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[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 […]
[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 […]
[VOX] All my concerts were postponed by the coronavirus, so why can’t I get a refund? It’s complicated. When Jess Noé logged on early one February morning to buy tickets to a highly anticipated My Chemical Romance reunion show, she was prepared to pay up. My Chemical Romance, a band deified […]
[CNN, Getty Images] The World Health Organization has temporarily halted studying hydroxychloroquine as a potential Covid-19 treatment in its Solidarity Trial due to safety concerns, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a briefing in Geneva on Monday. The decision was made after an observational study was published in the medical […]
[Business Insider] There’s speculation about the possibility of the Federal Reserve implementing negative interest rates in response to the coronavirus. Negative interest rates would result in lenders paying you when you take out a loan, and you’d pay a fee to keep money in banks. Both of these results would […]
[CNBC] KEY POINTS In a statement released on Saturday, the NBA says it wants to start the season in late July at Disney’s ESPN complex in Orlando. The league said the location will serve as “single site for an NBA campus for games, practices, and housing.” The NBA Playoffs logo […]
[Kiplinger] The COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak has sent global markets into bear territory and economies into recession. And as the pandemic stretches on, it’s inducing a growing number of bankruptcy filings. Though, in most cases, COVID-19 has simply acted as the straw that broke the camel’s back. Consider the retail industry, […]
[CNN] New York University marketing professor Scott Galloway joined CNN’s global coronavirus town hall tonight to explain the difficult position college students find themselves in as the US economy limps along during the pandemic. “We have raised tuition rates 1,400% over the last 40 years. This is a time of year that’s […]
[ESPN] Jerry Sloan, a player known as “The Original Bull” in Chicago before becoming a legendary head coach of the Utah Jazz, died Friday. He was 78. Many in the NBA community took to social media to pay tribute to Sloan, who retired in 2011 as the longest-tenured head coach with one […]
[MarketWatch, Getty Images/iStockphoto] Too much flexibility is dangerous, Jack Bogle warned In light of the continuing pandemic, Congress has temporarily changed the rules on hardship withdrawals from your 401(k). It’s easier to take money out penalty-free, up to $100,000, and you can pay it back and avoid the tax hit. […]