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By God & Man Brianna Wiest Updated March 10, 2020 28 Lessons From Great Writers, Artists And Creators On Mastering Your Craft How To Find Mentors Read more: https://thoughtcatalog.com/brianna-wiest/2020/03/another-persons-success-script-is-never-going-to-give-you-the-life-you-want
Read MoreThe Slow Mo Guys learn about tranquilizer dart physics using slow mo as a helpful tool. Read more: https://twistedsifter.com/videos/how-a-tranquilizer-dart-works-in-slow-motion/
Read MoreKelowna RCMP address criticism about sexual assault investigations CBC.ca Read more: www.cbc.ca
Read MoreTake a look around you. Can you see more than 30/50/100 people? Maybe they’re colleagues, maybe they’re strangers, but now you are cursed with the knowledge that – statistically speaking – one or more of them has made a poop in the shower. If you ask 29 of them and they all deny it, congratulations, the shower pooper is you (this is a joke before you start informing me about statistics thankyouverymuch). A survey of the bathroom habits of Americans and British people by QS Supplies has found out all sorts of stuff…
Read MoreJessica Manning had no experience with coronaviruses. The infectious disease researcher had lived and worked in Cambodia off and on since 2013, studying the mosquitoes of the Mekong Delta and how their saliva helps spread disease in humans. But in January, the country flagged its first Covid-19 patient, and the lab that delivered the diagnosis wanted to send samples from the patient and his family to Manning for further testing. Manning works at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research in Phnom Penh,…
Read MoreAn Important message regarding FIFA player Kurt0411. pic.twitter.com/RcHu1hMCup — Electronic Arts (@EA) February 24, 2020 In the statement, EA outlined why it took this drastic step. It noted that threats against employees and other players earned Fenech a partial ban in November. The severe new ban, according to EA, was earned through Fenechs abusive and threatening messages, that have crossed a line of decency. The company did not point to any specific messages from Fenech, but his Twitter page is filled with expletive-laced messages aimed at EA. We will not…
Read MoreThe wreck of the Joseph S. Fay has been pushed by storms toward the shore of northern Lake Huron. (Wayne Lusardi) The Great Lakes continue to reveal their shipwreck secrets. Earlier this year, photos showed a mysterious shipwreck slowly “disappearing” into Lake Michigan. The wreck, which is believed to have sunk in the 1930s, had been uncovered by a Lake Michigan storm surge. ‘MYSTERIOUS GHOST SHIP’ DISCOVERED IN LAKE MICHIGAN Elsewhere, the remarkably intact wreck of a schooner that sank in 1891 was
Read MoreRetired Delta lawyer charged in stem cell company investigation CBC.ca Read more: www.cbc.ca
Read More‘Ambidextrous’ Andy Varipapa (March 31, 1891 – August 25, 1984) was a legendary bowler known for his incredible trick shots. Varipapa was considered to be “the greatest one-man bowling show on Earth”. Beyond his trick shot exhibitions, Varipapa was a solid professional bowler. In 1947, at the age of 56, he won the prestigious BPAA All-Star competition (predecessor to the U.S. Open) in a gruelling 100 game format, making him the oldest winner ever. He became the first to win two years in a row when he repeated in 1948.…
Read MoreBy Growing Alyssa Lynn Malmquist Updated April 12, 2019 7 Famous White Feminists I’m So Over 26 Amy Schumer Quotes That Will Make You Laugh, Think, And Feel Understood All At The Same Time Read more: https://thoughtcatalog.com/alyssa-lynn-malmquist/2019/04/i-never-thought-amy-schumer-was-funny-but-growing-changed-my-mind
Read MoreWe’ve sailed the seas for many millennia, yet it’s only relatively recently that we’re learning of the life beneath our boats. Little is known about the underwater hearing of Antarctic gentoo penguins, a species well adapted to life both above and below Earth’s waters. To explore the hearing of these peach-feet waddlers, a team of scientists from the University of Southern Denmark and the German Oceanographic Museum played noise to penguins in a pool enclosure at the Odense Zoo, Denmark between July and October, 2018. The sound was played to seven…
Read MoreThe first conference to go was Mobile World Congress. The annual gathering of electronics makers and phone geeks announced the cancellation just weeks before it was set to begin, in late February, for the sake of safety. Global concern over the new coronavirus was rising, and plus, exhibitors were dropping left and right. Next came Adobe Summit. Then Facebook F8. Within weeks, Google had canceled its annual developer conference, Google I/O, and Google Cloud Next, its cloud-focused conference. Microsoft called off its MVP Summit. IBM pulled the plug on Think.…
Read MoreA federal appeals court on Wednesday dismissed claims that big tech companies like Google and YouTube were subject to First Amendment scrutiny because they are a private forum, not a public one. A three-judge panel from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle unanimously ruled in favor of Google and YouTube to uphold another courts dismissal of a case brought against them by conservative group PragerU, who claimed that the video-sharing platform was devaluing conservative content. Despite YouTubes ubiquity and its role as a public-facing platform, it remains…
Read MoreTrump spent $11m on a single television ad targeting African Americans. Democrats wont cough up a fraction Donald Trump understands the importance of African American voters much better than Democrats and progressives do. Trump and his team are making sizable and smart investments in efforts to chip away at black support for Democrats. Yet those who want to oust Trump from the Oval Office are spraying millions of dollars in election spending in every direction except the African American community. Had African Americans turned out to vote in 2016 like…
Read MoreFirst case of COVID-1 9 confirmed in Sudbury CBC.ca Read more: www.cbc.ca
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