Discover Trees, Now With Chlorophyll : NPR

We hear one of the five selected listener suggestions for our updated Commercials for Nicer Living project: trees.





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Amid Immigration Furor, Apple’s Chief Focuses on Apps and Music

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Sequoia Capital Reshuffles Leadership - The New York Times

SAN FRANCISCO — One of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture capital firms, which has backed companies like Apple, PayPal and WhatsApp, has added some younger blood to its top management ranks.
The firm, Sequoia Capital, has changed up several leadership roles, including naming Roelof...

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Searching For 'Facebook Customer Service' Can Lead To A Scam

Say you got kicked off Facebook and need to get back on — to talk to friends or run your small business. A Google search for “Facebook Customer Service” can lead to a surprise. A bad one.
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Black History Month

In 1915, historian Carter G. Woodson proposed a “Negro History Week” to honor the history and contributions of African-Americans. Nine years later, his dream became reality. Woodson chose the second week of February to pay tribute to the birthdays of […]

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Apple’s Q1 2017: Records for the iPhone and services, but the iPad still struggles

It’s fair to say that, from a financial-results perspective, 2016 was rough for Apple. Sure, the company still made billions in profit on massive revenues, but Wall Street wants to see growth and the massive iPhone sales of 2015—when the company introduced the larger-sized iPhone 6 and...

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Apple crosses Samsung in smartphone market, helped by the Note7 debacle

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The UK's 12 most in-demand programming languages 2017

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The most sought-after programming languages in the UK are SQL, JavaScript and C#, according to market tracker IT Jobs Watch.
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Bridgewater's Dalio says Trump's populist policies could hurt world economy

Ray Dalio, founder of the world’s largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates LP, said he is increasingly concerned about the Trump administration’s “populist” policies that could hurt the world economy.
The detrimental effects of these policies could be more...

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President Donald Trump nominates Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme...

WASHINGTON – In only a few weeks, Judge Neil Gorsuch has gone from the federal appellate bench in Colorado, to one of the leading contenders to be President Donald Trump’s nominee for the US Supreme Court.
His quick ascent is due to a combination of factors, including his track...

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Fed's message on portfolio trimming: prepare, don't fret | Reuters

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SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK Federal Reserve policymakers are putting markets on notice that the central bank’s $4.5 trillion balance sheet is back on the agenda in an apparent effort to give investors time to...

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Find out how LA officers rescue underage prostitutes

Police in Los Angeles have carried out their biggest-ever operation to find girls and young women who were forced into commercial sexual exploitation.
Officers made almost 500 arrests and rescued more than 50 young people.
The BBC’s Angus Crawford was given exclusive access.


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DuPont sells Hotel du Pont to Buccini/Pollin

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The Politics Of Donald Trump's Supreme Court Pick — In 150 Words : NPR

President Trump nominated federal appellate judge Neil Gorsuch as his Supreme Court nominee. If confirmed, it would tilt the balance of the court back in conservatives’ favor.

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Ukraine, François Fillon, Quebec: Your Wednesday Briefing

Other foreign leaders also wonder whether they can depend on the U.S. to honor defense treaties and trade pacts, given the new president’s litany of impulsive statements and false claims.

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Animal behaviour: Seal whiskers may sense fish breath : Nature : Nature Research

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A harbour seal’s whiskers might be sensitive enough to detect water passing through the gills of fish hiding in the sand.
Wolf Hanke and his colleagues at the Institute for Biosciences in Rostock, Germany, trained three harbour seals...

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UK could lose 30,000 fintech jobs after 'hard Brexit' | E-Commerce

The UK could lose up to 30,000 jobs within the fintech sector in the event of a ‘hard’ Brexit, the Emerging Payments Association has warned.
The concerns centre on ‘passporting’ rights, which allow companies to sell financial services to the rest of the EU, and are...

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NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s decision to suspend the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for 120 days and institute a 90-day ban on all entry to the United States from citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries has sent ripples across the globe,...

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SciTech Now: New Local Segment

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AP News : LimaOhio.com

EDITOR’S NOTE – Reporter Jim Strothman was alone in The Associated Press office at Cocoa Beach, Florida, that Friday evening, Jan. 27, 1967, covering what should have been a routine countdown test for the Apollo 1 astronauts and listening to NASA updates via a squawk box. Even...

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Gonzaga Is No. 1. Gonzaga Is Undefeated. Gonzaga Gets No Respect.

Yet Mathews was a regular contributor during his three seasons with the Golden Bears, and Williams-Goss was on the all-Pac-12 freshman team at Washington in 2014 before transferring across the state after his sophomore season.

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Attention Must Be Paid To What 'The Salesman' Is Selling : NPR

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US tech industry says immigration order affects their operations

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Judge Blocks Trump Order on Refugees Amid Chaos and Outcry Worldwide

Mr. Trump — in office just a week — found himself accused of constitutional and legal overreach by two Iraqi immigrants, defended by the American Civil Liberties Union. Meanwhile, large crowds of protesters turned out at airports around the country to denounce Mr. Trump’s ban on the entry of...

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Clever Programming Puzzles Guide Learning

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Hottest year, atomic-clock problems and a diversity failure : Nature News & Comment

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Rondae Hollis-Jefferson calls Donald Trump immigration ban 'BS'

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Get the Word of the Day - chanticleer

Animal fables of a fox tricking a bird and of being “outfoxed” by that bird date to the mid-11th century in prose and poetry in Old French dialects and Medieval Latin. The most accessible version of Chanticleer and the Fox is in Chaucer’s “Nun’s Priest’s Tale,” a beast fable and...

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Silicon Valley Survivalists; An LSD Memoir; 'Manchester' Director : NPR

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The Week in iOS Apps: Brown Sugar offers movie fun

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Trump to speak with Putin on Saturday

Trump has vowed to have better relations with Russia than his predecessor.
In his new year’s message, Putin congratulated Trump and expressed hope their two countries would be able to “take their interaction in the international arena to a whole new level.”
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6 Artists Share Their Work : NPR Ed : NPR

Six artists who have dyslexia find their words in art.

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ATLANTA (AP) — One conversation stands out in Arthur Blank’s sports year to remember.
Blank, the Atlanta Falcons owner, said Thursday he sent a congratulatory text message to coach Dan Quinn in May, when Atlanta was awarded the 2019 Super Bowl.
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Get the Word of the Day - fulminate

Fulminate is formed from fulminat-, the stem of fulminātus, the past participle of the Latin verb fulmināre “to hurl thunderbolts, thunder.” The classical Latin forms keep close to the literal sense, sometimes adding a sense “to blast with lightning.” The new senses “to issue den...

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Dr. Seuss for Everyday Use

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Australia

Australia is the only country that is both an island and a continent. It ranks as the sixth largest country (covering nearly three million square miles) and the smallest continent. I’ve never been there, have you?

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Falcons owner Arthur Blank was all the way turned up in the locker room

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laterigrade: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Laterigrade derives from later-, the inflectional stem of the Latin noun latus “side,” and the Latin noun and combining form gradus “a step, pace,” a derivative of the verb gradī “to walk, step.” The word is rare, used to describe the locomotion of spiders and crabs. It entered English in the 1...

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Fresh Air Weekend: Jeff Bridges; Netflix' 'Unfortunate Events'; Sportscaster Joe Buck

Jeff Bridges (shown with Gil Birmingham) plays an aging Texas ranger investigating a series of small-town bank robberies in Hell or High Water.
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Trump's son-in-law Kushner to become senior White House adviser

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WASHINGTON U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will become a senior White House adviser working on trade and the Middle East, transition officials said on Monday, in a rare case of a close presidential...

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crepitate: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Crepitate derives from Latin crepitātus, the past participle of crepitāre “to rattle, rustle, chatter,” a frequentative verb from crepāre and having the same meaning. The word entered English in the 17th century and meant “to break wind, fart,” a meaning that crepitāre had in Latin; the word’s ...

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Is He Mr. Right or Mr. Alt-Right?

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Dating is tough, and it’s even tougher after a contentious election. In a world of increasingly ugly partisan politics, how is a girl to know if she’s found “the one”? Is your special guy Mr. Right—or actually Mr. Alt-Right? Luckily, there are a few s...

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Latest Uber news: Uber's latest announcements

The taxi-hailing app is considered both brilliant and controversial, depending on who you ask. Here we’ve documented the company’s journey to a $50 billion valuation.
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California Lawmakers Prepare For Trump, Hire Ex-Attorney General Eric Holder

Former Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington in June 2012. Holder, now in private practice, has signed on to represent the California Legislature as outside legal counsel.
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Worried About Screen Time? Don't Let Kids Go It Alone

There are more than 80,000 educational apps in Apple’s app store. It seems like a great way to encourage brain development and make your little one the smartest baby genius. But just sticking a tablet in your kid’s hands might not be as helpful.
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Scientists should not resign themselves to Brexit

With the arrogance expected of a governing class born to power, the British government has tried to buy off academic opposition to Brexit by showering institutions with cash.
But this straightforward manoeuvre — dropping an extra £2 billion (US$2.5 billion) into the nation’s science budget to q...

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Emptying the Noggin — Jazz can’t slow down Celtics in Boston

Summary: Boston’s offense destroyed the Jazz’s defense, and the Celtics cruised to an easy win over the Jazz.
·       The Jazz found no answer for Boston’s offensive system all night. Boston plays a five-out offense where all five players are playing outside the paint. A player will cut throug...

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emolument: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Emolument comes from the Latin noun ēmŏlŭmentum, ēmŏlĭmentum “profit, advantage.” Most modern sources claim that the noun derives from the verb ēmŏlĕre “to grind out (grain in a mill)”; the derivative noun would mean “profit from fees received for grinding grain.” Older sources claim that the n...

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San Francisco's 'Leaning Tower' Has Residents Fuming

The Millennium Tower has gained notoriety as “The Leaning Tower of San Francisco.” Residents of the luxury condominium building and the city are suing the developer.
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HyperX expands into a new market with its new Pulsefire gaming mouse

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Putin-Trump 'bromance' broadens post-sanctions

Vladimir Putin’s refusal to retaliate against Obama is the latest sign of partnership.


     



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A Majority Agreed She Was Raped by a Stanford Football Player. That Wasn’t Enough.

“Everyone knows sexual assault on campus is a serious problem, and one that is very difficult to tackle,” said David Palumbo-Liu, a professor of comparative literature at Stanford and one of dozens of faculty members who have criticized the school’s sexual assault policies.
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senectitude: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Senectitude comes from the Medieval Latin noun senectitūdō meaning “old age,” which in turn comes from Classical Latin senectūs, a derivative of the noun senex meaning “old man.” Senectitude entered English in the late 1700s, more precisely, in 1796 in Jonathan Sw...

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'Neruda' Affectionately Dismantles The Myth Surrounding The Chilean Poet

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The Week in iPhone and iPad Cases: Dress your iPhone just like a book with Twelve South's protection

The SenseCover (iPhone 7, 7 Plus, 6, 6s, 6 Plus, 6s Plus, 5, 5s, SE; $44.95 to $49.95 MSRP, same on Amazon) sports a handy window cut out that lets you check time, day, alarm, and incoming calls without opening its cover.
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