(TORONTO) — Ian Power was among the first to buy legal recreational marijuana in Canada but he has no plans to smoke it. He plans to frame it. Canada became the largest country with a legal national marijuana marketplace as sales began early Wednesday in Newfoundland. Power was first in […]
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Until several of its pointing gyroscopes failed, Kepler stared at a fixed field of the sky containing 150,000 stars. Carter Roberts/NASA By Daniel CleryOct. 17, 2018 , 1:10 PM Kepler, the NASA space telescope that almost single-handedly transformed the study of exoplanets, may have sent its last data home. Managers […]
Phil Janowicz (back right) joins in on a selfie with former Vice President Joe Biden (center) during Biden’s recent campaign stop in southern California. Greg Bartlett By Jeffrey MervisOct. 17, 2018 , 1:00 PM ScienceInsider’s coverage of the 2018 U.S. elections has featured profiles of several candidates with scientific backgrounds running for […]
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem and Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari spoke together and praised their countries’ victories over ISIS. Mr al-Muallem said that the defeat of ISIS “will benefit all the countries of the region and the world”. Over the past seven years, Syria has faced battles with not […]
Price: (as of – Details) NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “After five decades of magisterial output, Doris Kearns Goodwin leads the league of presidential historians. Insight is her imprint.”—USA TODAY “A book like Leadership should help us raise our expectations of our national leaders, our country and ourselves.”—The Washington Post “We […]
Mark Serrels/CNET Being a Dad is extremely weird. I remember one moment specifically. My son, one month after his 5th birthday, finished his first single player video game, Super Mario Odyssey. He did it all. Jumped on the mushrooms, found all the “moons”, punched Bowser with comically large boxing gloves […]
The Red Sox plated five runs in the top of the eighth inning to put Game 3 of the ALCS out of the reach, taking an 8-2 victory over the Astros on Tuesday night in Houston. Four of those eighth-inning runs came on a grand slam to right field by […]