Article Published by: economist A contrarian strategy fares badly much of the time In april 1962, Joan Whitney Payson watched the New York Mets, a collection of cast-offs from rival baseball teams, lose their first ever game. Mrs Payson, the Mets’ owner, soon left for a summer...
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Article Published by: ESPN LOS ANGELES -- Dave Roberts destroyed the Dodgers' chances of winning the World Series by managing his pitching staff like a fan who won a contest. He shuffled through his relievers, trying to find the worst one for the worst moment, and succeeded...
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Article Published by: Nasa Scientists have confirmed the identity of the youngest known pulsar in the Milky Way galaxy using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This result could provide astronomers new information about how some stars end their lives. After some massive stars run out of...
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Article Published by: forbes.com Fidelity Investments is spinning off a stand-alone company dedicated to bringing cryptocurrencies to institutional investors. Called Fidelity Digital Assets, the limited liability corporation based in Boston will provide enterprise-grade custody solutions, a cryptocurrency trading execution platform and institutional advising services 24 hours a...
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Article Published by: economist.com MORE than 300m people suffer from depression around the world, and another 260m people suffer from anxiety. Technology and the constant cacophony of modern life are cited as the main causes of the increasing prevalence of mental illness. After falling into depression aged...
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Article Published by: outdoorlife.com These modifications will stop a 50-pounder striped bass from turning your lures to rubble A cow striped bass is like an aging heavyweight fighter. It lacks the speed and showboating of bluefish or false albacore, so it relies on experience and raw power...
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Article Published by: cbssports.com The Boston Red Sox eviscerated the New York Yankees 16-1 on Monday night, with the Yankees giving up the most runs in the team's postseason history. It was the kind of debilitating beatdown that a 108-win team can hand out to any team...
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Article Published by: Forbes In a New York Times article, Ben Bernanke, Hank Paulson, and Tim Geithner explained how they saved the banking system. It has been 10 years since the financial crisis started. The banking system has recovered. Wall Street has recovered. The government has been...
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Article Published by: nasa.gov A human mission to Mars, at first glance, offers an inexhaustible amount of complexities. To bring a mission to the Red Planet from fiction to fact, NASA’s Human Research Program has organized hazards astronauts will encounter on a continual basis into five classifications....
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Article Published by: mmajunkie.com What’s really at stake – for the fighters, the fans, and the UFC – when Conor McGregor meets Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 229 this Saturday night? Retired UFC and WEC fighter Danny Downes joins MMAjunkie columnist Ben Fowlkes to discuss in this week’s...
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