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| Here are 14 things that people in their 20s should seriously consider. |
| When you’re in your 20s, you feel indestructible. You’re hip, healthy, and look good and there’s no way you’ll fall for the pitfalls that plague people as they age, whether it’s poor health, bad financial decisions, or deteriorating personal relationships. |
| Well, once most people reach 40, the idea that they’re indestructible has fallen by the wayside. You realize that you’re not perfect and are subject to the whims of Father Time, just like everyone else. At this point in life, you look back and think of everything you could have done to set yourself up for your second act. You start to consider whether you put enough effort into saving money, building friendships and working out. |
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| Those kitty massages aren’t just leftover breastfeeding instincts. |
| As soon as our cat steps onto one of the soft, fluffy blankets in our living room, her eyes go half-mast, her head hangs low, and she starts rhythmically kneading on it. Occasionally, she’ll hover her nose just above the blanket while she kneads for minutes at a time, as if she’s been sucked into a trance of some sort. |
| This kneading behavior, colloquially known as “making biscuits,” is known to cat owners but always funny nonetheless. Like, what a bizarre instinct for an animal to have. It’s not a survival instinct, nothing to do with keeping themselves safe or alive, just “Ooooh, I’m feeling the urge to massage something with my paws right now.” |
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What Thanksgiving side dish are you most looking forward to next week?
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| Stuffing |
| Rolls |
| Gravy (it’s a side!) |
| Mashed Potatoes |
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| Adobe empowers nonprofits to fundraise, advocate, and further their missions. |
| Albert Manero, a mechanical engineer and graduate of the University of Central Florida, founded Limbitless Solutions, Inc., as a passion project in a small lab. Today, Limbitless has grown into an interdisciplinary team based at the University of Central Florida that includes 50 interns at UCF in Orlando. Their mission? To inspire and empower underserved communities through creative, accessible technology. Manero and his team of experts create bionic, 3D-printed arms for children with limb differences. Combining visual storytelling with art and engineering, the Limbitless team wants children with limb differences to feel included and capable, while, at the same time, able to express their personal identity more fully. |
| Limbitless, like many others, have utilized Adobe for Nonprofits offerings, which gives nonprofit organizations access to Adobe programs at a deeply discounted rate including access programs like Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Express and Adobe Acrobat, the app most requested by nonprofit customers worldwide. |
| Read to learn how they used Adobe tools to fulfill their mission—helping them with everything from securing funding to communicating with donors—even designing blueprints and user manuals for bionic limbs. |
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| A billion-year-old discovery has officially cracked the ultimate evolutionary mystery. |
| In the ultimate mic-drop for chicken-or-egg debaters, Chromosphaera perkinsii, a billion-year-old unicellular organism, reveals that nature had “eggs” on the menu way before chickens (or any animals) arrived. But, though the mystery has been unscrambled, the discovery has cracked open an entirely new chapter in the story of life’s origins. |
| Meet Chromosphaera perkinsii, a single-celled organism found in marine sediments off Hawaii that threw evolutionary biologists a curveball. This tiny protist, dating back more than a billion years, does something remarkable: it organizes itself into multicellular structures that look exactly like the earliest stages of animal embryos. |
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