I love video games. They allow me to connect with friends, talk on a headset, strategize to eliminate the opposition, and so on. But there’s trouble in paradise. A recently adopted business model involving microtransactions mixes poorly with video gamers. Microtransactions are small online financial transactions. They’re useful to some industries, but in the world […]
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Living with severe depression and other mental issues is a very strange experience. For me it started early. I was about 14. But I hid it well. I was ashamed of my feelings, so I learned to bury them. That worked for a decade and a half. Then I just lost it. Complete nervous breakdown.
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A small desert town simmered lazily in the hot Nevada sun. The once-lively line of small shops and diners had become a ghost town, including the tumbleweeds that drifted across the street. An unnerving silence was shattered by the clacking of train tracks as a large self-driving train rolled through the center of the abandoned
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A few thousand years ago, the Kissimmee River freely trickled south over 11,000 miles of Florida’s land, creating a vast, thin sheet of water that spread over much of the state’s southern half. Over the next couple thousand years, ponds, marshes, and forests developed creating nearly half of Florida’s delicately balanced ecosystem. Four-fifths of that
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On September 20, 2017, the UK pledged 65 million pounds, roughly 88 million dollars, to a collaborative research project with the United States that will involve exploring the origin and structure of our universe. The project will mainly focus on the study of neutrinos. This marks the first scientific collaboration of its kind between our
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Wildfires have a longer-lasting and more direct effect on communities than most people realize. Across the nation, countless cities and states receive their drinking water from nearby reservoirs. When wildfires contaminate the main source of water for thousands in nearby cities, problems occur. Consequently, the watersheds take decades and cost millions to restore. Moreover, water
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