Ken Yun

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.

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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The Volcanic Eruption, Near Reykjavik, Will Be Iceland Longest In 50 Yrs. The Lava Began Spilling On 3/19/2021, For ~6 Mths, From A Fissure Close To Mount Fagradalsfjall. However, The 143 MCUM Lava Spew, Is Smaller Than Iceland Biggest Lava Flow, In 230 Yrs, From The Shorter-Lived Holuhraun Eruption. Iceland Longest Eruption Lasted 4 Yrs.

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Researchers Have Discovered In The Sahara Desert, The Fossil Of A Four-Legged Whale, Said To Have Raptorial Feeding Style. The 43 Million-Year-Old Fossil Indicates That The Whale, Known As Phiomicetus Anubi, Had A Powerful And Deadly Jaw, Which Could Make It A Top Predator/ The God Of Death To Animals That Lived Within Its Vicinity.

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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.

Simple Life Forms, Like Bacteria And Blue-Green Algae , Did Exist During The Precambrian Era (~4,6 Byrs– 541 Myr Ago), Before More Complex Life Existed. But A New Questionable Study, From Canada, Is Indicating That More Complex And Probably The Oldest Animal Life Form, Some Sponge, May Have Existed ~890 Myr Ago During The Precambrian Era.

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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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