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2 days ago
Current Event 66bnatsBoeing lead pilot warned about flight-control system tied to 737 Max crashes, then told regulators to delete it from manuals
Boeing shares fell nearly 7% after the news broke, dragging down the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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7 days ago
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The 'Glass Floor' Is Keeping America's Richest Idiots At The Top
Elites are finding more ways to ensure that their children never run out of chances to fail.
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13 days ago
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Best of the Decade: What Books Will We Still Be Reading in 10 Years?
It’s mid-September, 2019, and we’re beginning to see the light (or to be slightly more accurate, the infinite pulsing darkness) at the end of the decade.
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13 days ago
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To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight
A brain circuit that suppresses distracting sensory information holds important clues about attention and other cognitive processes.
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2 weeks ago
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How Much Nostalgia TV Can You Handle?
Netflix, Disney+, and others go all in on old favorites as they battle for subscribers.
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3 weeks ago
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Match.com connected daters to fake accounts to boost subscriptions, US regulators say
The FTC says more than 400,000 people subscribed because of these fraud messages
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1 month ago
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The ancient world teemed with birds; now we think with them
The Classical world abounded with avians – and so birds took up in the human imagination, nesting in our language and art
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1 month ago
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California is close to reclassifying gig economy workers as employees
The California State Senate has approved Assembly Bill 5, voting 29 to 11 in favor of requiring gig companies like Uber and Lyft to recognize independent contractors as employees. It's not a law just yet -- it has to go through the State Assembly and secure California Governor Gavin Newsom's signature after this -- but it's close to becoming one. The New York Times says the State Assembly vote is expected to be a mere formality, and Newsom is expected to sign the bill into law, se...
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1 month ago
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Explosions may have formed lakes on Saturn's moon Titan
Climate change on Saturn's moon Titan may have caused liquid nitrogen pockets to explode, forming craters that filled with liquid hydrocarbons.
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1 month ago
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Click, whir, ping: the lost sounds of loading video games
From the Apple II to the ZX Spectrum, the aural experience of loading a game from a cassette, disc or cartridge was all part of the fun
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2 months ago
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Meet the grandson taking his 89-year-old grandmother to all 61 national parks
Brad Ryan and his 89-year-old grandmother Joy Ryan are taking the country by storm, visiting U.S. national parks on an epic road trip. But it hasn’t always been such a smooth journey for the pair. Ryan, 38, and his grandmother had been very close when he was younger but their relationship became strained when his parents divorced in 2001. “It kind of ripped our family in two,” he explained to TODAY. “I didn't talk to her for ten years.”
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2 months ago
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50 Years After They Met at Woodstock, Couple Finally Finds a Photo of Their First Hours Together
"For 50 years we’ve been looking for a picture of ourselves, and out of the blue one shows up," says husband Jerry Griffin
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2 months ago
I've spent 5 minutes trying to figure one out, ended up not even getting thru it lol
Posted in: There is no evil like reCAPTCHA (v3)
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2 months ago
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Good job RCMP and other agencies to finally put this to rest
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2 months ago
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Charred forests not growing back as expected in Pacific Northwest, researchers say
Certain tree species not growing back in low elevation areas; seedlings struggling to survive in Rocky Mountains due to warming temperatures.
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2 months ago
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Watch a Japanese spacecraft grab another sample from an asteroid
A short clip of Hayabusa2’s second sample collection is now available.
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2 months ago
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Don't Waste Your Emotions on Plants, They Have No Feelings, Grumpy Scientists Say
Contrary to what some scientists have suggested, plants don’t think, feel or learn; consciousness is a characteristic of animals alone, experts say.
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3 months ago
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Chinese space station Tiangong-2 is about to fall from space
The Chinese space agency is getting ready to bring its small space station, Tiangong-2, down from orbit to splash down in the Pacific Ocean on 19 July
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3 months ago
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The Corvettes That Don't Get Driven, Sold, or Bought
The C5 Corvette exists in an odd purgatory on the market, and it'll remain that way until something changes.