Oct 21, 2024 | Salon.com
Fitting in at work and surviving the corporate rat race is difficult on its own, but having a spectrum disorder such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can make it much harder. The trait is often stigmatized or underdiagnosed, and treatment is sometimes out of reach, but that doesn’t mean people with ADHD can’t thrive in their careers, as attorney Haley L....
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Oct 21, 2024 | Salon.com
Prominent elected officials throughout New York State are endorsing a recent report that argues Big Oil should be held legally accountable for the deadly toll of climate change. The memorandum, which was written by lawyers for the nonprofit advocacy groups Public Citizen and Fair and Just Prosecution, argues that authorities can charge fossil fuel companies with reckless endangerment for knowingly contributing to global warming despite the harm it causes to people....
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Oct 19, 2024 | Salon.com
The first color that comes to mind when thinking about Antarctica is a stark white, which makes sense, given the southernmost continent is generally buried in ice and snow. It has earned its reputation as “the white continent” thanks to harboring 90% of the world’s ice, concentrated in a 2.2 km (1.4 mi) thick layer....
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Oct 18, 2024 | Salon.com
The Orionids are back, promising views of a spectacular meteor shower this weekend. Stargazers can eagerly look skyward starting on Sunday and continuing through the week of Oct. 20th, according to a recent report from the American Meteor Society.
The Orionid meteor shower — often known as “the Orionids” for short — occurs every year thanks to Halley’s Comet....
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Oct 18, 2024 | Salon.com
Fungi have a nasty reputation among humans. They can cause dangerous diseases like Cryptococcus neoformans and Candida auris among our own kind, massacre beloved fellow animals like frogs and bats and even turn less-charismatic animals like cicadas into horrifyingly mutilated zombies.
Yet a recent proposal by the United Kingdom and Chile to the UN convention on biological diversity (CBD) could radically alter the way people perceive the fungi with whom we share Earth....
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Oct 17, 2024 | Salon.com
If you compare a human’s nose to a dog’s nose, the former usually comes up wanting. Canine noses are so sensitive, they can smell a human’s stress and use the various odors around them to paint a picture of reality akin to what human eyes do with different colors. By contrast the human nose — though able to distinguish between 1 trillion different scents — seems like a weak imitator....
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Oct 11, 2024 | Salon.com
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills got the obvious out of the way when asked about what America’s founding fathers would have thought of the presidential election between former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. “Since women had no political position in the eighteenth century, I could not place this debate there,” Wills told Salon....
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Oct 11, 2024 | Salon.com
The record-breaking Hurricane Milton has left a massive path of devastation in its wake as it plowed through Florida into the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday and Thursday. But it has also generated a ragged trail of misinformation that officials are still trying to combat.
On Thursday, President Joe Biden was asked at a press conference if he had spoken with former President Donald Trump about the hurricanes....
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Oct 10, 2024 | Salon.com
From the Quebec Blackout of 1989 to the historically intense Carrington Event 140 years earlier, geomagnetic storms are often memorable and spectacular events. This is why skygazers are excited about the recent news of an impending geomagnetic storm that will occur on Thursday evening and Friday evening, producing colorful auroras from northern California to Alabama....
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Oct 10, 2024 | Salon.com
With Hurricane Milton making landfall in Florida on Wednesday evening, millions of Sunshine State residents have evacuated their homes or boarded up businesses to brace for the impending storm. This potentially historic storm has fluctuated between Category 3 status (meaning wind speeds above 110 mph) all the way to Category 5 status (wind speeds in excess of 157 mph), and its impacts, both short-term and long-term, will likely be devastating....
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