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Canada Breaks Heat Record For Second Straight Day and Mountains Are Melting

Canada is experiencing temperatures near 50 C and flood warnings as snow melts rapidly. And yes, it's likely caused by global warming.
Anya Zoledziowski
6.29.21
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A Crow Expert Explained Why This School Warned Everyone About Angry Crows

Acadia University’s Department of Safety & Security sent a campus-wide email telling students to “make eye contact with the crows.”
Jelisa Castrodale
6.29.21
jurgen conings

Far-Right Idolising Anti-Lockdown Soldier Whose Body Was Found in Park After Manhunt

Makeshift shrines and marches held in Jurgen Conings' memory are unnerving counter-extremism experts, as well as Belgium's Muslim community.
Mitchell Prothero
6.29.21
climate change

Miami Building Collapse Raises Concerns About Coastal Resiliency

What should other coastal communities take from Miami’s catastrophe as they plan for the growing threat of climate change?
Audrey Carleton
6.29.21
climate crisis

Activists Are Sharing Land In Vermont With People Escaping Climate Disaster

As heatwaves rise across the US, mutual aid organizations are building a pipeline to help a new generation of climate migrants.
Ella Fassler
6.29.21
GAMES

Internet Archivists Discover a Rare, Early Version of Minecraft

Alpha v1.1.1 had become a “holy grail” for the Minecraft archiving community, but a decade-old Tweet finally tipped the group off.
Radhamely De Leon
6.29.21
Health

The Revival of Stoicism

Everyone from Silicon Valley billionaires to self-help enthusiasts is repurposing Stoicism for our modern age, with results that are good, bad, and highly indifferent.
Shayla Love
6.29.21
cryptocurrency

Crypto-Colonialists Use the Most Vulnerable People in the World as Guinea Pigs

Blockchain technologies bring surveillance and political pressures, undermine local sovereignty, and create resource allocation controls on recipients. 
Luke Ottenhof
6.29.21
domestic abuse

Domestic Abuse Survivors ‘At Risk’ As Brexit Immigration Deadline Looms

Frontline staff at a domestic abuse charity say many women are unaware of the settled status deadline or don’t have the adequate language skills to apply.
Ruby Lott-Lavigna
6.29.21
Arizona audit

The Bogus GOP Plot to Steal Arizona for Trump Will Cost Taxpayers Millions

Arizona says the voting machines seized in the audit can no longer be trusted and have to be replaced.
David Gilbert
6.29.21
tech-science

Scientists Detect a Black Hole Eating a Neutron Star In Mind-Blowing First

Nobody had ever seen a system containing a neutron star and a black hole. In January 2020, scientists detected two of them.
Becky Ferreira
6.29.21
police

Wild Video Shows Ex-Cop Plowing Into a Crowded Bus Stop in an SUV

Authorities chased down the vehicle and arrested the driver after he crashed again in Caracas, Venezuela.
Nathaniel Janowitz
6.29.21
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