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Will Only Fans Show Up On a Background Check?
When hiring new employees, it’s important to conduct a background check to learn as much as you can about the person before bringing them onto your team. However, this also means you can’t hire anyone who has a criminal record or specific convictions that would prevent them from getting a security clearance.
By Troy Harrington4 years ago in FYI
The new 'gold rush' for green lithium
Cornwall, 1864. A hot spring is discovered nearly 450m (1,485ft) below ground in the Wheal Clifford, a copper mine just outside the mining town of Redruth. Glass bottles are immersed to their necks in its bubbling waters, carefully sealed and sent off for testing. The result is the discovery of so great a quantity of lithium – eight or 10 times as much per gallon as had been found in any hot spring previously analysed – that scientists suspect “it may prove of great commercial value”.
By Gu Wei Di Qi4 years ago in FYI
How Ireland is abandoning its dirty fuel
“Misery, just misery – your fingers are sore, your legs are sore – my legs are still cramping and it’s three days since I’ve been there.” Seventeen-year-old Eoin, half-laughing, is complaining about his recent experience turning sods of turf on a bog near his home in County Offaly, in the Midlands of Ireland. “But it has to be done – it’s the only way I can heat my house and water.”
By Gu Wei Di Qi4 years ago in FYI
The world's fastest-growing source of food
merald-green waters and bobbing catamarans welcome one on the way to Pamban Island, also known as Rameshwaram, a sacred pilgrimage site in the state of Tamil Nadu. But just below the sea’s surface, there is a change taking place which could transform the region's ecosystem, economy and even its cuisine – these coastal villages are the home of India's seaweed boom.
By Gu Wei Di Qi4 years ago in FYI
How to stop another 'Day Zero'
Kalaiselvi Murugan's day starts early. She is a domestic worker in Chennai, India, who rises at dawn to beat the queue and place her red plastic pot in line, ready for the water to be released at the neighbourhood water pump. After collecting water for her tiny third-floor flat, she walks to work in a wealthier neighbourhood, where the apartments have piped water supplied by tankers throughout the day.
By Gu Wei Di Qi4 years ago in FYI
Why some bike shares work and others don't
set of iconic photos from 2017 show brightly coloured fields which, at first glance, look like meadows filled with flowers in full bloom. It takes a while to register that the images aren't of verdant fields, but ones filled with bicycles: hundreds and thousands of two-wheelers, stacked end-to-end in what came to be called China's bicycle graveyards.
By Gu Wei Di Qi4 years ago in FYI
Why is the king's position as secure as a mountain when Thailand is prone to coups?
Thailand is an "alternative" country in the South Central Peninsula, and an "alternative" country in the world. Thailand's uniqueness lies in the fact that in the 21st century when most countries in the world have a democratic republican system of government and a few have a constitutional monarchy (a false monarchy in which the prime minister and parliament hold the power), Thailand is one of the few monarchies in the world in which the king has real power to make decisions on military and state affairs.
By Olmash Haiji4 years ago in FYI
The city of sustainable skyscrapers
Looking out over Hong Kong's iconic skyline from the viewing deck of its tallest skyscraper, the 118-storey International Commerce Centre (ICC), it's clear why Hong Kong is known as the world's most vertical city. In every direction you look, countless high-rise buildings are stacked side by side, clustered together, like a real-world version of the game Tetris.
By Gu Wei Di Qi4 years ago in FYI
