Fall equinox 2019: 9 things to know about the first day of autumn - Vox clock menu more-arrow no yes
The autumnal equinox is upon us: On Monday, September 23, both the Northern and Southern hemispheres will experience an equal amount of daylight.
For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, it marks the beginning of astronomical fall, with daylight hours continuing to shorten until the winter solstice in December. For those south of the equator, it's the beginning of spring.
Technically speaking, the equinox occurs when the sun is directly in line with the equator. This will happen at 3:50 a.m. Eastern on Monday.
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Global climate strike: These 400 businesses are closing or giving workers time off - CBS News
Thousands of people are planning to walk out of work or school on Friday to press global leaders for solutions to rapidly escalating climate change. And while it was students who started the movement, more and more workers—and even companies—are joining them in support.
Some businesses are letting workers take the day off to protest, while others plan to close their doors outright. They tend to be small or mid-sized businesses — most of the country's largest corporations have yet to weigh in on the strike, although plenty of people who work at them might yet participate when walkouts are set to start Friday afternoon.
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Millions take to the streets as climate strike protests hit cities across Asia, Europe
Crowds of children jammed the streets of major cities Friday in a global show of force to demand action on climate change, with many young people skipping school in protest and sharing a unified message aimed at world leaders.
"No matter how many times they try to ignore the issue, you can see every teenager in the area is here," said Isha Venturi, a 15-year-old high school sophomore from New Jersey who was in New York's lower Manhattan for the "Global Climate Strike."
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In New York, the day was punctuated by children-led marches, dance circles and handmade signs that read, "If the world was cool we would be in school." Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, who started the climate strike movement as a weekly demonstration in August 2018, addressed demonstrators in Manhattan later Friday. Organizers estimated about 100,000 people were in attendance.
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Millennials Really Do Ruin Everything, And Big Oil Is Next | OilPrice.com
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It sounds harsh, but it’s true: millennials really do ruin everything. And the oil industry will be no exception. From talent acquisition to courting investors, to finding new end uses for petroleum, the oil industry is facing a whole new set of challenges—one that extends far beyond geopolitical risk premiums and barrel prices.
Oil companies who are quicker to adapt to this changing of the guard will have first pick of investment dollars and top talent, while those who are slow to change will get the leftovers.
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Cool Science Radio - The Big Nine - Amy Webb | KPCW
Our guest is Amy Webb who is a professor of strategic foresight at the NYU Stern School of Business. She is also a quantitative futurist and a bestselling, award-wining author. Her latest book is The Big Nine: How The Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity. In her book Webb states that the big nine for AI: IBM, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Facebook in the US. In China: Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu...that they may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations, desires, or hopes for the future.
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