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World's last male white rhino dies: Sudan was born in 1972 when ~1,000 still roamed wild. Another species driven into grave
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Sudan, the world's last male northern white rhino, has died, putting his species on the brink of extinction
Sudan was born in 1972, in what is now South Sudan, when there were still about 1,000 northern white rhinos roaming wild. But their habitat was then, as it remains today, riven by human conflict. As The Washington Post's Kevin Sieff wrote in a profile of Sudan in 2015: “They were concentrated in countries plagued by war: Sudan, Congo, the Central African Republic. When fighting broke out, the rhinos were also victims, killed for their meat or their horns, or sometimes exchanged for money or arms.”
The world's last remaining male northern white rhino has died in Kenya at age 45, the conservationists who looked after him said Tuesday. There are now just two female members of the subspecies left.
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Photo courtesy Mercury News / AP
Amend 36,000-ton Silversea luxury cruise ship? Saw it in half, add 49ft length(the strength?), requires 500 workers, 450,000 hrs
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Silversea luxury cruise ship cut in half for massive 49-foot expansion
Silversea began the lengthening process of its Silver Spirit ship this month as part of a $100 million renovation.
The massive expansion will require 500 workers who will spend approximately 450,000 hours to complete.
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Image courtesy @FoxNews and Wikimedia / Flickr / Tips For Travellers
Uber self-driving plus human backup driver at wheel (both "blind"?) killed woman on foot with walking bicycle crossing street
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The Volvo was in self-driving mode with a human backup driver at the wheel when it hit 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg as she was walking a bicycle outside the lines of a crosswalk, police said. She died at a hospital.
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Photo courtesy AP Photo / Eric Risberg
Up: $1.3T spending bill; benchmark rate (2018: 3 hikes?); price of goods (pushed by tariff); young users fled FB, so did Tesla
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#BreakingNews: Fed raises benchmark rate 0.25%. Fed funds rate range now 1.5% to 1.75%. Fed maintains three rate hikes for 2018.
More Than 11 Million Young People Have Fled Facebook Since 2011 According to iStrategy, Facebook has 4,292,080 fewer high-school aged users and 6,948,848 college-aged users than it did in 2011.
March 23, 2018 - Elon Musk joins delete-facebook boycott, deleted Tesla’s and SpaceX’s Facebook pages on Friday. “I didn’t realize there was one. Will do,” Musk tweeted back. He initially said, “What’s Facebook?” to a prior tweet from WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton urging his followers to delete Facebook because, “It is time.”
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Image courtesy JOEL SAGET / AFP / Getty Images
Mystery. Bond between lion and toddler. Lion comes across, licks&paws at glass; toddler, hands on glass, looks at lion unafraid
"lion lick and paw at glass after becoming 'obsessed' with SC toddler"
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Lion takes a shine to Rock Hill baby behind glass: "Ever see a lion so obsessed?"
Michael, the male lion, took an immediate shine to Josie. The zoo is a preservation site for endangered animals.
"The lion came right across the enclosure and pawed at the glass, and even licked the glass, with Josie right there just inches from him," Cait said. "The inches were the safety glass, though."
"The video shows the lion only wants to paw at Josie, and Josie is right there looking at the lion with her hands on the glass," Cait said. "She wasn’t scared. She loved it."
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Image courtesy The Herald
15Mar1905. Unknown patent clerk, who stays with questions much longer, writes papers on nature of light, relativity and E=mc²
"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer."
- Albert Einstein
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Albert Einstein's Year of Miracles: Light Theory
Over a century ago today, 15 March 1905, Albert Einstein finished a scientific paper that would change the world. His radical insight into the nature of light would help transform Einstein from an unknown patent clerk to the genius at the center of 20th-century physics.
Scientists call 1905 Albert Einstein's annus mirabilis - his year of miracles. Within a few months, Einstein wrote a series of papers that would transform the way we see the universe. They included his theory of special relativity and the famous equation E=mc².
The first paper described his particle theory of light, which became one of the foundations of modern physics. Just as popular legend has it, Einstein really was a patent office clerk when he conceived his radical theories - but he was also a doctoral candidate who spent his free time debating cutting-edge physics with his friends.
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Photo courtesy Wikimedia
2018. Hardcover release on Pi Day (Einstein's Birthday): "Book of L" - Quotable Wit and Wisdom
Legacy of Latin Fiat Lux "Let there be Light," like lightning, inspiring minds from ancient Rome to digital age, at this moment sheds light onto this Book of L.
"L," a magic ring, holds key words about Life. Book of L sees L in Quotation, L in Latin Motto, and L in Poem, heritage to all.
Latin: "Lumen Ad Viam."
Buddha: "Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
Therefore, dedication to Light three lit candles, three Books of L.
First hardcover print, 122 pages: 2018
Books of L, first of its kind, classy, artistic, top quality full-color press.
Available via
Barnes & Noble and Amazon, or buy direct with discount.
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