Friday, August 1, 2025

Disney Products Generated $63 Billion in Sales in 2024, as Mouse House Again Tops Global Licensing Leaderboard

$63,000,000,000 in sales of licensed merchandise - a little over 20% of all licensed products - is astounding. 

And it shows the power the mouse has over everything. 

Brilliant teenage students develop mind-blowing inventions to solve global crisis: 'I got goosebumps'

It's always great to see our youth tackling problems that face us all. Fun, human interest stories that offer hope and tackle challenges are always worthwhile. 

Over three weeks, students formed teams and tackled pressing issues like carbon emissions, microplastics, e-waste, and heatwaves. The teams then turned their ideas into working prototypes under the mentorship of scientists, professors, and entrepreneurs at the institute.


Hubble Space Telescope spots rogue planet with a little help from Einstein: 'It was a lucky break'

The Hubble Space Telescope detected an anomaly. But it was a scientist who figure it out; Einstein had correctly posited that a planet would create a sort of ripple in its wake. And that's what they saw that encouraged them to study the space further. 

A rogue planet! How very unusual. 

Man awarded $12,500 after Google Street View camera captured him naked in his yard in Argentina

I know people who would have taken less. Still amusing story. His nekkid butt was there for all to