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[The New York Times, Getty Images] Finding work for a generation has become a major priority for the country’s leaders, who have promised a better life in exchange for a lack of political freedom. Before China can fully recover from the devastation of the coronavirus outbreak, it needs to find people […]
[CNBC] With record unemployment, pay cuts, a turbulent market and an ever-widening gap between the haves and the have nots, money is at the forefront of people’s minds more than ever. But how important is money to happiness? The answer is complicated. Research has long looked at how money affects happiness, which in […]
[Business Insider] A small but vocal minority of people in the US are protesting face-mask mandates. In the early 1980s, the public-safety battle was over seat belts. Most Americans didn’t use them, and 65% opposed them being enforced by law. “There was a libertarian streak among resistors,” car-safety pioneer Ralph […]
[New York Post] Twenty years later, Stan has a direct line. Rapper Eminem has released his cell number to legions of fans, who call themselves “Stans” after his 2000 hit single, inviting them to text 313-666-7440. The Real Slim Shady wrote, “text me, ill hit you back” in Instagram and Twitter posts, both of which […]
[CNN] If you’re one of the many people noticing the lilt of birdsong more profoundly these days (or perhaps even for the first time at all), you’re not alone.Everywhere from the Upper West Side to Wuhan, the phenomenon of all this suddenly more audible tweeting-in-the-wild is one of the commonly […]
[CNN] A white woman has apologized for calling police on a black man bird-watching in Central Park on Monday morning after the two argued about her unleashed dog. Amy Cooper told CNN she wanted to “publicly apologize to everyone.” “I’m not a racist. I did not mean to harm that […]
[Coin NewsSpan] Premier digital asset trading network Crypto.com announced a 2% deposit bonus on Monday for all new deposits on the platform. New users, those who joined the platform after May 11, 2020, and have completed “advanced” level KYC verification, are eligible for the bonus. Crypto.com shared a blog post […]
[CNN] (Human activity could drive extinction and destroy billions of years of evolutionary history, which has produced remarkable creatures such as the punk-haired Mary River turtle, the yellow eyed Aye Aye lemur and the Chinese crocodile, researchers have warned. In a study published in the Nature Communications journal on Tuesday, researchers explored how […]
[ABC News] 48 shot, 10 fatally in deadliest Chicago Memorial Day weekend since 2015. CHICAGO — Ten people are dead and 38 others are wounded so far in weekend shootings in Chicago, the deadliest Memorial Day weekend since 2015, when 12 people were killed. Despite the state’s stay-at-home order, the […]
[ScienceAlert] New satellite data from the European Space Agency (ESA) reveal that the mysterious anomaly weakening Earth’s magnetic field continues to evolve, with the most recent observations showing we could soon be dealing with more than one of these strange phenomena. The South Atlantic Anomaly is a vast expanse of reduced magnetic intensity in […]