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Sports Mole previews Saturday's Championship clash between Fulham and Reading, including predictions, team news and possible lineups.

Triller's latest attempt at boxing nostalgia was condemned on all sides as ring veteran Evander Holyfield was shellacked in Florida last weekend, and has forced its chief into a change of tack – and not a second too soon.
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Scott Reid, The Walrus

Is Erin O'Toole trying to beat Justin Trudeau at his own image game?

Terry Glavin, National Post

Of the many obstacles that have been strategically placed in the path of the voting public's comprehension of where the parties situate themselves in the federal election campaign that's just now heading into its final lap around the track, there's nothing quite so peculiar as the cordon sanitaire Justin Trudeau's Liberals have been allowed to construct around any serious discussion of foreign policy.

Breach and attack simulation tools help you raise your game, Keysight says

Thomas Wright, Foreign Affairs
Why great-power competition and transnational threats amplify each other.

A Stanford-led study reveals that rather than evolving gradually over hundreds of millions of years, land plants underwent major diversification in two dramatic bursts, 250 million years apart. The first occurred early in plant history, giving rise to the development of seeds, and the second took place during the diversification of flowering plants.

Daniel Hoffman, Cipher Brief

OPINION — On the morning of September 11, 2001, my then-CIA colleague Rob was in Manhattan on the subway, headed to a 9 a.m. meeting in the World Trade Center. At 8:46 a.m., moments before he exited the subway, American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the Center's North Tower.

Remembering Norm Macdonald (1959-2021).

The post Turd Ferguson and the Philosophy of Hope appeared first on The American Conservative.

As a reminder, I said 2 years ago that anyone wishing to change their guess could do so provided it's in this topic dated and timed 30 minutes before scheduled match start time. I will continue that.

If any match is moved forward I will void the comp.

Inspired by a kind of tree leaf, scientists at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) discovered that the spreading direction of different liquids deposited on the same surface can be steered, solving a challenge that has remained for over two centuries. This breakthrough could ignite a new wave of using 3D surface structures for intelligent liquid manipulation with profound implications for various scientific and industrial applications, such as fluidics design and heat transfer enhancement.

In a Pearls article publishing September 16th in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens, Patrick Keeling and colleagues at the University of British Columbia in Canada describe investigations into an enigmatic group of coral-infecting microbes.

EXCLUSIVE: Piers Morgan has revealed walking off the Good Morning Britain set was his only option – that or give Alex Beresford a 'Glasgow kiss', which he admits wouldn't have gone down well

University promotion and tenure criteria and processes should be broadened and made more inclusive to value innovation, entrepreneurship and other forms of scholarly impact, a collaboration led by Oregon State University asserts today in a paper published in Science.

Previously, US President Joe Biden announced a new defence pact between the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia, which was named AUKUS.

A UCLA-led team of engineers and chemists has taken a major step forward in the development of microbial fuel cells—a technology that utilizes natural bacteria to extract electrons from organic matter in wastewater to generate electrical currents. A study detailing the breakthrough was recently published in Science.

In a suburban Denver warehouse tucked between an auto repair shop and a computer recycling business, Seth Viddal is dealing with life and death.

Mid-Atlantic trainer Amber Cobb has been banned from training or racing at racetracks orfacilities operated by 1-ST Racing. Cobb had already been suspended by the Delaware Thoroughbred Racing Commission for abusing a horse in her care.

Even if you have oily skin, face oils can help you clear acne and serve as an anti-aging tool.

Two weeks ago, Iran announced it was planning to boost oil output and exports despite ongoing sanctions by the U.S. As we see continually increased output from Iran since the beginning of 2021, can the country overcome U.S. restrictions to regain its title as a major oil-producing state? At the beginning of September, Iran announced it would be increasing its oil output over the coming months, despite ongoing sanctions from the U.S. restricting the country’s export market.  Iranian Oil Minister Javad... Читать дальше...

The Santa Monica College (SMC) Center for Media and Design (CMD) is a renovation and expansion of the school’s old Academy of Entertainment & Technology. The 3.5-acre project includes the construction of a 30,000-square-foot instructional wing and renovation of an existing 50,000-square-foot teaching facility; a new, three-story building for KCRW, a public radio station licensed to the school; and a new, seven-level parking structure. A courtyard with water features and a performance stage is showcased in the center of the complex. Читать дальше...

An ambitious project aimed at capturing millions of tons of carbon emissions along the U.S. Gulf Coast in Texas garnered the support of some of the world’s biggest refiners and chemical manufacturers.

CLEVELAND — Industry experts presented an in-depth analysis concerning the future of braking systems during a study group session at American Trucking Associations’ 2021 Technology & Maintenance Council Fall Meeting & Transportation Technology Exhibition.