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3Apr

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ENVIRONMENT, VIDEO REELS

The Polar Vortex: What Exactly Is It?

At the start of February 2021, a major snowstorm hit the northeast United States, with some areas receiving well over two feet of snow. Just a few weeks earlier, Spain experienced a historic and deadly snowstorm and dangerously low temperatures. Northern Siberia is no stranger to cold, but in mid-January 2021, some Siberian cities reported temperatures below minus 70 F (minus 56 C). Media headlines hint that the polar vortex has arrived, as if it were some sort of ice tornado that wreaks wintry havoc wherever it strikes. As atmospheric scientists, we cringe when the term polar vortex is used to loosely refer to blasts of cold weather. The actual polar vortex can’t put snow in your backyard, but changes in the polar vortex can load the dice for wintry weather – and this year, the dice roll...

9Dec

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LIFESTYLE

What Exactly Is A Flavored Coffee?

Flavored coffee refers to your regular coffee, but it's made tastier through natural or synthetic flavors. Unlike popular belief, this method has been around for decades. As a matter of fact, this method is as old as the coffee beans. With the passage of time, new flavors became popular among people across the globe. Let's find out more. The History In the 1990s, the popularity of flavored coffee went up. As time went by, people got addicted to the flavors, especially the natural ones. How Is Flavored Coffee Made? The best method is to roast the green beans to get the natural aroma and flavor. Usually, huge tanks are used for roasting. They are heated at high temperatures that can be up to 356 degrees Fahrenheit. This process is completed in 15 minutes. Afterward, the beans are allowe...

Swooning Over Bumble’s IPO – But What Exactly Is An Initial Public Offering?

12Feb

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BUSINESS

Swooning Over Bumble’s IPO – But What Exactly Is An Initial Public Offering?

Bumble raised US$2.15 billion in an initial public offering, or IPO, late on Feb. 10, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Investors swooned over the women-go-first dating app, buying more shares and at a higher price than initially expected, valuing the company at $8.3 billion. But what exactly is an IPO? As a finance professor, I believe understanding IPOs are an important part of knowing how markets work. More interesting to me, however, is how a new type of IPO is growing in popularity – including among the Redditors who are upending financial markets – and allowing more investors than ever to buy into the “hype” when a company goes public. Why companies go public Companies use IPOs – known as “going public” – to access the deep pockets of the U.S. stock market. At the end of 2020, the ...

Will 50 Cent, Ice Cube Enable Trump’s Return To The White House? Not exactly

28Oct

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POLITICS

Will 50 Cent, Ice Cube Enable Trump’s Return To The White House? Not exactly

To judge by the brief, but furious, flurry of recent news and social media reports about the 2020 presidential campaign, the fate of the election may very well be decided by a previously undetected groundswell of support for President Donald Trump by young Black men. In the closing days of the campaign, a pair of hip-hop artists – 50 Cent and Ice Cube – drew widespread political attention by expressing support for Trump or, at least, a willingness to work with him in a second term. Specifically, 50 Cent - born Curtis James Jackson III - endorsed Trump’s reelection in a Twitter post, saying he feared Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden would raise his taxes. “Yeah, I don’t want to be 20cent,” he wrote, noting that higher taxes on the rich “is a very, very, bad idea. I don’t like it....