Tue 22 December 2020: A 19-year-old running for public office in New Hampshire found out about the importance of following Internet safety rules the hard way. As Seacoast Online reports, his opponents found images in his social media posts that were sexually suggestive and referenced past drug use. Just like that, his political career crashed and burned […]
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Sun 20 December 2020: Holiday safety is an issue that burns brightest from late November to mid-January, when families gather, parties are scheduled and travel spikes. While the holidays might look a little different this year due to the pandemic, smaller outdoor or indoor in-person gatherings are still possible if everyone agrees to maintain a […]
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Fri 18 December 2020: Followers of Mevlana Jalaluddin al-Rumi perform Sema dance on 747th anniversary without audience due to pandemic Turkey’s whirling dervishes, followers of the 13th-century Islamic scholar, poet, and Sufi mystic, Mevlana Jalaluddin al-Rumi, performed their Sema dance on Thursday to mark the 747th anniversary of his passing without any audience this year […]
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Wed 16 December 2020: Lab-grown chicken will soon be available in restaurants in Singapore in a culinary first this weekend after the company behind the product announced its inaugural sale Wednesday. U.S. startup Eat Just said earlier that its meat had been approved for sale in the city-state as an ingredient in chicken nuggets. The […]
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Wed 16 December 2020: MacKenzie Scott announced on Tuesday that she has given nearly $4.2 billion to 384 organizations in the past four months, bringing her year-to-date charitable contributions to nearly $6 billion. Scott, an author and ex-wife of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, announced her latest gifts in a Medium post that highlighted […]
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Sun 13 December 2020: The smell of poop is a strong repellant even against murder hornets. That’s according to new research from the University of Guelph, and published this week in the journal PLOS One. The team of researchers found that honeybees in Vietnam collect animal poop and put it around the entrances of their […]
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Tue 01 December 2020: A vast expanse of Amazon rainforest seven times larger than Greater London was destroyed over the last year as deforestation surged to a 12-year high under Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro. The data shows that deforestation reached its worst rate since 2008, when a national deforestation monitoring program called PRODES recorded 12,911 km² […]
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Wed 25 November 2020: Scotland has become the first country in the world to provide free and universal access to period products after a four-year campaign that has fundamentally shifted the public discourse around menstruation. “The Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Bill has been passed unanimously by MSPs this evening,” said a statement on the […]
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Thu 19 November 2020: Rightly named ‘Rocky’ after the super-hit Hollywood film on a street fighter, starring Sylvester Stallone, the Indian street dog finds a home in London. The three-year-old mutt was found “covered in blood” and her forelegs badly injured by a Railway Protection Force constable at Faridabad in northern Haryana state last October, […]
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Sun 15 November 2020: Archeological research shows that cosmetics have been in use since antiquity. It is in human nature to care about the condition of our skin and to decorate our body. Substances used to make cosmetics evolved, starting from charcoal and natural pigments obtained from flowers and leaves to sun blockers, metallic eye-shadows, […]
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