The 18-year-old from Melbourne who turned back 400 metres from Everest’s summit, then returned a year later and made history

18-year-old Bianca Adler turns back 400m from Everest summit, returns a year later to make historyPhoto: Bianca Adler/ Instagram In the pre-dawn darkness of the world’s highest mountain, an 18-year-old from Melbourne stood on top of the world. Bianca Adler had just become the youngest Australian to summit Mount Everest, completing a feat that had…

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In 2012, conservationists began working to remove an obsolete Massachusetts dam; 14 years later, demolition started to reconnect 7 miles of stream and restore 6 acres of wetland

Duxbury, MassachusettsRepresentative image For more than a century, a small concrete dam stood in the way of a river’s natural flow. Built to serve industries that no longer exist, the Temple Street Dam in Duxbury, Massachusetts, had long outlived its purpose. It blocked fish from reaching their spawning grounds, trapped sediment, created a maintenance burden…

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Sam Altman is happy he rejected Goldman Sachs job offer, tells that while it was tough to say ‘No’ then, it should not be for students nowadays, as …

Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said he is glad he turned down an internship offer from Goldman Sachs during college, adding that while rejecting such an opportunity was difficult at the time, it should be much easier for students today because artificial intelligence has lowered the barriers to starting a company. Speaking at the…

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Israel warned US of alleged Iran plot to assassinate Donald Trump

Israel warned US of sniper, knife, missile threats against Trump; White House says could not verify. (Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump) Israel warned the United States over several alleged Iranian plots to assassinate President Donald Trump, including possible sniper, knife and shoulder-launched missile attacks, but US intelligence agencies could not independently verify the specific threats, according…

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