Fast food is an American innovation that has been around for over 80 years. Despite lasting durability, the unit economics for fast food brands and franchisees have been strained to a breaking point. When the team and I built Papa John’s to over 5,000 stores worldwide, I did not see them as one big corporation … Read more
A full-size, high-density RNA microchip is about the size of a fingernail and can contain up to 780,000 unique RNA sequences, each occupying a ~14 x 14 μm² area. The presence and the quality of the RNA can be verified via the addition of a complementary DNA strand with a green fluorescent tag. Credit: C: … Read more
Blazoned across the top of every edition of the Washington Post is the statement “Democracy dies in darkness”. But what if the publisher himself is a master of the dark arts? I experienced, at first-hand, the journalistic techniques that the Washington Post’s publisher and chief executive, Sir William Lewis, and his colleagues used when working … Read more
Once the ongoing effort by the legacy media to reinvent presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris as a dynamic leader and competent campaigner passes, we will presumably enter the part of the presidential race in which we actually examine her real record on the key issues. When — or if — that time ever arrives, the … Read more
A recent Supreme Court decision to block a federal rule curbing interstate air pollution further complicates efforts to reduce emissions and adds to an already disproportionate burden on “downwind” states, according to researchers at the University of Notre Dame. Credit: University of Notre Dame A recent Supreme Court decision to block a federal rule curbing … Read more
Good morning. There’s been jubilation for Jess Fox who doubled up to take her second gold medal of the Paris Games, defending her women’s canoe single title in a tense final. In the pool, Mollie O’Callaghan and Shayna Jack missed out on 100m freestyle medals. And the Matildas are out of the Olympics, after a … Read more
Credit: ACS Nano (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c02905 U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientists confirm the identification of a new class of semiconductor nanocrystals with bright ground-state excitons, a significant advancement in the field of optoelectronics, in an article published in the American Chemical Society (ACS) journal ACS Nano. The groundbreaking theoretical research could revolutionize the development … Read more
The Edmonton Police Service held a news conference on Wednesday to discuss numbers recently released by the Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics that suggest the crime rate in Alberta’s capital decreased by 11 per cent in 2023 compared to the year before. “Nationally, the overall police-reported crime rate in Canada went up … Read more
Shortlists are odd things. Put two lots of judges in separate rooms with the same works and you will not come up with the same one. But it is always interesting when their choices overlap. Two novels on this year’s Miles Franklin shortlist were also on that of this year’s Stella prize: Sanya Rushdi’s Hospital, … Read more
Republican Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall demanded Wednesday in a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai that the big tech company answer for its apparent “censorship” surrounding the assassination attempt against 2024 GOP nominee Donald Trump from Google’s “autocomplete” feature. Social media users, including Marshall and other high-profile Republicans, railed Sunday against Google after noticing that the … Read more