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1 day agoAchievement Petrox
Midnight Express
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1 day agoExpression Petrox
COVID-19 is awful. Climate change could be worse.
But there are lessons from the current crisis that should guide our response to the next one.
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2 days agoInteractive Petrox
Biden plans to fight climate change in a way no U.S. president has done before
Managing climate change requires a systems approach, with strategic coordination across all sectors
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4 days agoCurrent Event Petrox
White American Christianity Needs to Be Honest With Itself
In the past few days, I’ve seen all kinds of statements from Christian leaders trying to distance themselves from the violent mob at the Capitol. Christian writers known for their thoughtfulness lament that “somehow” white supremacy has crept into our churches, and the faculty of a major evangelical institution put out a manifesto saying that the events at the Capitol “bear absolutely no resemblance to” the Christianity they teach. That mob, they’re telling us, is a fringe element. T...
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9 days agoCurrent Event Petrox
People call for ‘Home Alone 2 extra’ Trump to be removed from film
Following the permanent suspension of Donald Trump from Twitter, many are now referring to the outgoing president as “a Home Alone extra”. People are also calling for his cameo appearance in 1992 sequel Home Alone: Lost in New York to be digitally removed ahead of its televised showings later this year.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event Petrox
Hundreds of British tourists flee quarantine in Switzerland
About half of the Britons who were ordered to wait out their quarantine in the ski resort of Verbier have gone into hiding. Swiss authorities began to suspect something unusual when their meals were left untouched.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Petrox
Researchers achieve first "sustained" long distance quantum teleportation
A team of researchers claim to have achieved sustained, long-distance quantum teleportation for the first time. The research could lay the groundwork for “a viable quantum internet — a network in which information stored in qubits is shared over long distances through entanglement” that could “transform the fields of data storage, precision sensing and computing,” according to a Fermilab statement.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Petrox
Opinion: Bill Barr can't erase his shameful legacy
Elie Honig writes that Attorney General Bill Barr deserves credit for refuting White House claims of election fraud, but that doesn't cancel out his dishonesty in service of Donald Trump. "No doubt, the Justice Department will recover, in time. But it will take many years to repair the deep damage that Barr has done."
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1 month agoCurrent Event Petrox
CBD Does Not Impair Driving, Study Finds. What Does It Mean For Cannabis Laws?
A new study has demonstrated that CBD is safe for driving, while the effects of THC last only a few hours. This work could inform cannabis use laws.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Petrox
Flow of time is just an illusion
Many good stories begin with this magical phrase, but have you ever thought that "what is the story of time?" Does time exist? We always say time can be spent, time is money, we waste time, we are trying to save time, but what do we really know about the time? Is time an illusion? According to physicist Brian Greene, "all the time exist at once in spacetime"
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1 month agoCurrent Event Petrox
The Jehovah’s Witnesses Are About to Lose Their Tax-Exempt Status in Australia
The Jehovah’s Witnesses are in danger of losing their tax exempt status in Australia because they refuse to play their part in addressing allegations of child abuse.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Petrox
How Archaeologists Are Using Deep Learning to Dig Deeper
Trawling ancient history with neural nets.
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1 month agoCurrent Event Petrox
Israeli scientists claim to reverse aging process
Israeli scientists say they have managed to successfully reverse the biological aging process – using only oxygen. Recent research led by Tel Aviv University’s Prof. Shai Efrati, together with a team from Shamir Medical Center, found that when healthy adults over the age of 64 were placed in a pressurized chamber and given pure oxygen for 90 minutes a day, five days a week for three months, not only was the aging process delayed - it was actually reversed.
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2 months agoCurrent Event Petrox
Capcom details the pandemic's impact on Monster Hunter Rise, pre-orders going well, sales expected to match Monster Hunter World
Monster Hunter Rise is set to launch March 26th, 2020, but apparently Capcom wanted to release it earlier. Capcom president Haruhiro Tsujimoto spoke to Nikkei about the game's development, and how things were slowed by the pandemic. Along with that, we get some news on pre-orders, along with sales expectations. Check out the statement below, as translated by Gaijinhunter.
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2 months agoCurrent Event Petrox
FBI Says ‘Boogaloo Boys’ Bought 3D-Printed Machine Gun Parts
A criminal complaint alleges that a West Virginia man disguised the plastic components as wall hangers and sold hundreds of them online.
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2 months agoCurrent Event Petrox
TV networks cut away from Trump’s ‘most dishonest speech’ ever
It’s not the first time the channels have opted not to carry his comments in real time