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Activists protest against fossil fuels and for climate finance on day 11 at the UNFCCC COP29 climate conference on November 22nd, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan.  | Photo by Sean Gallup / Getty Images

Maybe it was the host of the UN climate summit in Azerbaijan this month calling oil and gas a “gift of God.” Or the US, the world’s biggest oil and gas producer, reelecting a



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John Jobbagy, whose family has been working in the Meatpacking District for more than 120 years, is one of the last meatpackers left there.
  • The last meatpackers in NYC's Meatpacking District are getting ready to close shop.
  • Last month, NYC's mayor announced plans to develop the site near Greenwich Village and the High Line.
  • Once a meat industry hub, the district now



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Ria Cheruvu has been ahead of the curve for most of her life. After graduating from her Arizona high school at just 11, the student deemed prodigy became one of the youngest people to ever graduate from Harvard. Her collegiate record is a marvel to many. 

Following a period studying neurobiology and during the completion of her first computer science degree, Cheruvu was hired for Intel's ethics



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Elon Musk says we're doing links wrong on Twitter/X.
  • Elon Musk says a lot of us are doing it wrong when it comes to posting links on X.
  • He says people should write a description in their main post, followed by the link in a reply.
  • Musk says this will stop "lazy linking." If you have any idea what that even means, please let me know!

For anyone who posts links to X, it's been



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Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker just announced a musical instrument called Orchid. It’s a nifty-looking chord machine with some modern bells and whistles. For the uninitiated, a chord machine is a device or plugin that allows users to simplify the process of playing chords.

To that end, Orchid lets players initiate full melodic chords by pressing a note on the tiny one-octave keybed. They can be