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SUP Magazine: DeWalt's No. 1 Bestselling 20V Batteries With 19,000+ 5-Star Ratings Are 52% Off for Black Friday—Their Lowest Price All Year

Men’s Journal aims to feature only the best products and services.  If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission. Amazon's deals on DeWalt tools are some of the best online, but during the retailer's massive Black Friday sale , some prices have dropped to annual lows. You can score DeWalt's bestselling drill and driver kit , the oscillating multi-tool , and even the 142-piece mechanics tool set for just $99 right now. But these deals don't come close to...

Cato Institute 

A Life for Liberty: The Making of an American Originalist PUBLISHED

Georgetown University law professor Randy Barnett has played an integral role in the rise of originalism—the movement to identify, restore, and defend the original meaning of the Constitution. But Barnett’s path to becoming an influential professor of constitutional law was not an easy one. Starting from a working-class childhood in Calumet City, Illinois, Barnett’s unusual resume has included stints as an ice cream truck driver, newspaper ad salesman, prosecutor, libertarian theorist, contract law professor, and Supreme Court advocate. Читать дальше...

Phys.org 

Study reveals RNA's unknown role in DNA damage repair

A multi-institutional team of researchers, led by Georgia Tech's Francesca Storici, has discovered a previously unknown role for RNA. Their insights could lead to improved treatments for diseases like cancer and neurodegenerative disorders while changing our understanding of genetic health and evolution.

BigNewsNetwork.com (sports) 

Man claims insanity in attack on mother pushing baby stroller

A court-waived trial was held Tuesday for Desmond Kekahuna, accused of intentionally driving his red Honda Fit into a 37-year-old woman, who was pushing her 6-month-old baby in a stroller through the parking lot of the Mililani Walmart.

Boing Boing 

World's tallest and shortest women enjoy tea time together

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In celebration of Guinness World Records Day, the world's tallest and shortest women met for the first time over afternoon tea at London's Savoy Hotel.

Jyoti Amge is 2 feet 0.7 inches tall while Rumeysa Gelgi is 7 feet 0.7 inches. — Read the rest

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Thenextweb.com 

UK hospitality startup Lighthouse enters unicorn club with $370M raise

London-based startup Lighthouse just raised a hefty $370mn from American investment giant KKR at a valuation of over $1bn, making it Europe’s latest unicorn tech company. The funding will supercharge the company’s ambitions to shake up the $15bn travel tech market. What’s on the to-do list? Refining its AI tools, expanding globally, and snapping up competitors through mergers and acquisitions (it has already made four). Lighthouse’s platform crunches over 400 terabytes of travel data every day, using... Читать дальше...

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WasteCo Expands To North Island With Civic Waste Acquisition

WasteCo has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire 100% of the shares on issue of Civic Waste Ltd for $9 million, together with an earn-out component based on achieving financial performance milestones during the following 12 months.

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'Genetic time machine' reveals complex chimpanzee cultures - Phys.org

  1. 'Genetic time machine' reveals complex chimpanzee cultures  Phys.org
  2. From Chimpan-A to Chimpanzee, These Apes May Have Humanlike Culture  The New York Times
  3. Chimpanzees seem to get more technologically advanced through culture  New Scientist
  4. Chimps Share Knowledge like Humans Do, Spurring Innovation  Scientific American
  5. Chimpanzees are steadily honing their tool-using skills -- a process unfolding over millennia, driven by the exchange of ideas through migrations between populations... Читать дальше...

Phys.org 

'Genetic time machine' reveals complex chimpanzee cultures

In recent decades, scientists have clearly demonstrated that chimpanzees, like humans, pass on complex cultures such as tool use from generation to generation. But human culture has become vastly more sophisticated, from the Stone Age to the Space Age, as new advances have been incorporated. Chimpanzee cultures haven't changed in the same way, which suggests that only humans have the remarkable ability to build more sophisticated cultures over time.

Phys.org 

Hubble finds sizzling details about young star FU Orionis

In 1936, astronomers saw a puzzling event in the constellation Orion: the young star FU Orionis (FU Ori) became a hundred times brighter in a matter of months. At its peak, FU Ori was intrinsically 100 times brighter than our sun. Unlike an exploding star, though, it has declined in luminosity only languidly since then.

BigNewsNetwork.com (sports) 

Rivals UCLA, USC to clash, this time as Big Ten squads

(Photo credit: Jason Parkhurst-Imagn Images) Crosstown rivals Southern California and UCLA meet for the 94th time and the first as Big Ten Conference counterparts when the Bruins host the Trojans on Saturday at Pasadena, Calif. Both USC (5-5, 3-5 Big Ten) and UCLA (4-6, 3-5) are playing for their bowl-game lives. A loss eliminates the Bruins from bowl participation in their first year of Big Ten membership, while fallin

BigNewsNetwork.com (sports) 

"Prince" Lucas Bahdi signs with Jake Paul's MVP

(Photo credit: Most Valuable Promotions) "Prince" Lucas Bahdi has signed with Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions after fighting on the undercard of Paul's main event against Mike Tyson last week. Bahdi, a 30-year-old lightweight out of Canada, improved his record to 18-0 with 15 knockouts with a decision victory over previously undefeated Armando Casamonica (14-1, 3 KOs) on the Nov. 15 card. That followed a knockout wi

Kotaku.com 

Warning Dog Lovers, Stalker 2 Ain't For You

Stalker 2 is out now on Xbox Series X/S and PC. And you might be curious to check it out despite the bugs and performance problems. However, if you are someone who can’t stand the idea of shooting or killing dogs in a video game, then you probably should stay far away from Stalker 2.

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