Science in 2025
After its launch on April 24th, 1990, this 24,000 pound space telescope turned 35 this year, and is still producing incredible images of nearby and deep-space objects long after its estimated 15-year lifespan
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
Shipley School Alum David Corenswet (two years behind Danny), starred in James Gunn's 2025 adaptation of this classic American Superhero.
What is Superman?
Pope Francis died in April this year, this is the chosen name of his replacement from Chicago, Illinois.
Who is Pope Leo XIV?
This artist released her new album called "The Life of a Showgirl" to mixed reviews.
Who is Taylor Swift?
This red fruit associated with Italian cooking is actually native to Western South America, and only made its way to Italy in the 1500's by way of the Columbian Exchange.
What is a tomato?
According to the Annals of Internal Medicince, Researchers from the Harvard Medical School, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Chicago found concrete evidence that hospitals acquired under this ownership model resulted increased emergency department deaths across the country.
What is private equity?
Netflix broke records with this movie that now ranks as the most watched of all time on Netflix?
What is KPOP Demon Hunters?
In October, robbers performed a successful heist at this famous art museum - the location of the jewels they stole is still unknown.
What is the Louvre?
The CEO of a prominent tech company called Astronomer and the company's head of HR were caught having an affair on the kiss cam at this band's July concert.
What is Coldplay?
This green leafy herb is referred to as Genovese, or sweet, but can come in a Thai variety as well.
What is Basil?
No, this wasn't a stunt by HBO to promote Game of Thrones. In April, a biotech company announced that it had brought this species back to life for the first time in 10,000 years thanks to genetic engineering.
What are Dire Wolves?
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The startup, called Colossal Biosciences, aims to “bring back” extinct species by editing key genes of a close living relative. In this case, they sequenced the dire wolf genome from a 13,000-year-old dire wolf tooth and a 72,000-year-old dire wolf skull, then identified 14 genes that differ between the extinct animal and canids of today. They made 20 changes to the DNA of a gray wolf to create some physical traits of a dire wolf: bigger teeth, larger size, a wider head and white fur. Scientists placed the edited genes into domestic dog eggs, then implanted them into surrogate dog mothers.
The Ten Most Significant Science Stories of 2025, From Medical Breakthroughs to an Interstellar Visitor - Smithsonnian
This movie directed by Ryan Coogler starred Michael B. Jordan in two roles as he and his friends battled Irish Vampires in a Mississippi-Delta juke joint.
What is Sinners?
This star from Tombstone, Batman Forever, and Heat passed away in April of 2025. Hey, Danny is only about 75 miles from Tombstone right now!
Who is Val Kilmer?
This former front man passed away just 17 days after his farewell concert titled Back to the Beginning. It was the first time performing with the original line-up of his band since 2005.
Who is Ozzy Osbourne?
This type of nut is toasted, ground up, and is an essential ingredient in Pesto Sauce. It is actually a seed, not a nut!
What are Pine Nuts, or Piñon.
This company's water usage increased 20% to over 5.6 Billion Gallons this year as they shift toward more AI efforts.
What is Google?
Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio del Toro, Sean Penn, and Chase Infiniti starred in Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel about an ex-revolutionary's quest to save his daughter from white supremacists.
What is One Battle After Another?
On January 18th, two days before DT's inauguration, this social media platform voluntarily suspended its operations in the United States for 12 hours in response to uncertainty around how the Trump administration would enforce the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. US officials are still negotiating a sale of the Social Media platform to a group of US Tech leaders.
What is Tik Tok?
This 90's British Rock Band made news after they stopped Looking Back in Anger for the first time since 2009 by reuiniting for a successful world tour.
What is Oasis?
This brand of Sharp American Cheese used for cheesesteaks by Angelo's and in Primo Hoagies relocated its headquarters from New York to Philadelphia in 1918. Last year, the brand decked out Super Bowl TD-scorer Cooper DeJean in merch for its Looking Sharp campaign.
What is Cooper's Sharp?
This 3rd known Interstellar Object in our solar system was discovered on July 1st by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System in Rio Hurtado, Chile.
What is 3i/Atlas?
This Yorgos Lanthimos film starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons is about follows two young men who kidnap a powerful CEO, suspecting that she is secretly an alien who wants to destroy Earth.
What is Bugonia?
The Literary World celebrated the 250th birthday of this British author of Sense and Sensibilities, Emma, and Pride and Prejudice?
Who is Jane Austen?
Danny saw this artist twice with the band The Chrome Hearts on their "Love Earth" Tour - once in Cleveland and once in Denver...with Jen!
Who is Neil Young?
This ingredient from Hatch, NM is often added to Mac N Cheese or Cheeseburgers in New Mexico.
What is Green Chile?