Britain’s oldest worker says he still has no plans to retire at the grand age of 96, after a career spanning eight decades. Bill Parton is still clocking in five days a week at the sawmill business he founded himself 42 years ago, and he has no plans to quit working….
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Survey data from two of the G7 countries show that financial planning and fiscal responsibility are attractive to a potential partner. In America, a large survey showed that significant numbers of younger people find having a savings account sexy. Meanwhile in Japan, a three-fourths majority of surveyed high schoolers said they…
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Ophthalmologists have developed a spiral-shaped contact lens that maintains clear focus at different distances and in varying light conditions. The new lens works much like progressive lenses used for vision correction but without the distortions typically seen with those lenses. It could help advance contact lens technologies, intraocular implants for cataracts,…
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14 years after the death of an Army Sgt. in Iraq, his widow and children walked into a brand new house—gifted to them in honor of his memory. The “Hero Home #27” was built through Operation Coming Home, a mission to help injured troops and families of fallen service members, and is…
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“You know what you call it [when] a cobbler is just getting waves and waves of shoes in? A ‘shoenami.’” This A+ dad joke can be attributed to Jim McFarland, aka ‘America’s Cobbler’—a viral internet star who has millions of followers across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube that tune in to watch…
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The jobs report released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics showed much stronger growth than expected to start the 2024 new year. 353,000 non-farm jobs were added in January, while average hourly wages continued to grow and the unemployment remained at the historically low level of 3.7 percent for…
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Solid-state batteries have emerged as a promising advancement that could potentially revolutionize the electric vehicle industry, making EVs even cleaner and more sustainable than they are today. What is pushing this innovation are the many drawbacks to lithium-ion batteries in EVs today: limited energy storage, fire safety concerns, short lifespans, and…
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