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Picking your nose is even grosser than you thought
Comment on this story Comment Come on, you know you do it. Whether you’re in the trusted company of your spouse or sneaking a quick one when you think nobody’s looking, we all pick our noses. Other primates do it, too. The social stigma around nose picking is widespread. But should we really be doing …
A Carnival ship caught fire. A new one is picking up the passengers.
Placeholder while article actions load A Carnival Cruise Line ship caught fire Thursday morning while docked in Grand Turk, leaving passengers stuck until another ship on a rescue mission this weekend. Carnival Freedom, which left Central Florida’s Port Canaveral on Monday for a five-day voyage, was in the Turks and Caicos cruise when the fire …
B.1.1.7 coronavirus variant is picking up a worrisome new mutation
Covid-19 Coverage View more stories As the world races to get vaccines into arms, one of the most concerning coronavirus variants appears to be getting a little more concerning. Researchers in the UK have detected at least 15 cases of B.1.1.7 variants carrying an additional mutation: E484K, a mutation already seen in other concerning variants and …
NHL Draft 2020: Picking winners and losers from the first round – CBS Sports
NHL Draft 2020: Picking winners and losers from the first round CBS Sports Rangers select Lafreniere with 1st overall pick in 2020 Draft NHL New York Rangers select left wing Alexis Lafreniere, 18, consensus No. 1 prospect, to open NHL draft ESPN Should the Ducks go for a forward or defenseman with their first pick? The Athletic Alex Trebek …
Picking up the quantum technology baton
In the Budget 2020 speech, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made a welcome announcement for Indian science — over the next five years she proposed spending ₹8,000 crore (~ $1.2 billion) on a National Mission on Quantum Technologies and Applications. This promises to catapult India into the midst of the second quantum revolution, a major scientific …
Picking The Moment – Finding Entrepreneurial Opportunities In the Big Technology Trends
Alec Dafferner GP Bullhound If – as I do – you spend a lot of time talking to the founders of early-stage companies, it’s perhaps a little too easy to form the impression that the technology revolution we’re all experiencing is driven by plucky startups armed with nothing more than great ideas, drive, determination and …
Former smokers are picking up some terrible habits that pose major health risks
Former smokers are prone to replacing one habit with another. Between 2005 and 2016, major depression among former smokers rose to 6% from nearly 5%. They also said their use of marijuana had increased to 10.1% from 5.3% in the year prior to being interviewed, and binge drinking rose to 22.3% from 17.2% in the …
