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Mustard gas was used in August attack on Syrian town, says weapons group
This is the first official confirmation of mustard gas use in Syria since the country agreed to destroy its stockpile of chemical weapons in 2013.
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Blizzard Warning Posted as Snowy Storm System Digs Into Mountain West and Heads Toward High Plains
On the heels of a snowy start to November, snow and wind will pivot out of the West into the High Plains.
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Peru Protects Vast 'Yellowstone of the Amazon'
The 3.3 million-acre park, larger than Yellowstone and Yosemite combined, encompasses key forest habitats.
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How U.S. Drinking Laws Created the Fake ID Market
True story—a couple weeks ago, a restaurant attempted to deny me service because they thought I had a fake ID. The ID was a few years old, granted, and it has a small crack in it, but it nonetheless was a real form of identification. The waiter made a joke along the lines of the ID looking like a fake ID he used in college, which seemed like a bad joke until a few minutes later, when the manager came out and asked to look at it. The guy claimed it was tampered!
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Nature's Scuba Divers: How Beetles Breathe Underwater | Deep Look
Bugs and beetles can’t hold their breath underwater like we do. But some aquatic insects can spend their whole adult lives underwater. How do they do it? Meet nature’s Scuba divers. They carry their air with them—in some cases, for a lifetime.
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Egypt detects 'impressive' anomaly in Giza pyramids
Two weeks of new thermal scanning in Egypt’s Giza pyramids have identified anomalies in the 4,500 year-old burial structures, including a major one in the largest pyramid, the Antiquities Ministry announced Monday. Antiquities Minister Mamdouh el-Damaty and technical experts working on the project showed the higher temperature being detected in three specific adjacent stones at the bottom of the pyramid in a live thermal camera presentation to journalists.
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Bulldog tries to howl, ends up Chewbacca-ing instead (Video)
Chester the English Bulldog, from Surrey, BC., had always wanted to emulate the howl that huskies produce, but when he tries to give it a shot, it comes off as less of a howl and more like a Chewba...
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How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Views
Facebook just announced 8 billion video views per day. This number is made out of lies, cheating and worst of all: theft. All of this is wildly known but the media giant Facebook is pretending everything is fine, while damaging independent creators in the process. How does this work?
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Can You Really 'Train' Your Brain?
Brain training games claim to improve your memory, attention, and reasoning skills. Some even say they help prevent the onset of dementia. Problem is, they don’t really work.
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No more fillings as dentists reveal new tooth decay treatment
Scientists have developed a new pain-free filling that allows cavities to be repaired without drilling or injections. The tooth-rebuilding technique developed at King's College London does away with fillings and instead encourages teeth to repair themselves. Tooth decay is normally removed by drilling, after which the cavity is filled with a material such as amalgam or composite resin.
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StarCraft: The past, present and future
Back in the ‘90s, Chris Metzen had an idea for a new game. For the still-blooming Blizzard Entertainment, these were formative years. There was Warcraft as of 1994, but there was no World of Warcraft. There was talk about doing more real-time strategy, as the company was arguably getting good at it, and a keen interest in heading into space.
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Epic Eel Migration Mapped for the First Time
Scientists know that American eels spend most of their adult lives inland or close to the shore, because for thousands of years, that’s where people have caught them. And we know the animals spawn in the open ocean, because that’s where we find their tiny, transparent larvae. But despite decades of searching, no adult American eel (Anguilla rostrata) has ever been spotted migrating across the hundreds of miles of ocean between the animals’ adult haunts and their ancestral spawning areas.
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Thomas Quick: The extraordinary story of the serial killer who wasn't
Two decades ago, a 41-year-old patient in a psychiatric hospital made a shocking confession. Sture Bergwall stunned his therapist by admitting he was responsible for one of Sweden's most notorious unsolved murders, that of 11-year-old Johan Asplund, who had vanished on his way to school in 1980 and whose body had never been found. Police were called to interview Bergwall, but that was not the end of his disturbing mea culpa.
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Can These Glasses Help The Colourblind? We Put EnChroma To The Test
A company called EnChroma has built a pair of glasses that claims to restore colour vision for the colourblind. Predictably, the internet has erupted with excitement. But it’s not the first... By Diane Kelly and Maddie Stone.
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What Libraries Can (Still) Do
Is the library, storehouse and lender of books, as anachronistic as the record store, the telephone booth, and the Playboy centerfold? By James Gleick.
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Sorry, kids, the 1st Amendment does protect 'hate speech'
recent poll of college students’ attitudes toward free speech (in general and on campus) is a mixed bag. The survey by McLaughlin & Associates for the William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale shows that 87% of respondents agreed with this statement: “There is educational value in listening to and understanding views and opinions that I may disagree with and are different from my own.”
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This is Local Motors 3D printed car: It could change everything
3D printing may be mainstream enough not to raise an eyebrow any more, but Local Motors’ plan to print cars is still ambitiously unusual.
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Half of world's rare antelope population died within weeks
More than half of the world’s population of an endangered antelope died within two weeks earlier this year, in a phenomenon that scientists are unable to explain. At least 150,000 adult saiga antelopes were buried during a fortnight in May, but scientists say the actual figure will be significantly higher as many more carcasses were found but not counted as part of the burials. Calves were not counted, but it is thought that hundreds of thousands died too.
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Disappointed migrants 'too frightened' to live in Swedish woods
When he fled the war in Syria, Abdullah Waez dreamed of a new life in Sweden. Waez and 52 other asylum seekers were shocked when migration officials brought them by bus to their new accommodation on Sunday: a cluster of red wooden cabins in a forest in the village of Limedsforsen, some 400 kilometres (250 miles) northwest of Stockholm.
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The City That Has Its Own Operating System
The Internet of Things is advancing on a metropolitan scale, with citywide sensors able to track everything from pollution to crime. In the UK, the Bristol Is Open project is a pioneering effort to connect all these streams of data into one “programmable city.”
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The Thirty-Seven Basic Plots, According to a Screenwriter of the Silent Film Era
In his 1919 manual for screenwriters, Ten Million Photoplay Plots, Wycliff Aber Hill provided this taxonomy of possible types of dramatic "situations," first running them down in outline form, then describing each more completely and offering possible variations. Hill, who published more than one aid to struggling "scenarists," positioned himself as an authority on the types of stories that would work well on screen.
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When animals shrink to miniature form
From dwarf mammoths to miniature lizards, lots of animals have evolved smaller and smaller body sizes. Here are some of the most extraordinary examples.
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Remember the Guy Who Gave His Employees a $70,000 Minimum Wage? Here’s What Happened Next.
Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments...
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Maps of Bird Migration Patterns
These maps, which are called STEM (Spatio-Temporal Exploratory Model) maps, use eBird stationary and traveling count checklists that report all species. The location of each checklist is associated with remotely-sensed information on habitat, climate, human population, and demographics generating a suite of approximately 60 variables describing the environment where eBird searches take place.
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Kids need less sugar and more fat
Independent scientists and nutritionists at the Alliance for Natural Health International (ANH-Intl) have today published new guidelines for healthy eating for children. The guide...
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Bernie Sanders’s Highly Sensible Plan to Turn Post Offices Into Banks
They're much less crazy than payday-lending services, and the rest of the world agrees. By Joe Pinsker.
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Egypt has developed a game-changing low-power water desalination technique
About 71 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, but unfortunately most of that liquid nourishment isn’t suitable for drinking because it’s salt water found in the oceans. Removing salt from water is not an easy process, either. Current desalination technology requires a high amount of energy, making it prohibitively expensive — especially in developing nations. But don’t worry: a team of researchers at Alexandria University in Egypt...
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Scientists can now “squeeze” light, a breakthrough that could make computers millions of times...
Have you ever wondered why we don’t use light to transmit messages? Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, but while we use light to carry signals along fiber optic cables, we use electrons to process sound and information in our phones and computers. The reason has always been because light particles–photons—are extremely difficult to manipulate, whereas electrons can be manipulated relatively easily.
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Scientists Connect Brain to a Basic Tablet—Paralyzed Patient Googles With Ease
For patient T6, 2014 was a happy year. That was the year she learned to control a Nexus tablet with her brain waves, and literally took her life quality from 1980s DOS to modern era Android OS. A brunette lady in her early 50s, patient T6 suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease), which causes progressive motor neuron damage. Mostly paralyzed from the neck down, T6 retains her sharp wit, love for red lipstick and miraculous green thumb.
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How World's Largest Legal Ivory Market Fuels Demand for Illegal Ivory
A new report by WildAid, an international nongovernmental organization that aims to eliminate illegal wildlife trade, together with undercover video by independent investigators provided to WildAid and WWF-Hong Kong, exposes how Hong Kong’s legal ivory market fuels ivory smuggling and elephant poaching. Hong Kong is the world’s largest retail market for elephant ivory, with licensed businesses in high-rent tourist areas displaying more than...
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