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“The fluffy, frozen beverage is a sweet-tooth staple; the lab store’s innovation is the organic Slurpee, made with ‘farm to fountain’ flavors like coconut, blood orange, and cucumber from Idaho’s Tractor Beverage Company, which boasts that its syrups are USDA certified organic, GMO-free, and “entirely” natural. In the organic Slurpees, buzzy superfoods like celery and turmeric are ingredients in the cucumber flavor; allegedly stomach-soothing licorice root adds an extra veneer of health to the cherry cream flavor; the blood orange flavor also features turmeric, along with black carrot.” Eater: The 7-Eleven of the Future Is an Organic Hellscape of Turmeric Slurpees.
Vox: The Avengers: Endgame theory that Ant-Man kills Thanos by expanding inside his butt, explained.
+ The Air Force is exploring AI-powered autonomous drones.
+ Look in the background during Interior Secretary Nominee David Bernhardt’s opening statement. (The weirdest part is that this doesn’t even qualify as weird in today’s Washington…)
+ 50 Fascinating Facts About Cats (Because, apparently, it’s Respect Your Cat Day!)
+ OK, I buried the lede. Baseball is back. Here’s a look back at how the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings turned baseball into a national sensation.