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Walt Disney Co. Has For The First Time Appointed A Woman, Ms. Susan E. Arnold, As Chairman Of Its Board. Ms. Susan Has Being A Member Of The Disney Board For 14 Years. And She Also Comes With Executive Experiences From Procter & Gamble, The Carlyle Group, And McDonald’s. Ms. Susan Will Succeed Robert Iger Effective December 31st, 2021.

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Sesame Street, The 52-Year-Old Show, Has Added The First Asian American Muppet To Its Show. The Muppet, Called Ji-Young, A 7-Year-Old Korean American Who Loves Playing The Electric Guitar And Skateboarding, Will Usher In Rock Music, Asian Culture And Talk About Racism, Given The Surge In Racism And Violence Targeting Asians And Asian Americans.

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Survey, By Comparing The Cost In Dollars For Goods And Services In 173 Cities, Has For The First Time Named Tel Aviv, Israel, As The World’s Most Expensive City To Live In, While Paris And Singapore Came A Joint Second. Zurich Came Third. Damascus, In War-Torn Syria, Remains The World’s Cheapest City.

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Honduras Has Elected Its First Female President, Ms. Xiomara Castro. Ms. Castro, Who Had Contested Twice For The Presidency After Her Husband, Manuel Zelaya, Was Ousted In A 2009 Coup, Will End The Right-Wing National Party 12-Year Reign. Ms. Castro Promises Changes To A Country Plagued By Large-Scale US Migration, Violent Crime, And Drug Trafficking.

Researchers Have Discovered A New Strain Of Coronavirus That Has About 50 Mutations, Compared To The Fewer Than 20 Mutations In The Delta Variant. The New Strain, Called Omicron, Is Said To Pose Very High Risk, And Is Probably The Most Contagious Strain. Omicron Has Been Found In More Than A Dozen Countries Across At Least Five Continents.

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An Indian Government Survey, Between 2019 And 2021, Shows That, For The First Time In History, India Now Has More Women Than Men, With 1,020 Women For Every 1,000 Men. The Survey Of 650,000 Households Also Shows A Decline In India’s Reproductive Rate, Implying That India’s Current Population Of 1.4 Billion May Be Near Its Peak.

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NASA Has Launched A Spacecraft To Test The First Technology That Could Save The Earth From Catastrophic Asteroid Impact. The Nasa’s Dart Mission Will, In Late Sept. Or Early Oct. 2022, Crash A Spacecraft Into A Non-threatening Asteroid Called Dimorphos, At 15,000 Miles/Hour, To Test How Difficult It Is To Stop A Huge Space Rock From Colliding With Earth.

Ms. Magdalena Andersson, Elected As The First Female Prime Minister (PM) Of Sweden, Resigned On Wednesday, 11/24/21, Just Hours After Being Named The New PM. Ms. Andersson Resigned Out Of Self-Respect After Her Coalition Partner, The Greens Party, Quit The Govt., And Her Budget Failed To Pass. But She Hopes To Become A PM In The Future.

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Vice President (VP) Kamala Harris Became The First Woman To Have The Presidential Power Of The Most Powerful Country In The World, USA. VP Harris Had the Power For 85 Minutes When President Biden Was Under Anesthesia For His Routine Colonoscopy. This Temporal Transfer Of Power Is Not Unusual As It Has Happened During Past US Presidencies.

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Researchers Have Found The First Direct Evidence Of A Never Before Seen Mineral That Forms In The Mantle. The Mineral, Davemaoite, Is Said To Be A High Pressure-Temperature Form Of Wollastonite, A Commonly Found Mineral. The Davemaoite Was Discovered, Using Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction, In A Botswana Diamond, Which Formed In The mantle.

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The Longest Partial Lunar Eclipse In This Century And In ~580 Years Will Occur For 3 Hrs And 28 Mins, Begining Late Thursday Night To Early Friday (18th-19th, Nov. 2021) Across The USA. And Spectators Do Not Need Special Glasses To View It. A Partial Lunar Eclipse Occurs When The Sun, Earth, And Moon Are In An Almost Straight Line.

A 6-Year Research, Based On 88,926 Adults, With An Average Age 61, Is Indicating That Falling Asleep Between 10 to 11 p.m May Minimise The Risk For Heart Disease. The Study Shows That Folks Who Fall Asleep Earlier Than 10 p.m. Or At Mid Night/ Later Were Associated With Respective 24% Or 25% Increase In Risk Of Cardiovascular Disease.

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Researchers Are Developing A No Pain Injection, Called Bubble Gum, Which Uses Laser To Push Tiny Droplets Into The Outer Layer Of The Skin In A Process That Is Quicker Than A Mosquito Bite. The Injection, Which May Be Available To The Public In 1-3 Years, Could Help Speed-Up Vaccination As It Eliminates Injection Phobia.

A Researcher Is Stating That The Moon”s Top Rocky Soil Layer Contains Enough Oxygen That Can Sustain 8 Billion People For 100,000 Years. However, The Oxygen, Which Makes Up 45% Of The Lunar Soil, Would Have To Be Extracted From Its Bonded State With, Fortunately, Existing Technology, Increasing The Feasibility For Long Term Moon Base.

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Portugal Has Passed A Law That Bans Employers From Contacting Employees After Work Hours. The Law, Amid A Surge Of Home Workers, Is Part Of An Effort To Appeal To Remote Workers Coming To Portugal And To Promote Healthy Work-Life Balance. Employers, According To The Law, Could Face Financial Penalties For Contacting Employees Outside Of Work Hours.

A Technology Company, ABB, Is Said To Have Developed The Fastest Electric Vehicle (EV) Charger, Called Terra 360, Which Is Capable of Charging An EV In About 3 Minutes For A 100 km (62 miles) Drive Range. The Terra 360 Is Said To Have A Maximum Output Of 360 kW And Can Fully Charge An EV In 15 Minutes Or Less. Cool!

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A New Record May Have Been Set For The Longest Flight Over Water By An All-Electric Plane. The 48-Mile Flight Was Made Across The Cook Strait, New Zealand. And The Plane Was Piloted By Gary Freedman, The Founder Of The Record-Setting All-Electric Plane Company, ElectricAir, For ~40-Minutes From Omaka To Wellington Airport. Cool!

The UAE Hope Probe, Via Its Ultraviolet Spectrometer, Has Found Higher Levels Of Oxygen (Unpredicted Variations Of 50% Or More In The Brightness) In Mars Atmosphere Than The Expected Relative Uniform Oxygen Levels Across Mars. The Discovery Is Said To Have Implications For Existing Martian Atmospheric Models And The Atmosphere Behavior.

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Michelle Wu, An Asian American Woman, Has Made History As The First Woman, And The First Person Of Color To Be Elected As The Mayor Of Boston, Massachusetts. Wu’s Election Broke Boston’s 200-Year Pattern Of Only Electing White Men For The Position. Wu Was Also The First Asian American Woman Elected, In 2013, As Boston’s City Councilman.

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Self-Driving Boats (Roboats) Are Being Tested In The Canals Of Amsterdam. The Same Advanced Technology Applied To Self Driving Cars Was Used In Developing The Roboats. The Roboats, Expected To Travel 6-7 Km/ Hour, Will Convey People, Goods, And Trash. The Watercrafts Will Be Used To Alleviate Road Congestions By Making Use Of Under-Utilised Canals.