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3 days ago
Expression aj0690Let’s nix Columbus Day and make Election Day a paid holiday instead
It could really boost voter turnout.
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4 days ago
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Honeybees Are Accomplished Mathematicians
Start thinking about numbers and they can become large very quickly. The diameter of the universe is about 8.8×1023 km and the largest number with a name—googolplex, 1010100—outranks it enormously. Although that colossal concept was dreamt up by brilliant mathematicians, we’re still pretty limited when it comes to assessing quantities at a glance. ‘Humans have a threshold limit for instantly processing one to four elements accurately,’ says Adrian Dyer from RMIT University, Australia;...
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4 days ago
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Trump administration "relentless" in push to keep pesticide linked to brain damage in children available , says scientist
Chlorpyrifos is a widely used chemical product used on a variety of crops such as soya beans, alfafa, citrus, almonds, cotton, grapes and walnuts.
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11 days ago
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'Once they're gone, they're gone': the fight to save the giant sequoia
Few living beings have experienced as much as the giant sequoias. With ancestors dating back to the Jurassic era, some of the trees that now grow along California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains been alive for thousands of years, bearing witness to most of human history – from the fall of the Roman empire to the rise of Beyoncé.
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2 weeks ago
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Emaciated grizzly bears in Canada spark greater concerns over depleted salmon population
With hibernation fast approaching, a grizzly bear family is spotted searching for fish near the shores of Canada's Knight Inlet. They're emaciated, and wildlife observers worry might not make it through winter. The heart-breaking images highlight another victim of the climate crisis and the depleted salmon population.
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2 weeks ago
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Binge drinking may be more damaging to women: Female rats more susceptible to liver injury after three binge drinking episodes
In a recently published study examining the effects of binge drinking on rats, researchers discovered that female rats who were of equal age and weight to male rats were more sensitive to alcohol and experienced alcoholic liver injury at a higher rate than male rats.
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2 weeks ago
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Nasa’s chief scientist ‘worried’ world is not ready for discovery of life on Mars
Nasa is close to finding life on Mars but the world is not ready for the “revolutionary” implications of the discovery, the space agency’s chief scientist has said. Dr Jim Green has warned that two rovers from Nasa and the European Space Agency (ESA) could find evidence of life within months of arriving on Mars in March 2021.
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3 weeks ago
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One the many mysteries of our universe
Posted in: Black Hole Seeds Missing in Cosmic Garden
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3 weeks ago
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Given the State of the World, Is It Irresponsible to Have Kids?
A team of researchers from UC Santa Barbara and Intel took thousands of conversations from the scummiest communities on Reddit and Gab and used them to develop and train AI to combat hate speech. Finally, r/The_Donald and other online cesspools are doing something useful.
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3 weeks ago
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Scientists invent super camera
Chinese scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabling 500 megapixel cloud camera system able to capture thousands of faces at a stadium in perfect detail and generate their facial data for the cloud while locating a particular target in an instant. Most Chinese experts welcomed the camera system's military, national defense and public security applications, although some expressed data safety and privacy concerns.
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3 weeks ago
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Japan roboticists predict rise of the machines
Set in 2019, cult 80s movie "Blade Runner" envisaged a neon-stained landscape of bionic "replicants" genetically engineered to look just like humans. So far that has failed to materialise, but at a secretive research institute in western Japan, wild-haired roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro is fine-tuning technology that could blur the line between man and machine.
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3 weeks ago
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The Saudi Crown Prince Plans to Make Us Forget About the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi Before the US Election
The hideous cruelty of the murder and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by a Saudi death squad almost a year ago still jumps from the pages of the latest apparent transcript of the conversation between his killers as they wait for him to arrive at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
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3 weeks ago
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Venus was potentially habitable until a mysterious event happened
Venus likely maintained stable temperatures and hosted liquid water for billions of years before an event triggered drastic changes in the planet, according to a new study.
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3 weeks ago
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Delaware judge says Tesla board must face trial over Musk's mega-pay package
A Delaware judge ruled on Friday that Tesla Inc’s (TSLA.O) board of directors must defend at a trial Chief Executive Elon Musk’s multibillion dollar pay package, which a shareholder lawsuit said unjustly enriched the head of the electric vehicle company.
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3 weeks ago
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'They're forming like roaches.' The 6 tropical storms whirling at once have set a record
It's hurricane season, but this is ridiculous. The six storms whirling this week in the Atlantic and Pacific set a record, forecasters reported.
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1 month ago
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Why Anger Matters and What to Do About It
Anger gets a bad rap in the therapy – and spirituality – community. It’s labeled a “negative” emotion, and for good reason. When anger runs us and we react to it, it can blow like a volcano and make quite a mess of our relationships.
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1 month ago
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The world has a third pole – and it's melting quickly
An IPCC report says two-thirds of glaciers on the largest ice sheet after the Arctic and Antarctic are set to disappear in 80 years.