Cindy Alverez

Regina King, The Oscar-Winning Actress, Has Made History As The First Black Female Director To Have Her First Directed Film, One Night in Miami, Premier In The Venice Film Festival In Its 88-Year-Long History. The Movie Is Said To Be A Fictional Take On A True Event That Occurred On Feb. 25, 1964, When Muhammad Ali Beat Sonny Liston.

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Recently Released US Census Data Shows That The US White Population Declined For The First Time In History, Over The Past 10 Years. The White Population Fell From 63.7% In 2010 To 57.8% In 2020, The Lowest On Record, Driven By The Falling Birthrates Among White Women Compared With Hispanic And Asian Women. This Data Implies An Increasingly Diverse USA.

Researchers, Based On The Relationship Between Inflammatory Markers And Various Age-Related Conditions, Have Developed A New Tool Called iAge, Which Analyzes Blood-Borne Markers Of Chronic Inflammation. To Determine One’s Immunological Age, Which Could Hint At When/Whether A Person Will Become Frail Or Develop Heart Disease Later In Life.

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Researchers, Based On DNA Analysis, May Have Found The World’s Known Earliest Person, A 5000-Year Old Hunter Gatherer, In His Twenties And Buried In Latvia, Who Was Infected With An Ancient Strain Of The Black Death Plague, Caused By The Bacterium, Yersinia Pestis. The Plague Wiped Out About Half Of Europe’s Population In The 1300s.

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Gabon Has Become The First African Country To Get Paid For Reducing Carbon Emission By Protecting Its Rainforest, Which Covers ~90% Of Gabon. Norway, A Donor Nation, Paid Gabon $17m (£12m) Of The $150m Deal Struck In 2019, As Part Of The Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI). The Money Is Equivalent To The Tonnes Of Carbon Captured.

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3 Climbers Have Recently Set Records For Climbing Mount Everest. Hong Kong’s Tsang Yin Hung, 45, Has Set The Fastest Woman Record For Climbing Everest, Completing It From Base Camp In 25 Hours And 50 Minutes. Arthur Muir, 75, Became The Oldest American, While China’s Zhang Hong, 46, Became The First Blind Man From Asia To Summit Everest.

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Ms. Elisabetta Belloni Is One Of The Most Impressive Women In Power, As She Has Become The First Woman To Head The Department Of Information Security (DIS), Italy’s Secret Services. This Feat Is One Of Her Many Trail Blazes, As She Was Also The First Woman Secretary-General Of Italy’s Foreign Ministry – Italy’s Highest Diplomatic Post.

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The US FDA Has Authorized The Use Of Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine For Children, In The US, Btw The Age Of 12 To 15 Years. This Authorization Is Most Welcome, Especially For Schools Effectively Opening, And Other Adolescents Centered Activities Like Summer Camping, And Sleepovers. The Pfizer-BioNTech Is Already Available To Anyone Over 16.

Researchers Successfully Made A Second Attempt At Producing Human-Monkey Chimeras, By Infusing Human Stem Cells Into 132 Embryos Of Long-Tailed Macaques. But The Embryos Were Then Terminated 19 Days After Injecting The Stem Cells. Chimeras May Be Unethical, But May Help In Drug Tests Or To Overcome Donor Organs/Tissues Shortages Globally.

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Rachael Blackmore, A 31-Year-Old Irishwoman, And A Professional Jockey Since 2015 Is Now The First Woman, Riding Minella Times, To Win Britain’s Grand National Horse Race–A Male-Dominated Sport. Blackmore Is The 20th Female Jockey To Compete In The Grand National Race Since 1839. And Women Have Only Being Permitted As Jockeys Since 1975.

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Chloe Zhao Made History By Being One Of The Three Women Shortlisted For The Golden Globe Best Director Award. And Now, She Has Blazed Another Major Trail By Being The First Asian Woman And The Second Woman To Win The Golden Globe Best Director Award, After Barbra Streisand Won It In 1984. Congrats Chloe!

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Researchers, In A First Of Its Kind, Are Indicating That They Were Able To Converse With Lucid Dreamers—-People Aware That They Are Dreaming. The Research, Involving 36 Participants, Was Conducted By 4 Independent Labs That Used Different Communication Methods. This Feat Is Regarded As An Important Milestone For Understanding Dreams.

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Southbank By Beulah, The $2 Billion Tower Scheduled For Construction In 2021, And Set To Be Australia’s Largest Tower, Will Also Be The World’s Tallest Vertical Garden. The Garden Will Comprise Plants Distributed Based On The Exact Nature Characteristics Of Each m² Of The Tower To Expose The Plants To Their Natural Climate Conditions.

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Researchers Are Indicating That Some Stonehenge Bluestones Were Previously Used In Wales Before Being Transported To Their Current Location. This Find Is Based On The Discovery, In Wales, Close To The Bluestone Source, Of The Identical 110m Diameters Of The Stone Circle, Known As Waun Mawn. And The Attributes Of The Securing Stone Hole.

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Dr. Okonjo-Iweala, Nigerian’s Former Minister Of Finance, If Confirmed, Will Be The First Woman And The First African To Head The World Trade Organization (WTO). She Is Currently The Front Runner And Strongest US Supported Candidate For The Position After Her Fieciest Rival From South Korea, Yoo Myung-hee, Withdrew From Consideration.

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Chloé Zhao–The Director Of “Nomadland,” Emerald Fennell–The Director Of “Promising Young Woman,” And Regina King–The Director Of “One Night In Miami,” Together, Have Made History In The 2021 Golden Globes Award, As This Will Be The First Time That More Than One Woman Is Nominated For The Best Director Award In A Single Year. Congrats!

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Amanda Gorman, Who Is 22 Years Of Age, And Became America’s first-Ever National Youth Poet Laureate In 2017, Has Now Become The Youngest Poet To Ever Perform At A Presidential Inauguration For President Joe Biden. Her Poetry, The Hill We Climb, Which Was Delivered To The World, Calls For Unity And Togetherness. Pretty Impressive! And Congrats!

A Gaming Company, Raze, May Have Innovated What It Is Calling The World’s Smartest N95 Face Mask. The Transparent Mask Is Said To Come With, E.G., A Voice Amplifier To Improve Speech; An Active Ventilation For Exhaling Warm Air And Inhaling Cool Air; And A Light Mode That Lits Up In Dark Environment To Show One’s Mouth And Expression.

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Scientists, By “Reverse Aging” A 30 Ft Long 46-Year-Old Megalodon Fossil (MF), Have Deduced That Baby Megalodons Were More Than 6.5 Ft Long, And That The Babies, Like Modern Sharks, May Have Cannibalized Each Other In the Womb To Reach Such A Size. The MF, Which Existed 15 Millon Yrs Ago, Was Tugged From Rocks In Belgium In The 1860s.

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