Do children even study from textbooks anymore, or is it all screens now? Are there still human teachers at the head of the classroom, or are they AI? Life sure has evolved in the 21st century. But as children head back to school this fall, one thing is perennial, regardless of the calendar year: how […]
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Hawaii, once known as a premier tourist destination, has been under siege from wildfires. Fires have also been choking the air over the East coast as smoke drifts down from Canadian fires. California and Nevada continue to experience wildfire outbreaks. Record-breaking triple-digit temperatures decimated most of the U.S. in August. Perhaps most disturbing of all,
Remember that Jimi Hendrix classic, Purple Haze, where he sang, “‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy”? Or what about when Credence Clearwater Revival appeared to give directions to the necessary, with the lyrics, “There’s a bathroom on the right”? Neither of these often-misheard lyrics is correct, though they’ve become so entrenched in popular culture
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The tune was written for Elvis, and recorded by him as well as a slew of other famous musicians, including the Beatles, Joni Mitchell, and Buddy Holly. And while Elvis sings, “You’re so square/Baby I don’t care,” we want you to know there’s one type of square we care about a lot, and we want
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That’s a pretty strange title, isn’t it? Yet think about what Botox does: it’s a non-surgical procedure that helps you look younger, with fewer facial lines. In essence, Botox removes the years that time has spilled onto your face; it’s facial spill clean up! This is what we do, only for your business: erase the
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Ocean temperatures like bath water. Flooding in Vermont. Smoky skies over Central Park, resembling the worst of California’s wildfires. We’re living in extreme times: heat, fire, flood. It’s a little scary. Ben Zaitchik, professor in the Earth and planetary sciences department at Johns Hopkins University, says of the extreme events, “All of this is entirely
Anyone who has spent time in the San Francisco Bay Area during the summer months knows that this is not the time to wear shorts and flip-flops. A San Francisco summer is typically chilly, with fog rolling in from the ocean and temperatures often hovering in the 60s. The in joke is, you can always
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You’re probably familiar with MSG, a harmful additive that’s often hidden in foods under innocent-sounding labels. ESG is much better for you. ESG stands for environmental, social and corporate governance, and describes an ethical approach to corporate investing. One of the megatrends in 2023 is biodiversity, superseding even climate change as the critical issue of
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Remember high school chemistry? In chem class, the one major admonishment your teacher probably made was to be careful. Even though you weren’t doing hazmat experiments, cleaning up a chemical spill would not be fun, and would waste class time. Just imagine, then, how much more severe a chemical spill is when it takes place
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“There’ll be a hot time in the old town tonight,” goes an old American standard. When Theodore Metz composed this tune near the end of the 19th century, he probably wasn’t thinking about car culture. (Though the first steam-powered automobile was invented a few decades earlier, it wasn’t exactly what we think of as a
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