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What would happen if a nuclear bomb went off in your backyard?
Will humans ever be able to beat computers at chess again? Or has that ship sailed?
In 2016, Hikaru Nakamura played a 4-game match against Komodo (I believe the second strongest engine at a time). Time control was 45 minutes + 15 sec increment.
10 Facts You Must Know About Recessions
A recession is the scariest creature in the average investor’s closet of anxieties. Even though the last recession ended more than a decade ago, people fear recessions because they can mean lower home prices, lower stock prices – and no job.
Genetics Research Explains Why Dogs Are Very Good Boys
There’s something about dogs that truly makes them man’s best friend. Our loyal, slobbering pets rescue those in need and are extremely social, but until recently we never figured out why dogs and humans get along so well.
Coronavirus at Smithfield pork plant: The untold story of America’s biggest outbreak
How did the biggest cluster in the US emerge in a corner of South Dakota? Infections spread like wildfire through a pork factory and questions remain about what the company did to protect staff.
The Single Most Important Object in the Global Economy
In the spring of 2012, the Washington Conservation Corps faced a sudden influx of beach debris on the state’s southwestern shore. Time and tide were beginning to deposit the aftereffects of Japan’s March 11, 2011, tsunami. One of the myriad objects retrieved was a plastic pallet, scuffed and swimming-pool green, bearing the words: “19-4 (salt) (return required), and, below that, “Japan salt service.”
Coronavirus: After a deep recession, a different economy
Just over 100 days ago, on Jan 15, the United States and China signed their phase one trade agreement, agreeing to halve some tariffs and suspend others, which kindled hopes that the two-year-long US-China trade war might be winding down.
Recovered patients who tested positive for COVID-19 likely not reinfected
This phenomenon is likely due to the shortcomings of the coronavirus test, experts say
How Many Hours of Sleep Do You Actually Need?
Sleep is a time suck. If you multiplied the average recommended number of hours we should sleep in a day—eight for a typical adult—by the number of days in an average lifespan (78.8 years in the United States), that would amount to about 9,587.3 days. That’s one third of your life spent unconscious. From an evolutionary standpoint, sleep is quite literally a waste of your time, yet it’s fought its way through countless years of adaptation in nearly every living animal on Earth. So it must be important, right?