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3 days agoExpression 66bnats
The Epic Hunt for One of the World’s Most Wanted Men
He was one of Africa’s richest moguls and helped unleash the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Then Félicien Kabuga vanished and stayed hidden for more than two decades—until recently, when the United Nations’ war crimes detectives picked up his trail and began to close in.
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4 days agoExpression 66bnats
Microsoft killed the Zune, but Zune-heads are still here
Zune eternal.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event 66bnats
Anti-Gay, Anti-Abortion WV GOP Lawmaker Resigns After Arrest for Capitol Siege
You may have heard that Derrick Evans, a newly elected Republican delegate from West Virginia, has resigned after getting arrested and charged with federal crimes for his role in the Capitol siege. The moron incriminated himself when he was seen shouting “Move! Move!” as well as “We’re in, we’re in! Derrick Evans is in the Capitol!”… on the footage he was taking.
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1 month agoAnalysis 66bnats
TV Ratings: First Streaming-Only NFL Game Scores Solid Numbers for Amazon
The first ever NFL game to be shown exclusively on streaming platforms scored solid numbers, showing encouraging signs for future streaming-only games.
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1 month agoAnalysis 66bnats
Kindness is Scientifically Proven to Make You Happier
How to make someone’s day and make your own life better.
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1 month agoAnalysis 66bnats
How Pepper Plants Pick the Perfect Path for Putting Down Roots
Two plants in the same pot must find a way to share the water and nutrients in the soil
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1 month agoCurrent Event 66bnats
Closing the racial wealth gap requires heavy, progressive taxation of wealth
Centuries of discrimination and exploitation have left Black Americans much poorer than white Americans. The median white household has a net worth 10 times that of the median Black household. If Black households held a share of the national wealth in proportion to their share of the U.S. population, it would amount to $12.68 trillion in household wealth, rather than the actual sum of $2.54 trillion. The total racial wealth gap, therefore, is $10.14 trillion.
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1 month agoCurrent Event 66bnats
Climate Change Could Wipe Out the Marshall Islands
Along U.S. coastlines, from California to Florida, residents are getting increasingly accustomed to “king tides.” These extra-high tides cause flooding and wreak havoc on affected communities. As climate change raises sea levels, they are becoming more extreme.
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1 month agoExpression 66bnats
How Nick Kroll Became the Picasso of Puberty
His show “Big Mouth” is a seriously funny — and surprisingly mature — exploration of humanity’s most horrifying shared experience.
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1 month agoCurrent Event 66bnats
Tom Cruise 'planning to shoot scenes for Mission Impossible film in space'
The Hollywood star hopes to make history as the first actor to film scenes in space for the forthcoming eighth Mission Impossible film – which is currently filming in Europe
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2 months agoExpression 66bnats
Spatial Computing Could Be the Next Big Thing
Beyond virtual and augmented reality
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2 months agoCurrent Event 66bnats
Amazon and Apple 'not playing their part' in tackling electronic waste
Global giants such as Amazon and Apple should be made responsible for helping to collect, recycle and repair their products to cut the 155,000 tonnes of electronic waste being thrown away each year in the UK, MPs say. An investigation by the environmental audit committee found the UK is lagging behind other countries and failing to create a circular economy in electronic waste.
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2 months agoCurrent Event 66bnats
European Parliament vote takes another big step toward ‘right to repair’ rules
The EU has just taken a big step toward establishing stronger “right to repair” rules, with the the European Parliament voting overwhelmingly in support of a resolution on a “sustainable single market,” according to iFixit.
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2 months agoCurrent Event 66bnats
U.S. Backs Down on TikTok
The Commerce Department said Thursday it wouldn’t enforce its order that would have effectively forced the Chinese-owned TikTok video-sharing app to shut down, in the latest sign of trouble for the Trump administration’s efforts to turn it into a U.S. company.
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2 months agoCurrent Event 66bnats
NASA contacts Voyager 2 probe for the first time since March
NASA has made contact with Voyager 2 for the first time since March thanks to an upgraded Deep Space Station 43 dish in Australia.
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2 months agoCurrent Event 66bnats
US election 2020: The Asians who are rooting for Trump to win
Some people in Asia see Donald Trump as their man to stand up to China - and nervously hope he'll be re-elected.
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2 months agoAnalysis 66bnats
The Black Hole Information Paradox Comes to an End
In a landmark series of calculations, physicists have proved that black holes can shed information — an apparent violation of Einstein’s theory of relativity.