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The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) nearly issued a warning after it predicted that an asteroid the size of a football pitch would zoom past Earth on Friday (February 2).The asteroid in question, named 2008 OS7, has been classified as potentially hazardous and is expected to come within 1.7 million miles of Earth – about seven times further out than the Moon – at a speed of around 11 miles per second, the Telegraph reported.2008 OS7 has been identified as being potentially hazardous because it…

No Labels, the dark money group working to give Americans a centrist, third-party alternative for president this year, has generated reams of news headlines and significant agita among Democratic Party operatives. Attracting support from young people is another story.  On Tuesday, the organization hosted a “college outreach” seminar on Zoom to “celebrate our successful volunteer efforts and work together to plan more outreach to America’s commonsense youth.” The handful of attendees who showed up did not appear to…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain From the nutritional traffic light system displayed on a box of cereal, to the efficiency ratings we look at when buying a house, ratings and labels help us work out how to spend money responsibly. A new scheme from the UK's financial regulator also aims to use them to help you invest responsibly. The Financial…

Taylor Swift, who has just been named TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year, dished on her Kanye West dispute in her interview, dragging Kim Kardashian as well.The 33-year-old singer shed light on the feud with Kim’s then-husband Kanye West, who wrote a song at the time which included vulgar lyrics about her.The lyrics in question, from the 2016 song Famous, saw Kanye rap: “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex. Why? I made that b*tch famous (Goddamn). I made that b*tch famous.”The rapper, now known as Ye, claimed…

Psychology master’s student Lakota Wood found that non-Indigenous students rated common identifiers of Indigenous peoples in Canada as conveying less warmth and competence than those describing other ethnic groups. Credit: Geoff McMaster Many non-Indigenous Canadians may have a ways to go in shedding negative stereotypes of Indigenous people, according to a recent study by a University of Alberta master's student in…

Elagabalus ruled as Roman emperor for just four years before being murdered in AD 222. He was still a teenager when he died. Despite his short reign, Elagabalus is counted among the most infamous of Roman emperors, often listed alongside Caligula and Nero. His indiscretions, recorded by the Roman chroniclers, include: marrying a vestal virgin, the most chaste of Roman priestesses, twice; dressing up as a female…

Credit: Polina Tankilevitch from Pexels Corporate America has heard the warnings: Generation Z is going to turn workplaces upside down with their competitive nature and demand for remote work. While the oldest Gen Zers have been in the workforce for less than a decade, there are dozens of books geared toward helping leaders successfully manage them. And don't forget entitled millennials, independent, aloof Gen Xers, and…

Reddit has started testing its version of verification badges on its platform with a new "Official" label. According to, the new label is in early testing and is only available to a small group of organizations ("in the double digits") that already have existing relationships with Reddit. The company says that the label will appear next to their usernames, similar to how flairs are currently implemented. Reddit clarifies that this should not be taken as an endorsement or promotion on its part and that it’s simply there to…

The individual who accused actor Kevin Spacey of sexual assault has referred to him as a “predator” and disclosed the profound impact it has had on his life, including feelings of shame, anxiety, and depression. The alleged victim, whose identity is protected by UK law, claimed that he endured nearly two decades of sexual assault perpetrated by Spacey. “I can’t bear to watch the man. It makes me feel sick,” the man stated in a video of his police interview, which was played for jurors during the Oscar-winner’s sexual…

Parental Advisory Explicit Content Twitch is adopting a new range of labels and tags with which it hopes creators can better classify mature content on their respective channels — The new tags, which are live on the platform right now, are the latest step in the company’s efforts to improve community safety on the popular streaming service. Initially, the site had a catch-all “Mature Content” label, but the new tags hope to be a little more specific as to what audience members can expect when visiting one of the…