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Which endangered species should we save? Humans face tough choices about what lives — and what dies
Given the option of saving the iconic monarch butterfly or a giant slug, what would you choose? As more species are pushed to the brink of extinction, humans will have to decide the winners and losers of the animal kingdom.
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Animal magic: why intelligence isn’t just for humans
Meet the footballing bees, optimistic pigs and alien-like octopuses that are shaking up how we think about minds
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Immortality is mathematically impossible, new research finds
A mathematical equation has proven that controlling one of the two major changes in a cell—decay or cancerous growth—enhances the other, causing inevitable death
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20 photos of bees that will make you say "damn, bees are beautiful"
Celebrate National Pollinator Week with these surprisingly gorgeous portraits of bees.
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Martha & the Vandellas - Heatwave
Another song that makes me happy, a beautiful voice.
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American politicians use the bible to justify atrocities … again
American history consistently features preachers and politicians thumping the bible to rationalize atrocities. From the First Congress up through the Civil War, American politicians used the bible to justify slavery. Even before that, the Pilgrims justified the genocide of the Pequots on biblical grounds. The bible was used to argue for segregation as much, if not more, than it was used to argue against segregation.
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Media Release: Worsening Worldwide Land Degradation Now ‘Critical’, Undermining Well-Being of 3.2...
Worsening land degradation caused by human activities is undermining the well-being of two fifths of humanity, driving species extinctions and intensifying climate change. It is also a major contributor to mass human migration and increased conflict, according to the world’s first comprehensive evidence-based assessment of land degradation and restoration.
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14 Photos of One of the Most Amazing Migrations in the World
Hundreds of thousands of cranes gather every year at this spot.
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The Legacy of the Iraq War
The invasion is no longer just one of the great crimes of this or any age – it's become a crossroads event in the history of America's decline. By Matt Taibbi.
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The Dirty Secret of ‘Secret Family Recipes’
Surprisingly often, they're copied from mayo jars and famous cookbooks.
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How long can we treat the suffering of animals as an inconvenient truth?
A revolution is coming in our relationship with ‘lower’ creatures, provoked by a greater knowledge of their cognition. Labour’s new plans for animal welfare are just a start
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Spider With Three Super Powers
Known for eating other spiders, Portia is a genus of the jumping spider that is able to leap up to 50 times her own body length. Captured by stunning close up footage, we get to witness this amazing spider use its super powers to dine on prey three times her size.
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The Pessimist’s Guide to 2018
These eight potential shocks could shape the next decade.
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Neil Young’s online music archive is here, and it’s fucking incredible
Every single song ever recorded by Young is available to stream for free in high-resolution quality.
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Which Is Worse For Your Health, Weed or Alcohol? Science Weighs In
Which is worse for you: weed or whiskey?
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5 Incredible Advances Science Could Buy With The Government's $600B Military Budget
The United States spends more on military spending than the next ten nations combined: an estimated $600 billion annually. Meanwhile, the entire budgets of NASA and the National Science Foundation, combined, is only ~$25 billion, or about 4% of our military budget. Many astronomers, astrophysicists, engineers, and scientists of all persuasions dream of the benefits that mild increases to their budgets could bring, but these are tiny, incremental dreams.
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Raccoons Pass Famous Intelligence Test—By Upending It
Raccoons are notoriously pesky, but are they as clever as a crow? Scientists recently put the masked mammals through the Aesop's Fable test, which measures if animals can discern cause and effect by displacing water to access food. The experiment is based on the story in which a thirsty crow can’t drink from a pitcher with a low level of water. By dropping in stones, the bird raises the water level and is able to drink.
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4 Best Linux Distros for Older Hardware
One of the many great aspects of the Linux operating system is its ability to bring new life to old hardware. This is not only a boon for your bottom line but also an environmentally sound philosophy. Instead of sending that older (still functioning) hardware to the trash heap, give it a second lease on life with the help of Linux. You certainly won’t be doing that with Windows 7, 8, or 10. Linux, on the other hand, offers a good number of options for those wanting to extend the life of their aging machines.
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The Science Behind Mona Lisa’s Smile
How Leonardo da Vinci engineered the world’s most famous painting
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At 50 tons and 700 kilowatt-hours, this truck is the biggest EV in the world
When it comes to bench-racing electric vehicles, the kilowatt-hour is king. And over in Switzerland, there's an EV that will make Tesla's P100Ds look positively puny. But this is no carbon-fiber hypercar, and it's never going set any records for 0-60 times or the standing quarter. No, this is an altogether more practical creation that's meant to work for a living. It's a Komatsu quarry truck that's being modified by Kuhn Schweiz and Lithium Storage, weighing in at almost 50 tons (45 tonnes) and powered by a whopping 700kWh battery pack.
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Economists assert there is no need to regulate bitcoin
Crypto systems regulate themselves.
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A Copyright Vote That Could Change the EU’s Internet
On October 10, EU lawmakers will vote on a dangerous proposal to change copyright law. Mozilla is urging EU citizens to demand better reforms.
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In 1939, I didn’t hear war coming. Now its thundering approach can’t be ignored
Author Harry Leslie Smith remembers the prelude to the second world war – and there are worrying echoes now
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Video inside North Korea shows country turning to solar power to cope with blackouts
Rare video footage has emerged from North Korea that reveals the growing dependence of its citizens on solar energy to power their homes amid frequent electricity blackouts. At just over a minute long, the video, filmed in March by the Unification Media Group, and published on the Daily NK website, takes the viewer past cyclists on the quiet, residential streets of Chongjin, North Korea’s third largest city in northern Hamgyong Province.
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Robots are preparing to fill 200,000 vacant construction jobs
Automation has long been considered the harbinger of future unemployment, and experts have predicted that the widespread adoption of artificially intelligent (AI) software and smart machines could lead to thousands or even millions of people losing their jobs. However, that may not be the case in the construction industry. In fact, with a growing shortage in labor, it’s one sector that’s particularly well-suited for an automation takeover.
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Firebase
A Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Short by the director of District 9 set in a Vietnam-era world where US GIs come across bodies with odd growths under their skin. 27 min.
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The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions
Neuroscientists have used a classic branch of maths in a totally new way to peer into the structure of our brains. What they've discovered is that the brain is full of multi-dimensional geometrical structures operating in as many as 11 dimensions.
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Ancient Chinese Medicine Blocks Sperm From Egg
It's safe, natural, has no side effects, and works — even after conception.
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What Makes a Genius?
Some minds are so exceptional they change the world. We don’t know exactly why these people soar above the rest of us, but science offers us clues.
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First-Ever LSD Microdosing Study Will Pit the Human Brain Against AI
Amanda Feilding used to take lysergic acid diethylamide every day to boost creativity and productivity at work before LSD, known as acid, was made illegal in 1968. During her downtime, Feilding, who now runs the Beckley Foundation for psychedelic research, would get together with her friends to play the ancient Chinese game of Go, and came to notice something curious about her winning streaks.
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