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Current Event jerrycanSuicides in Japan down for 9th straight year to 37-year low in 2018
The number of suicides in Japan dropped 3.4 percent from a year earlier to 20,598 in 2018, down for the ninth year and the lowest in 37 years amid economic recovery, preliminary data by the National Police Agency showed Friday. The number of suicides per 100,000 people fell to 16.3, a record low since the survey began in 1978, but an increase of girls aged 19 or younger who killed themselves raised concern, according to the data.
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6 days ago
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Oxford ends women-only fellowship after university rules that it breaches equality law
Oxford has ended its women-only fellowship after the university’s administrators said it breached equality law.
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11 days ago
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It's only getting worse.
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11 days ago
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Bots, britches, and bees
Bill Gates visited a Harvard University lab and saw some incredible creations that are powerful examples of the exciting innovation underway in the field of robotics.
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13 days ago
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2 weeks ago
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NASA Will Be Conducting its First Real -World Test of its Planetary Defense Spacecraft
Like a scene straight out of Men in Black or the beloved Armageddon, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced its plans to commence real-world testing of its planetary defense system in the next couple of years. This is a major stepping stone for NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office and planet Earth.
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2 weeks ago
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A strange museum at the ‘centre of the world’
Thirty years ago, Jacques-André Istel decided to move to the desert and think of something to do. Since then, he has constructed a museum intended to last until the year 6000.
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2 weeks ago
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What I learned at work this year
Bill Gates looks back on 2018, and shares a few thoughts on what’s going well and what isn’t with innovation in some specific areas that he works on.
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3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
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US says 2nd Guatemalan child has died in immigration custody
HOUSTON (AP) — An 8-year-old boy from Guatemala died in government custody in New Mexico early Tuesday, U.S. immigration authorities said, marking the second death of an immigrant child in detention this month. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a news release that the boy died shortly after midnight.
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3 weeks ago
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Santa Tracker Unaffected By Government Shutdown, NORAD Says
Amid the partial government shutdown, at least one critical service remains operational: NORAD's Santa tracker. More than 1,500 military personnel and volunteers at an Air Force base in Colorado will be hard at work Christmas Eve, tracking Santa Claus and answering children's calls.
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1 month ago
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Dow’s dive reaches nearly 500 points after White House ups the chance of government shutdown [Paywall]
After the news from Trump and a Fed rate increase, the Dow and the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index were on pace for their worst quarter since 2011.
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1 month ago
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Unmanned grocery delivery is underway in Arizona
Kroger is headed for the driverless delivery express lane, announcing Tuesday that it is now ready to begin deliveries
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1 month ago
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Post-#MeToo, we now know why Janet Jackson's Hall of Fame induction took so long
There’s something about Janet Jackson finally being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame more than a decade after eligibility that manages to both be exciting and enraging. Earlier this year — when the pop icon was nominated for a third time — Questlove said her long-time exclusion was “highly criminal.” The Roots band member cited her breakout album, "Control," which he said spawned New Jack Swing.