The seminal 1952 Miller-Urey experiment sent jolts of electricity through a flask of water and gases intended to represent early Earth’s atmosphere, and found that certain amino acids and other important biological molecules were produced.
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Michael Irving,
New Atlas,
17 Mar. 2025
In the courtyard of the Paris Observatory, all 11 of his flasks turned cloudy with multiplying germs.
Force Ghosts • Raise a tankard of Weequay Pirate Brew to Michael Abels, The Acolyte’s composer.
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Noel Murray,
Vulture,
5 June 2024
Old New York money probably chased a tankard from around 1710 that belonged to Henry Beekman, whose grandson, Robert Livingston, signed the Declaration of Independence.
The resort is also 95% plastic free, offering reusable aluminum bottles to be used at water stations and there’s also sustainable service ware.
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Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
7 Apr. 2025
Dropping on Friday, the capsule sees Palace reimagining the style with a gold bottle cap lace charm inspired by the 1988 trend of attaching Grolsch swing-top bottle caps to 1461 shoes.
Expect pictures from various party headquarters, with everyone huddled around lead candidates — champagne flutes or beer steins in hand, depending on the party — waiting for those first results.
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Christopher F. Schuetze,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2025
The ceremonial keg tapping takes place Friday evening, and the weekend lineup includes a German chocolate cake baking contest, a stein hoisting contest, and a chicken dance competition (costumes and creativity encouraged).
In the clip, the newly platinum blonde actress held a shopping bag in one hand and a bright red pail in the other, walking down a beachy path.
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Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
The buckets are used as a replacement for the standard cardboard Happy Meal box and can double as a candy pail to use for trick-or-treating on Halloween.
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Endia Fontanez,
The Arizona Republic,
2 Oct. 2024
Once the donuts are long gone, reuse the bucket as an Easter centerpiece or during your annual egg hunts.
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Lauren Thomann,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Apr. 2025
Nets two-way guard Tyson Etienne scored his first career buckets early in the fourth quarter and fellow two-way Tosan Evbuomwan played for the first time in over a month.
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