Tag: decades
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Why The Ozone Hole Is on Track To Be Healed By Mid Century
Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images In 1985, atmospheric scientists in Antarctica noticed something troubling. For decades, they’d been measuring the thickness of the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere, the layer of gas that deflects much of the sun’s radiation. Starting in the 1970s, it had started plummeting. By the mid-1980s, they…
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Sports Gambling Creates a Windfall, But Raises Questions of Integrity Here are Three Lessons From Historic Sports Betting Scandals
Bettmann via Getty Images Sports betting is having a big moment across the United States. While gambling on sports has been legal for decades in countries such as the U.K., it wasn’t until 2018 that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could legalize sports betting. Before then, sports betting had been permitted only in…
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Venus Is Losing Water Faster Than Previously Thought – Here’s What That Could Mean For The Early Planet’s Habitability
Aurore Simonnet/ Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics/ University of Colorado Boulder Today, the atmosphere of our neighbor planet Venus is as hot as a pizza oven and drier than the driest desert on Earth – but it wasn’t always that way. Billions of years ago, Venus had as much water as Earth does today. If that…
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Michelangelo The Last Decades Review Feels Close To a Religious Experience
Trustees of the British Museum The final section of the British Museum’s exhibition Michelangelo: The Last Decades is circular and enclosed. The walls are black and the light low. The feeling is of being in a small chapel: if a person was to speak in this space, they would surely whisper – though my instinct was…
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Birth Rates Are Plummeting in Most Nations, And The World Isn’t Prepared
(Jonathan Kirn/Getty Images) Human birth rates will continue to drop drastically over the coming century, and within just 25 years, over two-thirds of countries’ populations will be in decline. That’s the finding of a new study published in The Lancet. The extensive team of international scientists behind the paper warns that governments must prepare for the…
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Do You Have at Least $1 Million in Tax Deferred Investments?
Getty Images I once had a guy reach out to me who said, “Joe, I’ve been reading your book, watching your videos and reading your articles. I’m ready to trust your team with the $1 million in my 401(k) that I’ve saved over the last 30 years.” This was a big moment for him, and…
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