2 months to live: A teenager with brain cancer sets her sights on a summer of laughter and living
‘I want people to know, don’t be scared. Be brave and just live your life’ Alicia Joseph is taking the millennial phrase ‘YOLO’ (You only live once) to a whole new level, living it up this summer. She’s taking a family trip to Oahu to swim with turtles and dolphins, getting matching tattoos with her […]
Cycling club introduces visually impaired youth to joys of two wheels
Weekly tandem rides set off every Sunday throughout the summer Cycling is a quintessential Vancouver activity that a new club wants to make more accessible for visually impaired youth. The “Buddy Up” weekly cycling club — an initiative of non-profit group Blind Beginnings — meets every Sunday morning for group tandem bike rides. Seerat Khurana […]
4 members of Thai soccer team freed from flooded cave, governor says
Rescue of 12 boys and coach going ‘better than expected,’ next phase not expected to begin for 10-20 hours Four of 12 Thai schoolboys who became stranded with their soccer coach more 16 days ago in a flooded cave were removed from the underground complex in northern Thailand on Sunday and rushed to hospital, officials […]
Ring of Fire gold exploration would mean jobs in Thunder Bay, Noront says
The company has started looking for a partner with gold experience to help it exploit deposits in the region The president of Noront Resources says gold exploration in the Ring of Fire could create more jobs for people in Thunder Bay, Ont. The company has started looking for a partner with gold experience to help […]
NASA’s new climate science satellites switch on their lasers
NASA’s new climate-monitoring satellites, which SpaceX ferried to orbit in May, are almost ready to keep an eye on our planet’s ice sheets, atmosphere and ocean levels. On June 13th, the twin Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) satellites switched on their lasers in search of one another for the first time. Those lasers […]
Tesla and Luxembourg squabble over failed Model S braking test
Did you think Tesla could move past braking complaints just because it addressed the issue with the Model 3? Luxembourg certainly doesn’t. The European country’s testing and standards body ILNAS has put itself at odds with Tesla after conducting an unusually public emergency braking test (media outlets like Luremberg Wort got to watch) that compared […]
McLaren’s expanded eSports program includes mobile racing games
McLaren is enamored with eSports — so much so that it’s expanding the scope of its program. The 2018 edition of the Shadow Project promises to be more “open and inclusive” than you might expect, letting you compete for virtual motorsports glory not just with die-hard PC racing simulators like iRacing and rFactor 2, but […]
Elon Musk’s Thailand cave rescue would use a ‘kid-size’ submarine
Elon Musk is quickly solidifying his offer to help rescue a boys’ soccer team trapped in a Thailand cave, and in just the way you would expect from a technology entrepreneur. He has revealed that the “primary path” for his attempt will involve a “kid-size submarine” that uses the liquid oxygen transfer tube of a […]
Smart People on Wall Street Are Buying These 3 Stocks. Should You?
Following the moves of successful Wall Street investors won’t guarantee that you beat the market. But it’s not a bad idea to keep an eye on what some of the investing world’s most accomplished players are up to. With that in mind, we asked three Motley Fool investors to weigh in on some stocks that […]
The 3 Worst Biotech Stocks of 2018 (So Far)
Some biotech stocks have enjoyed a tremendous year so far in 2018. But many haven’t. More than 100 biotech stocks have dropped 30% or more.That total, however, includes many tiny biotech stocks. But there have also been quite a few relatively larger biotechs that have performed dismally in 2018 thus far. The three worst biotech […]