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JD Pickel's Big 12 Champion Prediction Greg McElroy selected his team from the Big 12 Conference in what is expected to be the most competitive conference in college football. McElroy picked the conference winners and playoff teams on “Always College Football” on Wednesday, predicting that Utah State and Oklahoma State would advance to Arlington in the Big 12 championship, while the other two teams would fall one game behind. “Kansas and Kansas State are 6-3 in league play. Oklahoma State and Utah are 7-2 in league play,” McElroy said. “So in our eyes, Oklahoma State and Utah are going to…

Zero-emission vehicle design expert Mark Manning has been named the new CEO of Kodiak Technologies Inc. As part of a collaboration with engineering firm Chan Robotics that leverages design and engineering expertise from automaker Roush, Manning will lead the design, development and market deployment of Kodiak's heavy-duty hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) for commercial and industrial snow removal. Kodiak's current vehicle is an FAA-compliant industrial snow removal vehicle capable of moving 7,000 tons of snow per hour at an operating speed of 25 miles per hour. The vehicle, which is expected to debut in early 2025, will also be eligible for…

Thailand has become the second country outside Africa to confirm cases of the new, more dangerous type of MPOX.According to health authorities, a 66-year-old man who travelled to Thailand from Bakauva, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) last week tested positive for lineage 1b MPOX.”Test results confirmed that (the patient) is infected with monkeypox lineage 1b. This is the first case diagnosed in Thailand but it is likely the man acquired the infection in an endemic country,” said Thongchai Keeratihattayakorn, director-general of the Department of Disease Control.At least 43 passengers who were seated near the infected person on the flight are…

European and American universities dominate the 2024 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), with Harvard University once again taking the top spot. advertisementUniversities from the UK, Germany, France and Switzerland have been named among the world's best universities, according to the newly published Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2024 edition.Harvard University in Cambridge, USA, took the top spot for the 22nd consecutive year. Following this, two American universities, Stanford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), rounded out the top three.The UK's University of Cambridge came in fourth place, making it the highest-ranked university in Europe. Fellow UK-based University…

In a recently published study in the journal Nature Human Behavior, researchers investigated the impact of video games on mental health in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic. Study: Causal effects of video games on mental health in Japan 2020-2022. Image credit: Gorodenkoff / Shutterstock.com Public health concerns about gaming As video game use increases, there are growing concerns about its potential negative impacts on mental health. Public skepticism and controversial health policy choices, such as the World Health Organization's debate about gaming disorder, have reinforced negative attitudes towards gaming. The inclusion of gaming disorder in the 11th edition of the…

When you think of a village, images of muddy roads, hand pumps, bullock carts, mud houses without electricity and agricultural labourers toiling in the fields come to mind, but wait a moment.Villages across India are also on the path to prosperity, thanks to government development plans. The richest village in Asia is not in China, Japan or Korea, but in India. The village of Bhuj in Gujarat will change your perception of Indian villages forever.Known as the richest village in Asia, Madhapur is located on the outskirts of Bhuj in Gujarat. It has a population of around 32,000 and holds…

On August 6, Ukrainian troops shocked the world by crossing the border into Russia's Kursk region. The unexpected attack by a small country against a nuclear-armed state shattered Russian President Vladimir Putin's sense of greatness and invincibility. While Western analysts have focused primarily on the tactical advance of Ukrainian troops into Russian territory, the attack also exposed Russia's strategic weaknesses as a so-called great power. Russia has been isolated in the Ukraine conflict and has been left without military or political support by its allies inside or outside the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a NATO-like military alliance that includes…

Azerbaijan is on track to meet its natural gas export targets this year, but Baku still has a long way to go before it meets its ambitious export targets for 2027.Praising Azerbaijan as a “reliable supplier,” President Ilham Aliyev announced at a political conference in Britain in July that the country's annual exports are forecast to reach about 13 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas this year, up more than 10% from the 2022 total. If Azerbaijan hits this figure, it will be the first time the country will send more than half of its gas exports to Europe.Overall, gas…

Photo from LUCARA DIAMOND 10 minutes passedBotswana has produced the world's second largest diamond. Canadian company Lucara Diamonds has extracted a 2,492-carat rough stone from a diamond mine in Botswana.It is the largest diamond found since the 3,106 carat Cullinan diamond was discovered in South Africa in 1905. They were cut into nine separate stones, many of which were used in the British Crown Jewels. They discovered the diamonds at the Karowe mine, about 500 kilometers (300 miles) north of Botswana's capital, Gaborone. The Botswana government has announced that it is the largest diamond ever discovered in the Southern African…

The Lima 24 World Athletics U-20 Championships will take place from 27-31 August and will see the participation of more than 1,700 athletes from 134 teams. Here we bring you the women's and men's sprint events taking place at the Estadio Atlético de la Videna. Women's 100m In the women's 100 meters, all eyes will be on Jamaica's Alana Reid, who holds the U20 national record of 10.92 seconds and is the only athlete in the field with a personal best under 11 seconds. Reid led Jamaica's 4×100 meters team at the Paris Olympics, finishing fifth in the final. After…