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Boston Weather: Flooding, high winds warnings incoming
Potential flooding and high winds are set to kick off the week for Boston, before a period of chillier dry weather heading into next weekend, according to National Weather Service Forecasts.
“Rain starts to move in, ...Read more
Dangerous storms possible across Virginia; damaging winds, large hail and potentially strong tornadoes are threats
Much of Virginia is under the “substantial risk” of severe weather on Monday.
The commonwealth could see severe thunderstorms capable of producing damaging winds, large hail and strong tornadoes, according to the ...Read more
Wild US weather halts flights, dumps snow and knocks out power
Blizzards, wildfires and thunderstorms swirling toward the eastern U.S. have knocked out power to thousands and grounded hundreds of flights across the Midwest.
Heavy snow touched off blizzard warnings from South Dakota ...Read more
Today's Word "murrain"
murrain \meh-REYN\ (noun) - A plague, a pestilence, especially affecting cattle, such as anthrax or foot-and-mouth disease; any horrendous event.
"A murrain upon your head!" or, as Trinculo put it in Shakespeare's 'The ...Read more
Symbol Codes
In the following code, each symbol stands for one of five letters.
^ stands for M, O, I, U, or W
V stands for Y, U, F, E, or L
< stands for H, E, B, K, or T
> stands for J, A, G, N, or P
The four letter code word, <^>V, can be translated into two English words that are opposites. What are the two words?
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This Day in History, March 15
On March 15th, 44 B.C., Julius Caesar was assassinated by Brutus and other Roman senators.
More than 32,000 without power in Colorado amid high winds
DENVER — More than 30,000 homes and businesses lost power on Saturday as high winds blew across Colorado, according to several of the state’s energy utilities.
Roughly 18,000 of those outages were Xcel Energy ...Read more
Oil prices are skyrocketing, but this is why companies won't rush to drill in California
LOS ANGELES — If you are an oil producer with wells in California and global oil prices have risen to over $100 a barrel in the last week, are you going to drill new wells?
It’s a question that touches the lives of ...Read more
SpaceX celebrates birthday with launch from Cape Canaveral
ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX has lit many more candles than needed for its birthdays since it was founded by Elon Musk in 2002.
It lit one more Saturday at 8:37 a.m. with a Falcon 9 rocket that launched from Cape Canaveral ...Read more
Today's Word "evanescent"
evanescent \e-veh-NE-sehnt\ (adjective) - Tending to vanish like vapor, transient.
"The popular tune by the one-hit-wonder was so evanescent as to disappear from ones mind mere moments after vanishing from the airwaves." ...Read more
What's in Chocolate?
What 5 chemical elements make chocolate?
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This Day in History, March 14
On March 14th, 1794, Eli Whitney was granted a patent for his cotton gin.
Trump administration orders restart of oil drilling along California coast amid Iran war
President Donald Trump is asserting executive authority to demand the controversial resumption of offshore oil drilling along California’s coastline as gas prices soar amid the ongoing war with Iran.
On Friday, Trump ...Read more
This Southern Nevada city is the state's only Lake Mead user that doesn't send water back
LAS VEGAS — Boulder City proudly proclaims itself as the home of Hoover Dam.
But for decades, despite its proximity to Lake Mead, it has only taken water from the reservoir without giving any back, lagging behind other ...Read more
Trump officials direct Sable to resume California oil operations
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday took action to clear the way for oil production off the California coast in a bid to ease the global fuel pressures created by the war with Iran.
The announcement by ...Read more
Travis Kalanick debuts plan for 'gainfully employed robots'
Uber Technologies Inc. co-founder Travis Kalanick has launched a new venture that will focus on creating “gainfully employed robots” for the food, mining and transport industries.
Kalanick is remaking his real estate...Read more
Trump EPA moves to roll back recent limits on ethyene oxide, a carcinogen
The Trump administration on Friday moved to roll back Biden-era limits on emissions of ethylene oxide, a cancer causing chemical, often used in the sterilization of medical devices.
The Environmental Protection agency ...Read more
How sewage treatment plants could handle food waste, sparing landfills and the climate
Every day, food scraps disappear into trash bags, are hauled away and forgotten. But that waste could be turned into something productive.
Across the United States, about 97 million metric tons of food waste are...Read more
In its hunt for critical minerals, the US is misconstruing what is and is not America’s
Americans have a reputation for being bad at world geography, and the current U.S. administration is no exception, particularly when it comes to correctly identifying what is – and is not – part of the United States...Read more
As SoCal sizzles, a round of even more extreme March heat is on deck
LOS ANGELES — Southern California continues to sizzle under a heat advisory on Friday, as temperatures across the region remain a toasty 15 to 25 degrees above normal, with no meaningful relief in sight.
And although ...Read more
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