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America is in the midst of a housing crisis. If we listen to those concerned about housing affordability, rents are already too high and may only go higher. If we listen to those concerned about housing finance, panic sits just…
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Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano in the world, has erupted for the first time in nearly 40 years, US authorities said,…
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The military-Marvel relationship has waxed and waned over the years, but 2019’s Captain Marvel was a high point – a billion…
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A team of scientists at Argonne National Laboratory were able to observe a nonliving material mimic behavior associated with learning, which…
Tl;dr: Perhaps most critically when breaking down the FOMC statement – the focus falls on one word: “various”. Bloomberg concludes that while policymakers…
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We all play all Wile E. Coyote at one time or another in our lives, chasing something that somewhere deep inside…
Walking into a hospital sounds about as much fun to me as being mugged in an alley. And if I were…
As the Lakers’ season continues to look bleaker after every game, and with LeBron James already missing games due to a…
Plato once used the allegory of a Ship of Fools to push for his vision of a wise philosopher-king as the ideal pilot…
Human spaceflight has suffered a significant lull since the groundbreaking Apollo missions of the 1960s and 70s. But that looks set to…
In a difficult year for the crypto space that has been full of hacks, failing funds, and decentralized stablecoins going to…
Two teams of researchers recently released estimates of the U.S. housing shortage – and they differ by a factor of five….
Technology provider EasyMile recently won a 10-year contract for a fleet of fully driverless (without any human supervisor on board) shuttles for…
