Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has continued his closing cover series of No Fun Mondays – listen to his take on the Billy Bragg classic ‘A New England’ below. During the coronavirus blockade, Armstrong has purchased a wide range of new covers every week. “Welcome to No Fun Monday …
Read More »PepsiCo Earnings (PEP) 2Q 2020
Pepsi soft drinks are displayed at a convenience store in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | fake pictures PepsiCo reported Monday that its quarterly revenue fell as fewer consumers bought their drinks at restaurants or convenience stores as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The company reported growth in its …
Read More »Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner in favor of a ‘rollback’, two-week shutdown to reduce the spread of COVID-19
Houston leaders are calling for another two-week shutdown as dozens of Army members will arrive Monday to help combat a virus that continues to set records for hospitalizations and deaths at the Texas Medical Center. Mayor Sylvester Turner said it is time for the city of Houston to “roll back” …
Read More »Scientists create a ‘time tree’ that shows how flowering plants came to dominate Earth
Today, flowering plants (or angiosperms) represent about four-fifths of all green plants on Earth, but for billions of years they did not exist at all. Biologists have now been able to fully record the rapid increase in angiosperms in the past 140 million years. A recently released ‘time tree’ of …
Read More »Source – Redskins to announce nickname will be changed
The Washington Redskins will officially announce on Monday morning that they will change their nickname, although no new names will be revealed yet, a source confirmed Sunday night. Washington was widely expected to change its name, and a source said Saturday night that a new name would be announced soon. …
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