Often in the background as Tom Brady's backup, Gabbert is gaining national attention for helping rescue four people in the water after a helicopter crash in Florida.
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“It’s like a Christmas present from Mother Nature,” exclaimed one onlooker. She stood among rows of birdwatchers and photographers who flocked to a California neighborhood for a rare glimpse of a beautiful snowy owl. These huge white birds rarely make their way to sunny Orange County. In fact, the frozen Minnesota tundra, thousands of miles […]
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An act of kindness is like lighting a candle in a dark room, reminding everyone that such a point of light will always penetrate the darkness. They happen every day all over the world for a variety of reasons, and while they don’t always make headlines, they do make heartlines—and these ten stories are like […]
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Argentina's victory in the soccer World Cup tournament in Qatar has suddenly meant that many tattoo artists across the country are fully booked.
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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5 years ago today, China officially banned the importation and sale of ivory. Being the largest market for illegal and once-legal ivory products in the world, the PRC’s decision was critical in helping reduce the poaching of elephants in Asia and Africa. Conservation group WWF, who called it a “historic announcement… signalling an end to […]
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"He leaves a legacy, a person of color who was crowned king of soccer, and he also brought a lot of peace outside Brazil," says Jorge Tavares, a resident of the late soccer legend's home state.
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The announcement, a groundbreaking deal for Middle Eastern soccer, ends speculation about where he would go next. Ronaldo became a free agent after his contract was terminated by Manchester United.
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There are a lot of animals far easier to love and care for than bats, but that didn’t stop Houston Humane Society from rescuing nearly 1,600 of them from freezing to death. On Thursday a cold snap in Texas caused these tiny winged mammals to plummet from the sky onto the cold pavement where they […]
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An Italian motor company has unveiled a supercar that will run on garbage. Italian supercars tend towards the polluting side of the spectrum of manufacturing, with massive 12 cylinder engines that care little for miles per gallon. Bertone are known for iconic designs such as the sharply angled “Italian Wedge” shape of the Lamborghini […]
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Japanese oncologists have used artificial DNA in a whole new way to naturally kill cancer cells by helping the immune system identify them. The whole reason cancer is as lethal as it is is because the immune system doesn’t act upon cancer cells and tumors, disguised as they are to look like normal cells. By […]
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The iPhone 14 has saved several lives this winter with some pretty impressive safety features that are worth noting as the U.S. continues to be battered with one of the worst winter storms in memory. A tech news outlet reports that the iPhone 14’s SOS call which connects via satellite rather than through telecom towers […]
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132 years ago today, the American author, recordist, and expatriate Paul Bowles, was born. Living in Tangier, Morocco for 47 years, Bowles would publish several books, including the critically-acclaimed The Sheltering Sky set in French North Africa through which he traveled extensively. He was just one of so many Europeans or Americans who saw the vast […]
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Pelé was one of the world's best soccer players who was the sport's global face for decades. The Brazilian legend was a wizard on the field who dazzled fans, teammates and competitors alike.
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In a pilot program to address the homelessness problem in Kansas City, the state gave them part-time work which helped many of them secure the housing they desperately needed. Kansas City Missouri has seen a decrease in litter collection as the pandemic created a slowdown in court cases and community service clean-up programs. By putting […]
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Two men wrongfully-imprisoned for more than two decades were able to spend Christmas with their families after a podcast and non-profit advanced evidence of their innocence. Darrell Lee Clark and Cain Joshua Storey were just teenagers when they stood trial for a murder of their 15-year-old friend he died of gunshot wounds at a party […]
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Utter tragedy was avoided recently in Michigan when a good samaritan found a cat frozen to the ground during a winter storm. The savior’s name was Kelly, the cat’s Elliot, and together they flew to the Big Lake Community Animal Clinic in Muskegon for life-saving veterinary care. “When he arrived at the clinic, his body […]
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On this day 80 years ago, a decade and a half after the Irish War of Independence and its treaty-induced interim government, Ireland was born when it adopted its own Constitution. A document committed to democratic ideals that enshrined the people as masters, it also provided the right to every child for a free primary education provided by the State. (1937)
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Two men, including the shooter, were each sentenced to 30 years in prison for the Hall of Famer's 2019 ambush in Santo Domingo. Eight others received prison sentences of between 5 and 20 years.
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For the first time since the species was discovered, baby Galápagos pink iguanas have been seen in the wilds of those majestic islands. First described in 2009, the species was immediately recognized as facing a serious risk of extinction. Only between 200-300 iguanas are thought to exist on Wolf Volcano on Isabella Island. But after […]
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Some Florida kids got to see their favorite garbage man again after a four year absence when city officials saw an old video of them all playing together. For years Tony Parker from the City of Orlando garbage collection would arrive in front of the Wierenicz household and there’d be three tawny-haired youngsters waiting for […]
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Headache-inducing plastic waste such as printer cartridges and plastic bags are being turned into aggregate material for asphalt road mixtures around the country. Plastic roads have built up a head of scientific steam recently, with scientists and regulators seeing roads as a decent place to reutilize plastic that is difficult to recycle in a cost-effective […]
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While many were enjoying their Christmas holiday, 10 skiers in Austria were feared dead after a video went viral of an avalanche overtaking them on the slopes. News came out the following day however that all 10 are alive and well. The Austrian Press Agency reported that 4 of the skiers were injured, one seriously […]
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The Lesson: Numbers don’t speak untruths, and for a female minority in a bro-business like Hollywood movie production, they’re sexy that way. Saga Elmohtasen has produced hundred million dollar productions, but regardless of how successful she is, she doesn’t let it go to her head, remembering that it’s her roots and natural attitude that lead her […]
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Recent excavations in Israel will soon open to the public a tomb that’s venerated as the resting place of Jesus’ midwife, Salome. Found in 1982 by antiquities robbers, excavations have always been ongoing, but recent breakthroughs have proved the site to be far more grandiose than previously expected, and much of the tomb will soon […]
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Good News Network’s top animal stories and moments from 2022 is a celebration of the majesty of our planet, the incredible four-legged or winged pals we share our homes with, and of the heroes who dedicate their lives to ensuring future generations can connect with endangered animals the way we can. Whether featuring a snapshot […]
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56 years ago today, the western world became aware of the Sótano de las Golondrinas, or the Cave of Swallows, when locals showed T. R. Evans, Charles Borland and Randy Sterns the mammoth cave. Known by the Huastec people from the area located in the modern state of Lan Luis Potosi since ancient times, the descent to […]
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In a crucial moment during an overtime battle with the Phoenix Suns, Denver forward Aaron Gordon seemed to fly to the rim. Analysts are calling it the dunk of the year.
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Residents of a senior home got a flippin’ good surprise last week, after two charming feathered guests arrived to deliver some Christmas cheer. Seniors at the Colne View facility in Halstead, Essex, woke up to find two penguins outside. Accompanied by introductions using their adorable names, Pringle and Widget waddled through the halls, exploring the […]
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Whitworth, whose LPGA Tour victories spanned nearly a quarter-century, died on Christmas Eve. Her 88 victories are the most by any player on a single professional tour.
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Polaris the black shepherd dog had 30 people lining up to sign adoption papers and give him a new home after he was left at San Francisco International Airport. The airline industry has had one of the most disrupted years on record, and customer service departments have been pushed to the absolute limits. But when […]
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54 years ago today, Led Zeppelin played their first concert in North America—as the back-up band for Vanilla Fudge and Spirit when their renown debut album hadn’t been released yet. Set as the opener at the Auditorium Arena in Denver, 2 years later they would return to headline in front of more than 10,000 cheering […]
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A radio station in Canada surprised a nurse with the best holiday gift of her life. The young mother of two—with a third child on the way—heard the news through her phone while a colleague captured her reaction on video. The station in Ottawa known as Hot 89.9 chose Nicole as their Guaranteed Giveaway winner […]
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to skateboard icon Tony Hawk about his life on the board and his documentary "Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off."
This daily column at GNN.org features all the good news, anniversaries and notable birthdays from this day in history—December 25.
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The Washington Capitals star scored goals 801 and 802 Friday night to move into second place on the NHL career list. Only Wayne Gretzky, with 894 goals, has scored more.
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A look back at sports highlights from the past year, from Serena Williams' retirement to Argentina's World Cup victory.
83 years ago today, beginning in the year of his election, Pope Pious XII gave a Christmas Eve radio broadcast with a passionate plea for peace on Earth, while denouncing the ideologies that had led to the outbreak of the Second World War. While mentioning none in particular, the targets of his statements were clear. […]
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NPR's Juana Summers talks with WGN reporter Larry Hawley about the freezing weather conditions for Saturday's Chicago Bears game.
A new space-based surveyor that will help catalog millions of near-Earth objects is now ready for budgeting and building after passing a rigorous technical review. This year NASA completed its first-ever mission organized entirely for the purpose of planetary defense, when the DART probe slammed into an asteroid to see if it could be redirected […]
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McEnroe reflects on his career in a Showtime documentary: "When I went to Wimbledon in London for the first time, and I was like, 'Wow, they're so polite here.'" Originally published Sept. 6, 2022.
A LEGO-loving couple have created a bit of festive cheer by making an entire wall, fireplace and tree from the plastic blocks in their living room. For the last 28 years Mike Addis and his wife Catherine Weightman have built amazing LEGO sculptures each Christmas. Previous creations include a 21-foot London Bridge and a 12-foot […]
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101 years ago today, Visva-Bharati University was founded in West Bengal by the Indian poet/polymath Rabindranath Tagore. The brilliant Nobel Prize winning humanist imagined a university in the town of Santiniketan to make it “a the connecting thread between India and the world [and] a world center for the study of humanity somewhere beyond the […]
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The deal with Google lets YouTube distribute out-of-market Sunday afternoon games, which had been on DirecTV since 1994. It's the league's second major commitment to streaming in recent years.
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New camera-equipped drones are giving Australian lifeguards an eye in the sky on the lookout for sharks. For decades, Queensland has used baited hook drumlines and nets to protect surfers and beachgoers from sharks, but these more indiscriminate methods can also kill and injure marine life such as dolphins, dugongs, and turtles, as well as […]
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The organizers of the annual sports festival in Istanbul see it as an opportunity to create and reclaim spaces for the LGBTQ community in Turkey, and to rethink how sports are practiced and played.
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Every Christmas, Mike Witmer gets out his colored lights to weave a very specific message out into the night. Witmer says passersby are sometimes confused by his lights, which read ‘Hi Kevin’ across his roof, but it’s to honor the memory of a young boy who passed away from cancer in 2010. For the past […]
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An electric car has made a record-breaking 621 mile (1,000km) trip on a single charge powered by the sun. The solar-powered Sunswift 7 averaged nearly 53mph (85kph) in under twelve hours to set a Guinness World Record while completing 240 laps of a track to represent the distance from Sydney to Melbourne. Sunswift 7 is […]
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The 50th anniversary of the late Pittsburgh Steeler Franco Harris's "Immaculate Reception" catch is Friday and will be commemorated throughout the weekend by the team. Harris died Wednesday at 72.
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162 years ago today, Giacomo Puccini was born. Considered as the greatest composer of Italian opera in history alongside or perhaps just behind Verdi, his work includes many of the most-performed spectacles in Italian opera, including La Boheme, Tosca, Turandot, and Madame Butterfly. Often regarded as a romanticist who honored 18th century Italian tradition, Puccini would go on to […]
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A dog is making the internet bounce with joy and virality, in part because she’s extremely cute, and in part because she has a peculiar shape. Mohu is a spherical Toy Poodle and his nearly 100,000 follows on Intsagram all of whom obsessed with her unexplainably round shape. The six-year-old from Osaka, Japan, has become […]
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On St. Vincent and the Grenadines, a Critically Endangered gecko little bigger than a paperclip has been saved by diligent conservationists. Known for jewel-like markings on its hide, the Union Island gecko has nearly doubled in numbers from 10,000 to 18,000 individuals in just four years. Discovered in 2005 in a 123 acre swath of […]
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Every year, the more than €1 million in coins thrown into the Trevi Fountain in Rome are hoovered up to feed, clothe, and house the city’s poor. Completed in 1762, the marble marvel is one of the Eternal City’s most popular attractions. Commissioned in the 1730s by Nicola Salvi, it depicts the taming of waters. […]
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Harris' heads-up thinking authored "The Immaculate Reception," considered the most iconic play in NFL history. Harris ran for 12,120 yards and won four Super Bowls with the Steelers in the 1970s.
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Today is the magical Winter Solstice, bringing the longest night of the year to the Northern Hemisphere, and marking the start of more daylight every day for the rest of the season, until June 20. The ancient cultures knew the Sun’s path across the sky, length of daylight, and location of the sunrise and sunset, […]
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In 2019, prospectors found a meteorite in Somalia while looking for opal which has now revealed three never-before-seen minerals that originated off-Earth. Since minerals are a little like recipes, their formation can inform us as to the history of their making, and these are no exception; with scientists positing that they came from the surface […]
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In a gangland part of London, youth are being recruited into the revitalization of historic stone buildings to keep them from getting into trouble. Queen Mary’s Hospital for the East End was built to serve some of the most deprived London boroughs, and saw its fair share of history before being demolished in 1983. What […]
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From Messi’s twilight triumph to bountiful showings of hospitality by the Qatari people, there was plenty to smile about during this year’s World Cup. As the curtain came down on the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, most fans of the sport will immediately look forward to enjoying the return of the domestic leagues, which […]
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The 2022 World Cup came to an end in Qatar Sunday with Argentina victorious over France. In Buenos Aires, hundreds of thousands of fans flocked to the streets to celebrate.
A “soft robot” can move its way through the human body solely by the changing of temperatures, and could be an excellent way to deliver precision doses of key medications. These “gelbots” aren’t really robots at all, but little capsules filled with a water-based gel that through expansion and contraction, pushes the tiny robot along […]
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Every one of the 105 Kansas residents in a town called Tampa were invited on a free trip to visit the sunny city with the same name in Florida—so they can experience ‘the other Tampa’. Most of the group of 95 Kansans had never been to Florida, and most of the children had never flown […]
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Lionel Messi led Argentina to victory over France in the World Cup finals on Sunday, Dec. 18. See photos from the close match and fans' reactions to the game's outcome.
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A woman who hated exercise took up powerlifting to help combat her arthritis and is now slaying it as a commonwealth gold medalist in the sport. She says she’s now fitter than when she was in her 20s, and has now won gold, silver, and bronze medals in weightlifting. Arthritis prevented 58-year-old Kelly Clark from […]
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An EMT continued his heroic work into his day off, when during a ski trip he located a man buried by an avalanche, dug him out, and spent 8 hours by his side on the mountain waiting for search and rescue. Wild amounts of Utah snowing last week left the slopes in Neffs Canyon ripe […]
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The skipper of a scallop trawler became an unlikely hero after a dinghy filled with refugees attempting to cross the English channel in wintertime broke apart. His vigilance and mariner skill saved 31 lives of men and children that night from the freezing water. It was dark and cold in early December after a cold […]
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The Jan. 6 panel wraps up its probe into the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Argentina wins its first World Cup in 36 years. The Biden administration announces a shift in strategy to fight homelessness.
On this day in 1861, Italo Svevo, a pioneer of Italian literature, was born in Trieste. Considered alongside James Joyce as a father of the psychological novel, with his modernist classic, Zeno’s Consciousness. Svevo wrote two other books, which along with Zeno’s were considered flops. Nevertheless, he remains considered one of a united Italy’s finest ever authors. READ more… (1861) The […]
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It was one of the finest World Cup finals in the history of the tournament. Argentina is the champion after a thrilling match that went into extra time and then a penalty kick shootout against France.
Archaeologists have uncovered an “astonishing” 1,300-year-old necklace in Northamptonshire, England, discovered during excavations for a housing development. Researchers from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) say the necklace is the richest of its type ever uncovered in Britain—with a staggering 30 pendants and beads made of Roman coins, gold, garnets, glass and semi-precious stones. It […]
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Nothing says ‘Happy Holidays’ like a healthy dose of nostalgia—and what better way to feel the spirit of the season than watching a holiday classic. A new poll of 2,000 Americans who celebrate the festive season found it was the top tradition—with 72% choosing the tradition of watching Christmas movies, beating out decorating the tree […]
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Argentina beat defending-champion France in the final. It's the third World Cup title for Argentina but the first for Messi - the only trophy he hadn't won in his storied and remarkable career.
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Happy 76th Birthday to Steven Spielberg, one of the most popular and successful movie producers in film history. Bullied as an Orthodox Jew growing up in Phoenix, Arizona, Spielberg made adventure films with his father’s 8mm movie camera—and at 16, wrote and directed his first independent film. He’s now the highest-grossing director in history, with […]
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The pandas correctly predicted that Argentina would beat Croatia in the first semifinal match last, and they also rightly chose France over Morocco. Now, they predict Argentina will win the final.
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Argentina is competing against France in the World Cup final. In Buenos Aires, enthusiasm is high for a badly wanted win.
France is competing against Argentina in the World Cup final. In Paris, concerns over human rights violations are now mixed with excitement.
With the need for critical battery minerals growing, a company has proved that sustainable ocean mining is possible with a discriminating robot miner. Below the waves, seafloors are covered in “polymetallic nodules” a fancy word for stones with many different metals in them. Impossible Metals recently proved that it’s possible to harvest these nodules with […]
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There’s no substituting the need for family, and one young man raised in the foster care system hoped to find one in a pair of perspective car buyers he met last year. Video shows the Wilkinsons family, who walked off the lot with a car and a new friend in April 2021, reacting tearfully to […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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Croation soccer fans will crowd into a basement bowling alley in Kansas City, Kan., Saturday morning to watch their national team play Morocco for third place in the World Cup.
Turkey will soon host the world’s largest tidal power station—a 77 megawatt system of large pier-like machines that generate clean energy from the sea’s endless rhythm. Swedish firm Eco Wave Power (EWP) entered into the agreement for the potential construction in Ordu, Turkey, starting with a small pilot project. EWP said that if it proves […]
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232 years ago today, the Aztec, or Mexica Sun Stone was discovered under the Zocalo in Mexico City; a national icon, symbol of the nation’s past, and continuous mystery. Weighing more than 50,000 pounds and spanning 141 inches in diameter, the massive carving depicts animals, perhaps cosmological details, and orientation such as the cardinal points. […]
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A 27-year-old PhD scholar finally cracked the riddle which has defeated Sanskrit experts since the 5th Century BC—by decoding a rule taught by “the father of linguistics” Pāṇini. The discovery makes it possible to ‘derive’ any Sanskrit word—to construct millions of grammatically correct words including ‘mantra’ and ‘guru’—using Pāṇini’s revered ‘language machine’ which is widely […]
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Hospitals can be lonely places, especially during the holidays. But there's a new kind of holiday spirit sparked by the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Monumental U.S. legislation sparked by the exploitation depicted in the TV series Tiger King was passed this week by the U.S. Senate to ban public contact with lions, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, jaguars, and cougars. The Big Cat Public Safety Act, which will prohibit keeping big cat species as pets, along with the practice of ‘cub […]
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In her first public statement since being freed from Russia, the two-time Olympic gold medalist says she'll play for her team, the Phoenix Mercury, when the season starts in May.
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On Sunday, France will try to become the first team since Brazil in 1962 to win back-to-back World Cup titles. Argentina is trying to win one for the team's legendary forward Lionel Messi.
The final game of the 2022 World Cup on Sunday is set to be its most thrilling. Defending champion France takes on Argentina as Lionel Messi seeks the one trophy missing from his glorious career.
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105 years ago today, Sir Arthur C. Clarke was born in Somerset. Known as one of the “big three” of science fiction along with Robert Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov. Clarke co-wrote 2001: A Space Odyessy, as well as Childhood’s End, and The Songs of Distant Earth. After a career in science and academia, he moved to Sri Lanka to […]
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The Lesson: Philanthropy comes in many forms, and from many faces. Whether it’s the lifestyle we try to live, the purchasing decisions we make, the parents we were born to, or the careers we’re pursuing, there’s a role for everyone in leaving the world a better place than when we found it. Notable Excerpt: “There’re so […]
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Across the whole history of paleontology, which has identified more than 700 species of dinosaurs, there’s never been one found with aquatic features—until now. Natovenator or “swimming hunter” was a foot-long, streamlined, distant cousin of Velociraptor with a slender neck and a mouth filled with sharp teeth, leading to one scientist to call it a “Cretaceous […]
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See some of the best photos from the 2022 World Cup's quarterfinal and semifinal rounds. Argentina and France will face off in the final on Sunday, Dec. 18.
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End of year bonuses are always a welcomed sight, but these smiles bear witness to an extraordinary act of corporate generosity. Ruppert Landscaping gave bonuses of between $7,000 to $200,000 to all employees with a tenure of over one-year, “as a thanks for the role they’ve played in the company’s growth and development.” A total […]
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A company ordered 18,000 T-shirts with the message: England, World Cup Winners 2022. But England lost to France in the quarterfinals. The T-shirts are now on sale at a third of the original cost.
