Did somebody say McDonald’s? The fast food giant is getting a lot of buzz as of late, but this is the sort of press most companies would rather avoid. McDonald’s and Yum Brands Inc. (the parent company to KFC) are in hot water in China, causing serious strain to one of their largest and most important international markets.
The future of the world is bright. As bright as the sun, you might say. Over the last few months, something interesting has been happening in Australia: The country has been slowly shifting from depending on coal for power, to solar produced energies. This has sparked (sorry for the pun) a question: Is solar power finally ready to take... Read More
On Thursday, a Malaysia Airlines jetliner crashed in Ukraine. This single, terrible incident has brought with it a seemingly endless collection of confusion, grief, and misinformation. With so much swirling around this tragedy, it’s difficult to separate the lies from the truth. Here’s what we know about the crash of Malaysia Airlines, and... Read More
When we imagine deep space travel in science-fiction, it tends to go one of two ways: Either we’re traveling at faster-than-light speeds, á la Star Trek, or Battlestar Galactica, or we’re hibernating in some some sort of stasis, like in Aliens. While scientists pontificate and calculate whether faster-than-light travel is even... Read More
