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Jaden Smith clearly doesn’t take himself too seriously. People have been mocking Smith after a clip from a past interview with Big Boy has been making the rounds online in which Smith said he always got along more with adults than people his own age. “I am very happy that I spent my childhood with more adults than I […]
The World Health Organization released its 2021 air quality standard report on Monday, and it’s pretty alarming. According to the organization’s data, 99 percent of the world’s population breathes poor-quality air. Zero countries tracking air quality in 2021 managed to meet WHO’s standards, according to the survey which collects pollution data in 6,475 cities. A staggering 99 percent of […]
Nine years after a group of researchers from Yale put together the “Map of Life,” which provides a database that pins where known species live across the globe, they have now put together a map that attempts to locate areas where yet-to-be-discovered species may reside. The goal, according to the guy who spearheaded the project (Yale ecology and […]
A number of world leaders have issued statements addressing the unprecedented scene earlier today in Washington DC when hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol on the day Congress was set to certify the 2020 presidential election results. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson called today’s events “disgraceful,” and stressed the importance of a “peaceful and […]
The U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs has voted to remove cannabis as a Schedule IV controlled substance, a designation reserved for the most dangerous substances, such as heroin. This particular classification is a subgroup of Category I in that a substance is considered to be “highly addictive and highly liable for abuse,” but also “particularly harmful and of extremely limited medical or […]
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases around the world hit more than 10 million on Sunday, the Associated Press reports. The virus still has a firm grip on European countries; there have been outbreaks in Switzerland and England. “We have seen flare-ups across the country in recent weeks,” British Home Secretary Priti Patel told BBC before claiming that the government is […]
Former President Barack Obama told attendees at a private event in Singapore that women make better leaders than men. He admitted that women aren’t perfect, but they are “pretty indisputably” better than men. “Now women, I just want you to know; you are not perfect, but what I can say pretty indisputably is that you’re […]
Every now and then, we’re reminded how dangerous boxing can be. Junior middleweight Patrick Day is reportedly in a coma after receiving emergency brain surgery following a vicious 10th round knockout Saturday night. Day, 27, was knocked out with a brutal left hook by Charles Conwell at Wintrust Arena in Chicago. The middleweight was knocked […]
The whole point of digital music is the risk-free grazing” Cory Doctorow, Canadian journalist and co-editor and of the off-beat blog Boing Boing, is an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon […]
Price, 57, has played music nearly her whole life, starting with piano when she was five years old. But in the fall of 2009, the guitar was still something of mystery to her. She had been playing for only a couple of months and was struggling a bit with the new challenges. Yet, instead of […]
