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1 in 9 Bridges (70k or 11% of total) in need of repair - US infrastructure...
(quote) 1 Out of Every 9 Bridges in the US Is Structurally Deficient There are about 630,000 bridges in the United States, ranging from impressive new structural creations like Margaret Hunt Hill...
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Massive reforestation. To cover 23% of landmass in 5 years, 83.5 million...
(quote)The pollution-beleaguered country plans to increase forest coverage to 23 percent of its total landmass by the end of the decade. Outdoor air pollution contributes to the deaths of an estimated...
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Jack on Twitter's independence: "we're not constrained by the particular...
(quote) Queen Jack Dorsey Says There's Value in Twitter Remaining Independent Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey said there’s "strength" in the social-media company remaining independent,...
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Cybercrime costs global economy $450billion/yr: CEO; ATM dispensing $100...
(quote) ATM dispensing $100 bills instead of $5 bills A Kansas woman is facing a pricey lawsuit after a bank accused her of making dozens of withdrawals from a faulty ATM that was dispensing $100 bills...
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15Mar1905. Unknown patent clerk stays with questions much longer, writes...
"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer." - Albert Einstein(quote) Albert Einstein's Year of Miracles: Light Theory Over a century ago today, 15 March 1905, Albert...
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Up: $1.3T spending bill; benchmark rate (2018: 3 hikes?); price of goods...
(quote) #BreakingNews: Fed raises benchmark rate 0.25%. Fed funds rate range now 1.5% to 1.75%. Fed maintains three rate hikes for 2018.More Than 11 Million Young People Have Fled Facebook Since 2011...
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Self-driving Uber with human backup driver at wheel killed (both "blind"?)...
(quote) The Volvo was in self-driving mode with a human backup driver at the wheel when it hit 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg as she was walking a bicycle outside the lines of a crosswalk, police said....
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Scientific Benefits of Meditation: improves focus, immunity, reduces stress...
(quote)Scientific Benefits of Meditation Over 100 studies were analyzed (some of which are in themselves analysis of other hundreds of studies), and categorised the findings into 76 benefits (divided...
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9 out of 10 people worldwide breathe polluted air, causes 1 in 9 deaths, 14...
(quote)Washington Post: As China cleans up its act, India’s cities named the world’s most polluted India’s capital, New Delhi, choked by rising automobile emissions and construction dust, was named...
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Bitcoin is 'rat poison,'"I like it when my country steps hard on idiot booms...
(quote)Bitcoin is 'rat poison,'"I like it when my country steps hard on idiot booms instead of fanning the flame," Berkshire's Munger: interview on "Countdown to the Closing Bell." Buffett, chairman...
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"I wish my mom's phone wasn't invented", writes 2nd grader in school project
(quote)A Louisiana second-grader's homework assignment is going viral and making parents across the nation question if they spend too much time on their cell phones. Teacher Jen Adams Beason wrote in a...
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Happy Phi Day 1.618, a date that matches the first four digits of the golden...
(quote)June 1, 2018 (formatted as 1/6/18 in many parts of the world) is Phi Day, a date that matches the first four digits of the golden ratio.Represented by the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet, the...
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2018. First print release on Earth Day: One Step Wiser - World Culture...
Step by step, into tomorrow. And so much to learn from yesterday. 2008-2018. 10-year journey of reflection. Cosmos is grand, comprehensive reading is twin to broad vision. Thus, World Culture...
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Simon Cowell's mobile phone has been turned off for 10 months - and "it has...
(quote)Simon Cowell confessed he switched off for the sake of his mental health In an astonishing confession, the television mogul revealed he had become so distracted and irritated by his phone that...
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US Supreme Court ruling: warrantless tracking of cellphone user's location...
(quote)SCOTUS rejects warrantless cellphone location tracking in Carpenter v. United States. In a blockbuster 5-4 decision issued today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that warrantless government...
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Bravo! People love it - the last Blockbuster store in US stands strong after...
(quote) There is only one Blockbuster still surviving in the entire United States. Employees mourn the closure by leaving candles outside the store: Alaska’s last two Blockbuster video rental stores...
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Farnborough Airshow: Aston Martin's Volante hybrid-electric flying car,...
(quote)Not even James Bond had an Aston Martin like this. The British sports car maker revealed a concept version of a flying car, the Volante Vision Concept, at the Farnborough Airshow this week....
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New study: whole milk won’t kill you, full-fat dairy products may actually...
(quote)HOUSTON: a new study finds that consuming full-fat dairy products - including cheese, yogurt, and butter - likely won’t play a role in sending you to the grave any sooner. Researchers from The...
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Ben Franklin was anti-debt to form Society of the Free and Easy for virtuous...
(quote) 10 of Benjamin Franklin’s Lesser-Known Feats of Awesomeness 4. HE WAS NO DEBTOR. Franklin was terrified of debt and viewed it as similar to slavery because he believed that, through the...
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10000 mile chase of world most notorious poaching vessel "Thunder". Sea...
(quote) Ocean Warriors: Chasing the Thunder is a Vulcan Productions high-seas documentary about the Sea Shepherd’s epic 110-day, 10,000-mile chase of the "Thunder," considered the world’s most...
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Study: Earth magnetic poles could soon flip, increasing exposure to Solar...
(quote) Speedy flip in Earth's magnetic field could cause trillions in damage, scientists warn A new study of previous reversals of Earth's magnetic field has found a rapid shift occurred within two...
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The Silk Railroad: world longest rail link Yiwu-Madrid railway spans 8,000...
(quote) The world's longest train route spans more than 8,000 miles, crosses through eight countries, and is long enough to stretch from Florida to Washington state 3 times. The China-Europe Block...
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35 years ago today: first cell phone call made in 1973. Now: world has more...
(quote) Martin Cooper, who made the first cell phone call in 1973, holds a Motorola DynaTAC, the first prototype of a cell phone. The first commercial call wasn’t made until 10 years later.Our...
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Thousands of US communities at risk of becoming "news deserts" as 1,800...
(quote) 1,800 US newspapers have closed since 2004 Half of the 3,143 counties in the United States now have only one newspaper, usually a small weekly, and almost 200 counties in the country have no...
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7 Dec 1941. Pearl Harbor
(quote) Today in 1941, carrier-based Japanese aircraft staged a surprise attack on U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor. The next day, the United States officially entered World War Fat Man, the 10,300-pound...
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