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10 days agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Tyre Nichols not seen to resist police in video footage
Footage of a traffic stop that has seen five ex-Memphis police officers charged with murder shows them kicking and punching a motorist for several minutes as he cries out for his mother. Officers are seen beating Tyre Nichols, 29, in the videos from the 7 January arrest, with no signs of him resisting.
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12 days agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
The Cause of Depression Is Probably Not What You Think
People often think they know what causes chronic depression. Surveys indicate that more than 80% of the public blames a “chemical imbalance” in the brain. That idea is widespread in pop psychology and cited in research papers and medical textbooks. Listening to Prozac, a book that describes the life-changing value of treating depression with medications that aim to correct this imbalance, spent months on the New York Times bestseller list.
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13 days agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Physicist encourages continuing the search for life in Venus' atmosphere
In a recent paper accepted to Contemporary Physics, a physicist from Imperial College London uses past missions and recent findings to encourage the importance of searching for life in the atmosphere of the solar system’s most inhospitable planet, Venus.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Bald eagle delivers 2 eggs in California nest watched by web cam
A bald eagle has laid two eggs this month in a Southern California nest and nature lovers will watch for the hatchings via an online live feed. Mother eagle Jackie delivered the second egg Saturday afternoon amid a snowstorm near the mountain community of Big Bear east of Los Angeles. The first egg came Jan. 11.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Microsoft is laying off 10,000 employees
Microsoft said Wednesday that it’s letting go of 10,000 employees through March 31 as the software maker braces for slower revenue growth. The company is also taking a $1.2 billion charge in the fiscal second quarter, which will result in a negative impact of 12 cents to adjusted earnings per share.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Artists file class-action lawsuit against AI image generator companies
Suit seeks damages from Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Making the case for using insects as food for both humans and livestock
Two pairs of academics are making the case for using insects as a food source in Perspectives pieces published in the journal Science. The first pair, Arup Kumar Hazarika and Unmilan Kalita, with Cotton University and Barnagar College, respectively, both in India, argue that a strong case can be made for using insects to meet the growing need for food around the world in the coming years.
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1 month agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Apple starts hiring spree for first flagship stores in India
Apple is preparing to open its initial first-party store in India, and job postings are seeking employees to work at the Apple-owned retail location. Apple has been working to open its first-party retail outlet in India for quite some time, but the effort has faced repeated delays. Now, Apple is working to open its storefront by hiring staff for it.
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1 month agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Soaring fertilizer prices could see millions more undernourished
High fertilizer prices could put an additional 100 million people at risk of undernourishment, a study suggests. The war in Ukraine has led to the blockade of millions of tons of wheat, barley and corn, but reduced food exports from the region are less of a driver of food price rises than feared, researchers say.
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1 month agoAnalysis TheSpirit
Five ways TikTok is seen as threat to US national security
Many in the United States see TikTok, the highly popular video-sharing app owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, as a threat to national security.
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1 month agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Millennials Are in Worse Financial Health Than Previous Generations
Fewer Millennials in their 20s were “Middle Class” than Boomer and GenX in the same period of their lives.
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2 months agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Calling Animals "Pests" Is More About Us Than Them
Our relationships with nonhuman animals (animals) are complex, challenging, and paradoxical. We allow dogs and cats to breed themselves to death and continue to harm and kill other animals and destroy their homes at unprecedented rates as we take over and destroy the natural world.
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2 months agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Reddit Users Are Turning Ye’s Page Into a Holocaust Memorial
After Ye made antisemitic remarks, including declaring his love for Adolf Hitler, Reddit users have repurposed r/Kanye — a tribute to the rapper formerly known as Kanye West — into a record of the Holocaust. On Thursday, Ye openly espoused antisemitism and false conspiracy theories about Jewish people in an interview on the far-right talk show InfoWars. His comments prompted widespread condemnation. President Joe Biden noted in a tweet that “Hitler was a demonic figure.”
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2 months agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Ex-engineer files age discrimination complaint against SpaceX
Filing is latest action against Elon Musk’s rocket venture as Twitter and Tesla are also roiled by lawsuits