Lifehacker
Transition Into Spring With the Backyard Smash
Some mornings I don’t need to look out the window to know it’s going to be a lousy weather day. The grayness can be felt before it’s visually perceived and confirmed. Maybe it’s the precipitation that makes the air heavy with dread, but...
How Much Money Do You Really Save By Unplugging Appliances?
You obviously know that turning off lights and powering down electronics is one way to lower your electricity usage and, as a result, money. But what about leaving your phone on its charger overnight, or leaving your devices plugged in while...
The Best Way to Answer 'Tell Me About a Mistake You Made' During an Interview
Most of have had to face the dreaded, “Tell me about a time you made a mistake” question while interviewing for a new job. And while the whole point of an interview is to put your best foot forward—and nobody relishes disclosing past work...
Pesticide Action Network
Celebrating Farmworkers
Despite decades of effective organizing, farmworkers still face inadequate legal protections with ineffective enforcement for the minimal protection they’ve won. Learn more Slideshow Category: Flex Slider...
California's climate strategies ignore pesticides (Part II)
Profiles of four California farmers leading the way with innovative ecological pest management strategies that result in concrete pesticide reductions. Learn more Slideshow Category: Flex Slider
Celebrating Farmworkers
PAN is joining farmworkers and farmworker advocates around the country as they celebrate National Farmworker Awareness Week (March 25 - 31). I would like to invite you to participate by putting the focus on the individuals who plant, cultivate...
BBC News - Home
Ukraine: Six weeks of devastation and defiance as world grapples with the crisis
In his final despatch, Jeremy Bowen takes stock of the war and its significance for the world.
Kramatorsk: At least 1,000 at railway station when rockets hit - witness
An aid worker says Kramatorsk station was crowded with evacuees at the time of the blasts.
'Mariupol is a graveyard': Evacuees recount terror of Russian assault
Survivors from the besieged city say they wondered at times if the rest of Ukraine had fallen.
The Register
Finnish govt websites knocked down as Ukraine President addresses MPs
Online attacks follow suspected airspace violation by Russian aircraft Cyberattacks took down Finnish government websites on Friday while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed Finland's members of parliament (MPs).…...
Atlassian outage lingers, sparking data loss fears
Microsoft OneDrive: Missing documents? Hold my beer Atlassian is still scrambling to recover from a recent software script fiasco and is hoping no customer data gets lost, which may be more than Microsoft can manage if OneDrive, as some have...
SpaceX launches first totally private mission to the International Space Station
Saturday rendezvous planned for historic commercial orbit ride A retired NASA astronaut and three space tourists are right now tucked inside a SpaceX Dragon capsule above Earth for the first-ever purely commercial mission to the International...
BBC News - Technology
Elon Musk to answer Twitter staff questions
Employees will be able quiz the entrepreneur as he joins the board of Twitter, after share purchase.
Google removes apps for secretly copying phone numbers
More than a dozen apps were taken out of its Play Store for harvesting users' phone numbers.
Mystery of alleged Chinese hack on eve of Ukraine invasion
A western intelligence official believes the aim was espionage - but questions remain.
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ForceChange
Dog Reportedly Beaten at Gas Station Deserves Justice
An unidentified man was reportedly caught on video beating his dog at a gas station. Help secure justice for this innocent animal.
Stop Farmers From Killing Seals With Explosives, Darts, and Lead Shot
Seals are being attacked by salmon farmers with explosives, darts, and lead shot. Demand the government stop the attacks on seals by greedy and inhumane farmers.
Success: Lynching Victims Get Justice
After a century and more, lynching has finally been recognized as a federal hate crime. Applaud the decisive condemnation of these horrific murders and the pursuit of justice for victims taken by prejudice-fueled violence...
Unexplained Mysteries
Scientists knock 30 years off the age of a woman's skin
A new age reversal technique has proven capable of rejuvenating the skin cells of a 53-year-old woman. We might not be able to turn back the clock jus...
Mystery recordings to be heard for first time in 100 years
Many fragile 19th-Century wax cylinders contain audio recordings that have, until now, been impossible to listen to. What's the most old-fashioned met...
Surprisingly little is known about how sharks sleep
Elasmobranch sleep expert Michael Liam Kelly reveals new research into this intriguing mystery. Sharks used to figure prominently in my nightmares: co...
All Things Considered : NPR
A Paris exhibit highlights the work of Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide
Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide has won international renown for her portraits of indigenous and marginalized peoples across the globe. A Paris exhibition is currently highlighting that work.
French voters will decide whether to give Macron a 3rd term this weekend
French voters go to the polls this weekend to decide whether to give president Emmanuel Macron a third term. He's in the lead, but far right leader Marine Le Pen is right behind and closing the gap.
2 found not guilty in Michigan governor kidnapping plot
Jurors in Michigan acquitted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gove Gretchen Whitmer. The jury deadlocked over charges of two other defendants and the judge declared a mistrial for them.
Science@NASA Headline News
Winners Selected for the NASA SOHO Comet Search with Artificial Intelligence Open-Science Challenge
Scientists at NASA want to improve existing methods and build new open-science tools to improve their ability to detect very dim comets. Enter the NASA SOHO Comet Search with Artificial Intelligence Challenge – and the resulting discovery...
Hubble Spies a Serpentine Spiral
Portal origin URL: Hubble Spies a Serpentine SpiralPortal origin nid: 478679Published: Friday, April 8, 2022 - 08:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The lazily winding spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 5921...
Discovering Antarctica's Invisible Forest with FjordPhyto
FjordPhyto citizen scientists collect seawater and phytoplankton samples to investigate the changing polar marine environment. The FjordPhyto citizen science project has joined the NASA family! This project is a collaboration between...
How to of the Day
How to Pack an Emergency Kit for the House
In case an emergency happens in your area, you want to be ready. Here are some tips on how to create an emergency kit for your home. Remember to also prepare a kit in the event that you may need to evacuate; keep it in your car...
How to Organize a Birthday Party for Kids
Kids' parties can be more fun than adult parties -- you don't have to be so serious and you can let your inner child out with them. Plus, by the end of the day when all the kids' energy has come to a halt, and they fall asleep, you're right there, laying...
How to Grow Mint in a Pot
Mint plants are the perfect starting point for a herb garden. They are usually contained in a pot because they are extremely invasive, sending out runner roots to take over the surrounding soil. Choose one of the 600 varieties of mint, and give...
Democracy Now!
Trita Parsi: War Could Be on Horizon If Iran Nuclear Deal Is Not Restored Soon
Will the U.S. and Iran revive the 2015 nuclear deal abandoned by the Trump administration? President Biden is facing heat from lawmakers in both parties who oppose the deal, which would relax U.S. sanctions on Iran in exchange for limits on...
End the Double Standard: U.S. Accuses Russia of War Crimes While Continuing to Oppose the ICC
The United Nations General Assembly voted to suspend Russia from the U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday, a resolution that accused Russia of committing human rights abuses in Ukraine. We speak with human rights lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck...
Law Professor Michele Goodwin Condemns Wave of "Unprecedented & Unfathomable" Anti-Abortion Laws
Anti-abortion legislation is sweeping the U.S., including in Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri. We speak with Michele Goodwin, author of “Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood,” about the links between...
News : NPR
A man shot by police after disarming a gunman during a brawl files a civil rights suit
K'aun Green, a college student, took a weapon from a patron at a restaurant who was brandishing it at others inside, a lawsuit says. But police shot Green when they arrived.
LA sheriffs inadvertently free the man suspected of shooting Lady Gaga's dog walker
After attending court proceedings on Tuesday, James Howard Jackson was released from custody the next day "due to a clerical error." Authorities are working to rearrest him.
A former Goldman Sachs banker is found guilty in a plot to loot Malaysia's 1MDB fund
Roger Ng was convicted in a New York federal court of bribery and other corruption charges accusing him of participating in a $4.5 billion scheme to ransack the Malaysian state investment fund.
WebMD Health
New Documentary Probes ‘the Pill’
In The Business of Birth Control, a documentary available digitally and in theaters this week, the filmmakers argue that while hormonal birth control was considered a huge step toward women’s reproductive freedom when doctors began prescribing...
Omicron Symptoms 2 Days Shorter Than Delta
The COVID-19 symptoms caused by the Omicron variant tend to last about two days shorter than symptoms from the Delta variant, according to a new study published in The Lancet.
‘No-Antibiotics’ Beef Tests Positive, Study Says
A new study in Science shows that Some of the beef cattle in a no-antibiotics program tested positive for antibiotics, which could call into question the “raised without antibiotics” label on products...
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