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9 hours ago
Current Event ChubrosSmoking will be 'eradicated in England by 2030'
Smoking will be “eradicated” in England by 2030 as roughly a thousand people quit every day, health chiefs have predicted. More than a million smokers have kicked the habit since 2014, Public Health England said yesterday, leaving overall rates at their lowest ever, with just 14.9 per cent of adults smoking.
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9 hours ago
Current Event Chubros
Why does our brain needs at least 8 hugs a day?
Hugging is a particularly intimate and intense way to express emotions. Through a hug we can convey joy or sorrow, we can say to a person that can count on us unconditionally and understand his state of mind without speaking. But the fact is that embraces not only help us connect with others and express what we feel, also have a very positve effect on the emotional balance and brain health.
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1 day ago
Current Event Chubros
The Mirai Botnet Architects Are Now Fighting Crime With the FBI
The three college-aged defendants behind the creation of the Mirai botnet—an online tool that wreaked destruction across the internet in the fall of 2016 with unprecedentedly powerful distributed denial of service attacks—will stand in an Alaska courtroom Tuesday and ask for a novel ruling from a federal judge: They hope to be sentenced to work for the FBI. Josiah White, Paras Jha, and Dalton Norman, who were all between 18 and 20 years old when they built and launched Mirai, pleaded guilty ...
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2 days ago
Current Event Chubros
Emmys 2018: ‘Last Week Tonight With John Oliver’ wins for outstanding variety talk series
On Monday night, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver won the Emmy for outstanding variety talk series, marking the third consecutive win for the series in this category.“All the shows, every year, we fly our staff here and we put them in the worst seats in the building to send a mixed message,” Oliver joked, as he accepted the award. “Thank you to our staff — we’re incredibly proud of you.
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3 days ago
Comment Chubros
If he becomes an actual supreme court justice, I'm done.
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4 days ago
Current Event Chubros
Public in Dark Over Closure of New Mexico Solar Observatory
A New Mexico observatory aimed at unlocking the sun's secrets has been shut indefinitely by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation over an undisclosed security issue, leaving it at the center of its own mystery. The Sunspot Solar Observatory, near Holloman Air Force Base and White Sands Missile Range, sits atop the Sacramento mountains in southern New Mexico. It has been closed since the FBI evacuated staff on Sept. 6.
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5 days ago
Current Event Chubros
US 'brute' of a storm turns deadly
Five people have been killed as Florence mauls the US East Coast, knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of homes and downing trees. The weather event has been downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm but forecasters still warn of life-threatening storm surges. Winds of up to 70mph (110km/h) are also expected for several days as the weather system slowly grinds over. Evacuation warnings have been in place for 1.7 million people in the area.
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5 days ago
Expression Chubros
No, the Threat to Democracy Is Not Too Much Democracy
Has American democracy been hijacked by the passions of its people, now a dangerous and untamable majority undermining the republic? In a new issue of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Rosen, head of the National Constitution Center, says yes. “[James] Madison’s worst fears of mob rule have been realized—and the cooling mechanisms he designed to slow down the formation of impetuous majorities have broken.”
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5 days ago
Current Event Chubros
Spectacular ice age wolf pup and caribou dug up in Canada
The Klondike region of Canada is famous for its gold, but now other remarkable ancient treasures have been unearthed from the melting permafrost. Two mummified ice age mammals – a wolf pup and a caribou calf – were discovered by gold miners in the area in 2016 and unveiled on Thursday at a ceremony in Dawson in Yukon territory.
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6 days ago
Current Event Chubros
Carolina food banks, already short on supplies, are in desperate need of donations
Traditionally, fall is low season for food banks across the country. They usually see a surge in demand during the summer months, which depletes their stocks. But then, when they have to deal with a monster storm like Hurricane Florence, it really strains them. "We're in that down mode and (then) we get hit with a storm like this," said Shari Waters, who works with Harvest Hope Food Bank.
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6 days ago
Current Event Chubros
San Juan mayor blasts Trump: ‘This is what denial following neglect looks like’
Carmen Yulín Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, blasted President Trump on Thursday after the president claimed without evidence that the death toll from Hurricane Maria had been inflated by Democrats to make him look bad. "This is what denial following neglect looks like: Mr Pres in the real world people died on your watch. YOUR LACK OF RESPECT IS APPALLING!" Cruz tweeted.
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6 days ago
Current Event Chubros
Putin Surprises Abe With Offer of Japan-Russia Peace Treaty
Accepting Putin's offer would go against long-standing Japanese position on the territorial dispute.
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6 days ago
Comment Chubros
Last I checked, loyalty was a two way street. Trump doesn't seem to understand that.
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8 days ago
Analysis Chubros
Why sleep should be every student’s priority
It’s hard to overstate the benefits of a night’s rest for human memory, and neuroscientists are just beginning to understand why. Jakke Tamminen has plenty of students who do that very studenty thing of staying up all night right before an exam, in the hope of stuffing in as much knowledge as they can. But “that’s the worst thing you can do”, the psychology lecturer at the UK’s Royal Holloway University warns them.
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8 days ago
Expression Chubros
The surprising origins of the TV remote
The TV remote as we know it came about for one simple reason – one man’s desire to mute the ads he felt were ruining his TV watching.
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9 days ago
Current Event Chubros
New research shows that, post net neutrality, internet providers are slowing down your streaming
Have you ever noticed web content performing poorly out of the blue? Video footage becomes blurry. Web pages take longer to load. If so, your internet service provider might be slowing down your data on purpose. It’s known as “throttling,” and it’s a way for a provider to ease congested network traffic. But when one type of network traffic—say, video streaming—is throttled more than another, this is called differentiation. And according to Dave Choffnes, assistant professor of comput...
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10 days ago
Current Event Chubros
"Swamp Thing" To Be A Hard R And Practical
“Titans” is the first of the three commissioned live-action series for the DC Universe streaming service and has been in production for many months ahead of its debut on October 12th. “Doom Patrol” recently kicked off filming and is looking likely to have an early 2019 debut.
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11 days ago
Current Event Chubros
‘Black Mirror: USS Callister’ Wins Emmy For Outstanding TV Movie
“Black Mirror: USS Callister” has won the Emmy for Outstanding TV Movie, making it two years in a row the Netflix anthology series has submitted an episode as a movie and won the category. “USS Callister” is the feature-length first episode of “Black Mirror” Season 4. Written by series creator Charlie Brooker and William Bridges, the movie tracks Robert Daly (Jesse Plemons), the Chief Technical Officer of a video game company by day and Captain of the USS Callister by night — insid...
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12 days ago
Current Event Chubros
OxyContin Billionaire to Sell Drug to Get You Off OxyContin
Pharmaceutical billionaire Richard Sackler, whose family-owned company Purdue Pharma created the notorious drug OxyContin, has been granted a patent for a new drug designed to help wean people off that highly addictive opiate. Purdue has been named as one of the key drivers in an opioid epidemic that is killing tens of thousands of Americans every year. The Financial Times reports that Sackler now stands to make millions more dollars from a milder opiate that would be sold to people addicted to ...
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12 days ago
Comment Chubros
It's probably harder than you think, espectially when most of your supporters are sympathetic to Nazis.
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12 days ago
Comment Chubros
So sad, another loss from a classy generation
Posted in: Hollywood star Burt Reynolds dies, 82
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13 days ago
Current Event Chubros
US President Trump tops terrorism as Germans' greatest fear, survey says
The greatest source of German angst are the policies of U.S. President Donald Trump, according to an insurance company's survey of the deepest fears plaguing the country's people. Trump's policies were named as the top fear factor by 69 percent of respondents in the annual survey, in which last year's number one issue, terrorism, was bumped down to fifth place.
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13 days ago
Current Event Chubros
The future is here today: you can't play Bach on Youtube because Sony says they own his compositions
James Rhodes, a pianist, performed a Bach composition for his Youtube channel, but it didn't stay up -- Youtube's Content ID system pulled it down and accused him of copyright infringement because Sony Music Global had claimed that they owned 47 seconds' worth of his personal performance of a song whose composer has been dead for 300 years.
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2 weeks ago
Analysis Chubros
A microscopic look at why the world is running out of sand
The results of our sand scavenger hunt are in!
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2 weeks ago
Current Event Chubros
Fish oil supplement in pregnancy improves child’s muscle and bone development
Children whose mothers take fish oil supplements during pregnancy have more muscle and stronger bones in early childhood, a new trial has found. Research from the University of Copenhagen has found that women who took the omega-3 fatty acid pills daily from halfway through their pregnancy had children with a higher BMI by age six. X-ray scans revealed these children weren’t simply carrying more unhealthy fat as they also had more lean muscle, and higher bone density than the children whose mot...