Stanley Quencher cups are a viral sensation, becoming a must-have staple amongst social media influencers. The reusable 40 oz tumblers are hailed as environmentally-friendly and stylish. According to Stanley’s website, they can keep hot drinks warm for at least seven hours, and cold drinks cool for at least 11 hours. In 2023, as the product grew in popularity, the company made $750 million in revenue, ten times the $75 million revenue it made in 2022.
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Eva Mendes (Actress) - On This Day
2024-08-12
Profession: Actress
Biography: Eva Mendes is an American actress and model. She began acting in the late 1990s and rose to prominence with a series of roles in major Hollywood films. Her breakthrough came with the 2001 film Training Day, where she starred opposite Denzel Washington. Mendes's performance in Training Day was widely praised and led to more high-profile roles in films such as 2 Fast 2 Furious, Hitch, We Own the Night, and The Other Guys.
We’ve all experienced that moment of dread: You’re about to capture a video of your dog or cat doing something especially cute or hilarious. But then, the pop-up of doom: you’re out of space on your phone.
You might have lost that moment, but there are plenty of ways to free up space on your Android phone to keep something like that from happening again. Good storage management is important for making sure you’ve always got the space you need, when you need it.
There is a sense of uneasiness when the screen lights up. Excitement, yes, because you’re being shown a new way to fight a war, having gained access to a perspective until now closed to human perception. But also modesty because the action is down below, a thousand miles below, and all the courage and suffering of the battle are so distant as to almost lose their human meaning. In a recent visit to Palantir’s offices in London, I was able to witness first-hand how the firm’s superior data technology really works.
How Talking Less Will Get You More
2024-08-12
The world is filled with overtalkers. You run into them all the time. They’re that pest at the office who destroys every Monday by recounting each unremarkable thing they did over the weekend. They’re that jerk who talks over everyone else at a dinner party while the rest of you fantasize about slipping hemlock into their pinot noir. They’re the neighbor who drops in uninvited and spends an hour telling you stories you’ve already heard, the arrogant know-it-all who interrupts colleagues in meetings, the CEO whose reckless tweet gets him charged with securities fraud.
HUSBANDRY: Town & Country - TIME
2024-08-12
Share Read Later Surprised and happy was the Hoffman household last week when Craig Hoffman, wealthy New Jersey farmer, was brought home from jail. Brooding and resentful were the Polish mill workers of Manville, N. J. when they heard of Hoffman's release. Six weeks ago (TIME, Sept. 2) four ragged children from Manville's Poletown, two little Kolesars and two little Klementoviches, made an expedition to Farmer Hoffman's cornfield to snitch a few ears of corn for a "
In one of I Am: Celine Dion’s many philosophizing monologues, the eponymous global singing icon compares herself to an apple tree. In the past, Dion explains, she gave people apples—“the best, and I shine them”—a metaphor for the talents she has shared with her massive global audience. But now, "my branches are starting to fall sometimes, get crooked, and those branches are starting to produce a little less apples.” Yet, she continues, “there are still as many people in line.
J. J. Thomson (Physicist) - On This Day
2024-08-12
Full Name: Joseph John Thomson
Profession: Physicist
Biography: J. J. Thomson was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of electron. In 1897 he was the first to suggest the subatomic particle (electron) though this study of the properties of cathode rays. Thomson was also a remarkable teacher and headed up the famous Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University. Six of his research students won Nobel Prizes in Physics (Charles Glover Barkla, Niels Bohr, Max Born, William Henry Bragg, Owen Willans Richardson and Charles Thomson Rees Wilson) and two won Nobel Prizes for Chemistry (Ernest Rutherford and Francis William Aston).