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1 day agoCurrent Event jedlicka
The Best Places to Retire Around the World in 2022
If you’re thinking about retiring abroad, you’ll need a lot of information to find the best places to retire around the world. But, more importantly, you require guidance on how to interpret that data. That is why the experts at internationalliving.com created the 2022 Annual Global Retirement Index: to assist you in the exciting business of determining where in the world will best suit your needs.
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3 days agoCurrent Event jedlicka
A Chinese iPhone factory worker says he saw a colleague have his pay reduced for spending too much time drinking water, report says
Nicknamed Hunter, he told Rest of World that working at the Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou, China felt like he was stripped of his "rights and dignity."
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9 days agoCurrent Event jedlicka
Valerie's beloved cat Mendelson disappeared after the flood. Then something unexpected happened
Valerie Axtens thought she had seen the last of her beloved cat Mendelson as she was being rescued through a window from rapidly rising floodwater. The 92-year-old lives in North Lismore, one of the areas hardest hit by the February 28 disaster.
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10 days agoCurrent Event jedlicka
Be kind to bees, build with bee bricks
We know that bees are important to natural ecosystems and also to human agriculture and horticulture. They are great pollinators of so plant flowering plant species and are also a source of food and materials we have used for thousands of years, namely honey, honeycomb, and beeswax.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event jedlicka
A Conservation Success As Zero Indian Rhinos Were Poached In 2022 Making It The First Time In 45 Years
The announcement that zero rhinos have been poached in 2022 in the Indian state of Assam has been heralded as a global conservation success. IFAW and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) congratulate the Assam government and local communities on this momentous achievement, which marks the first time there have been zero poaching incidents in the region in 45 years.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event jedlicka
Timothée Chalamet Ponders His Next Role in Hilarious New Apple TV+ Commercial
Apple TV+ has teamed up with Timothée Chalamet to show off its original programs and big-name lineup in its new branding campaign “Call Me With Timothée Chalamet.” The campaign video depicts Chalamet falling head-over-heels for Apple TV+, marveling at its works such as “Causeway,” “Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me” and the Emmy-winning Jason Sudeikis comedy “Ted Lasso.” Chalamet begins to wonder why he does not yet have a role on Apple TV+.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event jedlicka
MLS Player Anton Walkes Dead At 25 After Boat Accident In Florida
Pro soccer player Anton Walkes -- defender and midfielder for Charlotte FC -- tragically died after a boat accident in Florida, the team announced. He was only 25 years old. The Major League Soccer club said Thursday the organization is devastated by the news.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event jedlicka
Feathered robotic wing paves way for flapping drones
Birds fly more efficiently by folding their wings during the upstroke, according to a recent study led by Lund University in Sweden. The results could mean that wing-folding is the next step in increasing the propulsive and aerodynamic efficiency of flapping drones.
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3 weeks agoAnalysis jedlicka
New spin control method brings billion-qubit quantum chips closer
Australian engineers have discovered a new way of precisely controlling single electrons nestled in quantum dots that run logic gates. What's more, the new mechanism is less bulky and requires fewer parts, which could prove essential to making large-scale silicon quantum computers a reality.
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1 month agoCurrent Event jedlicka
Germany detains Iranian over suspected poison plot after tip from U.S. security
A 32-year-old Iranian man has been detained in Germany following a tip from U.S. security officials that he could be planning an attack with deadly chemicals, officials said Sunday. Police and prosecutors said the man and another person were detained overnight in the town of Castrop-Rauxel, northwest of Dortmund.
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1 month agoCurrent Event jedlicka
Programming and its positive impacts on brain functioning
Learning to program can accelerate knowledge acquisition by developing cognitive skills. As a result, we remember the information much better, and the brain subjected to constant exercise is much healthier.
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1 month agoCurrent Event jedlicka
This sleep mask at CES 2023 hides a game-changing secret
A sleep mask that tracks eye movement to help you better understand sleep patterns and quality is certainly unusual, and the prototype device in our photos shows it looks pretty mad too. That’s reason enough to talk about it, but the real reason Somalytics’ SomaSleep sleep mask is exciting is due to the amazing eye-tracking sensors hidden inside.
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1 month agoCurrent Event jedlicka
How California could save up its rain to ease future droughts — instead of watching epic atmospheric river rainfall drain into the Pacific
California has seen so much rain over the past few weeks that farm fields are inundated and normally dry creeks and drainage ditches have become torrents of water racing toward the ocean. Yet, most of the state remains in severe drought.
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1 month agoCurrent Event jedlicka
Actor Wes Bentley Opens up About His Role as the Yellowstone Killer
Although Yellowstone on the Paramount Network has no lack of characters with dubious likeability, there is one who viewers generally agree is the show’s most despised. It’s Jamie Dutton, the adoptive son of John Dutton (Kevin Costner), who is the second-oldest. Despite being in a good position in his own life, Bentley is speaking up about portraying the troublesome character Jamie, noting that it’s hard to leave the character at the door because of some of his horrible decisions and his ap...
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1 month agoCurrent Event jedlicka
Drone advances in Ukraine could bring dawn of killer robots
Drone advances in Ukraine have accelerated a long-anticipated technology trend that could soon bring the world’s first fully autonomous fighting robots to the battlefield, inaugurating a new age of warfare. The longer the war lasts, the more likely it becomes that drones will be used to identify, select and attack targets without help from humans, according to military analysts, combatants and artificial intelligence researchers.
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1 month agoCurrent Event jedlicka
Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg. Behind every "self-made" millionaire is a father with money
It is commonplace in business mythology. The anonymous entrepreneur who only with a huge effort achieves that his idea, so original and disruptive, becomes a success story. The story is usually starched with all kinds of barriers, obstacles, often financial, that our hero has had to overcome to reach the top. The last lesson is always the same: if you want, you can. If he could, overcoming so many difficulties, perhaps you too. At least give it a try.
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1 month agoCurrent Event jedlicka
A new weight loss drug could become the best-selling drug of all time. Who can afford it?
An Eli Lilly drug if approved for weight loss could become the best-selling drug of all time, but concerns are mounting about who will actually be able to afford it. Experts are confident that the drug, called tirzepatide, will be granted approval by the Food and Drug Administration sometime next year. If that’s the case, it would join two other popular — and expensive — recently approved weight loss drugs on the market, Wegovy and Saxenda, both from the drugmaker Novo Nordisk.