Flint Hills Liquor

08/30/2026

An expert says that the alcohol that expires is cream-based liqueurs, and if you have half-full spirit bottle they will suffer with oxygenation over time.

08/30/2026

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08/26/2026

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08/24/2026

This is Larry. His mother was a terrier and his father was a porcupine. An extremely rare mix and we absolutely love him. 14/10

08/24/2026

Missing your pet? These are in Topeka at the shelter. Let's get them home.

08/24/2026

$60,000 an acre. 261 acres. Mervin Raudabaugh said no.

The 86-year-old Pennsylvania farmer had $15.7 million dangled in front of him by data center developers who wanted his two farms outside Harrisburg.

He'd milked cows on that ground for 51 years. His mother died in his arms inside the barn.

So in December he sold the development rights to the Lancaster Farmland Trust instead. Just under $2 million. Locked in forever as farmland, nothing else.

He can still sell the land one day. Only to someone who'll farm it.

"I was not interested in destroying my farms," he said. "It really wasn't so much the economic end of it."

He walked away from roughly $14 million and calls it the bottom line.

08/21/2026

"So long, and thanks for all the fish"🐬🌊

Jessica Blacklow had been chasing this shot for a while and kept coming up empty. Dolphins usually punch out the back of a wave long before her shutter catches up, so she went down to the water expecting another morning of near misses.

Blacklow is based in Newcastle, up the coast in New South Wales, and was visiting Sydney when she noticed movement in the water off Manly Beach. A wave was stacking up behind it. She knew what that movement meant and kept the camera pointed at it.

Then the whole pod dropped in at once. Around a dozen of them lined up across the same face, evenly spaced, riding it out instead of bailing over the back. "I have never seen so many dolphins riding one wave together like that," she told Newsweek. She put it down to a lucky day.

She posted the photos to her page, Wiltliving, calling the set a manly lineup. The internet did the rest.

The strangest part is that nobody can tell you why dolphins do this. David Lusseau, who studies marine sustainability at the Technical University of Denmark, says wave riding in dolphins has barely been researched, so there's no settled explanation. What is well established is how much of a dolphin's day goes into socialising and messing about. Lusseau has watched pods pass kelp between each other like a game of catch, and race to the surface after divers released sunken buoys. Play isn't an occasional novelty for them. It's routine.

They'll do it around people, too. Surfers off Western Australia have shared waves with them, and a surfer in South Australia recently got barrelled beside a dolphin holding the exact same line a few feet away. Surfers have started calling them the ocean's original locals, which feels fair. They were riding waves for the fun of it long before anyone thought to shape a board.

The pod was gone within seconds. But in that small window Blacklow's camera caught a dozen wild animals moving as one, apparently for no better reason than it looked like a good time.

08/13/2026