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3 days agoCurrent Event ticktack
Biden hikes cost of carbon, easing path for new climate rules
President Joe Biden on Friday restored an Obama-era calculation on the economic cost of greenhouse gases, a step that will make it easier for his agencies to approve aggressive actions to confront climate change. But the administration stopped short, for now, of boosting the cost figure to higher levels that economists and climate scientists say are justified by new research.
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5 days agoCurrent Event ticktack
Monarch butterflies down 26% in Mexico wintering grounds
The number of monarch butterflies that showed up at their winter resting grounds in central Mexico decreased by about 26% this year, and four times as many trees were lost to illegal logging, drought and other causes, making 2020 a bad year for the butterflies.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event ticktack
Largest Asteroid To Fly Past Earth In 2021 'Potentially Hazardous'
Mark your calendars, guys, because 2021's largest known asteroid will be passing Earth on 21 March and it's said to be 'potentially hazardous'. The space rock - which is known as 2001 FO32 - is one of numerous near-Earth objects (NEOs) that orbit the sun, just as our planet does.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event ticktack
‘Air pollution major cause of cardiovascular disease’
Leading cardiovascular organisations have called for urgent action to reduce air pollution, which they identified as a key risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and a major contributor to global disease burden.
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1 month agoCurrent Event ticktack
‘Nintendo has practically eradicated PlayStation’ in Japan says analyst
A staggering 99% of video game sales in Japan in 2021 have been for the Switch, as Sony announces 4.5 million PS5s have been sold worldwide. There are some real mixed messages going on at the moment in terms of the PlayStation 5 in Japan. On the one hand, analysts have painted a picture of doom and gloom, claiming Sony is abandoning its home turf, while on the other riots have been breaking out amongst fans trying to get hold of the console.
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1 month agoCurrent Event ticktack
What Apple Watch really needs is a battery that lasts longer than a day
More than steps, more than active minutes, I've been focused on making sure I get enough decent sleep each day. That's been an issue working from home for so much of 2020-2021. Apple's latest watch and WatchOS software focused, among other things, on adding sleep tracking that could help make bedtime schedules more regular. It sounds great. Except... the Apple Watch's battery life gets in the way.
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1 month agoCurrent Event ticktack
Australia man missing for 18 days 'survived on mushrooms'
A man who was missing in Australia for 18 days has been found after surviving on mushrooms and dam water, police say. Search efforts launched after Robert Weber, 58, went missing in the state of Queensland were called off this week. But police said he had been found near a dam on Sunday by a "property owner", who has been identified in Australian media as a local politician.
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1 month agoCurrent Event ticktack
Building Earth's largest telescope on the far side of the moon
NASA engineers are planning a robotically constructed kilometre diameter radio telescope that will fit in a giant crater and study radio waves from the big bang.
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1 month agoCurrent Event ticktack
Historians having to tape together records that Trump tore up
Implications for public record and legal proceedings after administration seized or destroyed papers, notes and other information
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1 month agoExpression ticktack
We asked 12 mass killers: 'What would have stopped you?'
In America today, mass shootings remain the most terrible metric that distinguishes the country from the rest of the world.
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1 month agoCurrent Event ticktack
The Art of the Lie? The Bigger the Better
Lying as a political tool is hardly new. But a readiness, even enthusiasm, to be deceived has become a driving force in politics around the world, most recently in the United States.
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1 month agoCurrent Event ticktack
In blow to Trump, golf’s PGA strips major championship from Trump-owned course
As he faces a lonely end to his presidency, Donald Trump learned Sunday evening that, in the wake of last week's riot at the U.S. Capitol, he has lost one of the relationships he values most: his partnership with the Professional Golfers' Association. While the embattled president has been hunkered down to try and preserve his political career, the PGA of America, the proprietors of one of golf's four major championship tournaments, announced that it plans to move its 2022 PGA Cha...
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1 month agoCurrent Event ticktack
The quickest way to undo Trump's environmental mess isn't as easy as you'd think.
The same day the nation watched pro-Trump supporters stage a coup at the Capitol, the Bureau of Land Management held its most controversial auction yet in the 1.5 million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an environmentally sensitive coastal plane that the native Gwich’in people call the “The Sacred Place Where Life Begins.” The firesale for oil and gas leasing only raised a small fraction of revenue Republicans had estimated it could generate.
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2 months agoCurrent Event ticktack
Mensch gives his own pants to a homeless man
This good Samaritan gave the trousers off his own body to a homeless man who wasn’t wearing any. Watch the heart-warming exchange filmed on a chilly night outside a McDonald’s in Fresno, California.
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2 months agoCurrent Event ticktack
1 Of A Kind Shelter Helps Traumatized Dogs Learn To Trust Humans Again
In the gold-brown mountains around Weaverville, N.C., there's a dormitory filled with dysfunctional and depressed dogs. It's part of the ASPCA's Behavioral Rehabilitation Center, a cutting-edge program designed specifically to teach traumatized canines to be trustful human companions.
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2 months agoCurrent Event ticktack
Apple’s New M1 Chip is a Machine Learning Beast
Speed testing a (nearly) top-spec Intel-based 16-inch MacBook Pro versus the new Apple silicon MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro