• harbinger A bunch of people smelled gas in a residential neighborhood for weeks. Investigators looked into it but found nothing.
• result A natural gas pipeline exploded, leveling numerous homes and killing four. Now, people are wondering WTF happened. source

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• Right now, it sucks to be Kellogg’s. The company was forced to recall numerous brands of cereal over a reportedly soapy/metallic/stale flavor that some of their cereal boxes had. Sure, it was a lot of cereal, but we were also curious how many bowls of cereal that actually was. So we did the math. And this is going to affect a lot of mornings.

• 28 million boxes recalled for a weird odor and taste (eww)

• 20 complaints about cereal that tasted like soap or metal (eww)
• 13 average number of ounces in the various recalled boxes
• 353M number of servings of cereal that is – based on our math, below

• 69Mbowls of Apple Jacks, based on an average of 12.85 servings per box
• 95M bowls of Corn Pops, based on an average of 11.78 servings per box
• 148Mbowls of Froot Loops, based on an average of 12.63 servings per box
• 41Mbowls of Honey Smacks, based on an average of 15.3 servings per box

• » Methodology: We based our findings on the various serving sizes available for each type and size of cereal, dividing evenly for each serving size. We then multiplied by the average serving size – Kellogg’s provides this on their Web site – which in most of the cases was one ounce, making the math relatively easy. While it’s likely that Kellogg’s sold more Apple Jacks than Honey Smacks, we unfortunately do not have exact counts. One thing we do know is that Froot Loops’ share of the market is, at minimum, 26 percent larger than any of the other brands, so we took that into account. Oh yeah, if you’re like us, you probably eat double the size of the recommended serving without realizing it. Because we don’t measure. We just pour.

• Hard as we may try, a dog’s-eye view is not immediately accessible to us, however, for we reside within our own umwelt, our own self-world bubble, which clouds our vision.
• New York Times book reviewer Cathleen Schine • Using very big words to describe Alexandra Horowitz’s “Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know,” a book that tells you about all the stuff the title describes. Basically, dogs think differently from people – seeing things means little to Rover. But if Rover leaves his mark, then it means a lot to him. Their vision and hearing? Imprecise. Their smelling? Immaculate. There, we saved you from reading both the article and Horowitz’s book. But if you want to read either, click the link or something. • source