Article Published by: mmajunkie.com UFC President Dana White claims the price tag for his fight promotion is nearly double what it sold for roughly two years ago. Endeavor purchased the UFC for $4.025 billion in August 2016. There were many perceived uncertainties in the wake of the...
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Article Published by: nasa.gov Just two days after launch on Aug. 11, 2018, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe achieved several planned milestones toward full commissioning and operations, announced mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, or APL,...
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Article Published by: weeiradio.com Any catcher would absolutely love to be Sandy Leon right now. This is a player whose team, the Red Sox, has won 27 of the last 29 games Leon has started at backstop. And along the way, the 29-year-old has compiled the best...
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Article Published by: economist.com A data boom enables an algorithmic approach to fixed-interest investing Compared with equity investing, bond investing can seem stuck in the dark ages. As hedge funds and asset managers use whizzy algorithms to trade shares automatically, bond-fund managers still often call traders by...
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Article Published by: forbes For more than a decade, one 48-year-old entrepreneur in Ghana has been quietly building up a multimillion-dollar oil and gas outfit called UBI Group. Salma Okonkwo is a rare woman to head up an energy company in Africa. “I don’t stop when...
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Article Published by: gizmodo.com NASA’s newest exoplanet-hunting spacecraft has started taking scientific data as of last week, according to a NASA release. TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is a two-year-long mission tasked with surveying the skies for planets around other stars. After launching this past April...
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Article Published by: fieldandstream.com Looking to consistently connect long range with a rifle? Start with this simple step-by-step guide. Then practice—a lot Hitting your target with a rifle at long range, on the range or in the field, is simply a matter of performing a sequence of...
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Article Published by: mmafighting.com At UFC 226, Daniel Cormier became only the second man ever to hold two UFC belts simultaneously when he knocked out Stipe Miocic to claim the heavyweight title. It was the biggest win of Cormier’s career and immediately vaulted the double champ into...
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Article Published by: economist.com Vanadium, a metal used to harden steel could also help prevent global warming Open a toolbox, pull out a spanner and you may be holding a bit of the answer to global warming: vanadium, a metal named after Vanadis, the Scandinavian goddess of...
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Article Published by: solarsystem.nasa.gov Pluto is the only world (so far) named by an 11-year-old girl. In 1930, Venetia Burney of Oxford, England, suggested to her grandfather that the new discovery be named for the Roman god of the underworld. He forwarded the name to the...
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