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Wells Fargo Express Office in French Corral,...

June 29, 2021

Driving along the backroads of rural Nevada County, remnants of the area’s rich, historic past can be difficult to spot. However, the Wells Fargo Express building in French Corral is hard to miss. Founded in 1849, the community of French Corral, as the name suggests, was the site of a mule pen created by a French settler. Gold was also discovered nearby and the town began to thrive. Fire was commonplace in the mining west. Most structures were composed……

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Harbor Island Abandoned Houses in St. Helena...

June 29, 2021

On the quaint beach of Harbor Island, South Carolina, lies a cluster of homes abandoned by their owners and left to succumb to the elements and the ever-changing beach. Harbor Island is the first of three barrier islands off of the coast of Beaufort, South Carolina; the other two being Hunting Island (a nature preserve) and Fripp Island (a beach resort). This quiet beach has become a popular vacation spot for locals and visitors alike, leading to condos, duplexes,……

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Cosmic gulp: Astronomers see black hole swallow...

June 29, 2021

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Talk about a heavy snack. For the first time, astronomers have witnessed a black hole swallowing a neutron star, the most dense object in the universe — all in a split-second gulp. Ten days later they saw the same thing, on the other side of the universe. In both cases, a neutron star — a teaspoon of which would weigh a billion tons — orbits ever closer to that ultimate point of no return, a black hole, until they…

‘Excruciating:’ Florida collapse search stretches to Day...

June 29, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

SURFSIDE, Florida (AP) — The slow work of sifting through the remnants of a collapsed Florida condo building stretched into a sixth day Tuesday, as families desperate for progress endured a wrenching wait for answers. “We have people waiting and waiting and waiting for news,” Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava told reporters. “We have them coping with the news that they might not have their loved ones come out alive and still hope against hope that they will. They’re…

Can the Jaguar, King of the Forest,...

June 29, 2021

Tracking Jaguars is all about detective work,” says ecologist Gerardo Ceballos as we trek through the dense forest of Mexico’s Calakmul Biosphere, a protected natural reserve of about 2,700 square miles in the heart of the Yucatán Peninsula. We are followed by biologist Heliot Zarza Villanueva, a jaguar hunter turned conservationist known as Don Pancho, veterinarian Susana Llescas Furter, bloodhound trainer Eliu Campos Hernandez, and one of his trainees, Monica. The puppy, like me, is on her first outing……

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Troyan Monastery in Troyanski manastir, Bulgaria

June 29, 2021

The Troyan Monastery is the third-largest in Bulgaria and is located in the north, nestled amongst the Balkan mountains. It’s located on the outskirts of the small village of Oreshak and was founded in the 16th-century. Luckily, parts of the monastery survived attacks by Turks and represents a small part of the monastery’s colorful past. The monastery is adorned with impressive frescoes that focus on religious themes. These include fire-breathing demons and angels reviving the dead out of their……

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Afton Canyon in Baker, California

June 29, 2021

The Mojave River rises in the San Bernadino Mountains of southern California and flows north and east into the Mojave Desert, one of the driest and hottest areas in the United States. Its nominal endpoint is Soda Lake, a normally dry saline basin near Baker, California. Little wonder that water flows all along the Mojave’s course only during the most extraordinary flood years! There is one unexpected place where perennial surface water always occurs along the Mojave, however: Afton……

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Orum raises $56M to help speed up...

June 29, 2021

Orum, which aims to speed up the amount of time it takes to transfer money between banks, announced today it has raised $56 million in a Series B round of funding. Accel and Canapi Ventures co-led the round, which also included participation from existing backers Bain Capital Ventures, Inspired Capital, Homebrew, Acrew, Primary, Clocktower and Box Group. The financing comes barely three months after Orum announced a $21 million Series A, and brings its total raised to over $82……

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Dzintaru Forest Park Watchtower in Jūrmala,...

June 29, 2021

This tower stands over 100 feet tall (33.5 meters) and reaches over the treetops with a large viewing platform. On the way up there are 12 additional balconies in every direction where visitors can stop, look around, and take a breath of the fresh forest air. From the tower, one can also catch a glimpse of the sea in the distance. Jurmala is a neighboring seaside resort town to Riga, the capital of Latvia. When taking a look in……

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Podcast: Shoreham Power Plant

June 29, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we head to Long Island, not for the beautiful beaches or an Islanders game or to hang with Billy Joel, but to explore a gigantic, ominous seafoam-green nuclear power plant, $5 billion in the making. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In under 15 minutes, we’ll take you to an incredible……

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Letter from President Reif: A new future...

June 29, 2021

To the members of the MIT community, I write to share important news about the future of edX, the nonprofit that MIT and Harvard launched together in 2012 to offer the world an open-source online learning platform for university-level courses. I will begin with the news and then offer some context and detail. The news After a thorough and thoughtful process, and with the support of the senior leadership of MIT and Harvard, the edX board has agreed to……

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FAQs on agreement to sell edX to...

June 29, 2021

This set of FAQs offers information about today’s announcement of a transaction to sell edX as a public benefit company while funding a nonprofit dedicated to strengthening the impact of digital learning. General questions What is MIT announcing today? With the support of the senior leadership of MIT and Harvard University, the edX board has agreed to sell the assets of edX to 2U, Inc., a publicly traded company that provides a platform for life-long learning. Through this acquisition, edX — the……

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MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX...

June 29, 2021

MIT and Harvard University have announced a major transition for edX, the nonprofit organization they launched in 2012 to provide an open online platform for university courses: edX’s assets are to be acquired by the publicly-traded education technology company 2U, and reorganized as a public benefit company under the 2U umbrella. The transaction is structured to ensure that edX continues in its founding mission, and features a wide array of protections for edX learners, partners, and faculty who……

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Jacobs’ post-pandemic runway: Parading puffers in patterns

June 29, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

NEW YORK (AP) — Theaters are dusting off the cobwebs and coming to life, the streets of midtown Manhattan are bustling, Bruce Springsteen is back on Broadway. And on Monday, the fashion world gathered to join another New York fixture, designer Marc Jacobs, and celebrate a return to live runway shows. “Through the physicality of this shared experience, I hope to offer a moment of inspiration, curiosity, wonder and possibility,” Jacobs wrote in the program notes for his fall…

Northwest US faces hottest day of intense...

June 29, 2021

| Entrepreneurship

SEATTLE (AP) — The hottest day of an unprecedented and dangerous heat wave scorched the Pacific Northwest on Monday, with temperatures obliterating records that had been set just the day before. Seattle hit 108 degrees Fahrenheit (42 Celsius) by evening — well above Sunday’s all-time high of 104 F (40 C). Portland, Oregon, reached 116 F (46.6 C) after hitting records of 108 F (42 C) on Saturday and 112 F (44 C) on Sunday. The temperatures were unheard…

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