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The deadline for opting out of the 2021 season has come and gone. There is no news that any player has opted out. The official word won’t come for four more days. According to the league, no personnel notices will be sent to teams until Tuesday, July 6. No notice was sent today, due presumably […]
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Near-death experiences are known from all parts of the world, various times and numerous cultural backgrounds. This universality suggests they may have a biological origin and purpose, but exactly what this could be has been largely unexplored. A new study conducted jointly by the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) and the University of Liege (Belgium) and […]
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Airbus (AIR.PA) has offered to assemble Eurofighter aircraft in Switzerland if Bern picks it for a 6 billion Swiss franc ($6.5 billion) defence contract, a top salesman at the consortium told a Swiss Sunday newspaper. Germany, Italy, Spain and Britain, who make the Eurofighter, have also offered Bern sweeping political cooperation should it win the […]
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Virgin’s Unity 22 mission will carry a full crew of two pilots and four mission specialists. Among the crew is Richard Branson himself, who will be evaluating the company’s private astronaut experience. It could also mean that Branson will beat spaceflight rival Jeff Bezos to space. Virgin Galactic, the spaceflight company founded by Richard Branson, […]
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A four-man rowing team announced they broke a world record by rowing from San Francisco to Hawaii in 30 days, 7 hours and 30 minutes. Jason Caldwell, Duncan Roy, Angus Collings and Jordan Shuttleworth, members of the Latitude 35 racing team, arrived in Hawaii on Wednesday after crossing the 2,400 mile distance from San Francisco. […]
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Giants receiver Kenny Golladay ignored a subpoena last December, failing to appear at a virtual deposition, Ryan Dunleavy of the New York Post reports. Thus, Golladay is at risk of being held in contempt of court later this month. Golladay is a non-party with no potential liability in a civil case involving his former NFL […]
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New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London, in collaboration with the University of Liverpool and the Karolinska Institute, has shown that many of the symptoms in fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) are caused by antibodies that increase the activity of pain-sensing nerves throughout the body. The results show that […]
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Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) said on Saturday it will pay $263 million to resolve claims it fueled an opioid epidemic in New York state and two of its largest counties. The settlements remove the drugmaker from a jury trial scheduled to begin on Tuesday on Long Island, where several big opioid makers and distributors are […]
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The prevalence of Amazon’s various Echo devices means most people now associate the word Alexa with the virtual assistant. For those with the same name, especially children, it can lead to bullying and constant jokes, leading to calls for Amazon to change its famous wake word. As reported by the BBC, people called Alexa have […]
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One member of a group of elephants that left a nature reserve and wandered close to cities in China’s southwest has been tranquilized and returned to the reserve after leaving the herd. The elephants attracted nationwide attention after they left the reserve in Yunnan province last year and walked more than 500 kilometers (300 miles) […]
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