It’s impossible to avoid ads these days. They pop up between posts on social media, in the sidebar of almost all websites, on bus station walls, and on billboards on busy streets. And in the age where human spaceflights are about to become a reality, you can’t avoid ads in space either. A Canadian startup […]
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A swimmer went missing off the coast of Ireland for 12 hours. He was finally spotted by volunteers at the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), surrounded by a pod of dolphins. In fact, the dolphins managed to alert the volunteers by swimming and jumping around the lost swimmer. The man was in his 30s from […]
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When you think of crows, you probably think of the mischievous birds that are often used in scary films and tv shows to create a spooky ambiance. As one Seattle man discovered, they can also make pretty decent friends. Helping those in need Stuart Dahlquist was a backyard bird watching enthusiast. Five years ago, he […]
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Have you ever “borrowed” something from work and just not given it back? Maybe it was a favorite pen, a mug that you eventually “adopted”, or you used the photocopier for personal use once or twice. Well, in 2018 managers found out that this deli worker helped herself to over $9200 worth of sliced ham […]
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In many places in Africa, poaching is a real problem. Hunters sneak onto reserves and sanctuaries to kill animals for specific ‘precious’ parts, such as the ivory horns of elephants and rhinoceroses. Legal hunting, also known as “trophy” hunting, primarily done for sport and entertainment, is equally as problematic. The animals don’t just let hunters, […]
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Most of us grow up learning that worms are good for the soil and are welcomed guests in a garden. The truth, at least for parts of North America, could be further from that. There is one worm, in particular, however, that is the worst of them all. This is a worm with a white […]
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Despite the internet and social media, the world can often seem more disconnected than ever. People seem divided on almost every issue, big or small. Having not been able to leave our homes, much less travel over the last year and a half, that disconnect is even more prominent. To help bridge that gap, Lithuania […]
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Gender fluidness has taken the world by storm of late. Including now with a recent petition against Kmart Australia. The online petition calls on the retail clothing store to stop separating boys’ and girls’ clothes and have just one “kids” section. The petition has collected almost 700 signatures at the time of writing this article. […]
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As we inch closer and closer to the summer, you are probably anticipating spending plenty of time in your backyard and outdoors. One thing you’re probably not excited about? Mosquitoes. Thankfully, there is a cheap, easy way to keep your back deck free of the annoying, biting little creatures: Your very own DIY mosquito trap. […]
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Sometimes, life sends the most surprising curveballs. For instance, no one expects a little backyard construction to become an archaeological site. But this just happened in Las Vegas when a couple’s pool installation discovered bones potentially from the ice age. “What we found was when they were excavating the backyard pool, they were cutting through […]
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Technology has allowed scientists to explore some really incredible things like artificial intelligence. In doing so, they’ve made the unthinkable happen, and it could change the course of needing human pilots in the future. Artificial Intelligence Breaks Barriers The Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in California conducted a successful experimental […]
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Researchers at an archaeological dig in a Guatemala rainforest have uncovered a 2000-year-old ancient Maya city. Needless to say, this discovery has definitely revealed a lot of information about the Mayan civilization. The researchers, including those who belonged to the Universidad de San Carlos in Guatemala, discovered the site after they carried out an aerial […]
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