Tag: Stirring

China Premier Li visits Auckland, stirring up hope of new trade

Chinese Premier Li Qiang arrived in New Zealand’s northern hub of Auckland on Friday, stirring up hope of new trade avenues among the country’s business leaders. Li is on a six-day tour of New Zealand and Australia, the highest-ranking official to visit either nation since his predecessor in 2017. China accounts for 30 percent of […]

Port Authority critic stirring the pot in New London Judicial District

Jun. 2—A bag of unused diapers arrived at the New London County State’s Attorney’s Office last month. There was no message attached to the package, so staff did not initially know what to make of it. Dozens of judicial staff members, judges included, would later receive an email from Connecticut Port Authority critic Kevin Blacker […]

A New Study About Prime Numbers Is Stirring Up a Mess of Controversy

An odd new paper without peer review claims prime numbers have “genes,” “roots,” and “offspring.” Prime numbers are essential to modern life because they underpin all of encryption. What is written makes no sense, but there may be good ideas, buried in it, for future discussion. In new research that is not yet peer evaluated, […]

KFC ad misinterpreted online, stirring false Israel-Hamas claims

Social media users are claiming a KFC social media promotion mocked Palestinians displaced by the Israel-Hamas war. This is false; the US fast-food chain said its since-deleted posts, which used the hashtag “NoTentsJustChicken,” referenced online chatter about a government agency’s missing tent in Antigua and Barbuda, a Caribbean nation — not the conflict in Gaza. […]