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5 min read Planet

One solar community was designed to weather hurricanes. So when Hurricane Ian came on September 28, 2022, the locals were ready. The Category 4 storm, near Category 5, devastated Florida and the Gulf Coast, South Carolina, and Cuba, and became documented as the deadliest storm since 1935. However, Babcock Ranch in Southwest Florida, just north...

4 min read Trending

Elon Musk’s Twitter take-over has been a bumpy ride for Twitter employees (many of whom are now former employees) as well as Twitter users, alike. Most recently he’s been ruffling feathers about his proposed changes to how one gets and keeps the coveted blue check on their profile. He says it’s to take down the...

5 min read Living

Food prices are shooting up. Inflation is increasing costs in all areas of food production, from farming to distribution, but there may be another factor at play. Critics have accused grocery chains of “greedflation” and hiking up food prices during a period of high inflation for the sake of profiting off of consumers who have...

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Our first winter without COVID restrictions is quickly approaching, and experts warn that it might be a tough one. After watching much of the southern hemisphere suffer with higher than normal rates of illness, including still other variants of COVID, doctors in this half of the world are worried. They are warning us of what...

5 min read Living

The flu season has come early and severely this year. Babies and toddlers are the most affected, and pediatricians and children’s hospitals were not prepared for the high number of cases in such a short amount of time. Unlike during the pandemic, there’s no one virus at fault here; rather, it’s many, including parainfluenza viruses,...

3 min read WTF

Everyone has their own hygiene routines they carry out every day. Usually, we adopt these habits from a young age, as they are instilled with the guidance of our parents or guardians. Some people like to bathe daily, and others once a week or so. One man decided to give up bathing altogether, and was...

3 min read Living

According to wildlife experts – you shouldn’t bag your leaves. All those leaves bound to erupt from treetops this fall should be left right where they fall. No raking them up into bags, no piles made. There are two reasons why this has been suggested – one is to avoid approximately 8 tons of leaves...