Some thrift stores, however, are tired of receiving our exhausted and unwearable items. As a recent Associated Press article found, Goodwill staff around the country reported a spike in stuff that can’t be sold as people purged their belongings while stuck at home during the pandemic. This has caused a strain on thrift stores, which rely on higher quality donations to make money and are increasingly having to pay to have trash hauled away....

The legend, it turns out, isn’t confined to the playground. A surprising number of medical journals, entomologists, and ethnographers have written about the earwig, and tend to trace the name back hundreds or thousands of years. Depending on who you read, it either comes from a myth of central European or Old English origins where earwigs “crawl into the ears of sleeping persons,” and from there, the brain, perhaps to cause insanity....

To receive breaking news updates from cnn.com, for example, just follow Twitter user “cnnbrk.” Or send a message (“move car 30”) to user “timer,” and it will text back a reminder in the time you specify. Other functions are available through third-party sites: Enter your favorite RSS feeds on TwitterFeed.com, and you’ll get a text whenever the feed is updated. Send the mileage, price and gallons to fuelfrog.com each time you fill up your tank, and it will chart your fuel-efficiency trends....

We left the apartment at about 7 p.m., walked north a few blocks and then headed west into an industrial area of Brooklyn. My goal was to check out the storm surge on Newtown Creek. Mind you, Newtown Creek is not the world’s most pleasant place. It is reputed to be one of the most polluted industrial sites in America–a cesspool of toxins, spilled oil, and raw sewage. But it’s only a mile from the apartment, and we really wanted to see the storm in action....

“Ensuring responsible innovation and evolution of the digital asset ecosystem is essential to our national security, financial stability, economic competitiveness, and continued global leadership,” a senior administration official said to journalists about the impetus for the order. The Treasury Department, Commerce Department, and the Environmental Protection Agency are among the multiple government agencies named in the order to be a part of the research and policy-developing process. They will focus on identifying the potential applications, risks, and regulatory needs associated with cryptocurrencies, such as their ability to exacerbate existing financial inequalities, their impact on the environment, and their use for illicit activity like trafficking or evading sanctions....

Still, there is accurate, science-backed health advice available if you know where to look. Finding the apps and sites that provide it can help keep you and your loved ones safe—whether that’s getting yourself up to speed on the latest developments with the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, or understanding that nagging pain in your back. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) The CDC has come under increased scrutiny since COVID-19 hit the US, but as the government agency tasked with protecting citizens’ health, it uses data from official, scientific sources, and is a voice you can trust....

The money would be allocated into six main research areas: ImmunotherapyTechnology to detect cancer earlierVaccines for cancer-causing virusesMore data sharing and scientific collaborationGenomic analysesPediatric cancer It would go to these institutions: The National Institutes of Health would receive the biggest chunk of fundsThe Food and Drug Administration would get $75 million, mostly for work with data, as Stat News reportsThe Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs would increase their number of long-term studies into risk factors for cancerVice President’s Exceptional Opportunities in Cancer Research Fund, a new funding body that would back “high-risk, high-return research, as Reuters reports, as well as collaborations between businesses and non-profits...

Looking at those numbers, it might be easy to assume the human population will just keep expanding, but the reality is very different: global average fertility rates have dropped by half over the last fifty years, from five children per woman in 1968 to just 2.5 in 2017. For some countries, this trend is incredibly worrying. In South Korea, where the fertility rate is less than one child per woman, the government has begun incentivizing pregnancies; China, standing on the edge of a previously unimaginable population cliff, dropped its one-child policy and started allowing families to have two kids in 2016....

The plan specifically addresses emissions generated in the Permian Basin, a petroleum-rich region in Texas and New Mexico. The company said in a statement it is testing strategies for “resiliency against a range of net-zero scenarios,” including those established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the International Energy Agency. A few initial measures, including equipment upgrades and the elimination of routine venting and flaring, are already underway, the company added....

In fact, it’s what acorn woodpeckers are best known for—they assemble these “granaries” for food storage over generations and centuries, says Sahas Barve, an evolutionary biologist who studies the species with the Smithsonian National Museum of History. And it’s not a one-and-done affair. The caches must be maintained over time to keep dried-out acorns screwed firmly in their holes and rivals like squirrels away. The oddly decorated tree is just one example of how acorn woodpeckers work together with family members to increase their odds of survival....

Meanwhile, in some places, companies like Zipline and Wing are delivering goods by drone. Other companies are working on electric air taxis to transport people or cargo, and of course normal air traffic—commercial flights out of big airports, general aviation airplanes zipping out of others—is flying around, too. Factor in helicopters, hot air balloons, and more, and there can be a lot going on up there. With all this busyness in the skies, researchers at Carnegie Mellon are working on an artificial intelligence pilot system that can carry out tasks like predicting what another aircraft might do, or keep an eye out for nearby planes using cameras on an aircraft....

David Steinmann wasn’t intimidated, though. “The most deadly gas is actually what bubbles out of soda,” he says, smiling. Steinmann, an environmental consultant and research associate in the zoology department of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, is also a volunteer firefighter and plenty used to inhospitable spaces. Putting on the requisite protective gear for any trip underground felt similar to donning a breathing apparatus to fight flames. It was 2007, and a Colorado group from the National Speleological Society had organized an expedition to the cave, enlisting 10 experts to study the strange space’s geology, biology, history, and water chemistry....

LaChappelle began his bionic quest by scouring online forums and tutorials to glean as much know-how as he could about sensors, motors, and coding. His first model won him third place at the state science fair in 2011, but its fingers, made of flimsy electrical tubing, could not grasp anything heavy. Unsatisfied, LaChappelle started over. He designed a new hand with computer modeling software, and then asked MakerBot Industries in Brooklyn, New York, to print the plastic “bones....

The Cielo Breez Eco Smart AC Controller Black is a WiFi-enabled smart AC controller that simply turns your air conditioner or heat pump smart. What does that mean? Well, it allows you to control your old or new AC unit from anywhere and anytime using your smartphone. Imagine, if you are in the office and you know the temps are rising, you can simply adjust the temperature at home so when you arrive, you are guaranteed a cool and relaxing atmosphere....

Marble racing Jelle’s Marble Runs has more than a half million subscribers. Unique little glass orbs tackle a 98-meter downhill courses dug into sand. Each marble has a name and the races are surprisingly compelling. The commentating makes it extremely exciting and the roughly three-minutes races are perfect for short bursts of curiosity. The final race of the 2019 Marble Rally happens on Christmas Eve. High-stakes sports card case breaks Sports cards have gotten extremely elaborate in recent years....

Some are coming out against Donuts now, raising the specter of potential cybersquatting, the practice of sitting on a piece of web real estate and waiting for it to gain value, or in this case, the accusers say, providing an outlet for people to masquerade as the intended owner. (“Well, .apple must be the domain of the iPhone-making Apple company!”) Bloomberg has the full story on it, but in short, this could turn into a messy legal squabble....

In other words, once you tag the target with the scope you can’t miss. At least that’s the claim. Technologically speaking, there seems to be little reason that claim doesn’t hold up if it indeed works as advertised (see video below). The company is developing three rifles with integrated intelligent scopes, two for tactical use and one hunting model. That ratio seems to fit; while it’s true that tapping an onboard computer to ensure every shot is on target is somewhat unsporting for the average hunter or (especially) sports shooter, there are plenty of situations that arise in law enforcement and military operations where the ability to double-check one’s trigger pull is a highly-attractive, potentially life-saving feature....

Now, Tesla Version 7.1 for the Model S and Model X has a feature known as Summon. This is the first Autopilot software to allow a Tesla to take over a driving chore without a human in the driver’s seat. In January, when the beta was released, Tesla noted that when you got home, you could step out of your car and let the Tesla put itself to bed. It could open the garage door, drive into the garage, park, and shut itself down....

According to a Pew study conducted in 2012, Millennial and subsequent generations will struggle to develop critical thinking capabilities, citing a “thirst for instant gratification … quick fixes [and] a loss for patience.” Microsoft surveyed some 2,000 Canadians this past spring and discovered the average attention span was eight seconds — a decline from 12 seconds just fifteen years earlier. Nowhere is this quick-twitch consumption more evident than on YouTube and other video streaming sites....

In this guide, we’ll take a look at some of the best CBD gummies you can buy today. We’ve analyzed everything from price to flavor and the quality of the hemp from which each company extracts its CBD, so you’re getting only the best options. Here are the 15 best CBD gummies on the market today. Verma Farms Gummies (Gold Standard) Price: $44.99 per bottle Gummies per package: 20 Details: Verma Farms is the country’s top provider of high-quality CBD gummies....