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Carolina Myer is a writer, editor, and digital media strategist who's been working in the news industry since she was 21. She writes about sports, education, and tech—and she's a huge geek.

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Ashley Judd, Aloe Blacc open up about deaths of Naomi Judd, Avicii in White House visit

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Ashley Judd and Aloe Blacc visited the White House on Tuesday to promote the Biden Administration’s newly formed National Strategy for Suicide Prevention and federal action plan, speaking candidly about the deaths of Judd’s mother, country-music star Naomi Judd, and Blacc’s frequent collaborator Avicii. “I’ve learned in recovery that I can pretend to care but […]

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If TikTok is sold, who would buy it? What to know as ban looms

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TikTok on Wednesday faced a formidable threat to its business, with a new law signed by President Biden that could dramatically change the way the popular video app operates. TikTok, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has faced scrutiny from U.S. government officials over how it handles the data of its U.S. users and

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The Palestine Exception to Academic Freedom Must Go

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Examples of institutional discrimination against Palestine advocacy abound. By Mohammad Fadel CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Imagestk // for full bleed half split – figure’s parent container shouldn’t calc max-height // and should be set to 100% instead – querySelector === baseClassName let parent = document.querySelector(‘figure.FullBleedFigureHalfSplit’).parentElement parent.style.maxHeight = “100%” Examples of institutional discrimination against Palestine advocacy

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Christina Applegate contracts virus after eating food contaminated with fecal matter

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Christina Applegate was still recovering from her first run-in with COVID-19 when another virus recently had her health in the toilet again. The “Dead to Me” star spoke humorously — and graphically — about her “gross” experience with a sapovirus infection in the sixth episode of “MesSy,” the multiple sclerosis-themed podcast she shares with actor

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Legislation banning TikTok is coming this week. How will it affect the music industry?

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On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that would force TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell the popular app, or it would be blocked in the U.S. While the legislation would have profound impacts across the tech, political, entertainment, media and marketing worlds, music may be especially affected. TikTok’s first incarnation was as a

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Ancient rocks hold proof of Earth's magnetic field. Here's why that's puzzling

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A 3.7-billion-year-old record of our planet’s ancient magnetism has been unearthed, providing evidence that Earth’s magnetic field already existed very early in history. This discovery, however, is quite surprising. Rocks approaching 4 billion years old are hard to find; most have been recycled through Earth‘s tectonic activity, slipping into the mantle through subduction zones before

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Hubble telescope celebrates 34th anniversary with an iridescent Dumbbell Nebula (image)

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To write that the Hubble Space Telescope is legendary would be an understatement. In the 34 years this telescope has been in orbit, it has produced breathtaking images of the cosmos. One that sticks out, for instance, is the iconic Hubble Ultra-Deep Field, aka the deepest visible-light view of our universe ever created. Thanks to

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Kid Cudi cancels tour: Ankle broken at Coachella is 'much more serious,' needs surgery

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Kid Cudi is canceling his upcoming Insano: Engage the Rage World Tour after finding out his broken ankle is “much more serious” than he thought. “Guys, so, I have a broken calcaneus,” Cudi posted Wednesday on social media. “Im headed to surgery now and there’s gonna be a long recovery time. We have to cancel

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