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Daily Mail
21-07-2025
- Science
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE REVEALED: Why there's a mysterious surge of great white sharks haunting America
A rise in shark sightings near US beaches may be alarming to some, but an expert has said Americans need to get used to sharing their summers with these apex predators. Chris Fischer, the founder of OCEARCH, told the Daily Mail populations have bounced back from the brink of extinction over the last 30 years, and it's leading to a major resurgence of all creatures in the ocean. Your browser does not support iframes.
Forbes
17-06-2025
- Automotive
- Forbes
How Nissan Is Actively In Pursuit Of The Perfect Cupholder
Nissan cupholder study Nissan Cupholders everywhere, Nissan wants to have a word with you. When I was a kid, our cars didn't have great cupholders for all of the family beverages. I know this because we used to own a boatload of 1970s-era aftermarket plastic cupholders that had a hook designed to slide between the window and the seal. These weren't particularly high-quality or effective, but they were better than nothing if you had a bottle of water and a can of Tab at the same time. Automakers got the hint many years ago and started designing interiors that incorporated far more cupholders than ever before. Many cars today offer an embarrassment of riches when it comes to places to stash your beverages. Nissan, for one, offers 16 cupholders in its three-row Pathfinder SUV. And the brand is proactively designing interiors to accommodate liquid vessels of all shapes and sizes using 3D modeling paired with human testing. Nissan cupholder in action. Nissan Nissan Senior Manager of Vehicle Performance Development Chris Fischer says his department look at trends in water bottles, Big Gulps, Starbucks Venti beverages, and every single size in between to better understand what customers need. They look at what's popular to keep up with the trends, and hire researchers to get granular with the data. Consumer demand for drinkware brands like Stanley, Yeti, and Hydro Flask has exploded in recent years. For instance, Stanley water bottle sales surged 87 percent year over year in 2023, with total sales of $750 million that year. The global insulated drinkware market cap is projected to reach $12.91 billion in the next five years, up from $7.2 billion in 2023. Americans like their to-go beverages, and they are actively working toward using more sustainable bottles and getting away from single-use plastic. 'We closely look at the trends,' Fischer says. 'When we look at the center console, we need to be able to fit a coffee cup, a Coke bottle, a fast foot cup, or a water bottle. They have to be able to sit flat and we don't want the lid to pop off.' Think about all the times you tried to squeeze a cup from a fast food restaurant into a too-small cupholder and all the frustration that brings. Nissan wants to avoid that. Beverage vessels seem to have gotten bigger over the years, Fischer says. Most automakers understand that cups must fit into cars, and they are fitted as such. That's why fast food companies don't increase the size of the cups they use. If they don't fit into the car, people won't buy them. Over time, car manufacturers have tried different ways to make the perfect cupholder, with varying levels of success. 'We've seen other automakers make adjustable-depth cupholders, and it's interesting but maybe a little gimmicky,' Fischer says. 'We've also seen parts that can be removed. What we find is when you have those removable parts, they either break or get lost or get vacuumed up.' Today's car cupholders have to do double duty as phone holders, too. Smartphones are various shapes and sizes, and often passengers will toss them into the cupholder. In Nissan's estimation, these little details are the unsung heroes of drivers everywhere.
Yahoo
17-06-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Shark safety tips to start the summer
CAPE HATTERAS, N.C. (WAVY) – Contender is a hanging out off the shore of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Ocearch is tracking him as part of a larger conservation effort for our oceans. 'Our oceans are back. We are in the great return to abundance and we're seeing as much life off our coast, both east and west now as we saw in the 1940's,' said the founder of Ocearch, Chris Fischer. 'So, it's an amazing time to get out to the ocean with your family. Realize, if you're my age, if you're in your 50s, we grew up in an ocean that was completely wiped out. So, you could walk into the ocean anywhere, any time. Now, over the last 30 years, we've rewired our oceans. Our kids are going to see an ocean full of fish.' Fischer suggests one way to see if there are sharks in the ocean is to look above it. 'If you see a bunch of birds crashing on bait and game fish eating the bait, there's going to be sharks coming in and the food chain is colliding there,' Fischer said. Also, pay attention to the flags at the beach. A purple flag means there is marine life in the remember, the odds of being attacked by a shark are extremely low and sharks are good for our oceans. 'It was still chasing her': 9-year-old girl attacked by shark while swimming at Florida beach 'When the white shark comes to town, every animal knows it and behaves properly,' Fischer said. 'So when you're seeing them off your beaches, you can know our management people must be doing pretty good.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
USA Today
10-06-2025
- Automotive
- USA Today
How Nissan's cupholder guru is changing the way you drink in your car
How Nissan's cupholder guru is changing the way you drink in your car Show Caption Hide Caption Car maintenance tips you need to know These basic car maintenance tips are vital to your car's longevity. ProblemSolved, Reviewed New drink containers keep changing the shape of cupholders. Door-pocket bottle holders must be easy and safe for the driver to use. The next time you don't spill hot coffee in your lap driving to work, spare a moment to thank Chris Fischer. The vehicle development engineer at Nissan's North American tech center in Farmington Hills, Michigan is one of the engineers and designers automakers charge with staying a step ahead of the world's cup, coffee and container manufacturers. He has been Nissan's go-to guy for cupholders since 2015, when complaints about cupholders weighed down the automaker's customer satisfaction scores ― a key benchmark. It's full-time work. 'Refillable bottles were becoming a big deal, and they were a different size' from the 12-ounce cans and Big Gulp cups automakers had focused on, Fischer told me recently while holding up a large CamelBak bottle. He brought a bottle just like it with him to Japan. To this day, it remains in Nissan's box of samples, all painted a neutral color like modeler's clay for easy digital scanning. Struggling automakers: Can troubled automaker Nissan survive the next 5 years? Why the experts say yes 'Americans put a high value on drinking in our vehicles, and we use a wide variety of sizes,' Fischer said. That behavior was behind cupholder mania, which began in the United States with Chrysler minivans in the 1980s. Cupholders became so popular that automakers promoted the number they offered in a vehicle alongside fuel economy and airbags. But the right design is a moving target. Keeping up with consumer behavior 'How do you fit a CamelBak and a 6-ounce aluminum can in the same holder?' Fischer asked. One answer, spring-loaded plastic fingers that adjust to different sizes of bottles, raised a new question: What shape and strength "finger" will hold a 20-ounce insulated Yeti, but not crush an 8-ounce "short" paper cup? 'You also have to be aware of the holder's depth,' he said. It must be high enough to hold tall bottles, and short enough that it doesn't knock the top off a small paper coffee cup. 'Too big or too small is a problem.' Another challenge: Some people bring their ceramic coffee mugs from home into the vehicle. That led to the development Nissan calls a 'dog bone,' an open space connecting two round holders. A mug handle fits there, though I've discovered it's also a great place for loose coins to take up residence. The design evolved from round holders with a connecting channel to the current Pathfinder's hourglass shape with rounded plastic fingers to keep small containers in place. Design continues to adapt As soon as one question is answered, a new type of container poses another: What to do with juice boxes? Minivans and family SUVs now have square receptacles for them for their kid-dominated rear seats. Extra-large water bottles also pose a challenge. The answer: modified door pockets with holders that are easy to reach without distracting the driver from traffic. 'We're always looking at data,' Fischer said. 'We're the voice of the customer.' The 2022 Pathfinder's cupholders had the highest satisfaction scores in its segment, he said. 'We did our job. It seems like a small thing, but we want to sweat the details. The way cupholders work is important to customer satisfaction. It's a reason to buy a car.' Contact Mark Phelan: mmphelan@ Follow him on Twitter @mark_phelan. Read more on autos and sign up for our autos newsletter. Become a subscriber.
South China Morning Post
08-02-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Who is Chris Fischer, the autistic author-chef husband of Amy Schumer?
Comedian Amy Schumer and her husband, chef Chris Fischer, who married in 2018. Photo: @amyschumer/Instagram Fame and celebrity In a January appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon , Amy Schumer had this to say about her husband of almost seven years: 'I love him, I'm married, Chris is his name,' the stand-up comedian told the audience, before hilariously adding, 'he's a rescue.' Schumer , 43, married Chris Fischer in 2018 and the couple have a son, Gene. Over the years, Schumer has regularly shown her love and support for her husband, who was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder shortly after their wedding. In her 2019 Netflix special, Growing , Schumer talks about her husband's diagnosis. 'I knew from the beginning that my husband's brain was a little different than mine,' she says. 'And once he was diagnosed, it dawned on me how funny it was, because all of the characteristics that make it clear that he's on the spectrum are all of the reasons that I fell madly in love with him.' Comedian Amy Schumer with chef husband Chris Fischer. Photo: @amyschumer/Instagram Here's everything to know about the Kinda Pregnant star's husband, Chris Fischer. Chris Fischer is primarily a chef Amy Schumer's husband Chris Fischer is a chef and farmer. Photo: @amyschumer/Instagram Chris Fischer, 44, a Martha's Vineyard native, is a chef. He once ran the Beach Plum Inn and Restaurant in Menemsha, Massachusetts, frequented by the likes of former president Barack Obama and wife Michelle . Fischer also took over running his family's Beetlebung Farm when his aunt retired in 2010. 'I got into farming partly because I came back from NYC broke and I realised that it only made sense to start using what I was growing,' he said in an interview with Esquire in 2013. In 2015 Fischer co-wrote The Beetlebung Farm Cookbook: A Year of Cooking on Martha's Vineyard , which won the 2016 James Beard Award.
