Since its inception in 1947, the symbolic Doomsday Clock has warned humanity how close the world is to catastrophe hypothetically every year. It works by judging how near the minute hand is to midnight – the nearer it is, the closer Earth is to disaster. The dangers by which the […]
Daily Archives: January 24, 2018
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Get the Think newsletter. SUBSCRIBE Most Americans support the undocumented immigrants first brought to the United States as children and now known as Dreamers. Even President Donald Trump has sympathetic words — well, sometimes — for this group. Depending on the survey, anywhere from two-thirds to three-quarters of the population […]
Polling by Forsa shows the voting intention of the German population has scarcely shifted since the September 2017 general election. Another election would again make the CDU and its sister party the CSU the largest group in the Bundestag, with 34 percent of voters revealing they would vote for Angela […]
A rare 50p coin sold on eBay earlier this month for £500. The Isle of Man 50p is somewhat of a mystery, as the coin is not listed on Royal Mint’s site and there are no details of the coin’s circulation. However, Nantwich Collectibles sold one of the unique coins […]
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards is stepping down from her role after steering the health care organization for more than a decade, two sources close to Richards confirmed to NBC News Wednesday. It is not immediately clear when Richards, who joined the organization as president in 2006, plans to leave, […]
After the shock Brexit victory in 2016, eurosceptic movements have grown across the EU with Finland now the latest country to lash out at Brussels. Today the country’s Europe minister said the EU had responded terribly to Brexit, claiming its push for more Europe was the exact opposite of what […]
An American killed this past weekend in an attack on an Afghanistan hotel was identified Wednesday as Glenn Selig, the president and CEO of a Florida-based public relations company. Selig was one of 22 people killed in Saturday’s siege by the Taliban on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul. On Monday, […]
LONDON — Chinese scientists have cloned monkeys using the same technique that produced Dolly the sheep two decades ago, breaking a technical barrier that could open the door to copying humans. Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, two identical long-tailed macaques, were born eight and six weeks ago, making them the […]