Author: EconLearner

Today’s connectionsCredit: NYT / Erik KainWelcome back, Connectioneers! If you’re looking for help with today’s NYT Connections puzzle, I’m here to help you out with some extra clues and the solutions for the Yellow, Blue, Green, and Purple groups.Happy Summer Solstice! Today is the longest day of the year and the official start of summer. Pretty exciting, though I wish it was the first day of the monsoons. I’ve started calling summer “fire season” and I hate it. Pray for rain, Log in, or send some our way if you have an abundance.Be sure to check out our weekend streaming…

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Current Climate brings you the latest sustainability business news every Monday. Sign up to get it in your inbox.WCome back to Current Climate. From legal battles in the Southwest over access to Colorado River water, to below-average snowpack in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, to Corpus Christi, Texas, facing a looming shortage, steady supplies of fresh water are a bigger concern for large parts of the country. Desalination is one option for boosting supply, and is already doing so at plants in California, Texas and Florida. But it is problematic due to high costs and high energy needs. It can also…

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Multiple exposures of the midnight sun passing northward on a summer night 175 miles north of the Arctic Circle. | Location: Toolik Lake, Alaska, USA.gettyThis weekend, the sun will reach its highest point in the northern hemisphere sky, with the sunrise celebrated at Stonehenge, but in the Arctic it will not set. The June solstice occurs on Sunday, June 21, 2026, at 08:24 UTC, marking the astronomical start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. For most people, this means the longest day of the year. But north of the Arctic Circle, it brings something even stranger and more spectacular -…

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As historically As black colleges and universities grapple with shrinking resources and growing financial pressure, Fisk University President Agenia Walker Clark is betting the school’s future on one of America’s most controversial developments: a data center.Shocking some of its neighbors, the Nashville-based HBCU recently unveiled a $1 billion plan it calls “Quantum Leap To revitalize the 40-acre campus. The financial centerpiece of the plan will be a $400 million Innovation Center, which will include a 30,000-square-foot academic space along with a 70,000-square-foot technology data center that Clark believes could generate revenue for the university for generations.Data Center Demand Rising Nationwide,…

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You don’t have to play golf to suffer from ‘golf’s elbow’. (Photo: Getty)gettyWith the golf season upon us, let’s put this elbow injury into perspective. Sure, it’s nicknamed “golf’s elbow” because you can actually get injured playing golf. But what is medically known as medial epicondylitis can occur during many other non-golf activities. What is golfer’s elbow?To understand what golfer’s elbow is, you need to understand the anatomy of your upper arm. This is a condition of the humerus – meaning the injury affects the distal end of the large bone in the upper arm, known as the humerus which…

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California voters in November may well approve a 5% wealth tax on billionaires. This is not just another display of rage in the once Golden State, but is part of the global movement to impose massive taxes and financial controls on a global basis. Many people in California are looking for scapegoats for an economy in which a handful of people are doing extremely well while tens of millions barely make any headway in their incomes. Indeed, many households are falling behind. The fact that the booming stock market helps everyone with a 401(k), IRA or retirement plan is overlooked…

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Atonemo NTS Radio Player is a Google Cast and AirPlay streamer that can also stream music from the NTS Radio platform. Think of it as your own personal DJ spinning a curated selection of music.Susanne Nilsson Hammarby sjostad StockholmAudio company based in Stockholm Atonemo has joined the global platform NTS Radio for the release of the Atonemo NTS Radio Player, a compact Wi-Fi streamer that brings NTS’ curated channels and infinite mixes to virtually any speaker or amplifier ever made. The new device is based on the idea that sometimes the best listening experience is one where you hand over…

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PARIS, FRANCE – DECEMBER 14: In this photo image, the logos of the apps Street View, Google Earth, Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Hangouts, Google, Gmail, Chrome, Google News, Drive, Google Earth and Chrome appear on the screen of an iPhone on December 14, 2020 in Paris, France. A global bug has affected Google services since midday. An unprecedented incident: most Google services, including YouTube and Gmail messaging, experienced a major global outage on Monday, December 14 at noon. Google said on its web-accessible dashboard that all of its services were affected, and that for the “majority of users.” (Photographic illustration…

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