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Contact Lens of the Future Is Remarkable Ethiopia Planted 353M Trees —in Half a DayEgypt Opens “Bent Pyramid” Meet the New Electric Road Egypt opened two of its oldest pyramids, Ethiopia claims it has smashed a world located about 25 miles south of the capital record in the name of climate change— Cairo, to visitors for the rst time since and the tree planting isn’t even done. 1965. Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Anany More than 353 million tree seedlintold reporters that tourists are now allowed gs were planted across the country in to visit the Bent Pyramid and its satellite pyramid in the Dahshur royal necropolis, which is part of the Memphis Necropolis, You may one day drive down roads charged with electricity that your vehicle automatically detects and sucks up through an automatic arm—if a just 12 hours as part of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Green Legacy reforestation campaign. e campaign hopes a UNESCO World Heritage Site. e BentSwedish project gains any headway. Called eRoad- to see 4 billion indigenous trees plantPyramid, which the AP reports was built during the Old Kingdom of the Pharaoh of Sneferu, in about 2600 BC, is unique in that Arlanda, it has turned 1.2 miles of road outside Stockholm into a kind of slot-car track where electric trucks insert movable arms into a rail to recharge the vehicle’s ba ery while driving. Designed between May and October. Citizens had been encouraged to plant 200 million trees but Ahmed tweeted that 150 it has two internal structures. El-Anany saiders say the technology is weather-proof and the million had been planted a er just six hours. At the end of 12 hours, the country’s minster for innovation and chnology, Getahun Mekuria, announced 353,633,660 seedlings had gone into the ground—more than ve times as many trees as were planted in India over the Bent Pyramid represents a transitional form of pyramid construction between the Djoser Step Pyramid (2667-2648 BC) and arm will rise automatically when one car passes another, Sky News reports. The rails are also said to be safe to the touch. 12 hours in 2017. Some schools and government o ces closed to allow dents and civil servants to take part, which notes 2.6 billion trees have now been planted across Ethiopia. e Guardian reports each citizen is asked plant at least 40 seedlings. e goal is to transform Ethiopia’s landscape, which the Meidum Pyramid (also about 2600 BC). e Guardian notes its "unusual" shape: e rst 160 feet rise at "a steep 54 degree angle, before tapering o towards the top." “One of the most important issues of our time is the question of how to make fossil-free road transportation a reality,” says eRoadArlanda Chairman Hans Säll. “We now have a solution that will make this possible, which is amazing.” Among its pluses, is seeing degradation, soil erosion, deforestation, and droughts and ooding tied to agriculture. About 80% of Ethiopia’s population relies on agriculture to make a living, with the result that just 4% of land is now forested, compared to 30% at the end of the 19th century, according to Farm Africa. El-Anany also announced that Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered a collection of stone, clay, and wooden sarcophagi, some Säll says the electric road lets vehicles have smaller ba eries and therefore makes vehicles cheaper to produce. The $7.7 million project will be tested with a truck fleet for two years, and if the government approves, it could be implemented for $1.9 Al Jazeera, a recent study estimates that 1 trillion new trees could pull most 750 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere—or about much as humans have released in the last 25 years—over several decades. of them with mummies, in the area. He said archaeologists also found wooden funerary masks along with instruments used for cutting stones, dating to the Late Period (664million per mile and include buses and cars. “Sweden is at the cu ing edge of this technology, which we now hope to introduce in other areas of the country and the world,” Säll says. US Teen Wins $3M at Fortnite World Cup 332 BC). Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said they also uncovered large stone blocks teen contestantsEmil Bergquist dersen from Sweden and David Wang from Austria shared a $3 million prize. Art Expert Gives Museum Some Really Bad News A museum in southern France suffered a terrible blow when experts declared that over half its paintings are forgeries, The along with limestone and granite fragmentsTerrus museum, dedicated to the work of Pennsylvania16-year-old painter Étienne Ter- Kyle Giersdorf plays 8 to 10 hours of Fortnite a day, but his parents aren’t complaining:Giersdorf, indicating the existence of ancient graves in the area. Egypt has been whipping up publicity for its new historical discoveries in rus, apparently knew nothing of the fakes until an art historian informed them. “It’s a catastrophe,” the mayor of Elne, where the museum resides, tells the Telegraph. “I put myself in the place of all the people who came to visit the museum, With a total prize pool of $40 million provided by Epic Games, Fortnite’s parent company, the tournament broke the hopes of better known as reviving a devastated tourismwho saw fake works of art, who paid an entrance fee. It’s in- ”Bugha,” won e-sports record, though that record is expea record-breaking $3 million at the inaugural Fortnite World sector still recovering from the turmoil following a 2011 uprising that toppled tolerable and I hope we find those responsible.” Police have taken the fakes and are trying to find those responsible. cted to be broken by an August event called “ e International” Giersdorf, the rst longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Cup at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York. e contest featured player in the North American East Region to qualify for the tournament, was domi100 participants out of around nant in the six-game series, beating rivals 40 million who entered the on- including runner-up Harrison “Psalm” line competition. Giersdorf, who Chang, who took home $1.8 million. won the solo event in front of a Giersdorf was hugged by his family a er packed stadium, says he plans to the win. “ is is life-changing for him,” save the prize instead of going mother Darcy Giersdorf says. “He’s been on a spending spree. ”All I want playing video games since he was three, is a new desk and maybe a desk this is his passion. He told us he could do for my trophy. In the duo event this, he put his mind to it and he did it.”
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15 Years Later, Tsunami’s Toll 12 Year Old Steals Moms Credit Card.. Heads on Vacation France Won’t Let Go of Long-Lost MasterpieceRemains Mind-Boggling It still haunts me.” e line from 28-year-old ai resident Suwanne Maliwan to Reuters expresses a common sentiment ursday, the 15th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed 230,000 lives. Ma and the heirs can’t quit squabbling. Here’s a look at where things liwan, for instance, lost both her parents and ve other relatives. ”Sometimes I dream that A 12-year-old Australian boy has pulled off a bold feat that drew international headlines: He stole his mom’s credit card and managed to fly to though it’s been nearly two years since Prince died, the executor of the estate, Comerica Bank and Trust, can’t split the money among Prince’s six surviving Internal Revenue Service and executor agree on the estate’s value a wave is coming,” she says. Vigils and memorials across Asia were commemorating Bali, Indonesia, for a posh, four-day vacation before ge ing caught. As recounted in the Australian program A Current Affair, the boy did some research online and figured out he could fly alone without needing a that might happen. The IRS and state of Minnesota are entitled the staggering loss of life in what was one of the world’s deadliest natural disasters. A 9.1 le er from a parent on Jetstar Airways. He nabbed his mom’s credit card, tricked his grandmother into giving him his passport, took a train to the airport, and flew to Bali. “They just asked for my student ID and collect about half, though the estate can stretch out the payments over time. Court magnitude earthquake o Sumatra island passport to prove that I’m over 12 and that I’m in secondary school,” filings several months a er Prince’s death suggested that it was worth around $200 taxes. The actual value remains one of the biggest secrets in the case, the morning a er Christmas in 2004 trig- says the boy, identified only as Drew. He then checked into a four-star hotel, having made reservations in advance, telling the clerk that his and redacted documents. The actual valuation could have gone up gered the tsunami and unleashed waves as older sister would be joining him soon. down since then. That’s because the various a orneys, accountants, and industry had not yet finished appraisals and deals for the use of his music,high as 57 feet. And there he stayed, having a fine time while his panicked mom reportvideos, and assets including his Paisley Park studio. ed him as missing back home. It wasn’t until the boy posted a video of Coastal areas of ailand, Indonesia, India, himself in the hotel pool that his vacation finally came to an end. “I was shocked and disgusted, there’s no emotion to feel what we felt when sentative contacted school officials Thursday about the surprise message, says a spokeswoman for the district. Sri Lanka, and other countries were deluged. One of the rst areas hit was Indonewe found out that he’d le overseas,” says mom, per news.com.au. One reason she’s ticked: Her son had actually tried this stunt twice before, only to be turned away at the airport by Qantas and Garuda Airlines. Johnson said he admires Kelzenberg's courage but that he won't be able to a end sia’s Aceh province, notes CBS News. In fact, most of those killed were in Indonesia alone, Mom says she was informed her son’s passport would be flagged by federal authorities as a result, but that apparently never happened. In the a ermath, Jetstar promises to tighten up its policies. “He just doesn’t prom because he'll be in Hawaii filming Jungle Cruise. Instead, Johnson rented out a nearby movie theater on Saturday for where 170,000 deaths were registered. ”No words can describe our feelings when we like the word no and that’s what I got, a kid in Indonesia.” Kelzenberg and more than 230 friends and family to watch his latest movie, Rampage. Johnson even covered the cost of snacks tearfully saw thousands of corpses lying on this ground 15 years ago,” said acting Aceh Apparently 82 of the museum’s 140 works are phony, spo ed at times because they contained buildings constructed a er and drinks for the theater. "I couldn't believe it. I was so surprised," Kelzenberg says. "I just kept thinking, 'He saw me! He Gov. Nova Iriansyah at a ceremony in Sigli. ”And now, we can see how people in Aceh Terrus died in 1922. Acclaimed for his landscapes of French Catalonia, Terrus was close with artists Aristide Maillol and Henri Matisse and lived mostly in Elne, a town on the Tech knows who I am!'" Kelzenberg says she became a fan of Johnson's five years ago. Her favorite movies of his include Central were able to overcome su ering and rise again, thanks to assistance from all IndoneRiver that’s less than three miles from the Mediterranean coastofLanguedoc-Roussillon.Themuseumspent over $190,000 acquiring paintings they thought were his. But the Intelligence Jungle. and Jumanji: Welcome to thesians and from people all over the world.” Terrus likely isn’t alone: Art experts say at least one in paintings in the world’s top museums may well be fake. five Shop In RI 5 ShopInRI 7
France is trying to hang onto a medieval painting with a crazy backstory. e nation has blocked the export of a small, 13th-century work by the Italian artist Cimabue, a painting that hung unnoticed for decades above a hotplate in a French woman's kitchen. An auctioneer spotted the painting as the elderly woman was preparing to sell her house, and Christ then sold for a staggering $26 million at auction earlier this year, the Guardian. e buyers are anonymous, but they're believed group of Chilean collectors based in the US. Now, however, they won't be able to own the painting a er all. France's culture ministry has declared the work to be a "national and has at least temporarily overruled the sale, reports USA ministry hopes to hang the painting permanently in the Louvre, now has 30 months to come up with the money to buy it. In me, the family of the unidenti ed woman who displayed the years, unaware of its origin or its worth, must continue to pay insured. ey also owe a multi-million-dollar inheritance tax, likely have to work out a deal to pay it a er the sale goes through. Looking to permanently while away your days overlooking the Tasman Sea and sipping on vino while watching "nice animals" with other "nice people"? Karl Reipen wants to hear from you. e Guardian reports the German multimillionaire has placed an ad seeking 10 people up to age 70 to come live in what he calls his "paradise," a 550-acre, $5.6 million estate in Awakino, on New Zealand's North Island. "If you are interested to live a life with a Group of Interesting people it can be a new life for you," reads the ad, which Stu NZ reports was published twice in the New Zealand Herald. Reipen,
who made his fortune in canned iced co ee, notes in the ad that the estate boasts a winery "for social meetings and dining," and that residents "can enjoy walking, shing, shopping, kayaking, bird watching, swimming or looking at the nice animals." ere are also stables and an indoor equestrian center on-site, and Reipen says, "If you would like to bring your own horse it is possible." Interested parties who prefer privacy will like that the property is an hour and a half from the nearest large town or city. e current government under Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern put in place a ban on foreigners owning homes in New Zealand, but Reipen scooped up
Multimillionaire Invites 10 People to Come Live in ’Paradise’ the property years before te. He still had to get the nation's Overseas Investment O ce, which signed o on his purchase it determined he had the and means to build the and maintain it. "It took to bring it to the standard writes in the ad. It's not clear ture dwellers in Reipen's self-proclaimed utopia will be selected.
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TOO BIG FOR THEIR SCALE It’s an almostmind-boggling catch: a sun sh so huge that marine biologist says it couldn’t be put on a 1,000-kilogram scale (that’s one that can weigh up to 2,204 pounds) for fear of breaking it. e massive sun sh became ensnared in a tuna- shing boats nets. Marine biologist Enrique Ostale was called in to evaluate, and tells Reuters the sh found in the Mediterranean o Ceuta measured 10.5 feet long and 9.5 feet wide and was brought aboard using two cranes from di erent vessels, per USA Today. “Based o its corpulence and compared with other catches, it must’ve weighed around 2 tons,” he says. at’s roughly 4,400 pounds. “We couldn’t believe our luck,”
e world’s most powerful telescope is on its way to the cosmos. A rocket li ed o with the James Webb Space Telescope. NASA is collaborating with the European andCanadian space agencies on the 10 billion dollar telescope. e James Webb Space Telescop is two decades in the making. Assuming all goes well, the Webb will function as a far more advanced successor to the venerable Hubble Space Telescope. •The stakes: What happens in the a ermath of the launch “will either change our understanding of the universe, or deliver a crushing blow to NASA and the global astronomical community,” according to the Washington Post. e telescope will “cruise for 29 days to a unique orbit around the sun that keeps it roughly 1 million miles from Earth ... (and) a er it escapes Earth’s gravity, it must begin opening up, blossoming into a functioning telescope.” NASA counts no fewer than 344 potential “singlepoint failures,” the vast majority of them related to the initial deployment. •Themission: It’s large. Here is how CNET sums it up: e Webb “is armed with technology that could unveil the unknown, unseen and mindbendingly far reaches of our universe. It can show us, at last, what really happened just moments a er the Big Bang and use powerful, precise infrared imaging to answer questions like: How did the very rst stars form? Is there life beyond Earth? Are we missing a piece of the universe’s puzzle?” Ostale says in an interview with the Guardian. “We have read books and articles about the dimensions that a sun sh could have, but we didn’t know we would be able to watch it and touch it ourselves.” e sh • 2 key advancements: To achieve all of the above, the Times notes that the Webb di ers from the Hubble in some crucial ways. For one thing, it is sensitive to infrared radiation and can capture wavelengths of light the Hubble cannot. Also, was returned to the sea that same day. e waters o Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on the north coast of Africa, are about 2,300 feet deep. Field & Stream reports the sh is thought to have been a southern sun sh, which a it “relies on a primary mirror 6.5 meters 2017 study determined is the heaviest in diameter, compared with the mirror species of bony sh on the planet. on the Hubble, which is 2.4 meters. at is one isn’t the biggest ever caught gives it about seven times as much light though. Per Guinness, that record gathering capability and thus the ability goes to a 5,070-pounder found o to see further into the past.” Japan in 1996.
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