Bloomberg Philanthropies announced Monday a new $1 billion gift to make medical school free at Johns Hopkins University for a majority of students, while also increasing financial aid for students at its schools of nursing and public health. The announcement was made in Michael R. Bloomberg’s (JHU ’64) annual letter on…
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While current autonomous robots utilize rangefinders, cameras, and lasers to navigate, the addition of whiskers could be a cheap addition that prevents some seriously expensive collisions. Whiskers aren’t only wielded by cats and mice—hundreds of mammals have them, including all non-human primates, and many marine mammals like dugongs and seals. This…
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The metropolitan government of Seoul, South Korea, has just concluded a contest to redesign the lower deck of a famous city bridge, awarding first prize to a Dutch firm that wants to turn it into an art gallery and cultural space. Firm Arch Mist provided the most “innovative” proposal for remodeling…
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A former Hollywood producer turned rancher is rescuing mustangs and wild donkeys from being sold at auction to potentially abusive environments or slaughterhouses. Clare Staples is her name, and when she first became aware that the West’s wild mustangs are rounded up by the Bureau of Land Management and sold at…
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Mischief reigns in a small Canada community after a kipnapping left a man’s garden vacant of the ten ceramic garden gnomes that resided there. Kelly Blair, a resident of Kelowna, B.C., woke up on a late June morning to discovery his garden gnomes had been stolen from his yard. Blair was…
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A video game has raised over $50,000 for aid groups working in Ukraine including the Polish Red Cross and Save the Children. In 2021, a pair of Polish computer game designers produced a free video game based on the works of American sci-fi author H. P. Lovecraft, and it went on…
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A great-grandmother in Pennsylvania recently won $5 million playing scratch lottery cards, and the timing couldn’t be better. Having just successfully beat breast cancer days before her birthday, Donna Osborne picked the winning scratch card after having to cancel a flight because of consistent delays. “I don’t know what I’d do…
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