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from BBC News (UK)
Iceland livestreams 10-year-old McDonald's cheeseburger
When McDonald's closed all its restaurants in Iceland in 2009, one man decided to buy his last hamburger and fries. "I had heard that McDonald's never decompose so I just wanted to see if it was true or not," Hjortur Smarason told AFP. This week, it's 10 years since the seemingly indestructible meal was purchased, and it barely looks a day older.
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from Conciliar Post
“When we recall King’s life and work we must—in true Kingian fashion—hold both his positive and negative identities together in a dialectical tension.”
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
Heroes of Progress, Pt. 30: Sir John Harington
Sir John Harington was a 16th century English courtier, author and inventor of the modern flush toilet. Harington’s toilet allowed waste to be flushed from places of habitation to underground cesspools without direct human contact. The flushing toilet has had immeasurable sanitary benefits for the modern world and the World Economic Forum has concluded that its invention has saved more than a billion lives.
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from KIRO Radio 97.3 FM (MyNorthwest.com)
Media/News Company in Seattle, Washington
When a 128-year-old building in Bellevue was demolished a month ago, only a few people noticed that the structure was actually one of the oldest schools on the east side of Lake Washington. The Northup Schoolhouse was on 116th Avenue NE, just north of 520 and just east of 405, on the campus of The Little School, a private elementary. It was built in 1891 by local residents who joined together to create School District 96. The need for a school symbolized how much the community was growing and changing, and thinking about ways to educate its youngest citizens, as well as provide a gathering place for public events.
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from Orthodox Christianity – orthochristian.com
Religious Organization in Moscow, Russia
Patriarch John X of Antioch and the heads of several other Christian churches in the Middle East met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orband in Budapest on Wednesday, October 30 to discuss the ongoing persecution and ways to protect the suffering Christian communities in the Middle East.
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from Slate
LEFT BIAS; HIGH
President Donald Trump’s suspension of military aid to Ukraine, as a means of extracting dirt on a political rival at home, is almost certainly an impeachable offense (as an abuse of power and an act of bribery), but is it a national security issue? Does the defense of Ukraine matter that much to the security of the United States?
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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