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Heavy Flooding in New Brunswick Collapses Basement, Leaving Family Homeless
Many homes across North America come equipped with basements, those beloved underground spaces that can be used for storage, recreation and many other possibilities. Unfortunately, these basements can sometimes be more of a pain than they’re worth. It’s estimated that over 98% of homes with basements will incur some amount of water damage, which can…
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How Will YouTube’s New Premium Service Affect the Marketing World?
YouTube has announced a new service: YouTube Red. For just $10 a month, users don’t have to deal with ads, they can save videos offline, and they even continue listening to a YouTube video in the background while they do other things on their mobile devices. The ad-free component launches the last week of October,…
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New Sources of Rubber Could Reduce Environmental Impact and Production Costs
Rubber has always been a product in high demand considering its versatility and seemingly endless applications. However, the production of many natural rubbers has proven to be costly, and may even have an effect on the environment. According to rubbernews.com, the Iranian organization Sadaf Petrochemicals Co., recently broke ground on a new emulsion styrene butadine…
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A CD From Poland Sent Anonymously to a Tech Blog Contained a Creepy, Disturbing Puzzle
The Internet is a dark, mysterious place. Google has indexed a staggering 200 Terabytes worth of its data — 204,800 gigs — and has only just scratched the surface, indexing a mere 0.004% of the total web. It’s out of this ominous, labyrinthine network that a creepy puzzle has emerged. It all started when tech…
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More Health Conditions Approved for Medical Marijuana Use
A panel in Illinois has voted to recommend medical marijuana use for more ailments. The Medical Cannabis Advisory Board is now recommending it for post-traumatic stress disorder, autism, osteoarthritis irritable bowel syndrome, and chronic pain, the latter of which affects 1.5 billion people worldwide. The board also voted to add chronic pain syndrome, chronic postoperative…
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New Research Illuminates Correlation Between Sleep Apnea and Early Heart Injury in Woman
By definition, sleep apnea is a disorder that leads to continual pauses and disruptions in breathing while sleeping. One of the most common kinds of sleep apnea is obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a disorder that affects approximately 25 million adults in the United States. An individual with OSA may experience up to 60 sleep disruptions,…
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Climate Change is Proving to Have Drastic Effects on Arctic Regions
Environmental conservation is increasingly gaining traction in the public’s eye due to the more apparent effects it’s having on people’s surroundings. Some people may simply be feeling the rising temperatures during the summers and in their homes. Just between 1993 and 2005, temperatures increased so much that the energy consumed by the average residential air…
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Trevor Noah Takes Over Daily Show, Gen X Feels Left Out
While 27% of new home sales are members of Generation X moving in, Trevor Noah, new host of “The Daily Show,” showed the world that Generation X was actually moving out. According to a recent story from Salon, Noah’s debut on “The Daily Show” had many memorable moments, most of which put heavy emphasis on…
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N.C. Acupuncturists Seek To End Dry Needling Practices Run by Physical Therapists
A group of acupuncturists in North Carolina are headed to court to contest the practice of “dry needling” by physical therapists. One of the biggest misconceptions about acupuncture is that it’s neither safe nor proven to be effective; in reality, acupuncturists must have a license in order to practice — which requires hundreds of hours…
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Court of Appeals Judge Strikes Down Woman’s 4 Year Lottery Scam Sentence
It might be time for a Washington woman sentenced to four years in prison for an attempted lottery scam to try playing it for real. Katrina Bowen found out last week her luck had changed at least a little when a superior court declared her original sentence too harsh, according to the local news site…