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Why Do Dogs Eat Poop?

It’s surprisingly common for dogs to eat poop, a habit called coprophagia.




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What Your Earwax Says About You

Earwax reveals more than you might realize, from ancestry to underlying medical conditions.




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What Does 5G Really Mean?

The next generation of wireless communication technology is much more advanced, but it requires a lot of new infrastructure.




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How Was the Great Pyramid Built?

Records show how the Egyptians built the Great Pyramid more than 4500 years ago.




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Why the Sky Changes Colors at Sunset

What causes those beautiful reds, oranges, and pinks at sunset?




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Displaying digital signage software with a Q management system

A Malaysian security department needed a system that their programmers could incorporate Q management control with digital signage software. They display Repeat Signage on their screens to show live TV, the counter and announcements, in this case study.




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Our lastest digital signage case study comes from Illinois in the US.

Minerallac Company, an electrical construction hardware manufacturer, find Repeat Signage software a useful tool for keeping staff updated on events and information. Staff is their satellite office, 2000 miles away, now feel more connected since digital signage was utilised.




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Display data with the Repeat Signage datagrid

7-minute video shows you how to filter and display data in a datagrid as part of your digital signage software presentations for display on any screen, anywhere. This feature is available in Repeat Signage Corporate or Media Wall editions and is ideal for corporate offices to help keep staff updated on relevant information




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Display single line of database or txt file text

7-minute video shows how you can a single line of text from either a .txt file or a database, for example, displaying name of duty manager. The ability to display database information is available in the Corporate and Media Wall editions of Repeat Signage digital signage software. Ideal for displaying company information on any screen anywhere.




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Input spreadsheets to your digital signage, data and graphics

The spreadsheet control within Repeat Signage software allows you to display existing Microsoft Excel .xlsx files and allows you to use the built in editor to create spreadsheets within your presentations. You can also create and display spreadsheet graphs from your information. This gives you an easy way to display formatted information in grids and you also have the ability to insert pictures as well.




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Remembering superstar music producer Quincy Jones

The renowned arranger, composer and producer worked with countless artists, including Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin and Michael Jackson. Jones died Nov. 3. Originally broadcast in 2001.




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Saoirse Ronan says her experience as a child actor continues to shape her work

Ronan credits her parents and the filmmakers she worked with as a child for keeping acting fun. She stars as a woman struggling with addiction in The Outrun and as a World War II mother in Blitz.




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How the 1874 Freedman's Bank collapse connects to economic disparities we see today

In Savings and Trust, historian Justene Hill Edwards tells the story of the Freedman's Bank. Created for formerly enslaved people following the Civil War, its collapse cost depositors millions.




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As a 'Seasoned Professional,' Jenny Slate now finds strength in her sensitivity

The comic can pick up on the "micro bad mood" of whoever she's talking to. She writes about pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood in a new book of essays, Lifeform. Originally broadcast March 12, 2024.




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A Marine Corps veteran expresses concerns for the military in a 2nd Trump presidency

Essayist Phil Klay says Trump tried to use the military to push his partisan agenda before, and may further erode norms around the military as he looks for those willing to "go with his whims."





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Fewer Black men are enrolling in HBCUs. Here's why and what's being done

The absolute number of Black men enrolled at Historically Black Colleges and Universities is the lowest it's been since 1976.




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Kids at an Arizona tribal school learn about democracy with their own lunch vote

Kids at a tribal school in Arizona are preparing for their own election to determine their favorite school lunch: pizza or chicken nuggets? And they're learning about democracy along the way.




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Louisiana schools use Artificial Intelligence to help young children learn to read

In Louisiana, more than 100,000 students are using an AI tutor that is helping to raise reading scores.




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In this school’s election, it’s pizza vs. chicken nuggets, with democracy as the winner

At an Arizona tribal school, it's a fierce campaign to pick the top school lunch, as students learn about making their voice count




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Dear Life Kit: Is it a faux pas to create a 'happy graduation' registry for myself?

An NPR listener is graduating soon with her MBA. She wants to know if it's OK celebrate her achievement by asking loved ones to buy her gifts from a registry, similar to what people do for weddings.




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What student loan borrowers can expect as the presidency changes

With Donald Trump's re-election, millions of federal student loan borrowers are left to wonder if this is the end of the road for President Biden's promises of loan relief.




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Inside this maximum security prison, a film festival proves 'a little bit healing'

The Sing Sing maximum security prison in New York held its first-ever film festival recently, with incarcerated men invited to judge the five entries.




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A small town in Ohio embraces butterflies to symbolize change and recovery

One small Ohio town designed a butterfly garden as a symbol of recovery for former flood land and for people who have struggled with addiction.




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'Orbital' by Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize

Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her science fiction novel Orbital. The novel follows six international astronauts as they orbit the Earth for one day of their nine-month space mission.




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'Juror #2' is a thorny legal thriller — and possibly Clint Eastwood's last film

Eastwood takes measured aim at the American justice system in a film that centers on a murder trial — and a juror who realizes he may be implicated in the crime.




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'Candyman' star Tony Todd dies at 69

The versatile actor had hundreds of screen credits to his name, including Platoon, The Rock and Final Destination.




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With "Wicked," director Jon M. Chu writes his own story

Wicked – the 20-year-old – smash hit on Broadway turns the story of the "Wizard of Oz" on its head.

Now, the story of Elfaba the Wicked Witch of the West, Glinda the Good Witch, and the Wizard himself is making the shift from stage to screen.

The director bringing the Broadway hit to screens across the country is Jon M. Chu, the director of the blockbuster Crazy Rich Asians.

The movie version of Wicked is in many ways the culmination of Chu's own story as a person of color. Chu always wanted to be a filmmaker. Chu says his life experience and career lead him to tell the story of a person of color in a new way.

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Best Android Smart TV to Buy in 2024

In this guide, we have put together the best 5 Android smart TVs with Android TV pre-installed. You can install Kodi right onto these TVs easily. These TVs are available from Amazon and can be purchased worldwide.




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'Sing and cry with him': Shlomo Artzi performs for evacuees of Kibbutz Be'eri


Artzi, with his vast experience performing for soldiers and civilians through Israel's wars, had said, "I've never seen pain like in this war."




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Looking back on the year 5784: A soundtrack of war, love, and TikTok


After the initial shock had worn off and the country began pulling together, people were looking for ways not only to express themselves but also to uplift others.




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Thessaloniki – a place that can be a home away from home for Israeli tourists


Thessaloniki offers visitors 2,300-plus years of history, tremendous shopping, and a Jewish story like no other in Europe. 




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Activity center for new immigrants from FSU opens in Tel Aviv


Over Sukkot, over 150 young Russian-speaking immigrants gathered to celebrate the opening of the center, SSY stated. 




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'You're not marrying a Jew': Martha Stewart says her father slapped her after engagement


In the documentary, Martha Stewart opens up about her childhood and the complicated relationship she had with her father.




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Lost music finds the light: A special concert lights up legacy of Jewish composers in Terezin


These musicians bring both sensitivity and creativity to their work, blending tradition with innovation in a way that’s sure to make this concert an unforgettable experience.




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Yad Vashem exhibit at Austrian parliament rolls out fate of Jews in post-Anschluss Vienna


The seed for the current project was sown last year when a similarly-themed exposition was given pride of place at the Bundestag, the German parliament building in Berlin.




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Adding a twist to your Berlin experience: A hotel where Édith Piaf meets Oscar Wilde


If you are a traveler with an open mind towards avant-garde hospitality with innovative approaches and pushing boundaries of ideas and creativity, you are in for an adventure.




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Avishai Cohen’s musical journey returns to Eilat


Israeli bassist will perform at the Red Sea Jazz Festival and with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra




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Classic British films by Pressburger and Powell being showed at Jerusalem Cinematheque


Their movies feature lush cinematography (whether in color or black-and-white), passionate romances that are all the more affecting because the characters are so very British.




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'On October 8, American Jews woke up': New documentary 'October H8TE' explains what's at stake


Director Wendy Sachs attributes the steep rise in antisemitism to social media, from where so many young people get news that has no validation.




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New photo exhibit at ANU highlights rich heritage of the Jews of Yemen


Photographer Zion Ozeri, whose parents immigrated to Israel from Yemen, documents the last generation of a bygone era in The Jews of Yemen – The Last Generation.




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TV Week: Hanoch, Hopkins, and Billy muddle through


Hot’s Bad Boy debuts Nov. 21, joined by Daum's Life is a Difficult Age, Crystal’s Before, and Armageddon Time on Netflix.




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New theatre production ‘Collective Phenomena’ reveals story of defiant Soviet-Jewish scientists


The director of Collective Phenomena, Semion Aleksandrovskiy, shared a little of this complex history via his own family story.