On Sunday, September 1, 2019, numerous baby sea turtles were found gruesomely burnt to death at the Hightower Beach in Melbourne, Florida [1]. They were discovered by Rhonda Wundke and her husband who were walking the shores of the beach that day. They noticed a black, charred lump in the sand, and there were more…
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Deandre Somerville from West Palm Beach, Florida, was sworn in as a juror and scheduled to appear in court for a civil rights case on August 21. The 21-year-old was absent in court that day, which he later explained was due to missing his alarm and oversleeping. At that time, he hadn’t fully understood the…
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As efforts are being made worldwide to decrease plastic waste, many innovative ideas have surfaced on social media platforms. With this, we can’t help but admire what’s happening in the bars/restaurant scene in Italy. It seems only fitting that bucatini pasta, the tubular noodle, is the new eco-straw of some Italian businesses. Many establishments are…
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The bigger, the better? Hmm, we’ll have to see how this plays out. Chinese pig farmers have begun to grow hogs as large as polar bears in light of the recent decline in pork supply. An African swine fever broke out about a year ago, causing the nation’s hog herd to fall by 50 percent…
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An undercover investigation carried out by Cruelty Free International and Soko Tierschutz revealed the horrifying treatments animals are being subjected to at the Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology (LPT) in Mienenbuttel, Hamburg Germany [1]. According to CFI, LPT is a “family-owned contract-testing laboratory carrying out toxicity testing for pharmaceutical, industrial and agrochemical companies from all…
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At the Haew Narok Waterfall in the Khao Yai National Park of Thailand, six young elephants plunged to their deaths while trying to save one another from drowning in the water. The incident was reported on Saturday, October 5, when a group of elephants blocked a road leading to the waterfall. According to Thailand’s Department of…
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“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain In the world we live in today, buying a bed for a child can be an unaffordable luxury for many people. This may be surprising, but 2-3% of American children go don’t have a proper place to rest the…
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In 2010, a Princeton study was published which detailed how one’s salary can affect emotional health and contentment with one’s life. So, does money buy happiness? According to researchers Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton, it comes pretty close. The duo mapped out steady increases in day-to-day emotional wellbeing as well as life satisfaction with every…
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Randy Carter, an assistant director and production manager, has been part of popular TV shows and films such as Seinfeld and The Godfather II. Although impressive achievements, Carter still wishes he had the chance to work on a script of his own work, about the summer when he was 17. In 1965, W. Willard Wirtz,…
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‘Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food’ This famous quote by Hippocrates is likely the most well-known and used nutritional phrase. David Maffeo, Senior Director of Support Services at Boston Medical Center is another to see the meaning behind this quote. On the rooftop of the Boston Medical Centre is a flourishing…
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I’ve never been a bug lover, but this fascinating insect is just too beautiful to go unloved. Who said nature isn’t the smartest artist there’ll ever be? The stunning creature was found in Nkutu Valley, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa by Margaret Neville who was walking by a lavender bush in her garden. At first, Neville…
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The teaching profession is unquestionably a stressful one. A study found that 83% of teacher’s felt stressed because of their jobs, and 32% declared themselves “very stressed.” Their stressors include changing education policies, inspection regimes, and behavior management, but the majority claimed the marking workload the bane of their existence. On top of that, many…
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A champion is defined as a person who has defeated all rivals in a competition. Allyson Felix fits this description threefold. First, she won gold in her 12th World Championship relay race, beating out Usain Bolt for having the most gold medals. Two, she came out on top in a wage battle against Nike. Three,…
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We all have our little spats that usually start as something small and barely discernable but end up as a full-blown fight that you end up regretting being a part of. It appears that animals also have their own battles which are no less bloody. A video showing two grizzly bears attacking each other on…
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Not everyone is open to the legalization of marijuana use, recreational or otherwise. While US states have varying degrees of legality (from complete bans to legal medical use to all legal uses), cannabis use and possession is still prohibited by federal law under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. Conversations about whether marijuana use should…
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Wouldn’t it be nice if people would quit littering? In Little Rock, Arkansas the city has found a way to both employ a number of their homeless population, and tackle another public issue of littering. Just telling someone who is experiencing homelessness to just ‘get a job,’ isn’t going to help. There are plenty of…
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Terrifying images from a red smoke haze in Indonesia has thousands of people wondering if the pictures were taken on Earth or Mars. A haze so thick that the people in the Island of Sumatra have to wear nose masks and can no longer leave their homes. Wildfires in the virgin forests of Jambi Province…
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A true leader at heart, forever giving power to the people. Literally. The 39th President of the United States (1977-1981), Jimmy Earl Carter, supported the solar energy industry when he installed 32 panels in the White House for water heating 1979. “A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum…
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A 16-year old girl from Sweden who gave up her childhood to fight for the future has now inspired millions of people to stand up for themselves, and the climate. Meet Greta Thunberg, the teenage climate activist who realized at a young age, that you are never too small to make a difference. Greta has…
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It was March 11, 2011, that a magnitude 9 earthquake shook Fukushima, triggering tsunami waves 13 stories high. The epic natural disaster resulted in nuclear meltdowns and hydrogen explosions at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, owned by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). But in the eight years that have passed since contaminated water has been…
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What’s worse than a child not getting lunch at school? A child getting lunch only to have it taken away and switched. In Green, Ohio, a grandmother, Diane Bailey, has called for a modification of the primary school’s lunch policy. This was after the embarrassing treatment her grandson had to endure from the school’s cafeteria…
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It has only been a matter of months since “N-nitrosodiethylamine” became a household name. The chemical, otherwise known as NDMA or NDEA is a probable human carcinogen that had been showing up in places it doesn’t belong- namely, common high blood pressure medications such as Losartan. (1) Now, the FDA reports that trace amounts of…
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“If you want a boy, keep an ax under your marital bed…” In the quiet little village of Miejsce Odrzanskie in the Polish commune of Cisek, no boys have been born in over a decade [1]. Within this period, 12 girls have been born from different mothers. This “strange population anomaly” has attracted the attention…
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