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1 day agoCurrent Event baron778
Mercury Helps to Detail Earth’s Most Massive Extinction Event
The Latest Permian Mass Extinction (LPME) was the largest extinction in Earth’s history to date, killing between 80-90% of life on the planet, though finding definitive evidence for what caused the dramatic changes in climate has eluded experts.
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4 days agoCurrent Event baron778
As the Colorado River Shrinks, Washington Prepares to Spread the Pain
The seven states that rely on the river for water are not expected to reach a deal on cuts. It appears the Biden administration will have to impose reductions.
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7 days agoCurrent Event baron778
Lloyd Morrisett, 'Sesame Street' Co-Creator, Dead at 93
LLOYD MORRISETT, THE co-founder of Sesame Street, the beloved television show watched by millions of children around the world, has died at the age of 93. Morrisett’s death was announced by Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit he helped co-found, on Tuesday. No details of his death were given.
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7 days agoCurrent Event baron778
TikTok reportedly threatened to terminate remote employees who don't live near their assigned office location
TikTok is requiring employees to live near their assigned offices, The Information reported Monday, as part of a broader crackdown on remote work.
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8 days agoCurrent Event baron778
Chris Evans Jokes with Jeremy Renner After His Accident: 'Has Anyone Even Checked' on the Snowplow?
Jeremy Renner can always count on friend Chris Evans to be there for him. Shortly after Renner, 52, posted a message on social media about being on the mend and looking forward with a positive outlook after his snowplow accident, Evans, 41, reacted with a light-hearted response to his Marvel costar.
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10 days agoCurrent Event baron778
A New Wave of AI-Powered Tools Coming Soon
Do you know what's common for most of the best AI text-generating tools? They are all basically the same thing under the hood. Have you heard about tools like Jasper, CopyAI, or even Notion AI? While these might seem like different tools, they are actually not. All of these are powered using the same Large Language Model (LLM). GPT-3 to be exact.
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10 days agoCurrent Event baron778
Brooke Shields reveals rape as young star in Sundance film: I just thought 'stay alive and get out' | Life
Brooke Shields revealed she was raped as a young Hollywood actor in new documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, which premiered at the Sundance film festival on Friday. The former supermodel did not reveal the identity of her attacker, but said she met with the man - someone she already knew - soon after she graduated college, believing it was a work meeting to discuss casting her in a new movie.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event baron778
50 Cent announces “modern” ‘8 Mile’ TV series with Eminem’s blessing
50 Cent has announced plans to create a “modern” version of Eminem’s semi-autobiographical film 8 Mile. Released in 2002, 8 Mile starred Eminem as aspiring rapper B-Rabbit, alongside Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy and Anthony Mackie. It was a critical and commercial success, and the accompanying soundtrack featured Eminem’s iconic track ‘Lose Yourself’.
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3 weeks agoUnspecified baron778
Singapore teachers brace for more cheating by students using viral bot ChatGPT
Teachers in Singapore say they will likely have to move from assignments requiring regurgitation to those that require greater critical thinking, to stay ahead in the fight against plagiarism.
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1 month agoCurrent Event baron778
High-efficiency water filter removes 99.9% of microplastics in 10 seconds
Microplastics are a growing environmental problem, but now researchers in Korea have developed a new water purification system that can filter out these tiny fragments, as well as other pollutants, very quickly and with high efficiency.
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1 month agoCurrent Event baron778
Judge strips Alex Jones of bankruptcy protections for $1.5 billion Sandy Hook debt
Houston Judge Christopher M. López reportedly ended a stay preventing Sandy Hook families from collecting a $1.5 billion judgment against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. In a ruling on Monday, López granted an order to lift a stay that was automatically put in place when Jones filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections.
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1 month agoCurrent Event baron778
New study finds alterations in the brain's white matter in children with depression
A 17-year neuroimaging study of persons diagnosed with depression as children found differences in white matter in the dorsal cingulum bundle region of the brain compared to persons without depression of similar age. The emergence of these differences was first detected in adolescence. The study was published in Depression and Anxiety.
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1 month agoCurrent Event baron778
Dog protects young girls for hours after getting lost in woods
When Abigail and Cecilia Bourg went missing at the end of November in the woods behind their home, their parents were frantic. Now, Artemis, the Bourg family dog, is being hailed a hero. "I just start like running around the whole property — six acres — and that's when I called [my husband] and said, 'They're gone,'" Mary Bourg said.
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1 month agoCurrent Event baron778
Experimental CRISPR technique has promise against aggressive leukaemia
A 13-year-old girl whose leukaemia had not responded to other treatments now has no detectable cancer cells after receiving a dose of immune cells that were genetically edited to attack the cancer.