The Daily Populous

Saturday July 29th, 2017 day edition

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I can identify the exact moment when my relationship with birthday cake changed forever, and it was last week, when I read a study titled “Bacterial Transfer Associated with Blowing Out Candles on a Birthday Cake.”

Of course, the more cautious (aka germophobic) among us have already thought about it in gruesome detail.

I’ve consumed countless slices of sheet cake finely misted with spit and suffered no particular consequences—and yet, the thought of eating another now sent visceral disgust through my body.

To simplify things for the study, Dawson and his students dispensed with an actual cake and frosted a piece of foil atop a cake-shaped styrofoam base.

Oh actually, they did something before blowing out the candles: They ate pizza.

“You have one or two people who really for whatever reason ... transfer a lot of bacteria.”

The team diluted the frosting with sterile water and spread it out on agar plates for bacteria to grow. »

Scotland Is Blocking the Expansion of Donald Trump’s Golf Empire

Authored by motherjones.com
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The two courses, Turnberry on the west coast of Scotland and Aberdeen on the North Sea, have together been losing millions of dollars per year.

If they succeed in killing this expansion, it will be a major setback for Trump and raise doubts about the future profitability of the whole venture.

But the Trump Organization delayed its plans following the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008, only restarting the expansion more recently. »

Utah woman killed on cruise ship during murder mystery dinner

Authored by wkbn.com

Exactly how and why Kristy Manzanares was killed aboard the Emerald Princess still remains a mystery.

Bryan Schroder, acting U.S. Attorney in Alaska said he can’t remember the last time they had a murder on a cruise ship.

Nicole and Brice Beckstrom, former neighbors of the couple in Utah who happened to be on the ship, were devastated. »

‘It’ Producer Says Tilda Swinton Was Eyed to Play Pennywise the Clown

Authored by thewrap.com

Bill Skarsgard is going to be your biggest nightmare come September, when he appears as Pennywise the Clown in the highly anticipated Stephen King adaptation “It.”

But a producer on the film said Tilda Swinton was in the running to play the iconic monster.

While Swinton will not star as Pennywise, she will next be seen in Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” and in Wes Anderson’s “Isle of Dogs.”. »