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Watch the moment NASA’s DART spacecraft crashed into an asteroid
A small camera mounted on DART livestreamed the spacecraft’s steady progress toward the 160-meter-wide asteroid, located about 6.8 million miles from Earth, back to controllers based at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. The team cheered as Dimorphos grew closer and closer, before the livestream cut out on impact with the asteroid. The strike […]
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FIRST LOOK: VA Hampton Roads Community Based Outpatient Clinic
To meet the needs of one of the fastest-growing veteran populations in the country, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is adding a new outpatient clinic to the Hampton VA Healthcare System in Hampton Roads, Va. Partnering with developer The Molasky Group of Companies (Las Vegas) Gresham Smith (Charlotte, N.C.) is providing planning, architecture, and […]
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Malaysian defence contractor ‘Fat Leonard’ seeks Venezuela asylum | News
Local media reported that Leonard Glenn Francis had requested to remain in Venezuela on health and political grounds. A fugitive Malaysian defence contractor nicknamed “Fat Leonard” who orchestrated a huge bribery scheme involving dozens of United States Navy officials, has requested asylum in Venezuela almost a week after he was arrested in the South American […]
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DART goes silent after hitting an asteroid [Update]
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Enlarge / One of the last images from DART. NASA/APL Update, 10:30: If this is an indication of the quality of the images we should expect over the next several days, we’re in for a treat. ATLAS observations of the DART spacecraft impact at Didymos! pic.twitter.com/26IKwB9VSo — ATLAS Project (@fallingstarIfA) September 27, 2022 Original article follows. […]
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30% Cheaper, Is Amazon Stock A Buy?
Amazon stock has nearly shed all its pandemic gains It’s hard to call a bottom yet for the stock, given the uncertain macroeconomic environment However, Amazon continues to seek acquisitions, diversifying its market presence So far this year, Amazon.com (NASDAQ:) is the worst-performing stock in the trillion-dollar-market-cap club that includes Apple Inc (NASDAQ:), Microsoft (NASDAQ:), […]
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Adjuster Licensing and Your P&C Claims Processing Timelines
This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Hurricanes. Wildfires. Earthquakes. What do they have in common? If you’re in the insurance industry, the answer is that they’re all guaranteed to trigger weather and disaster claims from those with disaster coverage. For carriers and adjuster firms, that ultimately means activating an emergency response […]
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How to Stay Safe in a Storm
Sept. 22, 2022 — Sonia Chavez was on the balcony of her midrise Dallas apartment when the unthinkable happened: As she was filming a thunderstorm with her cellphone, lightning struck her in a flash of blinding light and searing heat that knocked her off her feet. The thunderbolt, which Chavez captured on film, damaged her […]
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‘Africa’s Titanic’: Remembering Senegal’s Joola tragedy
On 26 September 2002, The Joola, a government-owned Senegalese ferry, capsized off the coast of The Gambia, killing over 1,800 people. There were just 64 survivors. It is the second-worst non-wartime maritime disaster in history, taking the lives of more than the infamous Titanic. Twenty years on, the BBC investigates why this tragedy occurred and […]
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Audio Postcard: Real-time farming | MIT Technology Review
Pinot Grigio actually makes a white wine and it’s won a few varieties in California that, uh, is a pretty common variety that actually we make purple grapes that make a white wine. So my name is Dirk Heuvel and I’m the VP of vineyard operations here at McManis family vineyards. My family actually kind […]
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How crypto is playing a role in increasing healthy human lifespans By Cointelegraph
How crypto is playing a role in increasing healthy human lifespans This field is known as longevity science, and within this industry, experts argue care which regards ageing as a normal but treatable ailment are rare — and of the approaches available, they can only be accessed by those who are highly educated and privileged. […]