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- More workers are failing marijuana drug tests this year, but with many states legalizing weed, some employers are deciding to hire people who smoke anyway.
- Bills to support technologies that trap carbon emissions from industrial plants or suck CO2 directly out of the atmosphere have gained a notable amount of bipartisan support in Congress.
- President Biden has said he wants to replace all the country's lead water pipes, but efforts to do so in Flint, Michigan show just how hard it is to dig up all those pipes, some of which are extremely old and stuck under gas lines and tree roots.
- Wait, yeah, why did Americans freak out about Satan back in the '90s?
- Speaking of Satanism, there's an arrest warrant out for Marilyn Manson in New Hampshire because he allegedly spit on a videographer at a concert near Lake Winnipesaukee in 2019.
- Seth Rogen told a British morning show that a lot of jokes don't age well and that cancel culture is "not worth complaining about to the degree I see other comedians complaining about [it]."
- The CW plans to reshoot the pilot for Powerpuff, the Diablo Cody-written live-action Powerpuff Girls series, because the first attempt was "too campy" and didn't feel "as rooted in reality" as they wanted.
- A British company is building low-emissions passenger blimps that go 57 mph and could be used to transport people between relatively close cities, like Vancouver and Seattle.
- And finally, a cat petting a pigeon:
Published May 26, 2021
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