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This Day in History, January 24
On January 24th, 1984, the Apple Macintosh went on sale for the first time. Read More
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Chronic wasting disease detected in Georgia deer for the first time
A fatal neurological illness that affects deer known as chronic wasting disease has been detected in Georgia for the first time, state wildlife officials announced Thursday.
The Georgia case was detected in a 2½-year-old...Read more
Colorado River's 'essential' conservation program, now lapsed, faces Trump spending freeze. Can lawmakers bring it back?
DENVER — An “essential” Colorado River water conservation program faces dual threats as the new Trump administration attempts to freeze its funding and a lapse in authorization creates delays that may make ...Read more
76-million-year-old murder case launched after fossil found with tooth marks in Canada
Tens of millions of years after a young pterosaur took its last breath in present-day Canada, paleontologists are investigating its death.
Students from the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, led by ecology ...Read more
You think it's cold now? Here's how much colder it will get in Miami and across Florida
MIAMI — Planning a weekend road trip in North Florida to frolic in the record-setting snowfall?
You may have missed your opportunity to make a “Snow in Florida” TikTok video. Meteorologists aren’t predicting more...Read more
Today's Word "pied-a-terre"
pied-a-terre \pee-ay-duh-TAIR; pyay-dah-TAIR\ (noun) - A temporary or second place of lodging.
"Hay Hill is just a pied-a- terre, they like to say, a pied-a-terre with a dining room and drawing room, a library (for him) ...Read more
Madadian Mail
Madadia is split, like other countries, into cities, towns and villages. Some are large and some are small. Postman Patel delivers the mail in the village of "Lardville".
Now Lardville is so small there is only one street with only ten houses, numbered from 1 to 10.
In a certain week, Patel did not deliver any mail at two houses in the village; at the other houses he delivered mail three times each. Each working day he delivered mail at ...
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After the fire: Rain on wildfire burn scars can trigger deadly debris flows – a geologist explains how
While firefighters work to extinguish the Los Angeles-area wildfires, city officials and emergency managers are also worried about what could come next.
The potential for rain the weekend of Jan. 25-26 could ...Read more
Virginia Beach wind farm spared from Trump order, but future projects could be slowed, experts say
President Donald Trump used his first day in office to slam the brakes on the renewable energy industry, issuing an executive order to temporarily halt federal leasing, permitting and approval of both onshore and offshore ...Read more
Today's Word "epicene"
epicene \EP-uh-seen\ (adjective) - 1 : Having the characteristics of both sexes. 2 : Effeminate; unmasculine. 3 : Sexless; neuter. 4 : (Linguistics) Having but one form of the noun for both the male and the female.
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This Day in History, January 23
On January 23rd, 1789, Georgetown College became the first Catholic college in the United States.
Homonyms
This teaser features HOMONYMS, or words that are spelt different, but sound alike. There are three blank spaces in each sentence below, and the answers are all homonyms.
See if you can solve the following homonym teasers.
The old ____ began to ____ us with tales of how he used to hunt wild ____.
The Church counsel tried to ban, or in a sense, ______ the use of the ______ as it kept setting off the smoke ______.
The germs probably ____ down...
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Group sues Washington state over late reporting on greenhouse gas emissions
SEATTLE — A conservative think tank filed a lawsuit Wednesday against two Washington state agencies over delays in reporting the state's greenhouse gas emissions.
The Washington Policy Center said in a news release that...Read more
Worst snowstorm in 130 years plunges US South into frigid chaos
Across the U.S. South, extreme weather usually means boarding up windows against hurricane winds and lining streets with sandbags to hold back floods. This week, freezing temperatures and record-breaking snowfall are ...Read more
OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank team up on multibillion-dollar AI project
President Trump on Tuesday announced that OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank are partnering on a venture to direct more than $100 billion toward computing infrastructure that will power artificial intelligence in the United ...Read more
OpenAI whistleblower's death fuels 'conspiracy theory' boosted by Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Bay Area congressman
Despite San Francisco police repeatedly saying OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji’s death was a suicide, influential figures on both ends of the political spectrum are spreading questions about foul play, raised by the ...Read more
Silicon Valley bigwigs bask in Trump limelight in major reversal at inauguration
Silicon Valley has come a long way.
In suits and ties on the dais behind President Donald Trump during his inauguration speech Monday — inches from the President’s family — sat Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO ...Read more
Human use of fire has produced an era of uncontrolled burning: Welcome to the Pyrocene
Los Angeles is burning, but it isn’t alone. In recent years, fires have blasted through cities in Colorado, the southern Appalachians and the island of Maui, along with Canada, Australia, Portugal and Greece. What ...Read more
Extreme heat, flooding, wildfires – Colorado’s formerly incarcerated people on the hazards they faced behind bars
Incarcerated people in Colorado are exposed to climate-related extreme heat and cold, plus flooding and wildfires. Because they’re unable to escape these hazards, their health suffers and some die.
“I ...Read more
How the oil industry and growing political divides turned climate change into a partisan issue
After four years of U.S. progress on efforts to deal with climate change under Joe Biden, Donald Trump’s return to the White House is swiftly swinging the pendulum in the opposite direction.
On his first day ...Read more
Take Their Word for It
When English lacks the precise word to convey a subtle or complex concept, it often smuggles in a word from another language to do the job.
Where would we be, for instance, without those hearty German immigrants' "...Read more
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- Chronic wasting disease detected in Georgia deer for the first time
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- You think it's cold now? Here's how much colder it will get in Miami and across Florida
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