Art
The Poetry I Was Grateful For in 2018. One of the oldest problems in poetry—how to render the hectic presence of the person in the static notation of the written word—has, in the Internet age, been rebooted. Full story
Education
What makes a successful startup team? One common answer is that prior startup experience, product knowledge, and industry skills predict the success of a new venture. But is prior experience sufficient for a team to work well together? In a recent study of 95 new startup teams in the Netherlands, researchers explored that question. They found that experience alone was not enough to make a team thrive. While experience broadens the teams’ ... Full story
Economics
Investors launch climate plan to get to net zero emissions by 2050
FILE PHOTO: Sun shines through steam rising from chimneys of a power plant in Moscow, Russia November 13, 2019. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo. LONDON (Reuters) - An investor group managing more than $16 trillion on Wednesday launched the world’s first step-by-step plan to help pension funds and others align their portfolios with the Paris Agreement on climate change. Many investors have pledged high-level support to the goals of the 2015 ... Full story
Entertainment
In October 2018, Axios’s Jonathan Swan tweeted that he was “excited to share” a snippet of his interview with President Trump from the first episode of “Axios on HBO.” The clip showed Swan responding, “Tell me more,” when the president asserted, incorrectly, that he has the power to eliminate “birthright citizenship” with an executive order. Swan’s seemingly gleeful tone during the interview was strongly criticized. Support our journalism. ... Full story
Health
FILE PHOTO: A traveller receives a voluntary coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test at the new corona test centre at the Hochfelln service station on the A8 motorway near the town of Bergen, Germany, 30 July 2020. REUTERS/Michael Dalder. BERLIN (Reuters) - The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 741 to 212,022, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Wednesday. The reported death toll ... Full story
Law
A MAN has been charged with kidnap and making threats to kill following an incident in a park in Eastleigh . The 19-year-old has also been charged with intending to commit a sex attack. It comes as Hampshire Police invetigate an allegation of serious assault on a 19-year-old woman in Leigh Road Park at approximately 2.15am yesterday morning. The woman was taken to Southampton General Hospital following the incident suffering from soft tissue ... Full story
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President @realDonaldTrump signs the Great American Outdoors Act"
Living
Pandemics Go Hand in Hand with Conspiracy Theories
In 1793, yellow fever descended upon Philadelphia, and President George Washington fled the disease-ridden capital with the rest of the new national government in tow. About ten per cent of the city’s population died. The following year, an outbreak of the same pestilence hit New Haven, followed by reports of several hundred fever deaths in Baltimore. New York City’s port authorities blockaded ships of suspect origin, and citizen patrols sought ... Full story
Politics
Amid the worst pandemic since 1918 , President Trump has turned his attention in recent weeks to something that has long eluded him as president: overhauling the nation’s health-care laws. It is a policy proposal Trump said he would unveil and enact no fewer than 15 times since November 2016, according to a Fix count. You can watch examples of this in the video above. Support our journalism. Subscribe today. But as The Post reports, Trump has ... Full story
Death toll from Beirut blast reaches 100 and could rise, Lebanese Red Cross head
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter: celebrities join campaign against human rights abuses
Sport
Exactly what year it was I can no longer recall—probably 1927 or ’28—there was an extraordinarily hot September, which hung on even after school had started and we were back from our Rockaway Beach bungalow. Every window in New York was open, and on the streets venders manning little carts chopped ice and sprinkled colored sugar over mounds of it for a couple of pennies. We kids would jump onto the back steps of the slow-moving, horse-drawn ice ... Full story
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Technology
Google Reportedly Recruits Samsung to Build a Fitness Chip | Digital Trends
The Fitbit acquisition made it evident Google isn’t prepared to give up on wearables just yet and if a new report is to be believed, the search engine giant is actively working towards rebooting those ambitions. As per a South Korean publication, ETNews , Samsung is developing a new chip for Google that will power a sensor built for tracking body movements. Samsung is said to be both designing and producing this hardware — which is odd since ... Full story
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