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Climate Solution: Sails Make A Comeback In Shipping, To Dent Its Huge Carbon Footprint

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 12/04/2024 - 3:00am

The sailboat 'Grain de Sail II' sails off Saint Malo, western France, Nov. 6, 2024.
(Thibault Camus / AP Photo)

SAINT-MALO, France (AP) — Had he continued working aboard fuel-powered cargo ships, Yann Jourdan reckons he'd be earning perhaps four times what he now gets as captain of a sailboat that instead uses the wind's clean energy to transport goods across the Atlantic.

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Newly Retired, Omaha Radio Personality Otis Twelve Turns To New Chapter In His ‘Strange Story’

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 11/27/2024 - 7:00am

Radio personality Otis Twelve, real name Douglas Wesselmann, signed off from Omaha’s classical music station KVNO for the final time Oct. 4, 2024. He spent 18 years at the station, which seemed an unusual fit at first. His background was in rock and talk radio.
(Joseph Saaid / Flatwater Free Press)

During his final “Morning Classics” shift, Otis Twelve bid farewell with a mix of the gravity and satire that listeners came to identify him with.

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Have You Thanked A Worker This Month?

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 11/27/2024 - 6:00am

The Better Business Bureau’s “Thank a Business Month” is already more than half over, and if you’re not participating, I encourage you to start expressing your gratitude to the employees of the businesses you patronize.

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Seven Behavioral Health Care Providers Tapped For New Program That Helps Nebraskans In Crisis

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 11/27/2024 - 5:00am

State Sen. Anna Wishart, Gov. Jim Pillen and others at a press conference last year discussing the legislation that creates the new community clinics.
(Courtesy of Governor’s Office)

LINCOLN — Seven behavioral health care providers have been selected to launch a new certification program designed to improve mental health and substance use care across the state — and provide around-the-clock crisis help for Nebraskans.

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Legal Complications Await If OpenAI Tries To Shake Off Control By The Nonprofit That Owns The Rapidly Growing Tech Company

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 11/27/2024 - 4:00am

OpenAI, the tech company that created the popular ChatGPT chatbot, is at a crossroads.

It began as a nonprofit dedicated to developing artificial intelligence systems smarter than humans. Since its founding, OpenAI has boasted that it was upholding its nonprofit goal – “to build artificial general intelligence (AGI) that is safe and benefits all of humanity.”

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Inside Rep. Jennifer Wexton’s Emotional Final Meeting With The Families Who Started It All

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 11/27/2024 - 3:00am

Originally published by The 19th

In 2019, newly elected Rep. Jennifer Wexton held her initial constituent meeting with the members of Little Lobbyists, a national advocacy organization for children with complex medical needs. Mothers brought their children and talked about the impact of federal policies in their lives.

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Beef Over Beef: In North Platte, Promises Of Economic Boom Smash Into Fears Over Immigrants

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 11/20/2024 - 7:00am

The Sustainable Beef worksite is currently limited to construction workers, and danger signs are posted along the road on the plant’s north side. But the plant will soon be operational and will quickly become one of the city’s biggest employers, bringing an estimated 2,500 people to North Platte, as employees and their families move in to fill the predicted 800 jobs.
(Lori Potter / Flatwater Free Press)

NORTH PLATTE – In light, cursive script, she strings newly learned verbs into sentences.

She sounds out each foreign syllable, practicing with the volunteer teacher.

“Yo escucho, tu escuchas,” Janet Evans recites. I listen. You listen.

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Sez Us

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 11/20/2024 - 6:00am

Sez Us is a new social media platform founded by long-time Democratic strategist Joe Trippi. It's an alternative to "X" and Truth Social, which are of course now wholly controlled subsidiaries of Donald Trump Inc. Trippi, who recently appeared on my podcast, "No Holding Back," is as smart as any Democrat I know and has been around the block even more times than I have.

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I’m A Neuroscientist Who Taught Rats To Drive − Their Joy Suggests How Anticipating Fun Can Enrich Human Life

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 11/20/2024 - 5:00am

Rats hitting the road in their custom-made cruisers.
(Kelly Lamber / The Conversation)

We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and I found that rats could learn to drive forward by grasping a small wire that acted like a gas pedal. Before long, they were steering with surprising precision to reach a Froot Loop treat.

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New App Deployed To Help Cut Overapplication Of Nitrogen Fertilizer

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 11/20/2024 - 4:00am

LINCOLN — Eleven years ago, Wade Ellwanger began analyzing reports submitted by farmers detailing the amount of fertilizer being applied on cornfields in his area of north-central Nebraska.

What he found was a “shocker” — 91% of farmers were overapplying nitrogen fertilizer to their crops, with some spreading up to 30 pounds more per acre than recommended by agronomists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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Climate Solution: Sails Make A Comeback In Shipping, To Dent Its Huge Carbon Footprint

Newly Retired, Omaha Radio Personality Otis Twelve Turns To New Chapter In His ‘Strange Story’

Have You Thanked A Worker This Month?

Seven Behavioral Health Care Providers Tapped For New Program That Helps Nebraskans In Crisis

Legal Complications Await If OpenAI Tries To Shake Off Control By The Nonprofit That Owns The Rapidly Growing Tech Company

Inside Rep. Jennifer Wexton’s Emotional Final Meeting With The Families Who Started It All

Beef Over Beef: In North Platte, Promises Of Economic Boom Smash Into Fears Over Immigrants

Sez Us

I’m A Neuroscientist Who Taught Rats To Drive − Their Joy Suggests How Anticipating Fun Can Enrich Human Life

New App Deployed To Help Cut Overapplication Of Nitrogen Fertilizer

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