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Trapped in Qatar: Footballers Describe Nightmarish Treatment
Qatar, the host of the 2022 soccer World Cup, is spending a lot of money to attract players and coaches. SPIEGEL spent time with a handful who have gone to the emirate and say they are aren't getting paid, but have been prevented from leaving the country.
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Material could be strongest yet
A material called carbyne could be stronger even than graphene or diamond, according to researchers who have calculated its properties.
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Searching for a hitman in the Deep Web
With the arrest of alleged Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht in San Francisco last week, there's been a renewed spotlight on the shadowy network of the Deep Web, the sites accessible only through the encrypted Tor network. Granted the cover of anonymity, users there engage in activities ranging from expressing political dissent to selling massive amounts of marijuana.
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Found: A Strange Lonely Planet without a Star
An international team of astronomers has discovered an exotic young planet that is not orbiting a star. This free-floating planet, dubbed PSO J318.5-22, is just 80 light-years away from Earth and has a mass only six times that of Jupiter. The planet formed a mere 12 million years ago—a newborn in planet lifetimes.
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Can we get our heads around consciousness?
Consciousness is the greatest, most troubling mystery in science. Don’t believe the hype: the Hard Problem is here to stay..
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A Conversation With Lavabit’s Founder
For nearly a decade, Ladar Levison ran Lavabit, a secure e-mail service that served as an alternative for a tech-savvy crowd that cared about privacy. Then, last July, after two months of haggling with the F.B.I., Mr. Levison shuttered the service rather than give the government untrammeled access to his users’ communications and everything he had built.
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8 spices you've never heard of
We know you've heard of parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme, but what about asafoetida, mahlab, sumac and wattleseed?
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Aircraft noise linked to higher heart disease risk
Living in neighbourhoods with high levels of aircraft noise is associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, U.S. and British research suggests.
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Rich People Just Care Less
“Apart from the financial inequities, I fear the expansion of an entirely different gap, caused by the inability to see oneself in a less advantaged person’s shoes,” writes Op-Ed contributor Daniel Goleman.
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32 Disturbing & Scary Halloween Outfits From Yesteryear
With Halloween just around the corner, we thought we’d give you some inspiration for your outfit this year, by featuring some of the most sinister Halloween outfits from years past. Politically incorrect, haphazard, freaky and downright terrifying are just a few words that spring to mind to describe these hellish creations.
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How Radiation Isn't Killing You
This just in: According to experts, we are being irradiated by our food, water, air, the sky and even by our computers and smartphones. We are even being irradiated by certain elements stored in our own bones. Aaaagh! The enemy within! Run for your lives! But where? Where can you hide in a radiation soaked universe?
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Chinese road cut in half because flats accidentally built in its path
Blundering Chinese officials were forced to cut a motorway in half to go around a block of flats after they accidentally erected the building in its proposed path then realized it would cost too much to relocate the tenants. Construction workers had to squeeze the eight-lane highway into four and subsequently left furious residents stuck in the middle of a busy road.
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The Hunt for Houdini’s Airplane
Amateur detectives have found clues to the fate of the magician’s biplane.
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Fire drill: can Tony Fadell and Nest build a better smoke detector?
More than anything, I’m surprised it’s a square. A square with rounded corners, Nest CEO Tony Fadell corrects me. Then the man responsible for the iPod and the Nest thermostat beams at me and delivers the line for his newest product. “Safety,” he says, “shouldn’t be annoying.”
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The Secret to Learning Code
Learning how to code can be a daunting task. If you learn best by diving into problems head on, breaking things is one of the fastest paths to understanding.
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Avoiding Armegeddon: The hunt is on for dangerous asteroids
More than 1,000 people were injured last February in Chelyabinsk, Russia, when a meteor exploded over the city. The collision shattered windows and pelted startled residents with shards of glass and debris. In the aftermath, the world was transfixed by extraordinary videos of the huge fireball as it streaked across the sky. Many wondered, why on earth did no one see it coming?
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5 animals that may hold the key to immortality
While death's cold, bony fingers will inevitably reach all creatures, Mother Nature has imbued a few of her quirkier children with resilient biology seemingly predisposed to keep mortality at bay. Tapping into their secrets has long been a quest for scientists, not least because the thought of our minds flickering out one day continues to bother most people. Here, in no particular order, are five animals who may just hold to clues to unlocking everlasting life
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Taliban Says It Would Try to Kill Malala Yousafzai Again
The Taliban didn't target Malala Yousafzai because of her advocacy of education for girls but because she "attacked Islam," and the group would try to kill her again if they could, the official spokesman for the Pakistan Taliban told ABC News.
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The Godfather of Apple Design Spots 4 Looming Tech Trends
The founder of the influential design consultancy Frog started working with Apple in 1982, establishing the design language that drove the look of the company’s hardware for years to come–a shift that reverberated throughout the PC industry. It was Esslinger who first pushed Apple out of a drab beige world toward cleaner, whiter hardware, and his partnership with Steve Jobs in this period helped define Apple’s core values as a user-focused, design-centric company that endure to this day.
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