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These are the top maybe-not headlines from the past 36-hours presented by The Conversation Project from raw engagement data from our social media to the headlines posted over the past day.
The 8 topics that our followers ranked as the most conversational are:
FASHION COMPANIES R BRAWL INVOLVING DOZENS AT WATER PARK WAS OVER A TOWEL
Everest Robillard, chief of the Cal Expo Police Department, said officers broke up a fight involving around 40 people. Two families, each with about 15 to 20 people, began arguing when an individual from one family allegedly took a beach towel belonging to a member of the other family.“It started over a beach towel and then escalated into verbal insults and profanity — one family getting angry because of profanities being said in front of children,” Robillard told the newspaper. “The next thing we know of, it became physical.”
[SOURCE: foxnews.com]
STARBUCKS PUMPKIN CREAM COLD BREW: NEW DRINK AND PSL ARRIVE AUG. 27
While Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte or PSL for short returns Tuesday, the coffee giant announced Monday it will release a second pumpkin drink – the Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew. This is Starbucks’ first new pumpkin coffee drink since it launched the PSL – the drink that experts say started the pumpkin craze – in 2003. The drink is made with Starbucks Cold Brew, vanilla, and is finished with a pumpkin cream cold foam and a pumpkin spice topping.
[SOURCE: usatoday.com]
A SHEET OF VOLCANIC ROCK THE SIZE OF MANHATTAN IS FLOATING TOWARD AUSTRALIA
The “raft” was captured by NASA Earth Observatory days after an underwater volcano 130 feet down may have erupted near the island of Tonga. The resulting raft of pumice rock is the size of Manhattan and is floating toward Australia, NASA said. Days later, an Australian couple sailing to Vanatu on a catamaran encountered the raft. The sheer volume of the mass, made up of “pumice stones from marble to basketball size,” blocked their ship.
[SOURCE: yahoo.com]
DAYTON POLICE CAR STOLEN, CRASHED: AT LEAST 2 DEAD, 9 INJURED
Henderson initially said three of the hospitalized had suffered life-threatening injuries, but it was not clear whether that included the two fatalities he later confirmed to the newspaper. Seven of the hospitalized were children, Henderson said. The incident comes three weeks after a shooter killed nine people and wounded 17 others in the city’s Oregon District.
[SOURCE: usatoday.com]
JILL DUGGAR AND HUSBAND DERICK WORK TO ‘NEVER BE ALONE IN THE SAME ROOM WITH SOMEONE OF THE OPPOSITE GENDER’
“Sometimes this is hard and requires more intentionality,” the former Counting On star, 30, wrote. “For example, if I have a private meeting with a female, I may choose to leave the door open, or if Jill needs a repairman to come work on something at the house when I’m gone then she might invite a friend over while he’s there. We realize though that safeguards alone aren’t enough … it is more about the heart and commitment to purity, but they may be helpful in reducing the prevalence of some situations, or even just the appearance of evil,” the TLC alum continued.
[SOURCE: intouchweekly.com]
JOHNSON & JOHNSON MUST PAY $572 MILLION IN OKLAHOMA OPIOID CRISIS, JUDGE RULES
Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter claimed in court that the sales push by Johnson & Johnson and its pharmaceutical subsidiary, Janssen, starting in the 1990s had created “a public nuisance” that led to the deaths. J&J denied any wrongdoing, and its attorney, John Sparks, said state prosecutors had misinterpreted the public nuisance law, having previously limited it to disputes involving property or public spaces.
[SOURCE: nbcnews.com]
PHILOSOPHYTUBE: YOUTUBE STAR SET TO RAISE $100,000 FOR CHARITY BY LIVESTREAMING COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE
PhilosophyTube founder Olly Thorne, 26, began his ambitious fundraising feat on Friday, admitting it would be “gruelling and take several days.” Taking place 24 hours a day, the “Shakespeare marathon” has so far featured full renditions of favourites including Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Merchant of Venice, with other big titles still to come.
[SOURCE: standard.co.uk]
EX-GOOGLE ENGINEER LEVANDOWSKI CHARGED WITH TAKING TRADE SECRETS TO UBER
Levandowski had worked at Google’s self-driving car project which later became known as Waymo. But according to the indictment, he left in 2016 to launch his own self-driving truck company that was later acquired by Uber. The indictment alleges Levandowski downloaded thousands of files from Waymo’s predecessor, Project Chauffeur, in the months before he left Google. The files allegedly included “critical engineering information about the hardware used on Project Chauffeur self-driving vehicles,” and that Levandowski transferred files onto his personal laptop.
[SOURCE:cnbc.com]
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