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Lifehacker

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  13 Plants You Probably Shouldn’t Even Try to Grow Indoors

  Indoor plants are a great way to brighten up your home, whatever climate you live in. As the world has increasingly shifted to a work-from-home model, having indoor plants has become even more popular—a 2021 survey found close to 90 percent...

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  Clean These Things Yourself When You Check Into a Hotel Room

  Hotels have cleaning staffs, of course, and those employees usually do their best to make sure your stay away from home is a clean and comfortable one—but there are still things they can miss. If you’re a major germaphobe or staying in a less-than-luxurious...

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  Call This Number to Get a Pep Talk From Kindergarteners

  Being an adult in 2022 is stressful. There’s a lot going on in and around our lives, and it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by it all. If you’re finding yourself in such a state, you might do from a pep talk. Specifically, a pep talk from a kindergartener.Read...

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Pesticide Action Network

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  Guest blog: Dealing with drift

  How a horrific pesticide drift incident inspired Bonnie Wirtz to become a fierce advocate for environmental justice. Learn more Slideshow Category: Flex Slider

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  Children’s health & pesticides

  Why protecting children from pesticides is so important, and how we need to go about it. Learn more Slideshow Category: Flex Slider

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  Land stewards are strong, still need support

  Working with the land is a key component for building a healthier, more just world. But land stewards need support. Learn more Slideshow Category: Flex Slider

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BBC News - Home

• COP27: Ukraine a reason to act fast on climate change - Rishi Sunak

  Rishi Sunak tells the COP27 summit in Egypt a greener planet is possible and there "is room for hope".

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• Powerball: how to play and other questions answered

  The Powerball US lottery jackpot has reached a world record $1.9bn with a draw on Monday night.

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• Champions League last-16 draw: Liverpool to face Real Madrid again

  Liverpool will face Real Madrid in the Champions League last 16, a repeat of last season's final.

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The Register

• Feds find Silk Road thief's $1b+ Bitcoin stash in popcorn tin, hidden safe

  Uncle Sam follows the money ... all the way to a single-board computer A crook who stole more than 50,000 Bitcoins from the dark web souk Silk Road in 2012 has pleaded guilty and lost the lot, with a stretch behind bars likely ahead of him. …...

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• All the US midterm-related lies to expect when you're electing

  Don't like the results? The election must have been rigged Misinformation related to tomorrow's US midterm elections hasn't slowed, according to security researchers. …

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• DoE supercomputing centers get $1.5B boost from Biden administration

  US government opens purse strings as China eats into America's former lead The Biden administration has carved off a supercomputer’s worth of cash from the Inflation Reduction Act to upgrade the US Department of Energy’s (DoE) national...

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BBC News - Technology

• Stolen $3bn Bitcoin mystery ends with popcorn tin discovery

  James Zhong pleads guilty to the 2012 hack as police find stash of 50,000 Bitcoin.

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• Instagram debuts new age-verification tools in UK and EU

  Users changing their date of birth to that of an adult can upload a video of themselves to prove their age.

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• Twitter will ban unlabelled parody accounts, says Elon Musk

  The site's new owner says accounts failing to specify they are parodies will be permanently suspended.

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Further

• Day Of the Dead Brown Children, Because the Texas GOP Is An Unholy Clusterfuck

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• Do You Look Like We Got Peanuts In Our Brain?

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• A Sense of Dread

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ForceChange

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  Stop Reported Extortion of Detainees’ Families

  The soon-to-be-host of a major global sporting event stands accused of imprisoning foreigners for payoffs. Call on Qatar to end its alleged wrongful detentions and blackmail attempts.

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  Stop Thousands of Children From Starving to Death Due to Civil War

  Tens of thousands of children and other innocent people are dying from a lack of food and other resources due to Ethiopia’s civil war. It’s time to put politics aside and help. Demand the U.S. intervene now and send food and water to prevent...

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  Success: Marriage Equality Reigns Supreme

  Another nation has affirmed the right of matrimony to same-sex couples. Applaud the formal legalization of gay marriage throughout Mexico.

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Unexplained Mysteries

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  China's top-secret spaceplane has released an unknown object into orbit

  The vehicle, which remains shrouded in mystery, has been described as a 'reusable experimental spacecraft'. Not a lot is known about China's enigmatic...

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  Scientists are working on a new official 'alien contact protocol'

  If an intelligent extraterrestrial race suddenly sent us a message, what exactly would the human race say in response ? Many books and films have dabb...

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  Ghostwatch: 30 years on from the TV show that gave people nightmares

  On October 31st, 1992, the BBC broadcast a 'live' (and fake) ghost hunting show that was arguably way ahead of its time. Paranormal shows might be com...

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All Things Considered : NPR

• Inflation is top issue in this week's midterms

  Rising prices are a top concern for voters in this year's midterm elections, outpacing abortion, crime and defending democracy. Prices in September were up 8.2% from a year ago.

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• Debris from another Chinese satellite launch fell uncontrolled back to Earth

  NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks with astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell about debris from China's satellite launches crashing uncontrolled back to earth.

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• Young conservative voters share their views on former President Trump

  Young conservative voters aren't a monolith. They have different policy priorities and different views on what role former President Donald Trump should play in the Republican Party.

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Science@NASA Headline News

• Hubble Inspects a Pair of Space Oddities

  Portal origin URL: Hubble Inspects a Pair of Space OdditiesPortal origin nid: 483771Published: Friday, November 4, 2022 - 08:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space...

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• NASA’s IXPE Reveals Shape, Orientation of Hot Matter Around Black Hole

  Portal origin URL: NASA’s IXPE Reveals Shape, Orientation of Hot Matter Around Black HolePortal origin nid: 483772Published: Thursday, November 3, 2022 - 13:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Cygnus...

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• NASA ABoVE Team Studies Thawing Permafrost, Lakes

  Portal origin URL: NASA ABoVE Team Studies Thawing Permafrost, LakesPortal origin nid: 483775Published: Thursday, November 3, 2022 - 12:29Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Since 2015, scientists participating...

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How to of the Day

• How to Prune Evergreen Trees

  While there are many different types of evergreen trees, they can all be generally divided into 2 categories: branching in whirled pines, spruces and firs, and random branching junipers, cedar, yew, hemlock, and arborvitae. There are some...

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• How to Get Energy in the Morning

  Many of us wake up in the morning completely drained of energy. We drag ourselves out of bed, stuff a piece of toast in our mouth, and hope we remember to put on pants before we leave the house. There's a better approach. Learn how to teach your body...

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• How to Confront a Friend

  Confronting a friend is never easy, no matter what you are confronting her about. While you may feel uncomfortable with confrontation, it can often be the best way to resolve conflicts with your friends. Confront your friend about issues tactfully...

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Democracy Now!

• Musk Fires Half of Twitter's Workforce; Rights Orgs Urge Boycott of "Superspreader of Misinformation"

  Alarm is growing over how the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, is changing Twitter after he spent $44 billion to buy the influential social media platform. Musk fired nearly half of Twitter’s workforce in a mass layoff Friday that gutted...

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• Voters to Decide on Abortion, Marijuana, Ranked-Choice Voting & Prison Labor in 2022 Midterm Ballot Initiatives

  Across the United States, local voters will decide critical ballot initiatives related to reproductive freedom, voting rights, marijuana and slavery in Tuesday’s midterm elections. Chris Melody Fields Figueredo of the Ballot Initiative...

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• Why Is AIPAC Spending Millions to Beat Summer Lee, a Democratic Socialist Running for Congress in PA?

  With Democrats at risk of losing both the House and Senate in Tuesday’s midterms, we speak with Justice Democrats spokesperson Waleed Shahid about the progressives favored to win congressional seats. Texas city councilmember and former...

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News : NPR

• Inflation is top issue in this week's midterms

  Rising prices are a top concern for voters in this year's midterm elections, outpacing abortion, crime and defending democracy. Prices in September were up 8.2% from a year ago.

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• Here's what happened today at the U.N.'s COP27 climate negotiations

  A new early warning system for weather disasters, calls for wealthy nations and corporations to pay up and dire descriptions of human suffering. Here's what happened at COP27 today.

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• NHL team yanks contract of a player who bullied a Black classmate with disabilities

  It's the second time Mitchell Miller's path to the NHL has been abruptly blocked. The mother of the student who was abused tells NPR that her son is still struggling.

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WebMD Health

• When Your Culture Expects You to Age in Place at Home

  In many cultures, the expectation is that elders will age at home. How do families juggle that and what happens when it gets to be too hard?

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• Vitiligo and Self-Esteem: It’s Possible to Have Both

  It's possible to have vitiligo and self-esteem. Read one person's account.

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• Vitiligo: Facing the Doubt

  It can be tough to learn to live with vitiligo. But there are ways to accept it and gain self-confidence. Here are ways to cope and conquer the doubt.

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