Shelter Skelter
Councilor Quinton Y. Zondervan points out that an end to the pandemic could come with a surge in homelessness, as the eviction moratorium expires. âThereâs going to be a wave of evictions, of people who couldnât afford to pay their rent. Itâs a horrible disaster waiting to happen,â he says. â[It will] disproportionately impact Black and Brown community members . We canât go back to normal,â he adds. âWe have to [do] better, because normal was unjust.â
The day before a Cambridge City Council meeting in February, John Chute was preparing his notes.
Chute, who is now 40 years old, has lived in Cambridge his whole life. Until June 2020, he was unhoused for about seven years. As he prepared his notes for the meeting, he thought of the many people he knew who didnât have a warm place to stay in the harrowing week ahead. Temperatures had dipped in the single digits days prior, as the Boston area experienced its col
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In 2019, Elliot Choy filmed Harvard students answering quiz questions to try to win an iPhone.
The video generated Choy more than $90,000 from YouTube s AdSense program.
He also notched up 23 million views and 388,000 new subscribers after the video went viral.
Elliot Choy, 22, is a YouTuber who balances vlogging with studying at Vanderbilt University where he is a business senior.
His YouTube content is a blend of Choy documenting his daily life at Vanderbilt, as well as offering tips on productivity.
He began posting regularly in 2018 but the channel really took off In late 2019, when he published the video Giving Harvard Students an iPhone 11 If They Can Answer THIS Question. In it, he awarded the smartphone as a prize to Harvard students who could answer five quiz questions correctly. The students who didn t win iPhones were
It was tens of miles wide and forever changed history when it crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago.
The Chicxulub impactor, as it’s known, was a plummeting asteroid or comet that left behind a crater off the coast of Mexico that spans 93 miles and goes 12 miles deep. Its devastating impact brought the reign of the dinosaurs to an abrupt and calamitous end, scientists say, by triggering their sudden mass extinction, along with the end of almost three-quarters of the plant and animal species then living on Earth. New theory explains possible origin of the plummeting Chicxulub impactor.
It was tens of miles wide and forever changed history when it crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago.
How did dinosaurs become extinct? By Jupiter acting like a pinball machine, new theory by Harvard researchers suggests
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FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2013, file photo, one of two dueling dinosaurs fossils is displayed in New York. In an ongoing court case over the ownership of the fossils and others worth millions of dollars, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had previously ruled on June 17, 2020, that fossils unearthed on an eastern Montana ranch belong to the owners of the surface estate. Now a museum in Raleigh, N.C. has the fossil in its possession to unlock its secrets. (AP Photo/Seth Weinig, File)AP
A new study led by the scientists of Harvard University has put forth a new theory that could explain the origin and journey of the comet named Chicxulub impactor whose devastating impact brought the reign of the dinosaurs to an abrupt and calamitous end