“Why do we keep getting so many record-warm years?” Dr. Schmidt asked in an interview. “It’s because the planet is warming. The basic issue is the long-term trend, and it is not going away.”February 1985 was the last time global temperatures fell below the 20th-century average for a given month, meaning that no one younger than 30 has ever lived through a below-average month.The contiguous United States set its temperature record in 2012. But, mainly because of the unusual chill in the East last year, 2014 was only the 34th warmest year on record for the lower 48
2014 Was Hottest Year on Record, Surpassing 2010 - NYTimes.com
face a second challenge: convincing sites to use Genius' own technology instead of building their own,” Lee writes in the article.If you view the article in Genius, you can see that a beta tester with the username Vesuvius has highlighted the above passage and added an annotation with a message to other websites: “It isn’t the website’s choice. They don’t need to be persuaded. They are being annotated.”
Genius tests 'annotate everything everywhere' feature | Capital New York
Bucks buck Knicks, 95-79. Bruins ruin Rangers, 3-0.• For a global look at what’s happening, see Your Friday Briefing.THE WEEKENDSaturday• Help clean up East River Park from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. [Free]• Closing weekend for the Harlem Repertory Theater’s production of “The Wiz.” [$15 and up]Sunday• You can’t throw out your old electronics anymore, under a new city law. But you can take them to
New York Today: Where Empty Bottles Go - NYTimes.com
or list of street closings.IN THE NEWS• New Yorkers disapprove of the police’s protests and slowdown, but are split on whether the mayor or the police is to blame for their rift. [New York Times]• A police detective was demoted after a rape victim said he took her out drinking, slept over and then groped her. [Daily News]• Work was briefly halted on the city’s tallest apartment building after an eight-foot guardrail tumbled 81 stories to the ground. [New York Times]• A City Council bill would ban employers from
New York Today: Where Empty Bottles Go - NYTimes.com
The Simpsons has been pulling out all kinds of stops recently, with their crossover episodes, the Judd Apatow episode resurrection, and killing off Krusty’s dad, among other things. I guess it’s no surprise that Homer ended up watching the extremely fruitful birth of Rigel 7 aliens at some point this season. But are we better off having seen it on the small
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The “Untitled Woody Allen Project,” a half-hour series, has received a full season order from Amazon, with episodes to be written and directed by Allen. The series will be available exclusively on Amazon Prime Instant Video in the U.S., the UK and Germany.
Woody Allen to Create His First Television Series for Amazon | Variety
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