Maasai Olympics

Kenya’s Maasai warriors gather to celebrate “Maasai Olympics,” a rite of passage Hundreds of youths from the Maasai pastoralists in Kenya gathered on Saturday at a wildlife sanctuary to participate in “Maasai Olympics,” a ceremony promoted by conservationists as an alternative rite of passage for young men in the community. […]


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A Year Only Lasts 17.5 Hours on the ‘Hell Planet’

The exoplanet 55 Cancri e goes by several names, but the rocky world located 40 light-years from Earth is most known for its reputation as a “hell planet.” This super-Earth, so named because it’s a rocky planet eight times as massive and twice as wide as Earth, is so scorching […]


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Real ID for Flying

You now have another 2 years to get a Real ID for flying in the US US flyers now have an extra two years to get a Real ID-compliant form of identification. The program was supposed to start in May 2023. Now it’s delayed until May 2025. The US government […]


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TSA Wants to Scan Your Face at Security

Next time you’re at airport security, get ready to look straight into a camera. The TSA wants to analyze your face. The Transportation Security Administration has been quietly testing controversial facial recognition technology for passenger screening at 16 major domestic airports – from Washington to Los Angeles – and hopes […]


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Matthew McConaughey is Teaching a New Course

Matthew McConaughey is reprising a previous role in the spring: professor. The actor is returning to University of Texas—Austin to teach a course on commercials, where students will study his latest commercial work, according to the description of the class, which is called Script to Screen: Commercials. McConaughey will co-teach […]


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