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The arrival of fresh summer corn at grocery stores and farmers’ markets across the country is reviving a long-running debate: Should shoppers shuck corn before buying it? Shucking corn involves peeling off the outer green husks and removing the corn silk to get to the edible kernels underneath. Some shoppers shuck ears of corn before they buy it to inspect the kernels for quality and check for insects. “Some stores encourage customers to shuck corn in the store by providing trash bins beside the corn display,” Florida-based etiquette expert Jacqueline Whitmore told Fox News Digital. “Here’s the caveat: If you shuck it, buy…

Bronze Age Greek nobles may have sported space bling in their rings. Chemical analysis of 91 ancient iron weapons and jewelry turned up traces of nickel in about a dozen signet rings — a sign the iron probably came from meteorites, researchers report in the August 2026 Journal of Archaeological…

OpenAI plans to release an AI smart speaker in 2027, according to a Bloomberg report on Thursday. It’ll reportedly be palm-size and doughnut-shaped and have a wireless design that will let people carry it around. The report, which cited unnamed people familiar with the project, also indicates that the small speaker will…

Published on 07/08/2026 – 15:06 GMT+2 Five people have been arrested in the UK this week after anti-immigration protests broke out in the county of Norfolk in East Anglia. Violence erupted in the town of Thetford on Tuesday, with properties damaged and fences broken as some tried to force their…

A new safari retreat in South Africa’s Greater Kruger region has just opened after a five-year rehabilitation and rewilding project at a former hunting reserve. Sandringham Private Game Reserve, which borders the Timbavati and Thornybush game reserves, is made up of two luxury safari camps – N’weti, so named for…

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