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3 days ago
Current Event bkoolPG&E lacked basic training before California blackouts
When Pacific Gas & Electric cut power to large swaths of wildfire-prone Northern California last fall, few of the emergency personnel managing the blackouts for the nation’s largest utility had learned the fundamentals of managing an emergency in their home state.
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7 days ago
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NASA's About to Try Grabbing a Chunk of Asteroid to Bring to Earth—and You Can Watch
If you’ve seen the movie The Martian, you no doubt remember the rescue scene, in which (spoiler alert!) Matt Damon launches himself off Mars in a stripped-down rocket in hopes of his carefully-calculated trajectory taking him just close enough to his former crew for them to pluck him from the void of outer space and bring him safely home to Earth. There’s a multitude of complex physics involved, and who knows how true-to-science the details of the movie are...
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7 days ago
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Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA
That is according to the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook 2020. The 464-page outlook, published today by the IEA, also outlines the “extraordinarily turbulent” impact of coronavirus and the “highly uncertain” future of global energy use over the next two decades.
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8 days ago
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We’re watching Trump’s 7th bankruptcy unfold
As a businessman, Donald Trump ran 6 businesses that declared bankruptcy because they couldn’t pay their bills. As the president running for a second term, Trump is repeating some of the mistakes he made as a businessman and risking the downfall of yet another venture: his own political operation.
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10 days ago
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Ghost of Tsushima's Next Update Will Let You Pet Dogs and Turn Them Into Allies
Ghost of Tsushima's version 1.1 update will bring with it New Game+ and the co-op Legends mode, but now we know what may very well be its most important addition - the Charm of Canine Recruitment that will let you pet dogs and turn them into allies a.k.a. your new best friend.
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10 days ago
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Attenborough: 'Curb excess capitalism' to save nature
Sir David Attenborough says the excesses of western countries should "be curbed" to restore the natural world and we'll all be happier for it. The veteran broadcaster said that the standard of living in wealthy nations is going to have to take a pause. Nature would flourish once again he believes when "those that have a great deal, perhaps, have a little less".
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2 weeks ago
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WSJ Survey: 43% of Economists Don’t See U.S. Gaining Back Lost Jobs Until 2023
The U.S. labor market faces a protracted recovery amid the continued spread of the coronavirus and uncertainty over prospects for another stimulus package and the outcome of the presidential election, according to a new Wall Street Journal survey of economists. More than half of business and academic economists polled this month said they didn’t expect the labor market to claw back until 2023 or later all the jobs lost as a result of coronavirus-related shutdowns. That is a slower timeline tha...
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1 month ago
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Facebook Says it Will Stop Operating in Europe If Regulators Don’t Back Down
Facebook has threatened to pack up its toys and go home if European regulators don’t back down and let the social network get its own way. In a court filing in Dublin, Facebook said that a decision by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) would force the company to pull up stakes and leave the 410 million people who use Facebook and photo-sharing service Instagram in the lurch.
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1 month ago
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Wild, this will set a precedent that will change everything for the worse.
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1 month ago
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Lasted Only 3 Years, LAPD's Electric-BMW Cars Now Sold Online for Very Rip-Off Prices
In 2017, Los Angeles started its eco-friendly project by buying a hundred electric-BMW vehicles for its police department. However, after a few months, police officers' issues using the car for their private usage were reported. Now, the state government was allegedly selling the cars batch-per-batch for very rip-off prices on online stores. Here's how much to buy one.
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2 months ago
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American Airlines is dropping service to these 15 cities. This is likely only the beginning
American Airlines will temporarily stop flying routes to 15 small cities across the United States in October, signaling that some areas could wind up underserved as the coronavirus pandemic continues to devastate the travel industry.
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2 months ago
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The Physics of Why Hot Water Sometimes Freezes Faster Than Cold Water
The story goes that in 1963, Tanzanian high school student Erasto Mpemba was making ice cream with his class when he impatiently put his sugar and milk concoction into the ice cream churner when it was still hot, instead of letting it cool first. To his surprise, the confection cooled faster than his classmates’ had.
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2 months ago
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Confederate Statues Were Never Really About Preserving History
In total, at least 830 Confederate monuments have been constructed across the U.S. Most were not built immediately after the Civil War. They were installed decades later, mostly in Southern states, when disenfranchised Black Americans’ civil rights were aggressively under attack.
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3 months ago
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Order Temporarily Blocks Feds From Targeting Press And Legal Observers In Portland
A federal judge has temporarily blocked federal law enforcement officers deployed to Portland, Ore., from targeting journalists and legal observers at the protests against police violence and racial injustice that have intensified in recent days.