Post Overview
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Analysis
6 years ago
+25 25 0To 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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Expression
6 years ago
+21 21 0How 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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Analysis
6 years ago
+25 25 0Match.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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6 years ago
+14 14 0The 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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Current Event
6 years ago
+12 12 0California 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 Assembl ...
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Analysis
6 years ago
+8 8 0Explosions 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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Expression
6 years ago
+23 23 0Click, 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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Current Event
6 years ago
+9 9 0Meet 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 whe ...
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Expression
6 years ago
+18 18 050 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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Analysis
6 years ago
+16 16 0Charred 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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Video/Audio
6 years ago
+7 7 0Watch 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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Analysis
6 years ago
+39 39 0 x 1Don'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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Analysis
6 years ago
+17 17 0Chinese 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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Analysis
6 years ago
+33 33 0The 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.
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Analysis
6 years ago
+18 18 0Apple Park is one of Earth’s most valuable buildings
Apple Park is one of the most impressive corporate headquarters in the world -- and that don't come cheap.
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Current Event
6 years ago
+12 12 0Microsoft Teams overtakes Slack with 13 million daily users
Microsoft’s first set of user numbers.
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Expression
6 years ago
+16 16 0These Are All the Businesses You Never Knew Were Owned by Amazon
This is everything (we know of) owned by “The Everything Store.”
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Expression
6 years ago
+19 19 0LA’s earthquake warning system worked — just not how people expected
No news was still unsettling for some residents.
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Analysis
6 years ago
+16 16 0Study reveals a short bout of exercise enhances brain function
OHSU research discovers a gene in mice that’s activated by brief periods of exercise.
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Analysis
6 years ago
+27 27 0Can Neurodiversity Defeat Doublethink?
Masha Gessen suggests there was a connection between Asperger’s and social activism in the Soviet era.




















