Officials from 175 countries agreed yesterday to craft a global treaty over the next two years with the aim of ending plastic pollution. The final treaty could be a game-changer for lands and oceans awash in plastic bottles and packaging. Castoff plastics choke and entangle animals, are ingested by people as tiny particles in food,… Continue reading Countries Pave the Way to End Plastic Pollution
The Gun Laws That Work, and the Gun Laws That Don’t
Part of the deeply polarized debate over guns in the United States—inflamed, yet again, by the horrific events in Uvalde, Texas—is ideological. A segment of the population rejects any and all regulation of these weapons as an abridgment of freedom; another segment holds uncompromising anti-gun views. But some of the arguments about how best to… Continue reading The Gun Laws That Work, and the Gun Laws That Don’t
The Great Celsius Implosion: What Went Wrong And How Much More Will Bitcoin Drop
By Dylan Leclair and Namcios of Bitcoin Magazine The purpose of this issue will be twofold: The first will be an in-depth look at the Celsius platform, and breakdown the design of the business/ecosystem to understand what went wrong. The second is to detail the events that have transpired over the recent weeks with Celsius… Continue reading The Great Celsius Implosion: What Went Wrong And How Much More Will Bitcoin Drop
What is a Candlestick Shadow?
A candlestick shadow represents the extremes of where the price visited during the life of a candlestick on a chart before closing at its ultimate price. On a bullish candlestick, the shadows represent the difference between the closing price and the high price (upper shadow), and on a bearish candlestick the shadow represents the difference… Continue reading What is a Candlestick Shadow?
The Green Children of Woolpit
Podcast: Download MYS201: In an English village in the 1100s, two green-skinned children appeared one day and some have claimed they were aliens or fairies. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli consider who were the green children of Woolpit, where did they come from, and why were they green? Get all new episodes automatically and for… Continue reading The Green Children of Woolpit
New Result Casts Doubt on ‘Cosmic Dawn’ Claim
The first major attempt to replicate striking evidence of the ‘cosmic dawn’—the appearance of the Universe’s first stars 180 million years after the Big Bang—has muddled the picture. Four years after radio astronomers reported finding a signature of the cosmic dawn, radio astronomer Ravi Subrahmanyan and his collaborators describe how they floated an antenna on… Continue reading New Result Casts Doubt on ‘Cosmic Dawn’ Claim
Ukraine’s Best Chance for Peace
At this stage of the war in Ukraine, as Russia steps up its offensive in the Donbas and more revelations of the atrocities committed by its forces emerge, the prospect of any kind of negotiated peace between Moscow and Kyiv seems remote. Even earlier this spring, when delegations from the two sides were meeting, the… Continue reading Ukraine’s Best Chance for Peace
A Lasting Inheritance: Reflecting on Fatherhood
Over the years, I cannot count the number of times that I heard words like, “Your father is the best!” or “I love your Dad!” My dad was the kind of father that most of my friends wished they’d had. In my eyes, he was John Wayne, Charles Ingalls, and Moses rolled into one. As… Continue reading A Lasting Inheritance: Reflecting on Fatherhood
CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC Sunday Shows Don’t Cover Attempted Murder Of Supreme Court Justice
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Many news networks on June 12 omitted mention of the recent attempted murder of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, even though some touched on issues facing the nation’s top court. All Sunday morning shows on CNN, CBS, NBC, and ABC did not cover the attempted killing, which took… Continue reading CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC Sunday Shows Don’t Cover Attempted Murder Of Supreme Court Justice
What Are Pivot Points in Trading?
A pivot point is a crucial turning point in the price of a stock or security that a lot of traders tend to trade around. It’s basically a price at which the stock stops going up or down and reverses in the opposite direction. It’s the price at the foremost extreme of a rally. Pivot… Continue reading What Are Pivot Points in Trading?