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We studied how the Antarctic ice sheet advanced and retreated over 10,000 years. It holds warnings for the future

Richard Selwyn Jones, Author providedAlarming stories from Antarctica are now more frequent than ever; the ice surface is melting, floating ice shelves are collapsing and glaciers are flowing faster into the ocean. Antarctica will be the largest source of future sea-level rise. Yet scientists don’t know exactly how this melting will unfold as the climate warms. Our latest research looks at how the Antarctic ice sheet advanced and retreated over the past 10,000 years. It holds stark warnings, and possibly some hope, for the future. The current imbalance Future sea-level rise presents one of the most significant challenges of climate change, with economic, environmental and societal impacts expected for coastal communities around the globe. While it seems like a distant...

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Why Your Toddler Should Have Wooden Stacking Toys and Puzzles

Stacking toys and puzzles are essential for toddlers, they can also help children with pattern recognition, memory, and both gross and fine motor skills.Play has so many important levels to it. Sure, it's a great idea to use play to keep kids busy and content, but it also helps children, particularly toddlers, figure out the world around them. Toys can really help kids make order out of the universe. It has the potential to be very educational when the right tools are employed. And some of our favorite educational tools are wooden stacking toys and puzzles!Stacking toys and puzzles are vital for toddlers because they can help them with pattern recognition, memory, as well as gross and fine motor skills. We turn...

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60 Spoonie-Proof Ways to Express Your Love in Each ‘Love Language’

This article contains some affiliate links to products you may find useful, at no extra costs to you. All opinions are my own.  Let’s face it: living with chronic illness isn’t terribly romantic. On the contrary: when you can no longer go out on exciting dates or have sex as often as you’d like, it can be challenging to keep the romance alive. And the practical and psychological problems that often accompany health problems can also place a strain on your relationship. So what can you do to express your love and keep that spark alive when you’re chronically ill? In the bestseller ‘The Five Love Languages’, Gary Chapman describes how everyone has a preferred way to give and receive (romantic) love: words of...

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Ingredientsinlogicalunderstandingofissues

Collectively, it’s important to develop a working environment in which talented people keep their intellectual curiosity, practice critical thinking, broaden thoughts and connect wider dots for coming up with alternative solutions to tough problems and reach such a state of dynamic balance.The world becomes hyper-connected, many problems are complex and interdependent. Problem-solving today has a very wide scope, intricate factors and needs to take an interdisciplinary approach. We all develop reputations for being problem creators, problem definers, or problem solvers. To close decision making gaps and build problem-solving competency, it is important to always dig underneath the surface, find root causes of problems, and clarify crucial ingredients in logical problem-solving.  Relativism implies an ability to balance other parts of the equation...

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The Golden Girls 1000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle Just $8 on Amazon (Regularly $18)

Add to your Golden collection with a new deal from Amazon! Scoot on over to Amazon where you can score this The Golden Girls I Heart Miami 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle for only $8.23 (regularly $17.99)! This collectible puzzle features all the lovely ladies from the Golden Girls Series- Blanche, Dorothy, Sophia, and Rose in a photo-like stance with a funny alligator stuffy in hand – the perfect prop for the Florida gals! Not convinced? Check out these reviews… I really underestimated the difficulty of this puzzle. You think you got a piece of shirt and it ends up being pants. Is that a forehead or a hand? I give this a 10/10 for endless laughs while we put it...

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