Tag: Soda
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Goats and Soda : NPR
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Goats, are you paying attention to our tone of voice? A new study tries to answer that question. It involved 27 goats, a loudspeaker and recordings of the phrase “Hey, look over here!” Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images Goats, are you paying attention to our tone…
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TLC for Earth, end AIDS, more empathy, less light : Goats and Soda : NPR
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We asked our readers to send in their wishes for 2024, and many of you expressed a hope that humans pay attention to the health of the planet. The woman pictured above is one of the nomadic Wodaabe people — cattle herders who live mainly in Chad and Niger. Their lifestyle is affected by higher…
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Drink In Miniform’s Newest Shapes From Their Soda Collection
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In 2020 during the height of the pandemic, Italian brand Miniforms launched its Soda side tables designed by Yiannis Ghikas. The glass side table is mouth-blown and shaped by three glassmakers in a process that requires it to be made upside down (you can see the video here). The brand recently added new shapes –…
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Sales of sugary drinks fell in cities with soda taxes, study finds : Shots
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Five U.S. cities which imposed taxes on sugary drinks saw prices rise and sales fall by 33%, according to a new study. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Five U.S. cities which imposed taxes on sugary drinks saw prices rise and sales fall by 33%, according to a new study. Justin…
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Goats and Soda : NPR
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New Year’s resolutions, it turns out, probably originate in the Global South. The Babylonians of 4,000 years ago threw a heck of a party on (their) New Year and would make promises to the gods to do various righteous actions. Here at Goats and Soda, our New Year’s tradition doesn’t go back quite as far…
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Can the U.N. add 4 overlooked items to its General Assembly agenda? : Goats and Soda : NPR
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Photo illustration by LA Johnson/Getty/NPR Photo illustration by LA Johnson/Getty/NPR Dear United Nations General Assembly, We know you have a lot to discuss at the 78th session of the general assembly, which is taking place this week. You’ve got pandemic preparedness, universal health coverage, climate change, poverty, hunger, global inequality and a special focus on…
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Goats and Soda : NPR
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A year and a half into the COVID pandemic, we looked at medical fly-in missions, where health professionals from wealthy nations travel to low resource countries to set up and run short-term clinics for everything from dental care to cataract surgery. These missions, often as short as a week or two, are seen as both…
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jazzy umbrellas, cool mosque floors, ice beans : Goats and Soda : NPR
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The world is hot this year. Ridiculously hot. Fry an egg on the sidewalk hot. How are people dealing with the heat? We asked the photojournalists of The Everyday Projects to make pictures of heat relief strategies in their countries. Their cameras took aim at the cool floors of a mosque’s entryway in Kashmir to…
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4 things you should never clean with bicarbonate of soda
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Bicarbonate of soda, or baking soda, is something of a wonder ingredient when it comes to cleaning the home. It can be used for an assortment of jobs, from disinfecting sinks, scrubbing at kitchen work surfaces and cleaning mattresses. Though it’s (obviously) most traditionally used in baking, it’s also a great, inexpensive ingredient to use…
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Brahms, Chinese folk songs , Backstreet Boys! : Goats and Soda : NPR
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“Pick a song that you can stand to sing over and over, maybe for years,” is advice that Elizabeth Wolf of Merrimac, Mass., gives new parents. “Doesn’t matter how well you sing it. Over time that will be the most soothing sound your child knows.” That sentiment was reflected in the many, many lovely stories…
