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6 days agoAnalysis timex
How whales help cool the Earth
The world's largest animals are unusually good at taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
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6 days agoCurrent Event timex
Three Mathematicians We Lost in 2020
John Conway, Ronald Graham, and Freeman Dyson all explored the world with their minds.
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6 days agoAnalysis timex
MRI researcher may have accidentally discovered how gas planets are magnetic
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) – Jupiter is the largest and one of the most mysterious planets in the solar system. It’s 1,300 times the size of Earth, and never seems to behave the way it should or t…
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7 days agoCurrent Event timex
Pressure on Ted Cruz grows as third Texas newspaper calls for him to resign
The El Paso Times became the latest newspaper to call for the Republican's ouster from the upper chamber.
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7 days agoCurrent Event timex
Bulletproof vests and gas masks: Journalists prep for Inauguration Day
At the end of December, Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau Chief Kimbriell Kelly was looking at getting Moleskine notebooks as gifts for her staff. A couple weeks later, she was procuring goods of a decidedly different kind: gas masks, helmets and body armor for LA Times staff members who will be attending Wednesday's inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
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2 weeks agoExpression timex
Why 1920s L.A. Went Wild for an 18th-Century Scottish Novelist
Walter Scott wrote fantasies about medieval Saxons—just the thing for Jazz Age Angelenos.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event timex
Confused users in search of Parler push the app 'Parlor' to top of app store charts
Parler's been banned, and Parlor is reaping the benefits.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event timex
Google suspends Parler from app store, urges tighter content moderation
Google on Friday suspended social media platform Parler from its app store while joining Apple in calling on the platform to tighten its content moderation rules or risk permanent removal.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event timex
Video shows blue UFO falling into ocean in Hawaii
The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed that there weren't any aircraft disappearing off the radar nor were there any reports of overdue or missing aircraft.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event timex
U.K. judge to rule on U.S. extradition for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
District Judge Vanessa Baraitser is due to deliver her decision at London’s Old Bailey courthouse at 10 a.m. Monday.
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3 weeks agoAnalysis timex
What leader are you? It depends on your parents
Your parents’ good intentions might have undermined your confidence – but you can do something about it.
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1 month agoAchievement timex
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1 month agoReview timex
The Great 2020 TV Shows We (Almost) Missed
It’s never too late to shower praise on the series that made this year a little more bearable.
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1 month agoCurrent Event timex
Pornhub to ban unverified uploads after child abuse content claims
Pornhub, one of the largest adult content sites in the world, has announced it will be banning unverified video uploads after allegations that it has been hosting child abuse videos. An investigation by the New York Times last week claimed Pornhub was hosting non-consensual and child abuse content on its website. Activists have long called for changes to Pornhub’s business model, claiming it was not carrying out sufficient checks to ensure videos were consensual.
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1 month agoCurrent Event timex
Elon Musk on the problem with corporate America: ‘Too many MBAs’
Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk says the biggest problem with corporate America today is that too many business school graduates are running the show. “I think that there might be too many MBAs running companies,” Musk said Tuesday at the WSJ CEO Summit.
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1 month agoCurrent Event timex
EU leaders agree to reduce emissions after all-night talks
European Union leaders reached a hard-fought deal Friday to cut the bloc’s net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by the end of the decade compared with 1990 levels, avoiding a hugely embarrassing deadlock ahead of a U.N. climate meeting this weekend.
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1 month agoCurrent Event timex
Does the National Debt Matter?
In the second quarter of 2008, U.S. federal debt held by the public totaled about $5.3 trillion, or 35% of gross domestic product (GDP). This figure grew to $20.5 trillion—or 105% of GDP—by the second quarter of 2020. To put it another way, the national debt has increased 400% in 12 years, while over the same period, national income has grown by only 30%.
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1 month agoCurrent Event timex
Great Barrier Reef outlook 'critical' as climate change called number one threat to world heritage
The outlook for five Australian world heritage sites including the Great Barrier Reef, the Blue Mountains and the Gondwana rainforests, has deteriorated, according to a global report that finds climate change is now the number one threat to the planet’s natural world heritage.
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1 month agoCurrent Event timex
Rare photos kept secret for over a century - BBC Reel
When Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell stumbled across a photo from the 1920s of two men in a tender embrace they thought it was one-of-a-kind. But things changed when they found more photographs. The result of their unexpected discovery is a moving book, portraying male romance over the course of a century.
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1 month agoCurrent Event timex
Scientists develop an 'electronic skin' that can mimic the natural functions of human skin
A material that mimics human skin in? stretchability, strength, and sensitivity could be used to collect biological data in real-time. Electronic skin, or e-skin, may play an important role in upcoming next-generation personalized medicine, prosthetics, AI, and soft robotics.