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Videos of planes that don\’t crash don\’t make the news or go viral. But the ones that crash get so much attention that it makes it feel like something that\’s incredibly rare happens all the time. Being afraid of your plane crashing is statistically a waste of brainpower because your odds of that happening are […]

Ambitious futurists like Elon Musk predict that in the near future, traffic accidents and infractions will be a thing of the past thanks to robotaxis and autonomous cars.  However, the present day is not the future. Many of cars out on the roads of the United States are still operated by humans with flesh and blood,

Since the days of Liberace\’s Las Vegas residencies, which began in 1944, the Las Vegas Strip has been the world\’s top entertainment destination. The Strip\’s entertainment has evolved over the years from the early years of hosting Nat \”King\” Cole and Ella Fitzgerald in the 1950\’s, Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack in the 1960\’s

The stock market looks great overall, maybe too great.  Thanks to frenzied investors who crave all things tech, the S&P 500, the Nasdaq Composite and the Nasdaq-100 indexes all closed the week at record highs.  Apple  (AAPL) , Amazon.com  (AMZN) , Google parent Alphabet  (GOOGL) , Facebook parent Meta Platforms  (META) and Microsoft  (MSFT)  also hit

In 2020, the entire cruise industry seemed like it might face bankruptcy. Cruises were not allowed in most of the world as the Covid pandemic made gathering people in enclosed spaces something that simply wasn\’t a good idea. At the time, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) regulated the cruise industry sailing from U.S ports,

Running a cafe, at least one based around coffee and pastry, followed a pretty simple pattern. People stopped for coffee and maybe something to eat on their way to work. They might come back on a coffee break, at lunchtime, or even in the late afternoon, but mornings were the busiest time. Generally, that meant

Professional golf is a sport that’s both divided and threatened. Amidst a murky ceasefire between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf, the upstart, Saudi-funded contingent that pledged to join forces in June 2023, and a seemingly endless narrative of player contracts, payouts, and greed, its fans have simply tuned out.  PGA viewership suffered a 20% year-over-year

Anytime you put thousands of people in close quarters, you run the risk of viruses, illnesses, and other problems being passed among people.  That\’s not a problem unique to cruise lines since you can catch a cold, the flu or even pinkeye at a hotel, in a theme park, at a casino or even at

Sometimes, an incredibly lucrative deal might be too good to be true. On June 18, Manhattan Beach, California-based EV startup Fisker, Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after a turbulent pattern of events that involved various quality control issues, recalls, and a disastrous review from YouTube\’s leading tech authority affected the firm\’s sole offering; the all-electric Ocean