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ITV's Tom Bradby on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle interview
Dianna Muller: Why I Will Not Comply with AR-15 Ban
Syria Offensive Feeds Disenchantment Among Turkey's Kurds
The truck driver arrested after 39 bodies are found in refrigerated lorry
Report: Unidentified Drones Strike Iran-Backed Militia in Syria
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phys.org | 9/12/2019 | Staff
A team of researchers from Duke University and Princeton University has found that it is possible to use loss of resilience as an early warning signal to predict the likelihood of forest mortality.
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phys.org | 9/19/2019 | Staff
Climate change is increasing both the severity and frequency of extreme weather events, including floods. That's a problem for many farmers, since rice is the only major food crop that's resilient...
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phys.org | 6/17/2019 | Staff
Using the full wheat genome map published in 2018, combined with data from field testing of wheat breeding lines in multiple countries, an international team of scientists has identified significant...
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ScienceDaily | 9/24/2019 | Staff
The study predicts a tripling of storm-related damages if protective ecosystems such as coral reefs and mangrove forests are degraded or lost. The findings, published in Frontiers in Marine Science,...
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phys.org | 8/28/2019 | Staff
Two years ago today, Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico with winds as fast as 155 miles per hour. Heavy rains caused flooding and landslides. The storm destroyed homes and entire neighborhoods,...
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Religion News Service | 9/13/2019 | Staff
(RNS) — The president of the historically black Progressive National Baptist Convention traveled to the Bahamas island of Grand Bahama this week to assess the damage from Hurricane Dorian and came...
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www.oann.com | 11/6/2018 | StaffBERLIN (Reuters) – Business activity and job creation in Germany’s services sector remained robust in August despite a recession in manufacturing, a survey showed on Wednesday, but a loss of business...
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ScienceDaily | 9/3/2019 | Staff"We have found that a specific cell receptor promotes resilience to the adverse effects of stress in animals," said study leader Seema Bhatnagar, PhD, a neuroscientist in the Department of...
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phys.org | 8/20/2019 | Staff
The 2017 wildfire season was the most extensive and expensive in U.S. history. Fires scorched 10 million acres in the western U.S. and federal fire-suppression expenditure surpassed a record $2.
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the Guardian | 8/30/2019 | Mike McCahill
Potentially tricky territory here. Back in 2017, the white British film-maker Peter Webber travelled to Jamaica to document a musical reunion destined to remind seasoned arthouse patrons of Wim...
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ScienceDaily | 8/20/2019 | StaffSo says a recently published paper led by Dave McWethy, assistant professor of Earth Sciences in Montana State University's College of Letters and Science, and a group of scientists from several...
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phys.org | 6/19/2019 | Staff
What will the ecology of the Salish Sea look like in the year 2095? It's an important question for millions of people who live along and near the shores of this intricate, interconnected network of...
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ScienceDaily | 8/14/2019 | StaffMost genes implicated thus far in Alzheimer's affect neurons that transmit messages, allowing different regions of the brain to communicate with one another. But the newly identified genes affect an...
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Religion News Service | 8/13/2019 | StaffNEW YORK — Less than two weeks since a deadly shooting in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, the Felix Y. Manalo Foundation, Inc. and the local community came together for an Aid to Humanity...
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phys.org | 5/17/2017 | Staff
A phenomenon that makes coral spawn more than once a year is improving the resilience of the Great Barrier Reef. The discovery was made by University of Queensland and CSIRO researchers...
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ScienceDaily | 8/6/2019 | Staff
The discovery was made by University of Queensland and CSIRO researchers investigating whether corals that split their spawning over multiple months are more successful at spreading their offspring...
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phys.org | 6/6/2019 | Staff
Coral reefs are delicate ecosystems that are particularly sensitive to human influences such as climate change and environmental pollution. Even if the warming of the earth does not exceed 1.
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Variety | 7/20/2019 | Christopher Vourlias
DURBAN–The Mapiko dance of Mozambique’s indigenous Makonde people was long used as a tool for social commentary. But during the colonial era it became an act of political resistance, prompting the...
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Religion News Service | 7/16/2019 | Staff
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The rabbi of Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, site of an October mass shooting, tries to avoid using the word “hate” and wishes others would do the same.
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phys.org | 6/11/2019 | Staff
Despite all the research that tells parents how good it is for their children to spend time playing outside, they are spending more time indoors than ever before.
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phys.org | 8/9/2018 | Staff
In August 2016, areas of Yellowstone National Park that burned in 1988 burned again. Shortly after, in October 2016, ecologist Monica Turner and her team of graduate students visited the park to...
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www.theregister.co.uk | 5/17/2019 | Staff
Sponsored webcast Attacks and outages happen, in the cloud as anywhere else. Back in the day, when we used on-premises solutions like Exchange we would surround ourselves with an ecosystem of...
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ScienceDaily | 5/9/2019 | StaffAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS, is a fatal disease with no effective treatment or cure. The disease is characterised by a loss of neurons controlling voluntary muscles, known as motor neurons.
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phys.org | 3/29/2019 | Staff
New technologies are giving businesses in Wales a much needed boost while questions over Brexit continue, researchers say. Academics from Cardiff University's Welsh Economy Research Unit surveyed...
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ScienceDaily | 4/30/2019 | StaffAlthough studies in animal models of PTSD have shown that nociceptin promotes resilience, the receptors had never been studied in people with the disorder. Using positron emission tomography brain...
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@djchuang | 4/27/2019 | djchuang
Isolation and shame are at an all time high. The challenges of mental illness and everyday life can be overwhelming for people you care about. David Dicken, of Make Someone Great Today, is a crisis...
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Mail Online | 4/22/2019 | Daily Mail Reporter
The head of the NHS has encouraged teenagers and young adults to help out in hospitals. Simon Stevens called for a ‘new generation’ of volunteers step forward, pointing out that some roles would...
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phys.org | 3/6/2019 | Staff
The impacts of climate change are already being felt across the Pacific, considered to be one of the world's most-at-risk regions. Small island developing states are mandated extra support under the...
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ScienceDaily | 4/11/2019 | Staff
The Twins Study provides the first integrated biomolecular view into how the human body responds to the spaceflight environment, and serves as a genomic stepping stone to better understand how to...
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phys.org | 3/12/2019 | Staff
Cyclone Idai struck Beira, the fourth largest city in Mozambique, in mid-March with torrential rains and winds of more than 190 km per hour. It took days for the sheer size of the resulting disaster...
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www.faithandleadership.com | 4/2/2019 | Staff
At virtually every level, from the personal to the institutional, pastors today live in the midst of great tensions and pressures, and resilience is essential for navigating them successfully and...
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www.theregister.co.uk | 3/27/2019 | Staff
Opinion With Boeing's 737 Maxes grounded and its MCAS anti-stall software being patched, a high-intensity spotlight has been shone on the issue of software reliability.
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Mail Online | 3/18/2019 | Carly Stern For Dailymail.com
Michelle Obama is incredibly proud of her two daughters for turning into such poised, graceful, and resilient young women in the face of such an unusual childhood.
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ChurchLeaders | 3/17/2019 | Staff
Small churches are not better than big churches. Big churches aren’t better than small ones. The arguments we have about size are silly, dangerous and missing the point.
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Townhall | 3/7/2019 | Staff
Media Magic: How a Democrat Pedophile Became a 'Trump Scandal' Fifty years ago, the United States was facing crises and unrest on multiple fronts. Some predicted that internal chaos and revolution...
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phys.org | 3/5/2019 | Staff
A new tungsten-based alloy developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory can withstand unprecedented amounts of radiation without damage. Essential for extreme irradiation environments such as the...
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Margaret Feinberg | 2/13/2019 | Margaret
I was deep in the editing and proofing stage of my book when an early copy of A Walking Disaster crossed my desk. I took a moment to read it and before I knew it had completed the manuscript.
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CareyNieuwhof.com | 2/6/2018 | Staff
Looking for a key quote? More of a reader? Read or download a free PDF transcript of this episode here. Help - Challenges - Leaders - Book - Greatest If you want practical help overcoming some of...
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Mail Online | 2/7/2019 | Eleanor Harding Education Editor For The Daily Mail
State school pupils must practise debating and public speaking to compete against Eton old-boys in the workplace, the education secretary will say. Damian Hinds wants to ‘call time’ on the concept...
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Church Law & Tax | 1/25/2019 | Staff
When Dr. Jamie Aten moved to southern Mississippi just days before Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, he had no idea what was ahead. In the months and years that followed, he witnessed firsthand the...
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TechCrunch | 1/10/2019 | Staff
If you follow millennials on Twitter (and god help you), then you know that Anne Helen Petersen’s piece this past weekend “How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation” struck a deep chord for many.
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phys.org | 12/27/2018 | Staff
The climate is not only warming, it is also becoming more variable and extreme. Such unpredictable weather can weaken global food security if major crops such as wheat are not sufficiently...
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Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. | 12/6/2018 | Staff
Many of you have asked if we will be brewing a fundraiser beer to support Camp Fire relief efforts. The answer is a resounding “yes.” We are proud to announce the upcoming release of Resilience...
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phys.org | 12/6/2018 | Staff
Is your city prepared for climate change? The latest National Climate Assessment paints a grim future if U.S. cities and states don't take serious action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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phys.org | 12/5/2018 | Staff
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have shown experimentally that there is more than one flavor of antibiotic resistance and that it could—and should—be taken advantage of to keep first-line...
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www.theregister.co.uk | 11/29/2018 | Staff
Financial firms have admitted they don't upgrade or remove end-of-life kit fast enough, can't identify all staff dealing with critical data, and don't maintain a comprehensive list of partners with...
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phys.org | 11/1/2018 | Staff
By analyzing the structure of a supply chain network and the resilience of its components, A*STAR researchers have developed an analytic measure that will allow a company to determine its...
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ScienceDaily | 10/24/2018 | StaffBrittany King, a graduate student in the Department of Sociology, along with Assistant Professor Dawn Carr and Associate Professor Miles Taylor, examined the symptoms of depression in older men and...
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www.oann.com | 10/15/2018 | Staff
TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian stocks edged up on Wednesday as a late round of buying helped Wall Street indexes pare most of their earlier panic-driven losses, although crude oil struggled near two-month...
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phys.org | 10/9/2018 | Staff
An interdisciplinary research team from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG) demonstrated how collaboratively-developed forest restoration in Limahuli...
Lee Strobel: Is Your Church Safe for People Who Are Questioning? Lee Strobel is a best-selling author of more than 20 books,...
Have yourself a merry little richness: Tiffany’s diamond-filled Advent calendar Tiffany & Co. Oh brother. Details...
Why did Robert Bowers attack Tree of Life Synagogue? Why did Robert Bowers go into Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh exactly...
Religion causes more peace than war Facebook Twitter Email Menu Comment Once again, the Nobel Peace Prize has gone to a...
When the One Who Led You to Christ Walks Away When the one who led you to Christ walks away, it can be devastating.
Pastor arrested for allegedly killing estranged wife in front of neighbors, grandchildren Facebook Twitter Email Print Menu...
UK Group Condemns Suppression Of Academic Freedom at Canada’s University of Victoria The Global Warming Policy Foundation has...
Streaming service Quibi sells out of its $150M in first-year ad inventory Jeffrey Katzenberg’s mobile-only streaming service...
First identification of a heavy element born from neutron star collision For the first time, a freshly made heavy element,...
A bike lover’s take on the Cowboy e-bike Electric-bike maker Cowboy recently let me spend a couple of weeks with one of...
The earliest well-preserved tetrapod may never have left the water Superbly preserved fossils from Russia, excavated by an...
Disney+ Will Let You Keep Your Downloads Even If They Leave the Service The highly anticipated new streaming service Disney+...
RuPaul's Celebrity Drag Race Ordered at VH1 — Which Queens Are Returning? RuPaul's Drag Race UK Gets Stateside TV Premiere Date...
31 Days of Streaming Horror: ‘Always Shine’ Explores the Horrors of Jealousy and Self-Doubt Welcome to 31 Days of Streaming...
10 Spooky Shows to Stream for Halloween Screams Even if the weather in certain parts of the country makes it difficult to...
A Good Woman Is Hard to Find review – gritty Northern Ireland crime thriller … about how we will respond to the escalating...
Legacies' Thomas Doherty Compares Sebastian and Lizzie to Gossip Girl's Chuck and Blair Being the new kid in town is hard.
LED Flame Bulb! This LED Flame Lamp is a unique decorative Light Bulb. It has a simulated artificial moving flame that despite...
Wondrous Vintage People Mover! This elevator-like device is called a Paternoster and it is still in use in some countries...
Raccoons Keep Calm and Carry On! These cute raccoons appear to be waiting to be fed with the front one looking to keep every...
Rare "Dumbo" Octopus! This octopus fans out its tentacles as if showing off while having its picture taken!
Subway in 1905 - New York City, NY! This short glimpse into the past reveals a time radically different from today.
This Turkey Gives Out Hugs! This turkey has a great strategy for avoiding being a Thanksgiving dinner - just give another way,...
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