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It was a normal commuter day for Prateek Kumar who jumped off the train to New Delhi to buy biscuits and a cold drink when it was stopped at Bagaha railway station, West Champaran, India. But when the train began to pull away without him, he ran to jump onboard and slipped under the moving carriages. Clever Prateek survived by lying down between the anterior track and the brick wall of the platform, onlookers said, and a video shows officials watching in horror as they wait for the train to pass. “He was careful with his movements and stayed still, waiting for the train to pass,” a local said ..read more

After 146 days of picketing, the Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) reached a tentative agreement to end the strike that has paralyzed Hollywood TV. Along with raising base pay, the agreement, released as a 7-page document from the WGA negotiating team, includes a system of bonuses based on the success or failure of the streaming numbers of the shows a writer works on. Some protections against artificial intelligence of also been agreed on, as well as minimum staff requirements for writing rooms. LA Times reports that in the age ..read more

Why do we need fiber? it feeds the bacteria in our gut, which in turn produces something that could prevent food allergies and irritations such as those triggered by peanuts, a study this year showed. A short-chain fatty acid called butyrate is produced by Clostridium bacteria in our stomach as they ferment fiber that reinforces the walls of the GI tract and protects against colon cancer, among other things. n a mouse model, researchers at the University of Chicago used an oral solution of butyrate to stymie a life-threatening anaphylactic response in the allergic animals when they were expose ..read more

At last weekend’s Malvern Autumn Festival in the UK, growers from across the Isles showed off the truly frightening proportions that vegetables can grow to, headlined by massive pumpkins brought in on a forklift. 4th place winner Tim Saint transported his whopping 667 lbs. pumpkin in a trailer to display at the event held over the weekend in England’s Worcestershire. Even though he needed a pallet, trailer, and industrial strapping to move the thing, his was a small fry compared to Curtis Leach’s 1st prize-winning pumpkin that arrived at weights usually reserved for cars. At 638 kilograms, or ..read more

It’s the Kansas state flower and his wife‘s favorite—which made it the perfect gift from her husband on their 50th anniversary. KAKE-TV News talked to farmer Lee Wilson who sacrificed 80 acres of crops to give his ‘gal’ a gift she’ll never forget. He said it added up to about 1.2 million sunflowers in total, which he kept a secret for three months after planting them in May, until their big day in August. “It made me feel very special,” Renee told KAKE-TV in the video below. “It couldn’t have been a more perfect anniversary gift.” People came from miles around to take pictures and experience t ..read more

“There are geniuses in there,” said 2-time James Beard Award winner, Keith Corbin, referring to incarcerated men and their ability to cook with the most lifeless, flavorless ingredients imaginable. Corbin spent 10 years in prison himself, and combined with his career as an award-winning chef at his restaurant Alta Adams, he knows what it takes to make good food out of anything. Corbin was profiled in a feature piece at the Guardian that twisted together the stories of several entrepreneurs who launched careers in the food industry after more than a decade of smoking sausages in a toilet with t ..read more

The 2023 solar eclipse is passing over the United States this year, giving millions of Americans in the northwest a chance to glimpse a “ring of fire.” That’s the phrase for a kind of eclipse known as an annular eclipse, where the moon passes in front of the sun but leaves space for a small ring of light to be seen. The annular solar eclipse will occur on October 14th, 2023 from 15:03 UTC to 20:55 UTC. The maximum of the eclipse will occur at 17:59 UTC. The so-called “path of totality” where Earthlings will be able to see the eclipse straight on, will pass through South and Central America, be ..read more

Redonda, a Caribbean island of small repute, has undergone a dramatic transformation from a barren wasteland of goats and rats, to a pristine, re-wilded nesting spot for many seabirds and endangered plants. It’s one of many remote islands around the world’s seas that, with a helping hand, have rid themselves of invasive animals and plants and returned to supporting the land, water, and air around them. In 2020, World at Large reported that whereas many of the Aichi global targets for protecting biodiversity had failed by their deadline, one—the eradication of invasive species on small isl ..read more

A robotics company is making manta ray-shaped robots that drown seaweed and lock away the carbon it absorbed throughout its life for hundreds of years in Davy Jones’ Locker. Seaweed absorbs way more CO2 than rainforests, and billions of tonnes of the stuff are now routinely washing up on the beaches of Mexico every year as a result of changes in the Gulf. Rather than letting this happen Seaweed Generation has designed the AlgaRay, described as a “Roomba meets Pac-man” which collects the sargassum seaweed and deposits it at depths where the sun can’t reach, and where pressures crush its buoyanc ..read more