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Highway 401 in Toronto

Highway 401 is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario stretching 817.9 kilometres (508.2 mi). The portion that passes through Toronto is the busiest highway in the world, and one of the widest (18 lanes pictured near Toronto Pearson International Airport). By the end of 1952, three individual highways were numbered "Highway 401": the partially completed Toronto Bypass between Weston Road and Highway 11; Highway 2A between West Hill and Newcastle; and the Scenic Highway between Gananoque and Brockville. The route was expanded across the province, and became fully navigable from Windsor to the Quebec border on November 10, 1964. In 1965 it was designated the Macdonald–Cartier Freeway, in honour of the Fathers of Confederation, and it became a freeway for its entire length in 1968. A portion of the highway was designated the Highway of Heroes in 2007, as the road is travelled by funeral convoys for fallen Canadian Forces personnel from CFB Trenton to the coroner's office in Toronto. In 2011 construction began on a westward extension of Highway 401 that will be known as the Herb Gray Parkway and extend to Interstate 75 via a new international crossing. (Full article...)

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While predictions of the future can never be absolutely certain, a projected course for the farthest future events may be sketched out based on present scientific understanding in various fields, if only in the broadest strokes. All predictions of the future of the Earth, the Solar System and the Universe must account for the second law of thermodynamics, which states that entropy, or a loss of the energy available to do work, must increase over time. Stars must eventually exhaust their supply of hydrogen fuel and burn out. Eventually, matter itself will come under the influence of radioactive decay, as even the most stable materials break apart into subatomic particles. The infinite future potentially allows for the occurrence of a number of massively improbable events, such as the formation of a Boltzmann brain. Many questions about the far future are still unresolved, such as whether humans will become extinct, whether protons decay or whether the Earth will be destroyed by the Sun's expansion into a red giant (illustration pictured). (Full list...)

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Marsh sandpiper

The marsh sandpiper (Tringa stagnatilis) is a small wader which breeds in open grassy steppe and taiga wetlands from easternmost Europe to central Asia. This migratory species generally winters in Africa and India, but some individuals – such as this one, photographed in Thailand – go to South East Asia or Australia.

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