 Jefferson
inherited not one but two large estates, his father's and
his father-in-law's, and earned a respectable income of his
own from a variety of ventures. When he died at age 83 in
1826, he left behind debts in excess of $100,000, over $1
million in today's dollars. He was many things during his
long life: Founding Father, U.S. president, ambassador to
France, architect, author, farmer, inventor, violinist and
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 Dogs
do not see only in black and white. That is one of the most
stubborn myths in popular biology, and it is wrong. Dogs see
color. Their world is narrower than ours, leaning toward
blues and yellows, with reds and greens washing out into
dull browns and greys. But color is there, and scientists
have mapped the parts of the eye that produce it.
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 Most
of us don't have what it takes to spot an AI image. Amy
Dawel, an Associate Professor at the ANU School of Medicine
and Psychology, says that as AI images become increasingly
sophisticated, it will become harder and harder to tell real
from fake. ''Our research found that people are
overconfident in their ability to recognize AI images,''
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 Sometimes
the most innocuous of foodstuffs contain constituents whose
origins are less than appetizing. Such is the case with JELL-O,
a dessert that has graced millions of dinner tables since its
1897 debut. Underneath JELL-O's jiggly wholesomeness lurks a
secret many consumers are disconcerted to learn: JELL-O is made
from gelatin, an animal product rendered from the hides and
bones of animals, typically pork skins, pork, horses, cattle
bones, and split cattle hides.
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