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Happy birthday, Jodi! -
Herb Alpert at 91He talks with the BBC. Oh, and he is still touring.
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Chernobyl at 40Their mission was to clean up the worst nuclear accident in history.
Following the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, soldiers, firefighters, engineers, miners and medics were summoned from across the USSR. They were known as “liquidators” — an ominous Soviet-era catchall term for those assigned to eliminate a problem.
Over four years, 600,000 people joined the dangerous cleanup. Helicopters hovered above the exposed radioactive core, dropping sand and other materials to smother the fire. Workers washed radioactive dust from buildings and roads, buried poisoned machinery, cleared forests and even hunted animals to slow the spread of radiation.
Many had little knowledge of the dangers they faced.
A group of the workers who live in Ukraine’s Poltava region returned ahead of the 40th anniversary of the accident for a one-day excursion to Chernobyl, which is transliterated in their native language as “Chornobyl.””
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How bad is the housing affordability problem?I hit Fortune's paywall...here's a non-subscription version:
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Peanuts meet hazelnutsSweets maker Ferrero launches new Franklin Park-made Nutella Peanut spread
The company said the product is unlike anything on the market, blending roasted peanuts with the hazelnut flavor fans love.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/money/2026/04/24/sweets-ferrero-franklin-park-nutella-peanut-spread
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Why is FB sending me notifications...Maybe this has some ideas about what's going on?
https://www.smarthomebit.com/deleted-app-but-still-getting-notifications/
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Makes a lot of sense to me (about the prez) -
The zombie wormA fascinating discovery pulled from Siberia's permafrost has shed light on the possibility of life surviving in icy conditions and ignited fresh hope for the future of cryopreservation.
Scientists have recovered a 24,000-year-old worm-like creature called a rotifer from a sample of permafrost, as the Indian Defence Review reported.
According to the analysis published in the journal Current Biology, it had remained frozen since the Late Pleistocene.\
Under meticulous laboratory conditions, they thawed the tiny creature — a multicellular but microscopic organism — and were delighted to see it begin to move and function again as if it had never been frozen.
In fact, not only did the rotifer move, but it even reproduced asexually, creating more like it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/24-000-old-zombie-worm-190000101.html
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Happy 750th birthday, Merton College Library!
