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To and for are similar, so it’s easy to get them confused. Both to and for are prepositions, one of the eight parts of speech, and both are used quite a lot. The difference between to and for lies in their meanings and the words they’re typically used with. We explain those meanings in the next sections, but for now let’s talk about the differences between for and to. For example, to is one of the...

Jack Sweeney, a Florida teen who tracks Elon Musk's private jet online has a new aviation-themed target: Russian oligarchs and billionaires. The 19-year-old, who rejected Musk's US$5,000 offer to delete his Twitter account, recently launched two new automated Twitter handles — @RUOligarchJets and @Putinjet — following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The two profiles have amassed nearly 300,000 follo...

A 19-year-old who was offered $5,000 by Elon Musk to shut down a Twitter account tracking the billionaire's jet told Insider he refused the offer because it wasn't enough to replace the satisfaction he gets from running the account. Protocol first reported last week that Musk had approached Jack Sweeney via private messages on Twitter. The DMs, a screenshot of which Sweeney shared with Insider, sh...

Canadian truck drivers determined to shut down central Ottawa over a federal government vaccine mandate rolled across the country toward the capital on Thursday, boosted by praise from Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk. The protesters are unhappy that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government has imposed a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for cross-border truck drivers. Industry officials say 90% o...

If you’ve ever been on an overseas flight, perhaps from China to the US, you’ll know that those long flights never go over the pacific or atlantic ocean. Generally, the flights that last 12 hours or more are from 1 end of the earth to another, and they usually go over the north pole for flights in the northern hemisphere. However, the long flights in the south hemisphere do not go over the south p...

When a team of explorers set out to look for the deepest shipwreck ever, the USS Johnston in the Philippine Sea, they ended up finding more than they expected. About 6,200 metres below the water's surface, a young bigfin squid was spotted gliding along just above the sea floor. Known for its long arms and tentacles, there have only been about a dozen confirmed sightings of the squid worldwide — an...

Today I’m going to tell you how to pronounce words clearly when reading, in English. I often stutter a lot when I’m talking in English, but there are ways that you can speak clearer. The first one is to speak slowly. It seems obvious, but it helps you a lot. A lot of English words have a lot of sounds grouped together into one word, which can make it difficult to pronounce. If you slow down, you c...

Stephen Curry is officially the NBA's all-time leader in 3-pointers made. Ahead of his historic achievement, let's take a closer look at the NBA's all-time leaders in 3-pointers made, some of the records Curry already holds and which players are the greatest threat to catch him in the record books. NBA 3-pointers made record The NBA's record for 3-pointers made hasn't changed hands much over the y...

It's raining fish in east Texas -- but it's nothing too out of the ordinary. Earlier this week, residents of Texarkana reported small fish falling from the sky in what seemed like an epochal weather event. The reality was more mundane: The swimmers, many of them palm-sized, were likely picked up by a waterspout and dropped back down to earth as it lost momentum, the city told residents in a Facebo...

For the past few years, NASA has been developing a new advanced space telescope called the James Webb Space Telescope. Most people know about the Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, which has given us plenty of insight about the universe, and images of distant planets, galaxies, and stars. The new Webb Telescope is much bigger than Hubble. Hubble is about the size of a school bus, but Webb i...

Mars has its own version of the Grand Canyon, and scientists have learned this dramatic feature is home to "significant amounts of water" after a discovery made by an orbiter circling the red planet, according to the European Space Agency. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, launched in 2016 as a joint mission between the European Space Agency and Roscosmos, detected the water in Valles Marineris on Ma...

The Biden administration prepared a $200 million package of additional military assistance for Ukraine in recent weeks but held off on delivering the aid despite appeals from Kyiv and some lawmakers, according to three people familiar with the issue. A source familiar with the matter, however, said there are a number of other options on the table for further assistance to Ukraine, including a much...

A devastating swarm of tornadoes ripped through six U.S. states, killing more than 70 people in Kentucky and leaving a trail of destroyed homes and businesses along a path that stretched more than 200 miles, officials said on Saturday. The powerful twisters, which weather forecasters say are unusual in cooler months, demolished a candle factory and the fire and police stations in a small town in K...

Have you ever casually used the terms "spirit animal," "first-world problem," or "spooky"? It might be time to rethink your use of these phrases and remove them from your daily lingo. CBC Ottawa compiled a small list of words, submitted by readers and some of our journalists who are Black, Indigenous and people of colour. We ran some of the words by anti-racism and language experts, who said some...

One Cybersecurity company has published its list of the top 200 most common passwords in Canada and says too many Canadians are using passwords that can be easily guessed. This year's list of most common passwords in Canada was topped by the usual suspects, such as "password," "qwerty," "abc123" and different variations of "123456." These passwords also dominated the list of most common passwords...

The European Chemistry Society's Element Scarcity Periodic Table has been updated to reflect the significance of carbon in the week world leaders meet in Glasgow to tackle climate change. The table, which organizes all discovered chemical elements allowing scientists to quickly refer to an element's properties such as its atomic mass and chemical symbol, is a key resource and classroom staple. Tod...

A silent signal, an open hand, a thumb tucked in, then covered by four fingers, originally created in Canada to help women who are in distress has played a major role in saving a 16-year-old girl in the United States. "It was definitely a relief to see not only that this young woman in such a dangerous situation could use the signal but people knew how to respond to the signal," Andrea Gunraj from...

Today I will be talking about 3 potions in the Harry Potter Universe. Along with having cool effects and giving the drinker cool powers, they are also very symbolic. Let’s get into it. First, we have polyjuice potion. The polyjuice potion changes a person’s appearance. This potion was taken by Ron and Harry in The Chamber of Secrets to sneak into the Slytherin common room, and was also used by the...

recently I heard about some pretty big news. You probably have heard about the social media platform Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg announced that he will be renaming Facebook to Meta. The reason behind this rename is to make facebook into a “metaverse” company. A metaverse is an online world where people can game, work, and communicate with each other. Zuckerberg says that this new name will better re...

TikTok is a video-sharing platform where users can post all sorts of short videos ranging from 15 seconds to 1 minute long. A wide variety of videos are on the platform, such as dancing, memes, gaming, et cetera. But Apple’s operating system, iOS 14, revealed that TikTok is actually accessing your microphone while you’re not recording or creating a video. It is even accessing your microphone while...

A team of scientists have developed a painless way to deliver a vaccine shot without the use of a needle while offering a better immune response, they say. Researchers from Stanford University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill say that their 3D-printed vaccine patch can offer an immune response that's much stronger than a vaccine delivered with a traditional jab. As described in...

A maths problem meant for an eight-year-old child has stumped the internet, with adults questioning the bizarre out-of-the-box thinking behind it. The question, part of homework for a child in Year 3, was posted to the Reddit community Mildly Infuriating. Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, many parents have been forced to help their children with their schoolwork even more than usual — with the R...

SpaceX's first private flight streaked into orbit with two contest winners, a health care worker and their rich sponsor, the most ambitious leap yet in space tourism. It was the first time a spacecraft circled Earth with an all-amateur crew and no professional astronauts. "Punch it, SpaceX!" the flight's billionaire leader, Jared Isaacman, urged moments before liftoff. The Dragon capsule's two men...

Did you know that there’s actually a type of scientist that studies the flow of traffic and its interaction with pedestrians? They’re called traffic scientists, and unfortunately there isn’t a fancy word for them, like trafficologist. They study traffic flow, and it’s actually far more interesting than you would think. For instance, every time a driver slows down or speeds up, it creates ripples,...

For the first time, scientists have detected light from behind a black hole, and it fulfills a prediction rooted in Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. Stanford University astrophysicist Dan Wilkins and his colleagues observed X-rays that were released by a supermassive black hole located at the center of a galaxy that is 800 million light-years from Earth. These bright light flares ar...