Current:Home > InvestWeekly news quiz: Test your knowledge of Barbies, Threads and Aretha's couch cushions -MacroWatch
Weekly news quiz: Test your knowledge of Barbies, Threads and Aretha's couch cushions
View
Date:2025-04-11 17:17:24
We're one step closer to officially living in a new geologic interval, the Anthropocene — the age of humans. A working group of scientists recommended the planet's next chapter start in the 1950s, when people began making significant, lasting alterations to the environment. Yes, the earth is the Roman Colosseum, and humanity's the guy who carved his name into it.
Other stuff also happened ... a NATO summit, big-name retirements, angst over a movie about dolls. How well have you been paying attention?
veryGood! (79)
Related
- This was the average Social Security benefit in 2004, and here's what it is now
- Months ahead of the presidential election, Nebraska’s GOP governor wants a winner-take-all system
- Total solar eclipse forecast: Will your city have clear skies Monday?
- Horoscopes Today, April 3, 2024
- Meet first time Grammy nominee Charley Crockett
- Total solar eclipse forecast: Will your city have clear skies Monday?
- Watch: Authorities rescue injured dog stuck on railroad tracks after it was hit by train
- Man charged with killing 3 relatives is returned to Pennsylvania custody
- South Korea's acting president moves to reassure allies, calm markets after Yoon impeachment
- Lawyer for sex abuse victims says warning others about chaplain didn’t violate secrecy order
Ranking
- Intel's stock did something it hasn't done since 2022
- Can the eclipse impact your astrological sign? An astrologer weighs in
- US applications for jobless benefits rise to highest level in two months, but layoffs remain low
- Facing mortality, more Americans wrote wills during the pandemic. Now, they're opting out
- Highlights from Trump’s interview with Time magazine
- No contaminants detected in water after Baltimore bridge collapse, authorities say
- '9-1-1' stars Angela Bassett, Jennifer Love Hewitt can't believe the 'crazy' 100th episode
- Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to roam free in Germany in public dispute over trophy hunting
Recommendation
Residents worried after ceiling cracks appear following reroofing works at Jalan Tenaga HDB blocks
Monterrey fans chant 'Messi was afraid.' Latest on Lionel Messi after Champions Cup loss.
The teaching of Hmong and Asian American histories to be required in Wisconsin under a new law
World Central Kitchen names American Jacob Flickinger as victim of Israeli airstrike in Gaza
NFL Week 15 picks straight up and against spread: Bills, Lions put No. 1 seed hopes on line
Did Texas 'go too far' with SB4 border bill? Appeals court weighs case; injunction holds.
Police say use of racial slur clearly audible as they investigate racist incidents toward Utah team
Caitlin Clark wins second straight national player of the year award