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Month: August 2021

Medieval Finnish grave that puzzled researchers for decades may have held ‘high status’ non-binary person: study

By Ben Cousins, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story     Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — Researchers in Finland have found new evidence from an ancient burial site that suggests medieval Finns may have challenged binary gender roles and that non-binary people may have been accepted in their community. The Suontaka grave, discovered during

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International Space Station Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the International Space Station (ISS), a spacecraft built by a partnership of 16 nations: United States, Canada, Japan, Russia, Brazil, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Information on ISS crews and expeditions can be found here. Statistics The ISS

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AMC is playing to the Reddit crowd

By Hanna Ziady, CNN Business If there was ever any doubt that individual investors are a powerful new force on Wall Street, AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron may just have silenced the skeptics. The latest: On the company’s earnings call Monday, Aron made it very clear through his choice of words — and downright flattery

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

Detenciones, deserciones y exilios: ¿qué está pasando en el Belarús de Lukashenko?

Germán Padinger (CNN Español) — En medio de los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio 2020, la atleta bielorrusa Kristina Timanovskaya desertó a Polonia debido al temor a ser encarcelada cuando retornara a Belarús por sus críticas al gobierno de Alexander Lukashenko. El activista Vitaly Shishov, quien dirigía desde Ucrania una organización para ayudar a los refugiados

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Meaningful ways individuals can put pressure on corporations to solve the climate crisis

By Rachel Ramirez and Alexis Benveniste, CNN Business The climate crisis is accelerating at unprecedented pace, according to a new United Nations state-of-the-science report. It is “a code red for humanity,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres — and given that the report concludes the entirety of the warming is due to human greenhouse gas emissions,

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