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Current Event
3 months ago+1 1 0Disney fighting restaurant death suit with Disney+ terms “absurd,” lawyer says
Disney tried to argue that the wrongful death suit should be dismissed because Piccolo subscribed to a one-month free trial of Disney+ four years before Tangsuan's shocking death and the Disney+ agreement that required private arbitration for &q ...
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3 months ago+3 3 0‘You can’t murder a people and walk away scot-free.’ In The Voyage Home, Pat Barker explores morality in war
In the third volume of this superb trilogy exploring the lives of women taken captive in the Trojan War, a new narrator takes us on a journey back to Agamemnon’s palace.
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Analysis
3 months ago+46 46 0Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, ‘jaw-dropping’ study finds
Monument’s largest ‘bluestone’ moved more than 450 miles – a discovery researchers say rewrites relationships between Neolithic populations
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3 months ago+6 6 0Smartphone flaw allows hackers and governments to map your home
A newly identified smartphone vulnerability can reveal the floor plans of where you are and what you are doing - and it is possible that companies or intelligence agencies are already making use of it
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Current Event
3 months ago+1 1 0UK Once Again Denies A Passport Over Applicant’s Name Due To Intellectual Property Concerns
I can’t believe this, but it happened again. Almost exactly a decade ago, Tim Cushing wrote about a bonkers story out of the UK in which a passport applicant who’s middle name was ̶…
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Analysis
3 months ago+21 21 0Quantum Entanglement in Neurons May Actually Explain Consciousness
how various circuits throughout the brain align their firing is an enduring mystery, one some theorists suggest might have a solution that involves quantum entanglement.
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How-to
3 months ago+42 42 0 x 1There's a Surprisingly Easy Way to Remove Microplastics From Your Drinking Water
Tiny fragments of microplastics are making their way deep inside our bodies in concerning quantities, significantly through our food and drink.
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Analysis
3 months ago+38 38 0Mac and Windows users infected by software updates delivered over hacked ISP
DNS poisoning attack worked even when targets used DNS from Google and Cloudflare.
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Analysis
3 months ago+2 2 0The Biggest Loser in Google Search Ruling Could Be Mozilla and Firefox
Mozilla generated 86% of its revenue from Google search engine payments.
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Analysis
3 months ago+2 2 0Antidepressant efficacy is inflated by the cumulative impact of publication bias, outcome reporting bias, spin, and citation bias on the evidence base
It seems similar bias is likely in other fields of health treatment and science.
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3 months ago+2 2 0Ride a bus, take a package with you – how crowdshipping reduces the impacts of millions of deliveries
The surge in online purchases is increasing parcel delivery traffic and emissions. One solution is to take advantage of the trips people are already making to get parcels to their destinations. How could this possibly go wrong?
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3 months ago+2 2 0I dug for evidence of the Rosetta Stone’s ancient Egyptian rebellion – here’s what I found
We uncovered evidence of a rebellion so significant, that events such as Cleopatra’s affairs and the rise of Christianity may not have come to pass without it.
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3 months ago+38 38 0What’s the secret of genetic equality between the sexes? New platypus chromosome research may hold the key
Females have twice as many copies of some genes as males do – and exactly how different species manage this imbalance has puzzled scientists for decades.
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3 months ago+1 1 0Flunkies, goons and managerial feudalism: why David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs is the book that keeps on giving
In 2013, anthropologist David Graeber wrote an article for an obscure, left-wing magazine. It spawned a book – and a turn of phrase – that became a cultural phenomenon.
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3 months ago+4 4 0Most of Australia’s First Nations languages don’t have gendered pronouns. Here’s why
Australia’s 460 First Nations’ languages see the world in unexpected ways, revealing perspectives on the natural and spiritual worlds.
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Current Event
3 months ago+30 30 0Israeli inquest into alleged abuse of Palestinian detainees sparks far-right fury
Arrest of IDF reservists suspected of abuse prompts confrontation at notorious detention base and outcry from MPs
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Analysis
3 months ago+3 3 0For decades, governments have subsidised fossil fuels. But why?
Why do governments still give billions to encourage fossil fuel production? The answer is often to shore up energy supplies.
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Analysis
3 months ago+3 3 0Game-Changing Drug Access Could Help End HIV Pandemic, Says UNAIDS
Gilead could bring the AIDS pandemic towards an end if the US pharmaceutical giant opens up access to its game-changing new HIV drug, the head of UNAIDS told AFP.
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Expression
4 months ago+1 1 0Stephen King on ExTwitter
Just a reminder that the reason he has to choose a new VP is because his own supporters tried to kill his last one.
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4 months ago+2 2 0The race to understand—and profit from—period blood
Why has it taken science so long to take it seriously?