As summerlike temperatures start to arrive, and with the lakefront open again, Chicagoans are likely looking forward to beach season. But that also means meteotsunami season.
A key test for the property market is how it will adjust as emergency support from government and banks is wound back.
In 2019, I made a painful decision. But to the algorithms that drive Facebook, Pinterest, and a million other apps, I'm forever getting married.
By the time a company tells you your data's been stolen as part of a breach, your information may already be on the dark web. Here's how to keep pace with the hackers.
What are the keys to turning Slovakia's brain drain into brain gain?
This article is adapted from this year’s acceptance speech for the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, awarded by the National Book Critics Circle.
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On Sunday, The Guardian published a comprehensive report on the environmental, health, and legal issues raised by fracking in the Eastern Agency of the Navajo Nation. In particular, the outlet highlighted instances in which fracking wells owned by Denver-based gas and oil company Enduring Resources had either exploded or malfunctioned, contaminating nearby water sources. In one case from 2019, a fracking well leak brought on by a valve failure pushed 1,400 barrels of slurry off the well pad and... Читать дальше...
The most monumental pro-labor legislation since the 1930s is a few co-sponsors shy of a majority in the Senate, and it’s tough to overstate what a big deal that is: The Protect the Right to Organize Act promises to largely revert the United States back to the friendlier New Deal era of labor law, before postwar Republican majorities moved to significantly tamp down organized labor with the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act. If passed, the law will make more workers eligible for collective bargaining, make unions easier to organize... Читать дальше...
The last time Stephen Hawking was ever uncertain about his fame was before a lecture in Cambridge, in the winter of 1988. Even then, really, he should have been in no doubt. In previous years, he’d been profiled by Vanity Fair and The New York Times Magazine, and the BBC had run shows about his work. Then, that past April, his book on cosmology, A Brief History of Time, had been published to instant and staggering success. Bookstores ran out. People wore T-shirts printed with the words STEPHEN HAWKING FAN CLUB. Читать дальше...
It’s obvious that these were deliberately withheld and not simply misplaced.
The science of how our memories form—and how they shape our future
Helping students catch up will be a much more difficult task.
Whereas southern Klansmen assaulted Black Americans and their white allies, western vigilantes targeted those they deemed a greater threat: Chinese immigrants.
Quit wasting food and eat less meat.
Now’s your chance to show you know what’s a good and bad trade
The NHL trade deadline for this season is April 12th, at 3:00 pm EDT specifically. That means it’s now only a week away. We know that the NHL worked out a deal with the Canadian government to cut the mandatory quarantine period from 14 days down to 7. So we may see the Leafs make a move today (if they didn’t already make one between me writing this on Monday and when it was actually published), but they may also wait as long as possible. Читать дальше...
Four-bedroom home is refurbished with a new kitchen, separate guest room and a yard with decks and an inground pool
Kris Osborn
U.S. Army,
Today, the Army is preparing for the wars of tomorrow and beyond.
Here's What You Need To Remember: In our discussion of artificial intelligence and autonomy, Murray touched upon this saying the future will not only involve manned/unmanned teaming . . . but “unmanned-unmanned” teaming in some instances. Given all of this, Murray made a point to explain that these kinds of new technologies will fundamentally change the character of war, driving new concepts, strategies and formations. Читать дальше...
Bryson DeChambeau is proving once again that he is willing to attempt anything when it comes to gaining distance and accuracy off the tee.
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The Penguins have lost another player to injury, the team has finally found secondary scoring, and we try to create the best fourth line. All that and more in today’s Pens Points!
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Joe Biden said that he is going to push as hard as he can to change the circumstances so the U.S. can compete with the rest of the world
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Paula Lamb says being one of the first patients to receive the new treatment "feels amazing".