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☆ A gold miner found a mysterious grapefruit-sized fur ball. It turned out to be a 'perfectly preserved' 30,000-year-old squirrel.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Chris Panella | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

But X-ray scans have revealed this grapefruit-sized lump is actually a 30,000-year-old mummified ground squirrel from the Ice Age. A ground squirrel for the agesAn illustration of the mummified ground squirrel curled up in its burrow during hibernation. "I study bones all the time and they're exciting, they're really neat. Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images"Some people get really, really excited when they find that giant woolly mammoth leg or, you know, the big tusks or the big skulls. But for me, the Arctic ground squirrel fossils, the nests, and now this mummified squirrel, are really the coolest things that we do have.

☆ The Banker Tasked With Saving Swiss Banking
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Eliot Brown | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

During Sergio Ermotti ’s last stint as chief executive officer at UBS Group AG , the bank slashed thousands of jobs, sharpened its focus and became the dominant Swiss financial institution, while rival Credit Suisse Group AG remained strategically scattered and scandal-prone. Now the plain-spoken, immaculately dressed former derivatives trader is about to be in charge of both.

☆ Fact Check-Fabricated Montana Governor Gianforte tweet claiming child was ‘immaculately conceived’ is shared online
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A fabricated screenshot that purports to show a tweet published by the Governor of Montana claiming a child of his was “immaculately conceived” has been shared online. The screenshot shows what resembles a tweet from Governor Greg Gianforte’s Twitter account that reads, in part, “Much like my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, my child was immaculately conceived.”Examples of the image are viewable (bit.ly/3HDgZ7x) and (bit.ly/3HCxHnm). A spokesperson for Gianforte told Reuters: “The governor did not tweet this absolutely absurd tweet.”A Twitter advanced search via Gianforte’s Twitter account did not reveal any such post (archive.is/wip/URInq). A Google advanced search did not reveal any media outlets reporting on the supposed post either (archive.is/wip/bMr27). Reuters did not find any media reports suggesting that Gianforte made any related claim in the past (archive.is/wip/eLBJI).

☆ Qatar 2022: $480,000-per-week yacht plays host to super rich
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Ben Church | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Doha, Qatar CNN —It’s been dubbed the ‘Arabian Riviera,’ where the streets are immaculate and are interspersed with luxury hotels offering shimmering views across the marina. Now in Doha, guests can organize limousines ferrying them to World Cup stadiums for the tournament’s games. Guests can also request to take the yacht out of the marina to view the city from afar. A superyacht World Cup stay offers something very different from some of the other accommodation available to guests in the city during the tournament. From tents in the desert to portacabins on the edge of Doha, World Cup organizers have had to be innovative in providing accommodation options to fans with the influx of an estimated 1.5 million people staying in a nation smaller than Connecticut.

Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Worry, Darling” is — on its immaculately, obsessively polished surface — a film about the danger of dreams. Even if you have somehow avoided all publicity for the film, the pop culture reference points should already be clear. Pugh conveys blissful serenity and anguished confusion with equal conviction; her deftness justifies Wilde’s poetic anti-narrative, and vice versa. The real world feels like ghostly and desaturated reflection. “Don’t Worry, Darling” is a movie that airily warns you to watch out for illusions even as it revels in a film’s power to create a world deliberately untethered from reality.

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