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2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (680+ words) Imagine an asteroid striking Earth and wiping out most of the human population. Even if some lucky people survived the impact, Homo sapiens might still face extinction, because the social networks humans rely on would collapse. This dynamic also plays…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (624+ words) A group of deer on CU Boulder campus during a snow storm. (Credit: Casey A. Cass/CU Boulder) Imagine an asteroid striking Earth and wiping out most of the human population. Even if some lucky people survived the impact, Homo sapiens…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago  (847+ words) TAMPA, Fla. " What began as Black History Week turned into Black History Month. And now, 100 years later, we are honoring a century of Black History Month. History can be taught, and it can be shared. But most importantly, it must…...

7+ hour, 5+ min ago  (213+ words) When most people think of hyenas, they often picture the cackling scavengers from "The Lion King" " creatures portrayed as dim-witted opportunists living in the shadow of lions. This widespread misconception has done a tremendous disservice to one of Africa's most…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (187+ words) Sa'd Business School, University of Oxford Universidad de Santiago de Chile The five-year field study, conducted with a microfinance institution in Sierra Leone, tracked over 47, 000 repayment transactions made by more than 7, 000 borrowers operating under a joint'liability lending system. In this…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (559+ words) Police said they had a 'significant presence' at the march The march was organised by hundreds of groups, including trade unions, anti-racism campaigners and Muslim representative bodies Members of the 'Red Rebel Brigade', a climate activist group, joined the march…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (161+ words) LONDON, March 28 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets "of central London on Saturday for "a "March to Stop the Far Right" with many demonstrators "decrying the right-wing Reform UK party of Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, which…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (690+ words) One hundred years ago, Black History Month began as an act of correction. Historian Carter G. Woodson established Negro History Week to preserve Black contributions from being erased from American memory. He chose February to honor Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln,…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (750+ words) Jan. 21 MOSES LAKE The life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. was celebrated in Moses Lake on Monday evening, with people throughout the community gathering for a march and a celebration of life and legacy at the Civic Center....

11+ hour, 34+ min ago  (135+ words) International Workers Day on May 1 commemorates the great labor struggles of the 19th and early 20th centuries, when workers fought and died for decent wages and working conditions. The militant energy of the early labor movement, long dormant in the United States,…...