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Today in History

Today is Thursday, Dec. 24, the 359th day of 2020. There are seven days left in the year. This is Christmas Eve.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On Dec. 24, 1814, the United States and Britain signed the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War ...

Lal, a contractual employee, had told the court that he was terminated without being given an opportunity of personal hearing and without following the principles of natural justice.

ATLANTA (AP) - In the first week of early voting for Georgia’s Senate runoff election, Casie Yoder parked at a polling location in Cobb County and loaded miniature hand sanitizer bottles, knitted hats, hand warmers and face masks into a collapsible wagon cart.

President Donald Trump and President-elect Joe Biden are quite different from each other. It is obvious in their personalities and...

Super middleweight contenders Marcos “Madman” Hernandez and Alantez Fox will meet in a 10-round showdown headlining FS1 PBC Fight Night and on FOX Deportes this Saturday, December 26 from Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall in … read full article “Marcos Hernandez & Alantez Fox Square-Off on FOX Deportes – Dec. 26”

Super Middleweight Contenders Marcos Hernandez & Alantez Fox Square-Off in FS1 PBC Fight Night Main Event & on FOX Deportes This Saturday, December 26 from … read full story ←

Doing a lot of conference calls from home these days using Zoom, Microsoft Teams or another platform? These compact speakerphones will improve your audio experience.

On Christmas Day in 1776, Gen. George Washington led 2,400 troops across the Delaware River. The weather was cold and...

The scientists worked in cooperation with specialists from the RSSDA laboratory (Moscow). Together, they completed a 3D virtual model of one of the clusters.

An uptick in a particular type of DKA called euDKA at Brigham and Women's Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic has led researchers to hypothesize that diabetes patients on glucose-lowering drugs may be at increased risk for euDKA when they contract COVID-19. The observational case series was published in The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists Clinical Case Reports.

1. Christmas rules in tiers 1 to 4: Everything you can and can't do  Metro.co.uk
2. Covid in Scotland: Rules relaxed to allow mixing at Christmas  BBC News
3. UK: Some Britons prepare to break Christmas lockdown rules  Al Jazeera English
4. Tier 4 loophole means Boris Johnson could spend Christmas with his family  The Sun
5. Tier 4 exceptions which allow people to see loved ones over Christmas  Mirror Online
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1. John Lewis Boxing Day sale officially starts online with up to 50% off items  Mirror Online
2. Shoppers set to spend over a BILLION on online sales on Christmas day  Daily Mail
3. Boxing day sales: John Lewis launches winter deals on 4k TVs, tablets and more  TechRadar
4. All the supermarkets and retailers that won't open on Boxing Day - see full list  Mirror Online
5. Boxing Day sales expected to fall by more than a quarter  The Independent
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Scott Galloway’s analysis is by turns brilliant, entertaining, and blinkered.

Meaning and meaninglessness, and a year of trials

A dog had to be put down after he was injured during a robbery in Westminster.

Argentina's Patagonia region is a vast swath of land that spans the provinces of Chubut, Neuquén, Río Negro, Santa Cruz, Tierra del Fuego, and even parts of La Pampa, Mendoza, and Buenos Aires. Although it is the largest region within the country, it is also the least populated and, therefore, markedly rural and isolated. This isolation forms the basis for Thibaud Poirier 's “Houses of Patagonia”, where he offers a visual registry of the houses found throughout the region in an attempt to capture... Читать дальше...

(Kessler Foundation) "While there has been much research on emotional processing problems in adults with TBI, much less has been done in children with TBI who have these deficits," said Dr. Lengenfelder, assistant director of the Center for Traumatic Brain Injury Research at Kessler Foundation. "Developing and applying treatments to improve emotional processing is critical to improving how these children function at home, in school, and eventually, the workplace."

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) Science Partner Journal BioDesign Research celebrates successful 1st International BioDesign Research Conference.

New study illustrates how studying diverse populations can help predict patient outcomes and reduce health disparities

The 1st Chinese carbon dioxide (CO2) monitoring satellite mission, TanSat, was launched in 2016. The 1st TanSat global map of CO2 dry-air mixing ratio (XCO2) measurements over land was released as version 1 data product with an accuracy of 2.11 ppmv (parts per million by volume) in 2017. A new (version 2) TanSat global XCO2 product is now released.

A soil scientist from RUDN University studied the decomposition of organic matter in rice paddies--the sources of CO2 and methane emissions. Both gases add to the greenhouse effect and affect climate warming in subtropical regions. The emissions increase when the roots of plants influence microbial communities in the soil. This influence, in turn, depends on temperature changes. Therefore, climate warming can lead to more greenhouse gas emissions.

OED Word of the Day: futzing, n. Ineffectual or trifling activity; messing about; tinkering.