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Planning a Better Death After Watching My Parents Go

Planning a Better Death After Watching My Parents Go

In the span of a couple of months, she broke both hips and fractured her shoulder, confining her to a wheelchair. Immobility and subpar care led to a gruesome pressure wound on her foot that her depleted, 65-pound body could never heal. What kind of society insists on keeping a person alive in that condition? In her predementia days, my …

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Everyone’s watching Jerome Powell as warnings flash for the U.S. economy

Everyone’s watching Jerome Powell as warnings flash for the U.S. economy

A surprisingly weak July employment report has intensified expectations that the Federal Reserve will resume cutting interest rates as soon as September, with mounting evidence of a slowing U.S. economy and faltering labor market offsetting persistent inflation worries driven by new tariff hikes. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) had previously left rates unchanged at a range of 4.25% to …

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What Your Kids Are Watching This Summer

What Your Kids Are Watching This Summer

This story will run in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today! Love Island is pretty high up there (and so is Bluey). Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Ben Symons/Peacock via Getty Images, Disney+/Everett Collection Nielsen knows what your kids did (at the start of) this summer: spend a whole lot of time streaming Ginny & Georgia, Bluey, and …

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5 science facts that come from simply watching the Moon

5 science facts that come from simply watching the Moon

Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. The Moon is Earth’s brightest, largest night sky object. Animation showing the umbral phase of the November 19, 2021 partial lunar eclipse. At 9:03 AM UT, maximum eclipse was reached, where only 0.9% of the Moon …

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Scientists Just Found a Massive Earthquake Threat Nobody Was Watching

Scientists Just Found a Massive Earthquake Threat Nobody Was Watching

A once-overlooked fault line beneath North America may pose a far greater threat than previously realized. Canadian geologists have raised the alarm over the Tintina Fault, a hidden seismic hazard stretching from Yukon Territory into interior Alaska, that could potentially unleash a magnitude 7.5 earthquake or greater without warning. The newly spotlighted fault could impact communities across Alaska, British Columbia, …

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NASA Is Watching a Huge Anomaly Growing in Earth’s Magnetic Field

NASA Is Watching a Huge Anomaly Growing in Earth’s Magnetic Field

For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, stretching out between South America and southwest Africa. This vast, developing phenomenon, called the South Atlantic Anomaly, has intrigued and concerned scientists for years, and perhaps none more so than NASA researchers. The space agency’s …

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NASA Is Watching a Huge Anomaly Growing in Earth’s Magnetic Field : ScienceAlert

NASA Is Watching a Huge Anomaly Growing in Earth’s Magnetic Field : ScienceAlert

For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, stretching out between South America and southwest Africa. This vast, developing phenomenon, called the South Atlantic Anomaly, has intrigued and concerned scientists for years, and perhaps none more so than NASA researchers. The space agency’s …

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76 Million-Year-Old Footprints Show Tyrannosaurs Were Watching Their Prey

76 Million-Year-Old Footprints Show Tyrannosaurs Were Watching Their Prey

In the rugged badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada, a groundbreaking discovery has recently captured the attention of paleontologists and dinosaur enthusiasts alike. In July 2024, an extraordinary set of dinosaur footprints was uncovered at this UNESCO World Heritage Site. Footprints from the Past According to Discover Wildlife, Dinosaur Provincial Park has long been a rich source of …

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National Hurricane Center Watching Gulf For Small Chance Of Tropical Development

National Hurricane Center Watching Gulf For Small Chance Of Tropical Development

Play Tropical Downpours To Impact Florida, Gulf Coast A rainy disturbance will slide over Florida and into the waters near the northern Gulf Coast over the next couple of days, where there is a small chance it could try to form into a tropical depression before it moves inland. Tropical Development Overview A stretched out area of low pressure meteorologists …

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