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By Heidi Harley

Why the Repeal of Prohibition Actually Made It Harder to Get a Drink

The 21st Amendment was ratified on Dec. 5, 1933

George H.W. Bush's Casket Flies Home to Texas After Emotional State Funeral: The Latest

He died at age 94

Threats to Journalists Worldwide Are at a 10-Year High, Report Says

The report found that 78 journalists were killed while doing their job in 2017

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Calls on Washington to Pay Congressional Staff Higher Salaries

She says it's unfair to "rely on unpaid interns & underpaid overworked staff"

Trump's disbelief won't stop dangerous climate change

“I don’t believe it,” said Donald Trump& when asked about the fourth national climate assessment, authored by 13 government agencies and hundreds of the US’s top climate scientists. His administration had tried to hide the report, publishing it on Black Friday when many Ameri...

Permafrost: a climate time bomb?

The Earth's vast tracts of permafrost hold billions of tonnes of planet-heating greenhouse gases that scientists warn will be released by global warming, along with diseases long locked into the ice. Permafrost -- soil that is frozen, although not necessarily permanently as it name implies -- is fo...

What Is Bayes Theorem and Why Is it Important for Business and Finance?

There is some debate among economists on whether credit should also be given to another economist, Richard Price, who edited and corrected Bayes' paper in 1763, after his death in 1761. Another wrinkle on Bayes Theorem stems from a 1774 paper by French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace, who was ap...

Climate Change is Making Everything Harder. Just Ask a Shark.

Research out of Australia suggests that a warmer climate could make sharks "right-handed."

Cosmic Smash-Up Is the Most Massive and Distant Source of Gravitational Waves We've Even Seen

What was so elusive for so long is now almost commonplace.

SpaceX launches a triple-flown Falcon 9 rocket for Spaceflight and its record flock of 64 satellites

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched Seattle-based Spaceflight’s first-ever dedicated rideshare mission, a satellite extravaganza aimed at placing 64 spacecraft in low Earth orbit. Today’s liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California came off at 10:34 a.m. PT, sending the scorch-marked rocket i...

An Exotic Tick Is Turning Up In Some Parts of the U.S. Here's What to Know

The Asian Longhorned tick is spreading across parts of the United States and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a warning.

Watch a Brainless, Single-Cell Slime Hunt for Food in This Eerie GIF

A creepy video that's gotten new life as a GIF shows a slime mold on the hunt. "What it's doing is compressing and contracting these veins, and by contracting these veins, the liquid is pushed forward against the membrane" of the cell, Dussutour told Live Science. Chemical information stored in th...

'I'm Upset I Even Have to Say This.' Pete Davidson Addresses Struggle With Borderline Personality Disorder

Davidson was diagnosed with the mental illness in 2017

The Latest: Dutch PM: All must be involved in climate fight

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says politicians need to win over all of society for measures needed to tackle climate change. Speaking Monday on the sidelines of the U.N. climate summit, Rutte said there's already a lot of understanding in the Netherlands about the urgency of curbing global warmin...

Halsey Calls Out Victoria's Secret For 'Lack of Inclusivity' After Performing at the Fashion Show

"Total acceptance is the only 'fantasy' I support"

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