Friday, January 10, 2020

In the news, Tuesday, December 31, 2019


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DEC 30      INDEX      JAN 01
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from HumanProgress.org  Education Website

The 20 Biggest Tech Advances of the Past 20 Years
In just a few days’ time, another decade will be over. With the 2020s nearly upon us, now is the perfect time to reflect on the immense technological advancements that humanity has made since the dawn of the new millennium. This article explores, in no particular order, 20 of the most significant technological advancements we have made in the last 20 years.

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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from The Washington Post
Newspaper in Washington, D.C.

Has J.K. Rowling figured out a way to break our cancel culture?
Before the Beatles arrived and the Sixties really got rolling, American fiction used to abound in novels where earnest young people chafed under the censorious regency of “Mrs. Grundy” and her ubiquitous gossip-wielding hatchet squads. After a wild decades-long interregnum, we have apparently once again decided that our lives should be governed by that still, small voice crying “What would the neighbors think?”

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