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North Carolina Bans DEI at Public Colleges After Lawmakers Override Governor’s Veto

Passive Income July 5, 2026

North Carolina has become the latest state to outlaw diversity, equity and inclusion programs at its public colleges and universities.…

The Greenland shark grows about one centimetre a year, does not reach sexual maturity until around age 150, and a specimen carbon-dated by Danish researchers in 2016 was estimated to be at least 272 years old, meaning it was already swimming the North Atlantic when Mozart was composing symphonies.

Saving Tips June 9, 2026

When marine biologist Julius Nielsen pulled the lens from the eye of a five-metre Greenland shark in his Copenhagen lab,…

When seismic waves from the Chicxulub impact reached what is now North Dakota roughly ten minutes after the asteroid struck, they appear to have triggered a ten-metre standing wave in an inland river that flung fish onto the bank and buried them under glass beads still falling from the sky.

Saving Tips June 5, 2026

Robert DePalma was digging at a ranch in the Hell Creek Formation of southwestern North Dakota, in a place he…

In 1992, a container ship leaving Hong Kong lost 28,800 plastic bath toys overboard in the North Pacific, and oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer spent the next two decades tracking yellow ducks and blue turtles as they washed up in Alaska, Maine, and eventually the coast of Scotland, quietly rewriting the textbook map of ocean currents.

Saving Tips June 1, 2026

On January 10, 1992, a container ship hit a violent storm somewhere near the International Date Line on its way…

When a massive solar storm hit Earth in 1972, it triggered a series of magnetic fluctuations so severe that it accidentally detonated dozens of U.S. Navy sea mines off the coast of North Vietnam, a military mystery that was only classified and explained decades later

Saving Tips May 27, 2026

On August 4, 1972, U.S. military pilots flying south of Haiphong harbour in North Vietnam saw something they could not…

Nearly 90% of North American, European firms hedge FX exposure as uncertainty rises, survey says

Personal Finance February 26, 2026

Nearly 90% of North American, European firms hedge FX exposure as uncertainty rises, survey says

Pentagon foresees ’more limited’ role in deterring North Korea

Personal Finance January 24, 2026

Pentagon foresees ’more limited’ role in deterring North Korea