The issue of homelessness and protecting the environment are two major topics today. Over half a million people are homeless on a single night in the United States. About 65% are in homeless shelters, but 35% are left on the street. [1] In addition, billions of plastic bags are made every year, according to Worldwatch…
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The bush fires that continue to ravage much of New South Wales and the rest of Australia are causing more and more damage every single day. There is a rising human death toll, people are losing their homes forcing them to camp out on beaches under a burnt orange sky, and nearly half a billion…
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The animals are the pride of Australia, and millions of people all over the world are contributing to countless relief projects to protect these creatures. Australia has seen greatly rough times since September 2019, when massive wildfires simultaneously picked up in various regions around the country. In what is being regarded as the worst wildfire…
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In 1968, then 52-year-old Dick Proenneke (pronounced “prin-ecky”) moved by himself to the Alaskan wilderness and lived there alone for thirty years [1]. The former mechanic and heavy equipment operator found a shoreside spot in the area that is now known as Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, and began building a 12-by-16 foot cabin…
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A hospital in the UK has admitted liability after a woman claimed she was left with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after remaining conscious during an operation. The patient, who is in her late 30s, went to the Yeovil District Hospital for a routine gynecological operation in 2018. When the medical team began operating on her, she says that…
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In what appears to be the first-ever cross-country trip of its kind, an autonomous truck has driven 2,800 miles from Tulare, California to Quakertown, Pennsylvania to deliver 40,000 pounds of butter in three days [1]. The self-driving truck was deployed by Plus.ai, a robotics startup based in Cupertino, Silicon Valley. Founded in June 2016 by…
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There are over 100 thousand people awaiting a kidney transplant in the United States, and someone is added to that list every fourteen minutes [1]. The average wait-time for a kidney is between three and five years, and thirteen people die everyday waiting to receive a transplant [1]. The organ shortage in the United States…
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The world’s largest travel leisure company, Carnival Corporation has agreed to pay yet another penalty of $20 million for environmental crimes committed by its subsidiary, Princess Cruise Lines. Princess has previously incurred a fine of $40 million for deliberate acts of pollution. In June this year, she admitted to violating the terms of an improper…
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The Christmas season is a busy time of year. There’s parties to attend, shopping to be done, and meals to be made. Amid all of the hustle and bustle it’s easy to forget the true meaning of the holiday season. Christmas is a time of giving, of celebrating togetherness and community. It is a time…
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Homelessness is a heart-wrenching epidemic that’s rising in the U.S. Over 550,000 Americans are homeless on an average night, and about 1.4 million people spend time in a shelter every year. [1] It’s a complicated issue that many people have tried to solve, but this plan has got to be the cheekiest: Why don’t we…
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On August 28, 2019, John and Charlotte Henderson were officially named the oldest living married couple in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records [1]. After 80 years of true love, friendship and companionship, they are still waxing strong in a partnership that would stun the world for years. The couple has a…
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In a viral video shared by UK news website JOE, British citizens attempted to guess how much basic healthcare services cost in the United States… and were shocked to find out how far off their estimates were [1]. In the United Kingdom, if you need to call an ambulance it costs you exactly zero pounds….
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The world’s first funerary human composting facility is slated to open in the spring of 2021 after Washington State lawmakers legalized the posthumous process earlier this year. Seattle-based company Recompose will be the first to offer “natural organic reduction,” a process that owner Katrina Spade says gently converts human remains – bones, teeth, and all…
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The Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector looks like something out of a sci-fi movie that critics would deem “too unrealistic.” Picture a gigantic dome-shaped chamber with gold walls, an array of light detectors, and 50,000 tons of pure water. However, the Super-K neutrino detector is real and hidden 1,000 meters under Mount Ikeno in Japan. (Neutrinos are…
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No one ever chooses to be homeless. Whether it is because of mounting debt, illness, or inability to find work, there are millions of people every night across the country who have no place but the streets to lay their heads. There are over half a million homeless people in the United States [1]. Approximately…
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When you hear the words “rural America”, you probably imagine that picturesque scene from a Hallmark movie: a charming old farmhouse, a big red barn silo, and a herd of cattle grazing peacefully on rolling green pastures. While this scene may have been the case a hundred years ago, the current landscape is looking much…
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In recent days, headlines crying “more polio cases now caused by vaccine than by wild virus” are circulating online. But before you jump to conclusions about the safety of polio vaccines, you should look a little closer. No, people are not catching polio from getting a polio vaccine. But there is some truth to those…
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One country at a time, the world will hopefully be a better place for animals soon. On Monday, November 25, President Trump signed the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act, a bipartisan bill that bans the maltreatment or violent handling of animals [1]. The bill specifically prohibits animal crushing, which means “actual conduct in…
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“If you think you got the guts to smoke weed every day (plays Snoop Dogg song) and get paid doing it, you might just be the guy we need.” In the 33 U.S. states where medical marijuana is legal (including the 11 that allow recreational pot), manufacturing companies are coming up with all sorts of strategies to…
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It doesn’t matter where you find love and true friendship. As long as it doesn’t eat you to pieces… In 2015, photographer Dolph Volker went viral when he uploaded a video of himself napping under a tree with a cute cheetah on YouTube [1]. On his vacation days from his job in the U.S., Dolph…
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