Taco Bell Hotel Books Out in Two Minutes

from USA Today Taco Bell’s pop-up hotel reservations sell out in 2 minutes Sherry Barkas, Palm Springs Desert Sun A rendering of Taco Bell-themed king room decor and amenities planned for The Bell. Reservations for the first ever Taco Bell pop-up hotel open June...

New Jersey New King of Online Betting

from Bloomberg via Yahoo! Finance Move Over, Nevada: New Jersey Is Now the Sports-Betting King by Eben Novy-Williams (Bloomberg) — New Jersey legalized sports betting a year ago, and last month the state’s operators passed a major milestone. For the first time,...

The Vindicator Gone

from The Plain-Dealer The Vindicator, Youngstown’s daily newspaper, will close after 150 years By Jordyn Grzelewski American steelworker Charlie Grapentine reads about the Korean War in the Youngstown Vindicator in October 1950. The newspaper told employees Friday...

Eta Carinae

from CNN A mysterious fast radio burst was traced to a galaxy 3.6 billion light-years away By Ashley Strickland For the first time, a single burst of cosmic radio waves has been traced to its point of origin: in this case, a galaxy about 3.6 billion light-years from...

Symmetry

from Quanta Magazine The Simple Idea Behind Einstein’s Greatest Discoveries by K.C. Cole Rachel Suggs for Quanta Magazine The flashier fruits of Albert Einstein’s century-old insights are by now deeply embedded in the popular imagination: Black holes, time warps and...