After Months of Dismissing the Seriousness of Coronavirus Brazil’s President Bolsonaro tests positive Bolsonaro has described the virus as a “little flu,” and used to appear in public and at rallies without a mask, hugging his supporters. Speaking on Brazilian TV Tuesday Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced the positive result for Covid-19, following months of […]
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By Contributing Author One of the most popular TED-talks ever is Tim Urban’s hilarious one-man show, “Inside the mind of a master procrastinator.” It is an engaging story of an epic battle between an instant gratification monkey and a rational decision-maker right inside the brain of an experienced procrastinator. Urban, one of the Internet’s most […]
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WATCH VIDEO The European Space Agency documented this well-preserved impact crater located in the northern lowlands, south of the large Olympia Undae dune field that partly surrounds Mars’ northern polar cap. The crater is filled with ice water year-round. This is not snow, which we know from Earth, but water ice. It is the largest […]
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Has E.T. Gone Home? The New York Times running an interesting article about several U.S. Navy fighter pilots encountering mysterious objects near the southeastern coast of the United States. UFO Contacts in Brazil There is some controversy as to whether World UFO Day falls on June 26 or July 02 with people seemingly celebrating it […]
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Pakistan International Airlines grounds 150 pilots over “bogus” licenses after deadly crash, a month after one of its planes crashed into houses killing 98 people. Pakistani Pilots/ Photo source dunyanews.tv/en/Pakistan Alarmingly, a preliminary investigation into a deadly plane crash in Pakistan has found that 1-in-3 of the country’s pilots have fake licenses and are unqualified […]
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Opportunity Insights researchers at Harvard University have been using credit card data to track U.S. spending levels throughout the pandemic. As this infographic shows, consumer spending plummeted between the middle and end of March. While it was 0.5 percent higher on March 13 than the same day in 2019, it plunged 33 percent by March […]
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‘Heartbreaking’: Global Experts Alarmed at Signs US Has ‘Given Up’ Fight to Stop Coronavirus The U.S. endures much higher, persistent negative effects from something that other countries have solved; I’m becoming convinced that Covid-19 is not far from taking on the characteristics of gun violence.” —Michael Rozier, St. Louis University Global health experts are looking […]
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Americans are having trouble financially preparing themselves for life after work. A recent Federal Reserve report found that nearly a quarter of U.S. adults have absolutely no retirement savings or pension. Even though the level of preparation increases as people get older, concern about inadequate savings is still readily apparent across all age groups, even older people in their […]
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China imposes new travel restrictions after an outbreak at the food wholesale market called Xinfadi that serves 80% of the city’s meat The outbreak at the main food market Xinfadi in Beijing has now been shut after it leads to a neighborhood nearby to the highest alert level. Health authorities see the worst outbreak since […]
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Phase I tested safety, with none of the participants reporting any severe side effects from the vaccine.The company to begin Phase III trials the last step before it is approved for public use Sinovac Biotech Ltd. based in Beijing, China, said its vaccine called CoronaVac found safe and positive early data from human trials, Sinovac […]
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