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To support this theory, they pointed out that most of our historical knowledge comes from fossils, yet due to the wet climate over much of the earth during the prehistoric era, many of the animals did not have an opportunity to be fossilized. The totality of all fossils on earth is called the fossil record and it is the most important window on the past we’ll ever have. For a dead animal to fossilize a number of things must go just right: The right environment, timing and conditions. They further explain that those fossils we do have on record don’t always tell the whole story, but modern technology is helping to clarify the past.

What Dinosaurs Might Have Actually Looked Like

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Remarkable Mosaic Portraits Made Out of Pebbles

Remarkable Mosaic Portraits Made Out of Pebbles

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Bateman, who is inspired by the iconic sand mandalas of Tibetan monks, believes that his work should be ephemeral and leave no trace. The monks will spend many hours creating sand mandalas, only to blow them away once complete. Impermanence is an important feature of my work; how long does an artwork need to exist in order for it to have value.…My work is impermanent, I leave only footprints.

Remarkable Mosaic Portraits Made Out of Pebbles

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Bateman, who is inspired by the iconic sand mandalas of Tibetan monks, believes that his work should be ephemeral and leave no trace. The monks will spend many hours creating sand mandalas, only to blow them away once complete. Impermanence is an important feature of my work; how long does an artwork need to exist in order for it to have value.…My work is impermanent, I leave only footprints.

Remarkable Mosaic Portraits Made Out of Pebbles

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LinkedIn to Shut Down Service in China, Citing ‘Challenging’ Environment

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SEATTLE — LinkedIn said on Thursday that it was shutting down its professional networking service in China later this year, citing “a significantly more challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirements,” in a move that completes the fracture between American social networks and China. It will not have social networking features such as sharing posts and commenting, which have been critical to LinkedIn’s success in the United States and elsewhere. LinkedIn’s action ends what had been one of the most far-reaching experiments by a foreign social network in China, where the internet is closely controlled by the government. When LinkedIn expanded in China in 2014 with a localized service, it offered a tentative model for other major foreign internet companies looking to tap the country’s huge, lucrative and highly censored market.

LinkedIn to Shut Down Service in China, Citing ‘Challenging’ Environment

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SEATTLE — LinkedIn said on Thursday that it was shutting down its professional networking service in China later this year, citing “a significantly more challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirements,” in a move that completes the fracture between American social networks and China. It will not have social networking features such as sharing posts and commenting, which have been critical to LinkedIn’s success in the United States and elsewhere. LinkedIn’s action ends what had been one of the most far-reaching experiments by a foreign social network in China, where the internet is closely controlled by the government. When LinkedIn expanded in China in 2014 with a localized service, it offered a tentative model for other major foreign internet companies looking to tap the country’s huge, lucrative and highly censored market.

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Anti-vaxxer Dennis Prager got his wish: COVID

Anti-vaxxer Dennis Prager got his wish: COVID

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On his show, Prager ranted against vaccines and claimed he’s been taking numerous medications instead, several of which aren’t effective at treating COVID.“It is infinitely preferable to have natural immunity than vaccine immunity and that is what I have hoped for the entire time,” Prager claimed. Later in the show, Prager theorized that former Secretary of State Colin Powell didn’t die of COVID, as Powell’s family has said. Prager’s comments about Powell’s death came after a caller opined that Powell actually died of cancer.

Anti-vaxxer Dennis Prager got his wish: COVID

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On his show, Prager ranted against vaccines and claimed he’s been taking numerous medications instead, several of which aren’t effective at treating COVID.“It is infinitely preferable to have natural immunity than vaccine immunity and that is what I have hoped for the entire time,” Prager claimed. Later in the show, Prager theorized that former Secretary of State Colin Powell didn’t die of COVID, as Powell’s family has said. Prager’s comments about Powell’s death came after a caller opined that Powell actually died of cancer.

Anti-vaxxer Dennis Prager got his wish: COVID

The academy announced Monday that Ms. Hudson, 65, will step down at the conclusion of her current contract. In recent years under Ms. Hudson, the Academy has moved aggressively to expand and diversify its membership, a response to the #OscarSoWhite controversy that arose in 2015 after the group nominated only white actors for the Oscars. Since then, the Academy has swelled to 9,362 voting members from 6,446, 33 percent of whom identify as women and 19 percent coming from underrepresented communities.(When Ms. Hudson came aboard, Oscar voters were 94 percent white and 77 percent male.)

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Covid-19 testing turnaround times are still uneven this far into pandemic

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In one recent week, a New Yorker got a free Covid-19 test in a jiffy, with results the next day, while a Coloradan had to shell out $50 for a test two cities from her hometown after a frantic round of pharmacy-hopping. But people are also facing problems getting molecular testing, including the gold-standard PCR tests. Demand for PCR tests in the county quadrupled from 600 weekly tests in July to 2,500 a week in September. The company offers other tests, such as antigen tests and slower lab-based PCR tests, at no out-of-pocket cost.

Covid-19 testing turnaround times are still uneven this far into pandemic

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In one recent week, a New Yorker got a free Covid-19 test in a jiffy, with results the next day, while a Coloradan had to shell out $50 for a test two cities from her hometown after a frantic round of pharmacy-hopping. But people are also facing problems getting molecular testing, including the gold-standard PCR tests. Demand for PCR tests in the county quadrupled from 600 weekly tests in July to 2,500 a week in September. The company offers other tests, such as antigen tests and slower lab-based PCR tests, at no out-of-pocket cost.

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A Beautiful Woodturned Globe Made Out of Triangles

A Beautiful Woodturned Globe Made Out of Triangles

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Howarth first started this project by laying out the Earth’s surface as a flat map that he then cut into a series of 80 triangles that he glued together. The idea behind this woodturned globe was to cut out the patterns of land and ocean as a flat map into a series of 80 triangles.I put the project down for about 5 months while….I modeled a sphere using the actual thickness of the triangles and actually measured what the sides of the triangles would be in that sphere.I cut out an entire second batch of triangles and remade a new sphere and this time it worked.

A Beautiful Woodturned Globe Made Out of Triangles

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Howarth first started this project by laying out the Earth’s surface as a flat map that he then cut into a series of 80 triangles that he glued together. The idea behind this woodturned globe was to cut out the patterns of land and ocean as a flat map into a series of 80 triangles.I put the project down for about 5 months while….I modeled a sphere using the actual thickness of the triangles and actually measured what the sides of the triangles would be in that sphere.I cut out an entire second batch of triangles and remade a new sphere and this time it worked.

A Beautiful Woodturned Globe Made Out of Triangles

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