Image copyright Getty Images The classical Greek philosopher Socrates believed the ideal house should be warm in winter and cool in summer. With clarity of thought like that, it’s easy to see how the great man got his reputation. At the time, such a desire was easier to state than to achieve, yet many pre-modern […]
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Losing the Thirty Meter Telescope could mean losing billions of dollars in research funding over the next few decades, a senior University of Hawaii official said. Vassilis Syrmos, the school’s vice president for research and innovation, told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser not building the advanced telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii‘s Big Island
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Jerry Jeudy couldn’t pass up the chance to work out with one of the NFL’s best receivers, a guy he has been watching since high school. The Alabama star reached out to Antonio Brown over the summer on Instagram while both were training in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. “I just hit him up and asked if
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Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. GATINEAU, Quebec — Along the coast of the United States, people who lost homes to Hurricane Dorian are preparing to rebuild. But Canada — which has faced devastating flooding of its own — is testing a very different idea of
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Families of passengers who died in one of the Boeing 737 Max crashes are meeting with Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and holding a demonstration outside her agency’s Washington headquarters. Victims’ relatives fear that the plane is being rushed back into service. They want the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct a completely new review of the
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A draft plan from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi leaked Tuesday would overhaul how Medicare pays for prescription drugs, by negotiating prices for costly medications, curbing annual price hikes, and limiting what seniors pay out of their own pockets. With President Donald Trump highly interested in a deal on prescription drugs, the ambitious plan appeared be
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Blake Griffin just went hard to the comedic hoop. The NBA star scored some funny points with Caitlyn Jenner as he teased her during a Comedy Central roast of Alec Baldwin. A clip (see it below) posted Monday by the channel shows the Detroit Pistons star, who once dated Jenner’s daughter Kendall, doing a risque
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Lyft has updated its safety policies as it faces a lawsuit filed by 14 women who say the company failed to protect them from being sexually assaulted by their drivers while using the ride-sharing app. On Tuesday, Lyft President John Zimmer announced the changes, which include a feature that requires a company representative to check
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Visitors to New Orleans who want to learn more about cocktails will soon have a new place to go. No, it’s not another bar. The Sazerac Company, a Louisiana-based spirits maker, is opening the Sazerac House on October 2. Described as an “immersive exploration of the spirited culture of New Orleans,” the six-story building houses
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Television networks will be happy to know that ratings will go up for many of their programs next year, simply because the Nielsen company will count more people. The company whose numbers provide the currency for the TV industry says its change will begin next September, when it begins accounting for people who watch outside
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