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Max Kepler and Phillies finalize $10 million, 1-year deal
2 days, 19 hours ago

Max Kepler and Phillies finalize $10 million, 1-year deal

Associated Press  

PHILADELPHIA — Max Kepler and the Philadelphia Phillies finalized a $10 million, one-year contract on Friday with the expectation he’ll become the team’s starting left fielder. Phillies president of basbnall operations Dave Dombrowski said the team will give Kepler a shot at playing every day in left. Dombrowski said Kepler underwent core surgery this offseason to repair a sports hernia …

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Marlins put reeling Twins in deeper trouble in wild-card race with 4-1 win
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Marlins put reeling Twins in deeper trouble in wild-card race with 4-1 win

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — The cratering Minnesota Twins took another step backward in the American League wild-card race, as Jonah Bride homered to spark a four-run second inning off Bailey Ober for the 99-loss Miami Marlins in a 4-1 victory on Tuesday night. “Just with where we’re at in the season, every run counts and matters.” The Twins, who have also lost …

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Best home office chairs: Comfort, support and style for your perfect work-from-home setup, top 7 picks
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Best home office chairs: Comfort, support and style for your perfect work-from-home setup, top 7 picks

Hindustan Times  

Working from home has become the new normal, making a comfortable and supportive home office chair essential for sustaining productivity and avoiding back pain. Specifications of CELLBELL C104 Ergonomic Revolving Adjustable Chair Ergonomic revolving design with lumbar support Adjustable seat height and tilt tension Breathable fabric upholstery Sturdy nylon base with 360-degree swivel Smooth-rolling casters for easy mobility Reasons to …

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Max Kepler hits tying homer, walk-off single in Twins’ 6-5 victory over Athletics
6 months, 1 week ago

Max Kepler hits tying homer, walk-off single in Twins’ 6-5 victory over Athletics

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — Max Kepler hit a tying home run in the sixth inning and a walk-off single in the 10th inning to give the Minnesota Twins a 6-5 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Friday night. The late-game hit was Kepler’s 10th career walk-off plate appearance, tied with Kent Hrbek for third-most in Minnesota history behind only Kirby Puckett and …

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Kepler lifts Twins over White Sox 6-5 for team’s first 9-game win streak in 16 years
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Kepler lifts Twins over White Sox 6-5 for team’s first 9-game win streak in 16 years

Associated Press  

CHICAGO — Max Kepler drove in the tiebreaking run in the ninth inning for the second straight game, this time with a sacrifice fly, and the Minnesota Twins won their ninth in a row, 6-5 over the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday night. I feel like we can win games in all the ways.. It’s fun to watch from the …

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Dodgers’ Glasnow ties career high with 14 Ks as Los Angeles beats the Minnesota Twins 6-3
8 months, 1 week ago

Dodgers’ Glasnow ties career high with 14 Ks as Los Angeles beats the Minnesota Twins 6-3

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — Tyler Glasnow tied his career high with 14 strikeouts in seven scoreless innings, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Minnesota Twins 6-3 on Tuesday night. “I got ahead of guys and wasn’t falling behind and walking guys, so I think my pitch count was able to stay.” Glasnow became the seventh pitcher in Dodgers history with at …

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MLB trade and free-agent targets: Solutions for each NL team’s key needs
1 year ago

MLB trade and free-agent targets: Solutions for each NL team’s key needs

New York Times  

The Athletic has live coverage of MLB free agency and the Winter Meetings in Nashville. Note: Only major-league signings and trades and top hires are listed under “What they’ve done so far.” GO DEEPER MLB trade and free-agent targets: Bowden on solutions for each AL team's key needs Arizona Diamondbacks Needs: Starting pitching What they’ve done so far: Traded RHP …

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Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Space Telescope
1 year, 1 month ago

Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Space Telescope

The Hindu  

Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Space Telescope The first space telescope that was launched was Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2. 1 / 5 | Which was the first space telescope launched? The Kepler space telescope was NASA’s first planet-hunting mission, assigned to search a portion of the Milky Way galaxy for Earth-sized planets orbiting stars outside our solar system. …

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Astronomers find seven planets being 'fried' by their star
1 year, 1 month ago

Astronomers find seven planets being 'fried' by their star

The Hindu  

In our solar system, little rocky Mercury is the planet orbiting closest to the sun, perpetually fried by solar radiation seven times more intense than what we experience on Earth. Astronomers using data obtained by NASA's now-retired Kepler space telescope have identified seven planets orbiting a star in our Milky Way galaxy, with all of them suffering the wrath of …

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Twins exercise 2024 options on Max Kepler ($10 million) and Jorge Polanco ($10.5 million
1 year, 1 month ago

Twins exercise 2024 options on Max Kepler ($10 million) and Jorge Polanco ($10.5 million

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Twins exercised their 2024 club options on outfielder Max Kepler and infielder Jorge Polanco on Thursday, their two longest-tenured players. Kepler batted.260 with an.816 OPS with a team-high 24 home runs in 130 games as the regular right fielder for the Twins in 2023. Kepler is 12th in Twins history with 153 home runs over nine …

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The Sun, and how it has fuelled humanity’s curiosity, knowledge
1 year, 3 months ago

The Sun, and how it has fuelled humanity’s curiosity, knowledge

Hindustan Times  

In Jules Verne’s classic Around the World in Eighty Days, the Sun can be said to be one of the central figures. Isro’s Aditya-L1 mission, launching on Saturday, seeks to add to our knowledge about the physics and chemistry at play around the Sun, concepts that are far more complex than the arithmetic in Verne’s novel. Early models of the …

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Twins roster projection 2.0: After free-agent additions, are trades on the way?
1 year, 11 months ago

Twins roster projection 2.0: After free-agent additions, are trades on the way?

New York Times  

When Joey Gallo officially signed on Dec. 19, Twins president of baseball operations Derek Falvey predicted a lull in league-wide activity until the New Year. Catchers In: Christian Vázquez, Ryan Jeffers Others on the 40-man roster: None Aaron Gleeman: Our first offseason roster projection, way back on Nov. 25, literally had “” listed as the second catcher, so this is …

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Raised by Wolves review: Richly imagined sci-fi allegory about parenting in the time of war and dogmatism
2 years, 4 months ago

Raised by Wolves review: Richly imagined sci-fi allegory about parenting in the time of war and dogmatism

Firstpost  

John Lennon famously asked us to imagine a world with “no heaven,” “no hell,” “no religion,” and “nothing to kill or die for.” The hypotheticals are as quixotic as they come. Two atheist androids, a Mother and a Father, are sent to the planet Kepler 22b, tasked with restarting a new and improved atheistic human civilisation. It’s these ideas that …

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Twins doomed by late meltdown, myriad missed opportunities in loss to Angels
2 years, 4 months ago

Twins doomed by late meltdown, myriad missed opportunities in loss to Angels

New York Times  

ANAHEIM, Calif. — An abhorrent, unsatisfying, disheartening Twins loss occurred late Saturday night. “These games will haunt you,” Twins shortstop Carlos Correa said before having to mention yet again that the Twins are confident in their ability to bounce back. The Twins pushed across a third run in the eighth on Gio Urshela’s RBI groundout. I’ve got to attack the …

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SpaceX Gets The Nod To Offer Starlink Internet On Cars, Trucks And Boats: What It Means
2 years, 5 months ago

SpaceX Gets The Nod To Offer Starlink Internet On Cars, Trucks And Boats: What It Means

News 18  

The US Federal Communications Commission has granted Elon Musk’s SpaceX authorisation to use its Starlink satellite internet system on vehicles in motion such as cars, trucks, boats, and aircraft. “Authorising a new class of terminals for SpaceX’s satellite system will expand the range of broadband capabilities to meet the growing user demands that now require connectivity while on the move, …

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China wants to find Earth 2.0. Beijing has a plan
2 years, 8 months ago

China wants to find Earth 2.0. Beijing has a plan

India Today  

Known for technological ingenuity and bold missions that have taken them to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, China has plans to go farther and deeper into space. Earth 2.0 as the mission is being called, aims to find a similar planet to the one we currently inhabit, which is also predicted to face catastrophic situations in the coming decades. Our …

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'Hardballing' Is The First Dating Trend We've Heard Lately That Doesn't Suck
2 years, 11 months ago

'Hardballing' Is The First Dating Trend We've Heard Lately That Doesn't Suck

Huff Post  

Annika McFarlane via Getty Images “Hardballing is a new dating term that means someone is being clear about their expectations of a relationship, whether you want a serious long-term partnership or a casual fling," said Logan Ury, the director of relationship science at Hinge. As defined by Logan Ury, the director of relationship science at Hinge, “Hardballing is a new …

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A mega heist: Deep network detects whopping 301 new planets beyond our solar system
3 years, 1 month ago

A mega heist: Deep network detects whopping 301 new planets beyond our solar system

India Today  

Scientists have for the first time discovered a whopping 301 planets orbiting their stars outside of our solar system. The discovery was made possible by a new deep neural network called ExoMiner, a machine learning system that uses Nasa’s Pleiades supercomputer, and can distinguish real exoplanets from different types of imposters, or "false positives." The discovery has been detailed in …

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If Planet B exists, what might it be like?
3 years, 1 month ago

If Planet B exists, what might it be like?

CNN  

CNN — Since the first exoplanets were discovered in the 1990s, many have wondered if we might find another Earth out there, a place called Planet B. Natalie Batalha, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has watched the field of exoplanet science grow and change since those initial discoveries. “I kind of really want …

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Webb telescope to take unprecedented look at exoplanets
3 years, 1 month ago

Webb telescope to take unprecedented look at exoplanets

CNN  

CNN — When the James Webb Space Telescope launches in December, astronomers around the world are expecting to find the unexpected, said Sara Seager, astrophysicist and planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It’s possible that those planets can still be habitable, said Klaus Pontoppidan, Webb project scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. “Webb means different …

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Tatis homers twice in return; Padres beat Diamondbacks 8-2
3 years, 4 months ago

Tatis homers twice in return; Padres beat Diamondbacks 8-2

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — Fernando Tatis Jr. homered twice and drove in four runs in his return from the injured list, and the San Diego Padres beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 8-2 on Sunday. YANKEES 5, WHITE SOX 3 CHICAGO — Rougned Odor hit a two-run homer and Nestor Cortes pitched six solid innings, leading the Yankees to the victory. Detroit’s Drew Hutchison …

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Out of the darkness of apartheid: The 1991 match where South Africa returned to international cricket, and won Kolkata's heart
4 years, 1 month ago

Out of the darkness of apartheid: The 1991 match where South Africa returned to international cricket, and won Kolkata's heart

Firstpost  

It made sense for India, which had been at the forefront of the anti-apartheid movement, to lead the way in helping a future multi-racial South Africa emerge from the darkness of apartheid. On that day, a white South African, Clive Rice, stood on the lush green turf of the Eden Gardens and uttered the words: ‘I know how Neil Armstrong …

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Our galaxy holds at least 300 million potentially habitable planets, NASA finds
4 years, 1 month ago

Our galaxy holds at least 300 million potentially habitable planets, NASA finds

CNN  

CNN — Our galaxy is filled with potentially habitable planets – at least 300 million of them, according to NASA. According to research released in The Astronomical Journal, there are roughly 300 million potentially habitable worlds in our galaxy, meaning rocky planets capable of supporting liquid water on their surface. “Kepler already told us there were billions of planets, but …

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300 Million 'Habitable' Planets Could Be Lingering in Milky Way, But You Can't Leave Earth Just Yet
4 years, 1 month ago

300 Million 'Habitable' Planets Could Be Lingering in Milky Way, But You Can't Leave Earth Just Yet

News 18  

As many have already guessed throughout the ages, planet Earth is not the only habitable planet in the galaxy. This study not only holds a clue to how many other life-bearing planets might potentially exist, but also correlates to the Drake equation – an estimation of extra-terrestrial civilizations might exist. Factors for this equation include things like the rate of …

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