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Fridays edition of Forbes Daily covers slowing GDP growth, Alphabet nearing its next milestone, cuts at Southwest, Mike Tysons successful cannabis brand and more.

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For the first time in seven years, the average length of day became longer in 2023. New predictions suggest that March 2025 will include the longest day since March 2019.

The Earth has rotated slowly enough to require a first ever negative leap second, according to a report published in Nature.

The seconds really do pass more quickly up there | The Economist explains

The rate of Earth’s rotation is slowing down due to climate change, delaying the need for a “leap second” until 2029. It has consequences for global timekeeping.

The effect of melting polar ice could delay the need for a ‘leap second’ by three years. The effect of melting polar ice could delay the need for a ‘leap second’ by three years.

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The number 2024 divided by 4 equals 506, exactly – with no remainder, which makes the year 2024, like the upcoming years 2028 and beyond, a leap yea

According to my calendar, it is time for another ghost town of Fulton County. I have mentioned before that many of these towns consisted of just a building which housed

Leap day is Feb. 29, 2024, and that marks an ongoing, longstanding correction to the calendar so the seasons match our orbit.