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Trump administration exempts Gulf oil and gas drilling from endangered species protections
Convening a rarely used committee for the first time in more than three decades, top Trump administration officials voted Tuesday to exempt oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from requirements that protect endangered ...Read more
Artemis II's lunar quartet of astronauts break the Apollo mold
Every single person who has flown to the moon has been a man. All of them have been white. Each one has been an American.
That’s about to change.
The crew of Artemis II, gunning for a launch from Kennedy Space Center ...Read more
Meet the Pennsylvania man who hunts meteorites for a living
PHILADELPHIA -- Brett Joseph Cohen was manning the only meteorite stall at the Philadelphia Mineralogical Society‘s annual trade show Sunday morning. Chunks of asteroids and lunar rocks glinted on his table.
He’d ...Read more
How California’s war on smog and its ambitious car pollution rules made everyone’s air cleaner
Cars on the road today are 99% cleaner than they were in 1970. Air quality in the United States is much, much better as a result. In Los Angeles, where I live, lead levels in the air were 50 times higher in the 1970s ...Read more
How NASA plans to keep Artemis astronauts alive if disaster strikes
EDWARDS, Calif. — If NASA's colossal new moon rocket, slated to launch with astronauts for the first time as soon as tomorrow, explodes on the pad or breaks up as it accelerates through the atmosphere, the space agency ...Read more
Apple at 50: How a garage startup became a $3.5 trillion titan
Fifty years ago, Steve Wozniak knew he built a great personal computer, but the young engineer couldn't convince his employer, Hewlett-Packard, to buy into the big idea.
"Five times they turned me down for the personal ...Read more
Today's Word "gauntlet"
gauntlet /GANT-let/ (noun) - 1 : The glove of a suit of armor. 2 : Two lines of tormentors with flailing sticks between which someone must run as punishment or initiation.
"To get to Maude's wonderful dinner we had to run...Read more
Three Equations
The following three equations represent words that have a common relationship. The first letter of each word is given. Where will you find the following equations to be true?
Q = 1, B = 2, P = 8
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This Day in History, March 31
On March 31st, 1889, the Eiffel Tower was inaugurated.
Judge closes Nevada lithium mine case without trial, sides with Bureau of Land Management
LAS VEGAS — A judge has denied environmentalists’ claims that the federal government erred in approving a lithium-boron mine in Esmeralda County, clearing the way for the mine to proceed with its eventual construction....Read more
As Artemis II countdown clock starts, SpaceX knocks out record launch
The countdown clock for a Wednesday launch attempt of NASA’s Artemis II mission began ticking at 4:44 p.m. EDT Monday at Kennedy Space Center.
Minutes later, SpaceX knocked out its 21st launch of the year using a record...Read more
Big crowds expected as signs look good for Artemis II launch Wednesday
Hundreds of thousands of spectators are expected to descend on the Space Coast this week for a chance to witness something that has not happened since last century.
Humans will be headed to the moon for the first time ...Read more
Dramatic weather shift brings significant Southern California cooldown, possible rain
LOS ANGELES — March in Southern California has been marked almost entirely by unusually warm temperatures, but the month is set to close out with a cooler spell.
A dramatic shift in weather will drop temperatures across...Read more
A SoCal native is set to pilot NASA's lunar mission -- and become the first Black person to reach the moon
NASA's Artemis II mission, the first to send humans around the moon in half a century, is slated to launch Wednesday. It will be piloted by one of Southern California's own.
Victor Glover — a former Ontario High School ...Read more
Review: ‘Super Mario Bros. Wonder’ Talking Flower toy a joy for kids
Since the pandemic, I’ve constantly looked for ways to improve my work-from-home space. I have added a standing desk, switched out a gaming chair for an office one and shuffled through several keyboards. That shift has...Read more
Minnesota's first state park campground for off-roaders and their rigs opens this summer
MINNEAPOLIS — The first campground in the state park system catering to the off-road vehicle crowd will open this summer in northern Minnesota.
Years in development, Pyrite Campground opens June 12 in Lake Vermilion-...Read more
Today's Word "preponderate"
preponderate \prih-PON-duh-rayt\ (intransitive verb) - 1 : To exceed in weight. 2 : To incline or descend, as the scale of a balance; to be weighed down. 3 : To exceed in influence, power, importance, number, amount, etc. ...Read more
Alphabetical Numbers
If all 1-digit numbers are arranged in alphabetical order, they are eight, five, four, nine, one, seven, six, three, two. Here, eight comes first, and two comes last.
If all 3-digit numbers are arranged in alphabetical order, which number comes first, and which number comes last?
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This Day in History, March 30
On March 30th, 1867, Secretary of State William H. Seward purchased Alaska for $7.2 million, a move referred to by the media as "Seward's Folly."
Why is NASA spending $100 billion to return to the moon? Depends on who you ask
NASA pulled off the moon landing in 1969 with a clear goal from the outset — to be the first nation to put people on the lunar surface.
The U.S. was locked in a space race with the Soviet Union, and the Apollo 11 ...Read more
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