Signs of life: Hershey brings back the recipe, flight attendant recognizes passenger, retired man replicates household items bigger, and a dog’s verbal skills awe.
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Hershey heard
After one of Reese’s pieces — Brad Reese, who’s the grandson of the founder — and many disgruntled others criticized the recipe change, Hershey has announced they’re done with that nonsense and will restore the old formula. In 2027, the company says it will shift back to its “classic” milk and dark chocolate recipes for the peanut butter cups and other candies. Whew. Full Story >>
I think I know you
A CNN journalist boarding a Delta flight was surprised and delighted to receive a handwritten-on-a-napkin note from the flight attendant. The journalist, Sara Sidner, has chronicled her breast cancer battle, posting updates to social media and speaking openly about it when she returned to television. The flight attendant’s note read, in part: “Sara, I recognized you the moment you boarded. … Thank you for sharing your story. As you battled cancer, your strength, bravery and honesty were truly inspiring.” Sidner said the encounter sent her heart “soaring,” and when she posted it to social media, her story stirred strong, supportive responses, with more than 25,000 views and dozens of comments. Full Story >>
Supersizing the everyday
"Once retired you can only cook and clean for so many hours," says Steve Wainwright. What to do about that boredom? His idea was to “build replicas of everyday items that were ‘10 times the size, because I’m not very good at maths.’” A clothespin, a tape measure, a 5-foot-long pencil — he keeps building and storing the large objects wherever he can. His wife says she’s just glad he’s not “moping around the house all day.” Full Story >>
Chaser could identify 1,022 toys
Duke University animal-intelligence researcher Brian Hare says she was “the most scientifically important dog in over a century.” Chaser (April 28, 2004 – July 23, 2019) was a Border Collie with the largest tested memory of any non-human animal. Her development paralleled a toddler’s, and she “learned the proper-noun names of over 1,000 stuffed animals, balls and Frisbees in her first three years.” Her cognitive growth continued — conceptual learning, learning by imitation, matching to sample — as she learned “things that were once thought to be possible only for humans.” Full Story >>
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