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17 hours agoExpression geoleo
“Locked” for 300 years: Virtual unfolding has now revealed this letter’s secrets
Practice of intricately folding letters to secure them is known as "letterlocking."
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19 hours agoExpression geoleo
The Abandoned Side Project That Quietly Turned Into a $700m/year Revenue Business
The 20-year journey of Ben Chestnut, founder of MailChimp
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19 hours agoCurrent Event geoleo
Beyond Meat signs 3-year global contract with McDonald's and other fast-food chains
Beyond Meat has signed a 3-year global contract with McDonald's and Yum! Brands including fast-food chains Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC.
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1 day agoExpression geoleo
How a tiny startup is reinventing the DVR for the cord-cutter era
Once the future of TV, the DVR became a throwback. But Channels figured out how to make it newly relevant in a streaming world.
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1 day agoCurrent Event geoleo
How a 10-second video clip sold for $6.6 million
In October 2020, Miami-based art collector Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile spent almost $67,000 on a 10-second video artwork that he could have watched for free online. Last week, he sold it for $6.6 million.
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1 day agoCurrent Event geoleo
Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon': 10 Things You Didn't Know
There are hit albums, and then there’s Dark Side of the Moon. Pink Floyd‘s eternally popular song cycle has sold more than 15 million copies in the U.S. since its release on March 1st, 1973, and more than 45 million units worldwide. A true colossus of classic rock, the album made its creators — bassist/vocalist Roger Waters, guitarist/vocalist David Gilmour, keyboardist/vocalist Rick Wright, and drummer Nick Mason — incredibly wealthy, and ultimately spent a mind-boggling 937 weeks on th...
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2 days agoExpression geoleo
Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell is Finally Landing on Netflix Tonight
Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell is one of the most anticipated projects and finally there are only a few hours left for it to land on Netflix!
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2 days agoAnalysis geoleo
It's Not Just Texas. The Entire Energy Grid Needs An Upgrade For Extreme Weather
The Texas blackout is a reminder that climate-driven extreme weather stresses the U.S.'s power system in many ways. Much is needed to harden the grid for the future as the number of outages increase.
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2 days agoCurrent Event geoleo
Virginia joins 15 other states in legalizing marijuana
Virginia is the 16th U.S. state to pass an adult-use marijuana legalization law, though sales would not start until 2024.
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2 days agoCurrent Event geoleo
Beijing 2022 Olympics to be powered by 100% renewable energy
Beijing is set to power the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics with energy sourced from 100% renewable energy.
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4 days agoExpression geoleo
How Korea Became a Forgotten War
During the Korean War, the United States inflicted unimaginable horrors on the Korean people. Yet today Americans know almost nothing about their government's role in war crimes and atrocities.
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4 days agoAnalysis geoleo
Inside Xinjiang’s Prison State
Survivors detail the scope of China’s campaign of persecution against ethnic and religious minorities.
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5 days agoCurrent Event geoleo
Twitter Previews ‘Super Follows,’ Which Will Let Users Charge for Exclusive Content
Ahead of its analyst day presentation, Twitter outlined an ambitious plan to double annual revenue by 2023. Most of that will continue to come from advertising — but the social network also i…
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5 days agoCurrent Event geoleo
Kelsey Grammer to return as Frasier in reboot of hit comedy
Actor is ‘gleefully anticipating’ the return of the comedy, which is being rebooted after 17 years
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5 days agoCurrent Event geoleo
Two dead after undercover cops shoot at each other in Philippines drug bust
Two police officers in the Philippines were killed in a shootout with other federal agents during a botched undercover drug bust, according to official state media Philippine News Agency (PNA).
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5 days agoExpression geoleo
She sued her enslaver for reparations and won. Her descendants never knew.
After the Civil War, Henrietta Wood made history by pursuing an audacious lawsuit against the man who’d kidnapped her back into slavery. Yet the story was lost to her own family.
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5 days agoCurrent Event geoleo
Italian Graveyard Crumbles Off Cliff, Sending 200 Coffins Into Sea
Erosion along the coastline caused a landslide that utterly destroyed this seaside cemetery in northern Italy.
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5 days agoExpression geoleo
The Republican Party Is Now in Its End Stages
The GOP has become, in form if not in content, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union of the late 1970s.
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8 days agoCurrent Event geoleo
Greyhound racing in the U.S. is coming to an end
Florida once led the nation in dog tracks. Now it’s leading the nation in shutting them down.
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8 days agoAnalysis geoleo
Dogs synchronize their behavior with children, but not as much as with adults, study finds
Dogs synchronize their behavior with the children in their family, but not as much as they do with adults, a new study from Oregon State University researchers found. The findings are important because there is a growing body of evidence that dogs can help children in many ways, including with social development, increasing physical activity, managing anxiety or as a source of attachment in the face of changing family structures, the researchers said. Yet, very little research has focused on how...
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8 days agoExpression geoleo
The Galaxy S21 is the only Android phone that doesn't suck at Snapchat
Snapchat on Android has historically proven to be pretty terrible when it comes to camera image quality. For years, the app would just be screenshotting
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8 days agoCurrent Event geoleo
US coronavirus death toll approaches milestone of 500,000
The U.S. stood Sunday at the brink of a once-unthinkable tally: 500,000 people lost to the coronavirus. A year into the pandemic, the running total of lives lost was about 498,000 — roughly the population of Kansas City, Missouri, and just shy of the size of Atlanta. The figure compiled by Johns Hopkins University surpasses the number of people who died in 2019 of chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke, Alzheimer’s, flu and pneumonia combined.
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8 days agoCurrent Event geoleo
Myanmar coup: Protesters defy military warning in mass strike
Hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Myanmar in one of the largest demonstrations yet against the country's military coup. Businesses closed as employees joined a general strike, despite a military statement that said protesters were risking their lives by turning out.
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8 days agoCurrent Event geoleo
World's oldest DNA sequenced from a mammoth that lived more than 1 million years ago
A tooth from a mammoth that roamed the Siberian steppe more than a million years ago has yielded the world's oldest DNA sequence. It's the first time that DNA has been recovered from animal remains more than a million years old. Previously, the most ancient DNA sample was from a horse that lived between 560,000 and 780,000 years ago
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8 days agoCurrent Event geoleo
Sacha Baron Cohen: 'If you’re protesting against racism, you’re going to upset some racists'
Seven months ago, Sacha Baron Cohen was in the back of a speeding ambulance. It was an escape car, and he was fleeing a gun rally. The Borat producers had chosen the ambulance as it could blend in, accommodate a small film crew and, if necessary, hasten a trip to hospital.
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