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3 years ago+18 18 0Scotland Becomes 1st Country To Make Period Products Free
"A proud day for Scotland and a signal to the world that free universal access to period products can be achieved," said Monica Lennon, who championed the bill in the Scottish Parliament.
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3 years ago+17 17 0Archaeologists find 2,150-year-old Petra monument ‘hiding in plain sight’
The archaeologists used satellite imagery to find the platform, which is 184 feet by 161 feet. An interior platform had columns along one end and a huge staircase. Based on pottery studies, the researchers think the platform could be at least 2,150 y ...
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3 years ago+19 19 0Monitoring the environmental effects of Bonfire Night
As published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmosphere, the research team carried out experiments from 5 November 2016 to the early hours of the following day, repeating the same experiment in 2017 from November 4 and 5. The team found ...
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3 years ago+15 15 0Students Are Rebelling Against Eye-Tracking Exam Surveillance Tools
As a privacy-minded computer science student preparing to start his first year at Miami University, Erik Johnson was concerned this fall when he learned that two of his professors would require him to use the digital proctoring software Proctorio for ...
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3 years ago+17 17 0A fluid concept: Finding the most productive time of the day
When are we most likely to do our best work? New research shows that, on average, our brains work best in the middle of the day – if asked to perform abstract, logical or problem-solving tasks.
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3 years ago+19 19 0What 50 gravitational-wave events reveal about the Universe
Astronomers observed 39 cosmic events that released gravitational waves over a 6-month period in 2019 — a rate of more than one per week. The bounty, described in a series of papers published on 28 October, demonstrates how observatories that detect ...
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3 years ago+18 18 0Study: Men are more likely than women to perceive face masks as infringing on their freedom
Men and women are equally likely to wear face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research.
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3 years ago+15 15 0Apple TV App Coming to PS4 and PS5
The Apple TV app will be coming to Sony's PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, according to an official blog post. The Apple TV app will...
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3 years ago+21 21 0Disney says its 'primary focus' for entertainment is streaming — announces a major reorg
Disney is restructuring its media and entertainment divisions, as streaming becomes the most important facet of the company's business.
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3 years ago+12 12 0Twitter Thinks 15-Year-Old Claudia Conway Is the Whistleblower of Our Time
Kellyanne Conway's daughter gave several updates on how Trump is really doing with COVID last night.
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3 years ago+21 21 0GM extends talks on $2 billion deal with Nikola after fraud, sexual assault allegations surface against Trevor Milton
General Motors and Nikola are not expected to finalize a $2 billion deal scheduled to close before Wednesday after allegations of fraud and sexual abuse surfaced against the embattled start-up’s founder and former executive chairman, Trevor Milton, a ...
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4 years ago+4 4 0China's air pollutant reduction success could make it tougher to control climate change
China's success in improving air quality by cutting polluting emissions may have a negative knock-on effect on climate change overall, a new study has found. The research, by scientists from Carnegie Institution for Science, U.S., Chinese Academ ...
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4 years ago+20 20 0The Trump EPA Deals Another Blow to the Environment
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- To help some of the country’s dirtiest electric-power plants save a little money, the Environmental Protection Agency is willing to imperil the lives and health of Americans who live downstream from them. A new rule that relaxe ...
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4 years ago+18 18 0Michel Ancel the Director of Beyond Good and Evil 2 has left Ubisoft
Michel Ancel, who was working on Beyond Good and Evil 2, has left Ubisoft to work on a Personal Project. Michel Ancel has been working with Ubisoft for more than 30 years. It will definitely impact their games a bit. Ubisoft also provided an update o ...
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4 years ago+19 19 0Barbados plans to remove Queen Elizabeth as head of state
Barbados wants to remove Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and become a republic, the Caribbean island nation's government has said, reviving a plan mooted several times in the past.
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4 years ago+19 19 0Artist selling ‘Karen’ Halloween masks, calls them ‘scariest thing you can be’
Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past year, you are probably well aware 2020 is the year of the Karen.
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4 years ago+12 12 0Jim Gaffigan Doesn't Regret 'Harsh' Twitter Rant About Trump
Jim Gaffigan has learned just how "scary" "bots & trolls" can be, but, nevertheless, he has no regrets for his tweetstorm about the RNC
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4 years ago+18 18 0Microsoft Flight Simulator players are flying into Hurricane Laura
The real-time weather data is incredibly accurate
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4 years ago+14 14 0Microsoft Flight Simulator review – buckle in and see the world
PC (version tested)/Xbox One (coming soon) Microsoft/AsoboThe perfect lockdown antidote: get in a plane and see New York, or the Amalfi coast, or the Himalayas, in eye-searing detail
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4 years ago+21 21 0Flaws Could Have Exposed Cryptocurrency Exchanges to Hackers
Researchers found troubling bugs in open-source libraries used by financial institutions.