AvatarNancy Tavares AvatarAvatarThis college was accredited by a DeVos-sanctioned group. We couldn’t find evidence of students or faculty.verified_publisherUSA TODAY - Chris Quintana, Shelly ConlonSIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Reagan National University was supposed to be a place of higher learning, but it was unclear how it awarded degrees. By all appearances, at present, it has no students, no faculty and no classrooms. An agency meant to serve as a gatekeeper for federal money gave the university …
AvatarNancy Tavares AvatarAvatarGovernment Agency Warns Global Oil Industry Is on the Brink of a Meltdownverified_publisherVICE - Nafeez AhmedWe are not running out of oil, but it's becoming uneconomical to exploit it—another reason we need to move to renewables as quickly as possible. A government research report produced by Finland warns that the increasingly unsustainable economics of the oil industry could derail the global financial …
AvatarNancy Tavares AvatarAvatarAmerican Bar Association Goes After Trump For Blasting Roger Stone Sentencing On TwitterHuffPost - Sanjana KaranthThe organization put out a pointed statement about "public officials who personally attack judges or prosecutors" after the president did just that. The American Bar Association indirectly denounced President Donald Trump on Wednesday for publicly criticizing the sentencing recommendation for his …
AvatarNancy Tavares AvatarAvatar‘We Knew They Had Cooked the Books’verified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Robinson MeyerThe Trump administration’s attempt to kill one of America’s strongest climate policies has been a complete debacle. ANN ARBOR, Mich.—On a drizzly day in January 2018, Jeff Alson, an engineer at the Environmental Protection Agency’s motor-vehicles office, gathered with his colleagues to make a video …
AvatarNancy Tavares AvatarAvatarTrump calls for slashing funding for toxic Superfund cleanupAssociated Press - By ELLEN KNICKMEYERWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump asked Congress on Monday to slash funding for the Superfund program around the country, despite already building up the biggest backlog in 15 years of hazardous waste clean-ups stalled for lack of money. Overall, the president proposed cutting $2.4 billion, …
AvatarNancy Tavares AvatarAvatar‘Hemisphere-wide implications’: Nasa warns temperatures in Europe could plunge if Arctic warming causes major ocean current to reverse | The IndependentThe Independent - Harry CockburnA major ocean current in the Arctic could reverse amid warming temperatures, a change which would bring significantly colder weather to western …
AvatarNancy Tavares FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoChowhound - The Site for Food Nerds: Cooking Tips, Culinary How-To's, More.verified_publisherchowhound.com - By Hilary Wheelan RemleyCostco's two-hour rule is one of many ways it keeps its rotisserie chicken fresh and in demand. Here's what to know about tracking down a chicken for …
AvatarNancy Tavares AvatarAvatarJoaquin Phoenix's Oscars speech in full: 'We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow and steal her baby'verified_publisherThe Guardian - Guardian staff reporterThe full text of Phoenix’s passionate winner’s speech, as he accepts the best actor Academy Award for Joker
AvatarNancy Tavares FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoA Month Before a Heart Attack, Your Body Will Warn You With These 8 Signalsthelifehacker.orgPrevention is better than cure. This simple rule applies to any disease and is especially valuable when symptoms are not properly acknowledged.We …
AvatarNancy Tavares AvatarAvatarHoneyland: Life lessons from Europe's last wild beekeeperverified_publisherBBC News - By Tamara KovacevicBBC News The story of the woman at the centre of an Oscar-nominated film has struck a chord around the world. Honeyland: Life lessons from Europe's last wild beekeeper
AvatarNancy Tavares AvatarAvatar'Resurrected' mammoth DNA helps explain why the species went extinctverified_publisherEngadget - Jon FingasGenetic defects might have played a part. Reviving the woolly mammoth is still a tall order. However, technology might be far enough along to help explain why the elephant precursor went extinct in the first place. Scientists have 'resurrected' genes from a population of mammoths that survived on a …
AvatarNancy Tavares AvatarAvatarNew study an eye-opener on how coronavirus is spreading and how little we knowverified_publisherCNN - By Dr. Tom FriedenCNN — A study published Friday in the medical journal JAMA found that 41% of the first 138 patients diagnosed at one hospital in Wuhan, China, were presumed to be infected in that hospital. This is big news. In plain English, it means that nearly half of the initial infections in this hospital appear …