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Farmers’ Almanac to Publish Final Issue, Ending 208-Year Forecasting Legacy
Gizmodo.com | 2025-11-07T15:45:34Z
Farmers’ Almanac to Publish Final Issue, Ending 208-Year Forecasting Legacy

The decision reflects the “growing financial challenge” of producing the magazine in today’s media environment, the publication said.

Firms ordered to reduce forever chemicals in drinking water for 6m people
BBC News | 2025-11-03T00:32:19Z
Firms ordered to reduce forever chemicals in drinking water for 6m people

The persistent pollutants which build up in the environment have been linked to serious illnesses.

Science Explains Why It’s So Typical for First-Year Students to Pack on Pounds
Gizmodo.com | 2025-11-05T15:20:13Z
Science Explains Why It’s So Typical for First-Year Students to Pack on Pounds

The "freshman 15" have become infamous enough to catch researchers' attention.

You're now more likely to get into Harvard than to find a job
Business Insider | 2025-11-24T14:44:45Z
You're now more likely to get into Harvard than to find a job

The no-hiring-no-firing environment, dubbed the Great Freeze, is driving job seekers up a wall. We've got the numbers to prove it.

Hospitals phasing out common drug that was favored by doctors over the last 10 years: 'We haven't looked back'
Yahoo Entertainment | 2025-11-19T09:00:00Z
Hospitals phasing out common drug that was favored by doctors over the last 10 years: 'We haven't looked back'

"If you don't have a healthy environment, you don't have healthy patients."

Deaf Tesla Employee Fired After Complaining Factory’s Heat Disabled Hearing Aids, Lawsuit Claims
Gizmodo.com | 2025-11-13T20:20:27Z
Deaf Tesla Employee Fired After Complaining Factory’s Heat Disabled Hearing Aids, Lawsuit Claims

The litigation claims that the company failed to adhere to federal regulations for people with disabilities.

British Churches Are Putting Their Faith in Heat Pumps
Wired | 2025-11-13T15:15:07Z
British Churches Are Putting Their Faith in Heat Pumps

Ancient buildings and old bones aren’t getting in the way of the transition.

‘Yikes’: Top investment bank looks under the hood of the economy and finds ‘the labor market doesn’t look that good’
Yahoo Entertainment | 2025-11-10T16:29:06Z
‘Yikes’: Top investment bank looks under the hood of the economy and finds ‘the labor market doesn’t look that good’

We've heard the labor market is in a "low-hire, low-fire" kind of environment. The "low hire" part seems to be true, the other not so much.

Elon Musk finally tells Joe Rogan the ugly truth about the Cybertruck
TheStreet | 2025-11-05T23:17:00Z
Elon Musk finally tells Joe Rogan the ugly truth about the Cybertruck

A study by Microsoft found that the average human attention span decreased by 25% from 12 seconds in 2000 to 8.25 seconds in 2015. In this environment, it's ...

Greenpeace says French uranium being sent to Russia
Yahoo Entertainment | 2025-11-16T18:30:29Z
Greenpeace says French uranium being sent to Russia

The Greenpeace environment group said Sunday that France was sending reprocessed uranium to Russia for treatment so it can be reused, despite the Kremlin's...

Denver officials: Pouring bleach on unlicensed taco vendor’s food was ‘necessary’
FOX 31 Denver | 2025-11-19T15:24:44Z
Denver officials: Pouring bleach on unlicensed taco vendor’s food was ‘necessary’

A video that went viral online earlier this week showed an apparent Denver Department of Public Health and Environment employee pouring bleach on a street...

Baffling? Distracting? The fallout from Earps' book
BBC News | 2025-11-07T06:25:50Z
Baffling? Distracting? The fallout from Earps' book

Mary Earps' comments in her autobiography have caused a stir but what has the fallout been?

Building A Clamshell Writer Deck
Hackaday | 2025-10-31T23:00:59Z
Building A Clamshell Writer Deck

Most of us do our writing on computers these days, but the modern computing environment does present a lot of distractions. That’s let to the concept of the writer deck, a simplified device i…

FDA's drug regulator put on leave, considering resigning, citing 'toxic' environment
ABC News | 2025-11-03T03:21:09Z
FDA's drug regulator put on leave, considering resigning, citing 'toxic' environment

Dr. George Tidmarsh, the Food and Drug Administration’s top drug regulator, was placed on administrative leave and is considering resigning, citing a “toxic” environment.

The US dodged a bullet this Atlantic hurricane season
The Verge | 2025-11-26T00:42:19Z
The US dodged a bullet this Atlantic hurricane season

An Atlantic hurricane season defined by political and climate disasters comes to a close on November 30th. It kicked off after DOGE's flurry of slashes to federal agencies. Employees who stayed on endured a tumultuous year, to say the least, at the National W…