
Great Britain and Ireland lost the Sunday foursomes 4-0 at Lahinch, then beat the USA 13½-12½ to win their first Walker Cup since 2015.
The first US commercial deep-sea mining permit is under review
NOAA is weighing a bid from The Metals Company USA to mine seabed nodules beyond US waters. No company has ever held such a US recovery permit.
A film tax credit can decide where a film is shot
A film tax credit refunds a slice of what a production spends, often about 20%. That refund can decide where a film is made, and places without one lose out.
Dollar reserve status is worth the US an estimated $18 trillion
A National Bureau of Economic Research paper says losing reserve status would cut the dollar's value 8.8% and lift US real interest rates 0.9 points.
Stoicism was a test of control, not a mood
Stoicism sorts what you can act on from what you cannot. A Vietnam prisoner of war and Roman rebels both lived by that test.
US importers pay the tariff, then pass part of it to shoppers
A US tariff is paid by the importer at the border. Federal Reserve research found at least 30% of 2025's China tariffs reached shelf prices, slowly.
Carbon dating can age remains up to about 60,000 years old
Carbon dating measures decaying carbon-14 against stable carbon-12 to work out how long ago an organism died, a method Willard Libby built in Chicago.
A census counts everyone on one day, then checks who it missed
A census counts every resident against one fixed date, then a separate survey checks how many the count still missed, and where.
Ford's moving line cut Model T assembly to about 90 minutes
Ford cut assembly from twelve and a half hours to about 90 minutes in 1913. One car design, identical parts and 84 single-step jobs made it possible.
Is Taco Bell safe to eat after the US Cyclospora outbreak?
Taco Bell pulled the lettuce tied to a US Cyclospora outbreak in July. Food safety scientist Tamika D. Sims says there is no reason to avoid the chain now.
Elizabeth Holmes will move to a halfway house next year
Elizabeth Holmes will leave her Texas prison camp for a halfway house next August, years before her full release in 2030.