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‘Harsh but amazing experience’ - Forres man’s Antarctic adventure
Forres Gazette
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April 3, 2025
A Forres loon is working for 15 months as a field guide in one of the most inhospitable areas of the planet. British Antarctic Survey employee, Nathan Rhind, 27, left for the furthest reaches of the Southern hemisphere last November on the RRS Sir...
Government addresses non-existent “data breach” apology it claimed was made in the Legislative Assembly last year.
Falkland Islands Radio Service
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September 12, 2024
Falkland Islands Government claimed a public apology was made to hundreds of “data breach” victims but wasn’t recorded in the official Assembly transcripts. On Tuesday FIG released a statement addressing changes made in data handling and...
The most-read pieces on Mining Technology in 2024
Mining Technology
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December 17, 2024
Industry * Academia & Education Aerospace, Defense & Security Agriculture Asset Management Automotive Banking & Payments Chemicals Construction Consumer Foodservice Government, trade bodies and NGOs Health & Fitness Hospitals & Healthcare HR,...
Weekly Market Pulse: You Cannot Be Serious
myMotherLode - California
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Image Source: Pixabay You can’t be serious! You cannot be serious! John McEnroe, challenging a fault call at Wimbledon, 1981 That’s what went through my head when President Trump unveiled his “reciprocal” tariffs on Wednesday last week. The...
Artist and activist Joe Average dies at 67, after life as vivid as his paintings
Energeticcity.ca
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December 30, 2024
VANCOUVER — Vancouver’s Joe Average was an artist, advocate and activist whose bright, multicoloured images were as multi-faceted as his existence. But his sister Karin Carson says she used to giggle about his fame and always called him by Brock,...
Former Home Depot CEO’s blunt seven-word warning to shoppers after market crash
The U.S. Sun
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April 8, 2025
THE former CEO of Home Depot has a firm message for American consumers amid the stock market's struggles. Some economists warned of the downturn as a direct cause and effect of President Donald Trump's tariff policies. 2 Ex-CEO Bob Nardelli...
Can Antarctic Wildlife Survive Another Deadly Bird Flu Season?
Scientific American
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December 4, 2024
Bird flu has crept uncomfortably close to home in recent months. Public health experts have detected nearly five dozen known infections of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in people in the U.S. Dairy farmers are approaching a full year of exposure...
Julio Glinternick Bitelli, Brazil's Ambassador to Argentina.
Buenos Aires Times
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April 5, 2025
In commercial terms, the world is in an uncertain scenario, with hollow statements and constant threats. It’s an "especially worrying" moment, says Julio Bitelli, Brazil’s ambassador to Argentina. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s envoy in...
What connects General Pinochet and the SS war criminal Walther Rauff?
The Times
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In the autumn of 1998 Philippe Sands embraced his wife, Natalia Schiffrin, at the gates of a Paris cemetery where his grandfather was buried. Sands told her he had been approached by the lawyers of Augusto Pinochet to help the former Chilean...
Aurora Expeditions’ Sylvia Earle Ship Review
NOMADasaurus
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February 27, 2025
When it comes to expedition cruising, few ships are as well-equipped for polar exploration as Aurora Expeditions’ Sylvia Earle. Named after Sylvia Earle, the first female chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,...
Canada’s super lab and key lessons from the U.S.A.
Blue Line
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December 18, 2024
The recent discovery of an advanced illegal drug manufacturing ‘super lab’1 in Falkland, B.C., by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is an unambiguous warning of the consequences Canada faces if it fails to learn from the errors that led to...
From Antarctica to Tennessee: Shamrock the macaroni penguin’s journey to the aquarium in Chattanooga
Chatter Magazine - Tennessee
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April 3, 2025
Humans aren't the only international transplants who now call Chattanooga home. Plenty of animals come to us from foreign lands as well. Take the penguins at the Tennessee Aquarium, for instance -- such as a macaroni penguin named Shamrock. But...
Today-History-Apr02
Cochrane Eagle
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April 2, 2025
Today in History for April 2: In 742, Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, was born. Pope Leo III crowned him Emperor of the Romans on Christmas Day, 800. Today in History for April 2: In 742, Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, was born. Pope Leo...
'Population Zero': The Stable Genius Places Tariffs On Uninhabited Islands
Crooks and Liars
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April 3, 2025
The painfully stupid self-described Stable Genius® imposed "reciprocal" tariffs on Wednesday, which he deemed Liberation Day, and the stock market plummeted soon after his announcement. Before his speech, Donald wrote on Truth Social, "IT’S...
Penguin Eggs Turn Transparent When Boiled? What Science Says
NDTV
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March 31, 2025
New Delhi: Imagine cracking open a boiled egg, only to find the whites aren't white at all - but completely see-through. That is exactly what a viral Reddit post claims happens when you boil a penguin egg. The images shared on the platform have...
Starbucks CEO will be ‘forced into no win choice’ just months into tenure – despite vowing price freeze
The U.S. Sun
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April 4, 2025
STARBUCKS chiefs risk having to make tough decisions and this could mean price rises as a result of Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff agenda, a retail expert has claimed. This is despite the fact that CEO Brian Niccol, who assumed the role in...
Shoes, furniture, coffee and cars: Americans told to rush for these items quick before Trump’s tariffs kick in
The U.S. Sun
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April 4, 2025
AMERICANS are being urged to rush to the shops to pick up some important and essential items before Donald Trump's sweeping global tariffs kick in. US citizens will likely have to bear the brunt of their president's "brutal" tariff rollout which...
Trump Axes Globalization With Sweeping Tariffs
Liberty Nation News
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April 3, 2025
In the classic 1924 Giacomo Puccini opera Turandot, the famous “Nessun Dorma” aria concludes, “At dawn, I will win! I will win! I will win!” It was not at dawn, but President Donald Trump did declare victory against the globalist machine when he...
US imposes 29pc tariff on Pakistan
Business Recorder
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April 4, 2025
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has imposed 29 percent reciprocal tariff on Pakistan, besides over 185 countries and territories, saying that Islamabad charges 58 percent tariff on goods imported from the United States. As per details,...
US recalibrates tariff on India to 26%, China fires back with retaliation and WTO complaint
Mint
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April 4, 2025
The 26% additional tariff will apply over and above the current Basic Customs Duty (BCD) rates on various commodities. The reciprocal tariff move is part of Washington’s broader strategy to enforce a baseline 10% tariff on imports from 57...