New collecting craze goes viral in China. It involves mushrooms, with Yunnan the hotspot

New collecting craze goes viral in China. It involves mushrooms, with Yunnan the hotspot

Move over, Pokémon Go. A new collecting craze is taking over Chinese social media, with the most coveted finds not digital critters but… mushrooms. Morels, black tiger palm mushrooms, milk-caps, blackening brittlegill, termite mushrooms and matsutake are just some of the species for which young fungi fans have been foraging across the country, before posting … Read more

‘Roaring Kitty’ returns, sending meme stocks like GameStop surging once again

‘Roaring Kitty’ returns, sending meme stocks like GameStop surging once again

The man at the centre of the pandemic meme stock craze appeared online for the first time in three years, sending the prices of three quirky and volatile shares sharply higher Monday. Keith Gill, better known as “Roaring Kitty,” posted an image Sunday on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, of a man sitting … Read more

How green are those Stanley tumblers that everyone wants thanks to TikTok?

How green are those Stanley tumblers that everyone wants thanks to TikTok?

A gigantic tumbler that purportedly keeps drinks cold even if it’s left in your burning car is the stainless steel status symbol of the moment.  The 40 oz. Stanley Quencher H2.0 Flowstate tumbler (that’s 1.18 litres for us metric system folks) has become so popular that people are willing to wait outside Target stores overnight … Read more