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Do you want to peer deeper into the night sky? Are you feeling the urge to buy a telescope? There are so many options for budding astronomers that choosing one can be overwhelming. A first telescope should be easy to use and provide good quality views while being affordable. As it turns out, those requirements […]

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Pens Points dropping by for a midweek check-in with any Penguins news you may have missed.

Dan Ashworth's situation at Newcastle United remains unchanged, but Eddie Howe was always confident the Magpies would cope.

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Over the weekend of 10–12 May 2024, Earth was struck by the largest solar storm in more than a decade. While many of us enjoyed colourful auroras lighting up Earth’s protective atmosphere, spacecraft had to endure being buffeted by incredibly strong solar winds and electromagnetic radiation.  

Subprime originations climb but so do overdue accounts, reports the New York Fed.

As far back as he can remember, Karan Singh has been practising bhangra, a North Indian folk dance, but on coming to Regina from his previous home in Dubai, he saw no one offering formal lessons in the city. He set out to change that.

Via Reuters (May 10), this update to the BIOSECURE Act: 

A new version of a congressional bill that would restrict U.S. business with certain Chinese biotechnology companies including WuXi AppTec and BGI would give U.S. companies until 2032 to end work with the firms, extending the amount of time to find new partners.

The latest Biosecure Act also adds WuXi Biologics, opens new tab to a list of biotech companies of concern, according to a copy seen by Reuters. The other companies on the list are BGI... Читать дальше...

A new COVID-19 subvariant is dominant in Canada, representing just over 30 per cent of cases in the country, but infectious disease experts say there’s no sign it’ll evolve into a summer 'scarient.'

In living with cancer, Suleika Jaouad has learned to wrench meaning from our short time on Earth.

An interview with David Chmielewski, a Princeton student who went on a hunger strike to demand divestment from Israel

Your online influencer girlfriend is actually a rotating cast of low-wage workers. I became one of them.

LanceDB is building an open-sourced database to help developers better manage their multimodal AI data.

Elastic is scaling search, observability and gen AI RAG with new Search AI Lake architecture.

It’s perhaps hard to imagine today, but we have two landmark books to thank for some of the U.S. government’s most vital public health regulations. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, published in 1905, shined a light on the unsanitary and unsafe practices of the meatpacking industry and eventually led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates the safety of products for human consumption. In 1962, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring exposed the toxicity of the pesticide DDT, which... Читать дальше...

Bibi Netanyahu has been a purposeful pain in Joe Biden’s ass for decades now. Early in Barack Obama’s first term, the new president secured Netanyahu’s promise from the Israelis to freeze new settlement building for 10 months, albeit with so many exceptions that it was hard to keep track of all of them. Despite these gaps, the agreement paved the way for the Palestinians to rejoin the peace talks, which began again in late 2010, just three weeks before the putative “freeze” was to end.

“There’s an old joke,” Woody Allen says at the start of his 1977 movie Annie Hall. “Two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort. And one of them says, ‘Boy the food at this place is really terrible.’ The other one says, ‘Yeah, I know. And such small portions.’”

Gwyneth Paltrow is reportedly trying to insert herself into Chris Martin and Dakota Johnson's nuptials.

A Chipotle customer expressed her disdain for a dreaded marking workers put on her food in a viral TikTok video. If you're a devotee of the chain then you may feel the same way. But what does the symbol mean?

If you want to do your best work, you need a powerful office suite. There are free tools available but when it comes to paid ones, there’s nothing better than Microsoft Office. Fortunately, you don’t have to break the bank to get it now. Through 5/22, we’re offering Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows or Microsoft Office Home & Business 2019 for Mac for one of the best prices you’ll see: just $24.97.

Michael Cohen testified against Donald Trump as the defense attacks his credibility for lying to Congress — but he did so to protect his client.

You said early childhood development is the key to our future, but now you need to ensure that this happens by ensuring the ECD centres are funded

The Airbnb CEO talks earnings calls, bodybuilding, and his love for the movie “Up” on the latest episode of the Rapid Response podcast.

Pro-Palestinian activists on have a new form of nonviolent protest, designed to hit celebrity brands where it hurts: in the marketing budget. But will it actually work?

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Actress McClanahan of “The Golden Girls”: three letters.