@thelolgic.bsky.socialNYC’s first free pet food program starts Monday, October 19.
Wet & dry cat and dog food will be available at 22 food pantries across all 5 boroughs.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani cites rising living costs, & the program aims to keep pets with their families.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialMost people shake off food poisoning in days.
But at least 1 in 10 people develop IBS after an intestinal infection, and symptoms can last months or even years.
Researchers are still working out why, with the gut, immune system and nerves all under study.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialEgyptian farmer Khaled al-Shahat found an unusual pink stone in Gharbia and reported it.
It led to a colossal head of Ramses II, wearing the double crown. Archaeologists estimate the full statue stood about 28 feet tall.
A 2nd statue believed to show Ramses II was also found
@thelolgic.bsky.socialThe Mummy: The Book of the Dead is the new title of the 4th Mummy movie. Brendan Fraser & Rachel Weisz return as Rick & Evie O’Connell, their 1st Mummy film together since 2001.
Radio Silence directs and Universal opens it in theaters Oct. 15, 2027.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialIt took Karl Bushby 28 years and 29 countries to get back to England.
The former British paratrooper from Hull swam the English Channel from France, came ashore near Dover, & faces a final 250 mile walk to his mother’s home there, expected in early November.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialPresident Trump posted a 23 second AI video of himself taming a tiger on Truth Social on Oct. 13.
It follows William Chapman, 23, losing his life at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in England.
His family has asked people to stop sharing videos of the incident.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialThe man who lost his life in the tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park on October 10 has been identified as William Chapman, a former child actor.
His family said he suffered from significant mental illness. The coroner will decide what part this played.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialRJ Mitte, the actor who played Walter White Jr. on Breaking Bad, passed away on October 12 at 34 in Brownsville, Texas.
He lived with cerebral palsy, drew on his own experience for the role and championed disability rights.
No cause of death has been given.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialYorkshire Wildlife Park in England has confirmed Altai, its Amur tiger, will not be euthanized after a man lost his life inside the tiger enclosure on October 10.
Police said the tiger attacked him.
Police ask people not to share videos of the incident
@thelolgic.bsky.socialTobey Maguire officiated his former wife Jennifer Meyer’s wedding to Geoffrey Ogunlesi at the Four Seasons Resort Lanai in Hawaii, weeks after their divorce was finalized on Sept. 21.
They separated in 2016.
Meyer says their kids Ruby and Otis come first.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialA 61 year old grandmother of 12 held a plank for 5 straight hours at the Huntsman World Senior Games in Utah on Oct. 6.
DonnaJean Wilde’s current Guinness World Record is 4 hours, 30 minutes and 11 seconds.
Guinness is now reviewing the new record attempt.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialHistorians have long treated Elizabeth Gaskell as a gossip after her 1857 Brontë biography led to a public retraction.
Brontë specialist Graham Watson says that admission was false and that she was a whistleblower silenced by those she tried to expose.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialYou cannot see it from shore, but a warm Pacific Kelvin wave is raising West Coast sea level by around 6 to 12 inches.
NC State’s Dillon Amaya says even 2 to 4 inches can double flood risk in low-lying areas as the super El Niño reaches the Americas.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialThe Clean Label Project tested 100 top selling cat foods bought at retail and found lead in 99% of samples.
Fish based foods had about 18 times more mercury than other proteins.
Author Molly Hamilton says contaminants may accumulate over a cat’s lifetime.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialDwarf crocodiles in Gabon's Abanda Caves can be bright orange.
Matt Shirley suspects acidic bat guano tanned their skin.
They eat fallen bats and are genetically separate from forest crocs.
Elsewhere, tens of thousands are shipped for food each year.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialNo one knew marine mammals could spread rabies. Now it's moving through Cape fur seals in South Africa.
More than 100 cases confirmed since 2024. Sequencing traced it to jackals and dates its entry to around 2015.
No transmission to humans has been reported.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialHBO Max and Paramount+ are expected to merge after Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery closed a $110 billion merger as Skydance on October 6.
It has nearly $80 billion in net debt, aims to rival Disney & Netflix, and will make at least 30 films a year.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialNicolas Cage told Fan Expo Dallas the MCU is becoming "a well funded and glorified WWE" and wants it to stop cutting to the fight.
He praised Spider-Noir as a detective story with a mystery. Prime Video did not renew it. Cage called its one season "perfect."
@thelolgic.bsky.socialFossilized beaks suggest a 60 foot octopus, longer than a city bus, may have been a top Cretaceous predator.
Hokkaido University's Yasuhiro Iba says beak wear indicates bites through shells and possibly bone.
Another paleontologist calls the size quite extreme.
@thelolgic.bsky.socialAvengers: Endgame is the highest-grossing film ever again.
Its Encore re-release lifted it to $2.9255B worldwide, just ahead of Avatar at $2.9237B.
Avatar held the record for a decade before Endgame took it in 2019.
Avengers: Doomsday arrives December 18.
