Saturday 1/4/25
Sunday 1/5/25
Celebrate:
Saturday
Dimpled Chad Day
Free Flower Basket Day
Fruitcake Toss Day
National Spaghetti Day
National Trivia Day
Pop Music Chart Day
Tom Thumb Day
World Braille Day
World Hypnotism Day
Sunday
George Washington Carver Day
International Jewish Book Day
National Bird Day
National Keto Day
National Screenwriters Day
National Whipped Cream Day
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In 2024, the collective wealth of the world's 500 richest people surged, surpassing a staggering $10 trillion, as reported by Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index.
The year was markedly characterized by a tech-stock rally in the United States, highlighting a voracious investor appetite for companies at the forefront of innovation. The key drivers of the wealth surge include advancements in AI, blockchain, renewable energies, and space exploration, with tech tycoons pioneering developments.
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The snack giant behind Oreos, Ritz crackers, and Chips Ahoy is letting AI into its secret recipe vault to help shape your munchies. Instead of relying on old-school trial-and-error, Mondelēz uses a machine-learning wizard to streamline the process. The tool chews through the company's recipes and desired characteristics, like flavor ("buttery," "vanilla intensity"), aroma ("oily," "burnt"), and appearance ("amount of chips," "roundness") to spit out new concoctions in record time. It even considers cost, environmental impact, and nutrition. Human tasters will get the final say
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The English language has one of the highest word counts in the world with over 170,000 published in the Oxford Dictionary. But the average English-speaking adult only use 20,000 to 35,000.
So with plenty of room for improvement, here's a list of tips from "Reader's Digest" on how to learn new words and sound smarter:
1. Watch movies, especially the adaptations of your favorite book.
2. Listen to the radio.
3. Read to your children, or nieces and nephews.
4. When reading on a tablet, if you come across a word you don't know, there's usually a feature where you can highlight it and see a dictionary definition.
5. Become an expert on a topic you enjoy. You'll learn new words that you can use when talking to people about your interests.
6. Join a book club. It's a good way to discover new books that you normally wouldn't read.
7. Read magazine articles. Don't just look at the pictures.
8. Stop being a hermit and get out of the house. Going to museums, or new places, will expose you to new words.
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