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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

Fast Company Tech

This will put at risk decades of human development progress in densely populated coastal zones which are home to one in seven people in the world, says Pedro Conceio, director of the United Nations Development Programmes Human Development Report Office. East Coast, Japan, and the west coast of South America.

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How Indigenous Peoples’ Day is Supplanting Columbus Day

Whole Whale

1492: A directionally challenged, but well-funded Columbus thought he found a new route to Asia. He “found” the Bahamas. Roosevelt made Columbus Day a national holiday. 1946: The United Nations Charter is signed, without any mention of indigenous peoples. Roosevelt made Columbus Day a national holiday.

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2022

TechCrunch

By December 12, Bankman-Fried had been arrested in the Bahamas. What was surprising was that Haus announced this shift after it crossed the $10 million in revenue threshold and announced that it would be hitting national distribution with Winebow — two markers of growth. The next day, the U.S.

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Rocket Report: SpaceX lands in the Bahamas; ULA tests modified booster

Ars Technica

Kennedy's challenge to land astronauts on the Moon amid intense Cold War competition with the Soviet Union. Flawed or not, these decisions were backstopped with some level of reasoning, debate, and national consensus-building. It's true that the US space program has always been political.

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