Bowls

Maybe you’ve heard that conservatives are building a parallel economy. Rather than wait to stage another boycott when the next major beer or sneaker brand inevitably goes “woke,” you establish businesses that, from the outset, explicitly tout traditional values. Don’t like Bud Light anymore? Sounds like you need super-patriotic Ultra Right beer. Can’t stand Nike? Check out UNITUS, a sports apparel company that “champions faith, family, and freedom” and sells shoes with Bible references printed on them. In theory,…

The Kansas City Chiefs are Super Bowl champions for the third time in five seasons.After an excruciatingly long wait between their first and second Super Bowl victories, the Chiefs have definitely picked up the pace.Kansas City won the first of its four Super Bowl championships following the 1969 season, three years after losing to the Green Bay Packers 35-10 in the first AFL-NFL World Championship (now known as Super Bowl I).The game now known as Super Bowl IV pitted the AFL champion Chiefs against the heavily favored…

Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs have a chance to make Super Bowl history Sunday — or at least recent Super Bowl history. Eight teams have won back-to-back Super Bowl titles, but no team has pulled off the feat in 19 years, since Tom Brady and the New England Patriots defeated the Carolina Panthers 32-29 in Super Bowl XXXVIII following the 2003 season, then knocked off the Philadelphia Eagles 24-21 in Super Bowl XXXIX a year later.A handful of teams have had a chance at consecutive titles in the ensuing years…

On Super Bowl Sunday in Las Vegas, Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs will play in their fourth Super Bowl in the past five years, facing off against the San Francisco 49ers. Mahomes, the team’s quarterback, is the best player in football, maybe the best American athlete of his generation, and one of the most ingenious and thrilling on-field performers you could ever imagine. You should check him out if you get a chance, he’s really great.  Patrick Mahomes was raised in Tyler, Texas, by his mother. His…

As America gears up for Super Bowl LVIII, Usher is at risk of becoming an after-thought. The R&B legend is booked for the halftime show entertainment. But everyone’s attention is focused on Taylor, Taylor, Taylor. It hasn’t been confirmed but there’s a strong likelihood that Taylor Swift, the most famous music star on the planet right now, will be attending the game to cheer on her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, as he and his Kansas City Chiefs take on the San Francisco 49ers. NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 01: Usher attends The…

Grammy-winning DJ-producer Tiësto will become the Super Bowl’s first in-game DJ. The NFL tells The Hollywood Reporter that the Dutch musician will perform a DJ set prior to the game as the players warm up, as well as spin music during featured breaks within the game, becoming the first DJ to perform throughout the Super Bowl. The Feb. 11 spectacle will air live on CBS from Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada.  “I’m excited to be a part of the Super Bowl LVIII!” Tiësto says in a statement. “And…

PARIS—A McDonald’s on a buzzy boulevard here offers a glimpse of what the future of serving fast food could look like. The burger giant doesn’t like what it sees.For those dining in, french fries are served in durable red containers, soda is dispensed into clear washable glasses and chicken nuggets come in hard plastic white bowls. When customers are finished eating, they are asked to drop the containers into a bin to be washed, dried and reused.Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

It was just this August that we heard about a super-slippery 3D-printed toilet bowl, which bacteria slide right off of. Well, if you want that same sort of functionality in your existing toilet, a special coating may do the trick.Led by Prof. Mustafa Serdar Onses, a team of scientists at Erciyes University in Turkey set out to develop a new method of grafting hydrophobic (water-repelling) polymers onto surfaces such as porcelain. Although there already are methods of doing so, they're labor-intensive and involve the use…

Twelve river basins that originate from the Hindu Kush Himalaya (white transparent area). Green: irrigated areas, blue: irrigation canals, purple: dams and reservoirs, red: large cities. Credit: Hester Biemans A major new assessment report from an eight-nation body, the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), to which WUR contributed, reveals the changes to the glaciers, snow and permafrost of the…

After 20 years, the shaggy-dog stoner LA noir that may be the Coens’ comic masterpiece rolls back on to the big screen, as light and insouciant as the tumbleweed from the old west that drifts incongruously up to the city in the opening sequence. In fact, after two decades, the film looks weirdly less shaggy, less dishevelled to me: sleeker, sharper, more integrated and with more menace, more mystery. (I found myself thinking of Thomas Pynchon and of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive). Sam Elliott’s basso profundo narrator,…