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1 day agoCurrent Event canuck
Poland activists acquitted over LGBT Virgin Mary
Three Polish women have been found not guilty of offending religious feelings over posters depicting the Virgin Mary with a rainbow halo. The activists displayed the images in 2019 in response to an Easter display describing "gender" and "LGBT" as sins. The icon used in the artwork, "Our Lady of Czestochowa", is revered by many Polish Catholics.
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1 day agoCurrent Event canuck
Sacha Baron Cohen Was ‘Scared’ of What Would Happen During the Rudy Giuliani Scene in ‘Borat’
Sacha Baron Cohen starred in two high-profile movies last year. In Netflix’s “Trial of the Chicago 7,” he plays hippie activist Abbie Hoffman, whose commitment to the anti-war movement is matched only by his sarcastic wit.
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3 days agoCurrent Event canuck
Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak Announce New Album as Silk Sonic
Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak have announced a new joint project called Silk Sonic. The pair has made a whole album together, featuring Parliament Funkadelic bassist and funk star Bootsy Collins as a “special guest host.” The first single arrives on March 5, with the rest of the record arriving on an as yet unannounced date.
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6 days agoAnalysis canuck
'Night owls' may be twice as likely as morning 'larks' to underperform at work
Night 'owls' may be twice as likely as morning 'larks' to underperform at work and to run a heightened risk of early retirement due to disability, finds research published online in the journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine.
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8 days agoCurrent Event canuck
Republicans prefer Trump party over GOP by 2 to 1: Poll
Latest USA Today/Suffolk University poll shows that 46% of Trump voters would support the former president if he forms his own third party.
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11 days agoCurrent Event canuck
If We Want To End Homelessness, We Need To End Social Darwinism
Homelessness has become a social disaster on a scale unseen since the Great Depression. It’s a structural crisis that’s escalated to a degree that, despite the best efforts of status-quo neoliberalism to hand-wave it away, can no longer be denied – and neither can its causes.
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13 days agoCurrent Event canuck
China is about to achieve a historic e-commerce milestone—and no other country comes close
China is set to become the first country in history that will see a majority of its retail sales conducted online instead of via traditional brick-and-mortar stores. That’s according to a new report from digital marketing research firm eMarketer. “China will take a step in its digital transformation this year that once would have seemed almost unthinkable,” the firm’s research note explains. “For the first time anywhere, a majority of retail sales for an entire country will transact online.”
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event canuck
Bitcoin surpasses $50,000 for first time as major companies jump into crypto
Bitcoin has gotten a boost from news of large firms like Tesla, Mastercard and BNY Mellon warming to cryptocurrencies.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event canuck
Doctors Urge White House To Stop 'Detrimental' Impact Of Animal Agriculture
Agroup of doctors is urging the White House to stop the ‘detrimental’ impact of animal agriculture. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is a nonprofit organization featuring 12,000 physicians including Dr. Neal D. Barnard.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event canuck
New restaurant owners get shut out of PPP loans despite their financial losses
Every month, Andrew Darneille says his Smokecraft Modern Barbecue in Arlington, Va., has been losing between $15,000 and $20,000, and the numbers would be uglier if not for breaks from his bank and landlord. December was the worst yet: The owner and pitmaster says he suffered $30,000 in losses, even with a skeleton crew and a separate ghost kitchen selling fried chicken sandwiches.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event canuck
Archaeologists unearth bronze age graves at Stonehenge tunnel site
Bronze age graves, neolithic pottery and the vestiges of a mysterious C-shaped enclosure that might have been a prehistoric industrial area are among the finds unearthed by archaeologists who have carried out preliminary work on the site of the proposed new road tunnel at Stonehenge.
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1 month agoCurrent Event canuck
White dwarf atmospheres might contain the pulverized crusts of their dead planets
Astronomers have developed a new technique to search for exoplanets—by looking for their crushed up bones in the atmospheres of white dwarfs. And it's working. The search for planets outside the solar system, known as exoplanets, has one significant limitation: We can only find exoplanets that exist right now. But our universe has been hanging around for over 13 billion years, and many generations of planetary systems have come and gone in that vast expanse of cosmic time.
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1 month agoCurrent Event canuck
‘The Capitol Insurrection Was as Christian Nationalist as It Gets.’
Religious resentment has become a potent recruiting tool for the hard right.
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1 month agoCurrent Event canuck
Scientists Make First 'Invisible Solar Panels' You Can Integrate Into Smartphones
A long time after the Paris Climate Agreement, nations have kept on enhancing on the mission to make a smooth exit from non-renewable energy and to change to renewable energy sources for electricity. Korean Scientists from Incheon National University exhibits how they have made the first fully transparent solar cell.