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  • Is 8.5 hours the perfect amount of sleep – and could you survive on much less?

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    Penn State University researchers claim we need eight and a half hours for sleep. Their reason? Most people only sleep 90% of their time in bed, so you need that extra half hour if you want to have eight hours real sleep. Good sleep is worth the effort – but how long do you need? 0 hours Total […]

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  • Trump pounces on Justice Department report findings

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    President Donald Trump on Friday offered his first reaction to a 500-page internal watchdog report issued by the Justice Department, decrying messages exchanged between two FBI employees expressing a desire to “stop” him from becoming president. “Doesn’t get any lower than that!” Trump tweeted, a day after the highly anticipated inspector general’s report was released. […]

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  • A Greek getaway fit for the Gods

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    It’s easy to fall into hyperbole when it comes to Danai. I just can’t help myself; three days isn’t long enough to get bored of holding court in a beachside cabana like some medieval lord at a banquet. It is long enough however to achieve the gut of one, but what was I going to […]

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  • Leaf-cutter ants pick up the pace when they sense rain

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    In Central America’s rain-drenched forests, leaf-cutting ants collect pieces of leaves on which they grow fungi for food. But the rain can hit hard, especially for a small ant. When leaf-cutting ants sense an incoming shower, they hoof it back to their nests, says a study in the May Insectes Sociaux. Researchers from Argentina, Mexico and Peru […]

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  • 6 Lessons From Cannabis CEOs Who Raised More Than $50 Million

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    As if starting a legal marijuana business isn’t hard enough, scoring investment capital can seem almost impossible. Yet some entrepreneurs have managed to do both—to the tune of over $50 million. What’s their secret? We talked to a few to find out the best ways to approach investors. 1. Be candid and don’t B.S It’s […]

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  • China promises fast response as Trump readies tariffs

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    BEIJING – China vowed on Friday to strike back quickly if the United States hurts its interests, hours before U.S. President Donald Trump was due to unveil revisions to a tariff list targeting $50 billion worth of Chinese goods. Washington and Beijing appeared increasingly to be headed toward a trade war after several rounds of […]

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  • After #MeToo, Anthony Bourdain stood ‘unhesitatingly and unwaveringly’ with women

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    In the eight months since the #MeToo movement resurfaced, the women coming forward with spectrum-spanning stories of mistreatment found an ally in a man that had previously been more associated with food than feminism. But Anthony Bourdain, who died Friday at age 61, was quick to admit that his passion for advocating on behalf of victims […]

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  • Seth Rogen admits Trump-Kim summit looked a lot like that troublesome movie he once made

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      Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg admitted that they experienced a sense of déjà vu watching coverage of the President Trump-Kim Jong Un summit, with the latter saying that the exchange was a case of “life imitating art a little too much.” Rogen and Goldberg directed the 2014 movie “The Interview,” about a talk-show host […]

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  • Google diversity figures show little change

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    A new report from Google has revealed that little has changed despite a commitment to increasing diversity among staff employed by the tech giant. Overall nearly 70% of Google staff were men, as has been the case since 2014. In the US almost 90% were white or Asian, 2.5% were black and 3.6% Latin American. […]

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  • Yemen war: Government forces ‘not attacking’ Hudaydah port

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    Yemen’s government says its forces are not attacking the port of the rebel-held city of Hudaydah, the main entry point for aid to the war-torn country. “We are not planning to destroy the infrastructure,” Foreign Minister Khaled Alyemany said. Pro-government forces, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, began an assault on the Red Sea city on […]

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