David Parrott is just 19 years old and he sits in isolation wearing an oxygen mask that help his COVID-ravaged lungs to breathe. Sitting alone in Bay 5 gives him too much time to think. And his young head is full of worrying thoughts about how his health might be permanently damaged. “I’m only 19
Month: January 2021
January 15th, 2021 by U.S. Department of Energy Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $14.5 million for environmental research to support U.S. offshore wind development. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) will support regionally-focused, coordinated research efforts to increase understanding of the environmental impacts of offshore wind, as well as projects that advance
January 15th, 2021 by Barry A.F. One of the ways to slow the advance of climate change is to reduce your personal carbon usage. While we can’t efficiency our way to climate neutrality we can buy ourselves time by slowing the rate of carbon emissions and conservation/Negawatts are often the cheapest form of clean energy
January 15th, 2021 by Jo Borrás Genius is a difficult thing to understand. To those of us who, like me, are on the outside of it, genius can sometimes seem like madness, and it’s the sort of blurry area where an idea is actually so stupid that it loops back around into genius that we’re
WhatsApp is delaying the rollout of new business features following a user backlash over the company’s data sharing practices. The delay is a setback for its plan to generate revenue by facilitating commercial exchanges on the messaging app, which Facebook acquired for $19bn in 2014 but has been slow to monetise. WhatsApp has said users
Police involved in protecting the Capitol building last week have spoken for the first time describing what happened as “brutal, medieval style combat”. The officers were outnumbered by hundreds of rioters, who federal prosecutors claim were intending to “capture and assassinate officials”. Officer Daniel Hodges was nearly crushed to death in the violence. Disturbing video
2:17 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — New NASCAR team Trackhouse Racing has brought entertainer Pitbull on as an ownership partner for an organization making its debut next month at the Daytona 500. Trackhouse made the Friday announcement with a video on Twitter in which the Grammy winner is featured dancing to an “I
The VW ID Buzz, a highly-anticipated electric revival of VW’s iconic minivan, has been delayed by a year, according to a VW exec. VW ID Buzz Electric Van The German automaker unveiled the I.D. BUZZ electric microbus in Detroit back in 2017. At first glance, it looked like just one more cool electric vehicle concept that Volkswagen
A view of the Exxon Mobil refinery in Baytown, Texas. Jessica Rinaldi | Reuters Shares of Exxon slipped more than 5% on Friday after The Wall Street Journal reported that the Securities and Exchange Commission opened an investigation into the oil giant over how it valued a key asset in the oil-rich Permian Basin. The
All travel corridors will close from Monday, meaning everyone arriving in the UK will have to self-isolate. The tighter border restrictions announced by Boris Johnson are aimed at protecting the progress made with the rollout of vaccines in the face of new coronavirus variants being found around the world. It had already been announced everyone
11:21 AM GMT The final two rounds of the European Champions Cup and Challenge Cup will be cancelled and the tournaments will move straight to the knockout rounds, Premiership Rugby chief executive Darren Childs said. The French government blocked Top 14 clubs from competing in the European competitions against clubs from United Kingdom and Ireland
The reflection of bitcoins in a computer hard drive. Thomas Trutschel | Photothek via Getty Images LONDON — A British man who accidentally threw out a hard drive with a trove of bitcoin on it is once again urging local city officials to let him search for it in a landfill site. James Howells, a
A grime artist who was serving 24 years in jail for imprisoning and repeatedly raping four women has had his sentence increased by six years. Solo 45, whose real name is Andy Anokye, was found guilty of 21 rapes, five counts of false imprisonment, two counts of assault by penetration and two of actual bodily
7:28 AM ET ESPN’s MMA Insiders As the UFC looks to kick off 2021 with two elements that were sorely lacking for most of 2020 — Conor McGregor and fans in attendance — this brief pause in the calendar offers the perfect window to take stock and look ahead. So who will have the best
The Dutch government led by Prime Minister Mark Rutte has resigned over a childcare subsidies scandal. Mr Rutte, who leads the conservative People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy as part of a four-party ruling coalition, stepped down following a cabinet meeting. In a statement, Mr Rutte said: “We are of one mind that if the
With shaking hands, broadcast live to the nation, a doctor administered Indonesia’s first COVID-19 vaccination. The recipient was President Joko Widodo, a man who hopes to get 181.5 million Indonesians vaccinated this year. It’s a huge challenge, almost three times the population of the UK and so far one of the largest rollouts in the
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