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  • Atlanta Design Festival includes May 26 architectural tour in Asheville

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    Atlanta Design Festival, organized by MA! (May 26 – June 3, 2018) will present a program of architecture tours, as part of their nine-day festival in Atlanta, Georgia. Now in its twelfth year, this Festival has risen to become one of the nation’s leading events dedicated to showcasing world-class design, architecture and brands. MA!, the […]

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  • In Tackling Gender Inequality in STEM, Considerations of Culture

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    For the numerous organizations dedicated to addressing the problem of women’s underrepresentation in science, solutions are far from clear. GROWING UP IN Saudi Arabia, Aciel Eshky didn’t get the memo that science was for boys. When she was around 10 years old, her aunt started to teach her basic computer programming. From there, going on to […]

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  • Inventing a Lifestyle

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    The concept and origins of smart home devices go back at least 70 years: Ray Bradbury, a mid-century push-button house and ‘The Jetsons’ all foreshadowed smart home devices. Ray Bradbury saw it coming, from inside the walls of an imaginary empty house decades away. The acclaimed author’s 1950 short story, “There Will Come Soft Rains,” is […]

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  • 15 Luxurious K-Beauty Products You Can Score on Amazon Prime

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    Korean beauty products, or K-beauty for short, were once known in the US as hard to get and solely reserved for beauty insiders. In the past few years though, people all over the world have caught on to the wonders of K-beauty and the gorgeous, dewy skin that it delivers. Now, you can find K-beauty products practically anywhere, […]

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  • Key Supreme Court justices appear friendly to travel ban

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    WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared poised Wednesday to tune out President Trump’s inflammatory anti-Muslim statements on the campaign trail and uphold his executive order banning travel from seven primarily Muslim countries. In hearing the case Wednesday, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy, a key swing vote, seemed largely unmoved by the argument […]

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  • The Far Right Is Freaking Out Over Kanye West’s Tweets About Donald Trump

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    “It’s the return of Americana and not being a coward and having your own internal compass,” conspiracy theorist Alex Jones said of West’s tweets. A series of pro-Trump tweets from Kanye West sent the far right into a gleeful fit Wednesday, turning a simmering flirtation with the rapper into a full-blown love-fest from a conservative […]

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  • Apple might finally fix iPhone names this year

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    This fall, Apple will launch three iPhone models, which we’ve been referring to as iPhone X successors when discussing rumors, as it’s not clear what Apple will call them. Reports say we’re looking at one LCD model and two OLED versions, with all of them expected to feature iPhone X-like designs, notch included. That’s not […]

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  • New Guinea warriors wielded daggers carved from the femurs of their fathers

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    April 25 (UPI) — As recently as a century ago, the people of New Guinea were carving daggers from the thighbones of cassowaries, flightless, dinosaur-like birds. The most feared and respected warriors, however, wielded daggers carved from the femurs of either their vanquished enemies or their deceased fathers. A new study, published this week in the journal […]

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  • Facebook’s Rise in Profits, Users Shows Resilience

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    Facebook Inc. shares rose Wednesday after the social network reported a surprisingly strong 63 percent rise in profit and an increase in users, with no sign that business was hurt by a scandal over the mishandling of personal data. After easily beating Wall Street expectations, shares traded up 7.1 percent after the bell at $171, […]

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  • Euro holds near eight-week lows ahead of Draghi news conference

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    LONDON – The euro held near eight-week lows on Thursday as traders prepared for European Central Bank President Mario Draghi to speak with investors searching for any signals about when the ECB will begin unwinding its stimulus. The single currency trimmed earlier gains to trade flat at $1.2164 EUR= after the ECB kept rates unchanged as widely […]

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