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Disaster evacuations can take much longer than people expect − computer simulations could help save lives and avoid chaos
Delays in evacuating, or the inability to evacuate safely, can have catastrophic consequences, not only for those trying to flee but also for the first responders and emergency managers working to ...
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DeepSeek sacude la industria de la IA: un vistazo a otros modelos chinos de inteligencia artificial
HONG KONG (AP) — La empresa china de inteligencia artificial DeepSeek ha sacudido los mercados con afirmaciones de que su ...
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WWE star and former champion Roman Reigns gets on 2K25 cover
NEW YORK (AP) — Roman Reigns is this year’s cover star on the standard version of the WWE 2K25 game. The game will be ...
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The global wildlife trade is an enormous market – the US imports billions of animals from nearly 30,000 species
(THE CONVERSATION) When people think of wildlife trade, they often picture smugglers sneaking in rare and endangered species from far-off countries. Yet most wildlife trade is actually legal, and the ...
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Engineering the social: Students in this course use systems thinking to help solve human rights, disease and homelessness
The course is a concrete step toward teaching engineering and science students that engineering has more to offer to society than its direct applications. Students learn that a partnership between the ...
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St. Thomas Aquinas’ skull just went on tour − here’s what the medieval saint himself would have said about its veneration
There are also objects the saint used during life: “second class” relics, such as the gloves worn by the Italian mystic Padre Pio. The veneration of relics of saints was already well established in ...
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Canada and Greenland aren’t likely to join the US anytime soon – but ‘GrAmeriCa’ is a revealing thought experiment
By incorporating Canada, the second-largest country in the world in terms of area, the U.S., so reconstituted, would be 14% larger than Russia. If both Canada and Greenland became part of the ...
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Getting mail to your door is just one part of what the postmaster general does
Since that reorganization, the president no longer has the power to appoint – or fire – the postmaster general. That power lies with the Board of Governors of the Postal Service, whose members are ...
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In asking Trump to show mercy, Bishop Budde continues a long tradition of Christian leaders ‘speaking truth to power’
(THE CONVERSATION) Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s sermon on Jan. 21, 2025, in which she appealed to President Donald Trump to have mercy toward groups frightened by his position on immigrants ...
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Nutrition advice is rife with misinformation − a medical education specialist explains how to tell valid health information from pseudoscience
Misinformation is rampant in the realm of health and nutrition. Findings from nutrition research is rarely clear-cut because diet is just one of many behaviors and lifestyle factors affecting health, ...
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Israeli soccer league game abandoned at halftime after fireworks thrown onto the field
HAIFA, Israel (AP) — A game in the Israeli soccer league was abandoned at halftime for security reasons after fans threw flares at players and came onto the field.