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21 hours ago
Current Event aj0690Red Sox fan electrocuted train surfing from Yankee Stadium
A Red Sox fan on his way home from Yankee Stadium died Wednesday when he tried to climb on top of a Metro-North train and was electrocuted by overhead wires, creating a chaotic situation where riders were trapped for more than two hours, MTA officials and riders said. The Metro-North train from Yankee Stadium to New Haven, Conn., left the ball field just before 11 p.m. on Wednesday. As the train was running from Larchmont to Mamaroneck about half an hour later, a pair of brothers tried to climb ...
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21 hours ago
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Sharky's loses liquor license after agents buy drugs, lap dances with food stamps
Sharky's Lounge in Harrison Township is losing its liquor license at the end of the business day today. The Ohio Liquor Control Commission revoked the adult entertainment club's license, according to the Ohio Investigative Unit. Agents with the OIU had began investigating Twenty Two Fifty, Inc. which is also known as Sharky's in May of 2017. During the investigation, agents say they were able to buy drugs and lap dances by using food stamps. During the five-month long investigatio...
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22 hours ago
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My guess is that 70% of all the current jobs of today will be gone to robots/automation in 30 years.
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23 hours ago
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Spiders Have Exploded Over This Greek Town, Coating Everything in a 1,000-Foot Web
If you aren't fond of spiders, this scene will sound like a nightmare. A 300-metre-long (1,000-foot) field of spiderweb has sprung up in western Greece in the town of Aitoliko.
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1 day ago
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Norway's Newest Ships Give a Glimpse Into the Future of Sustainable Seafaring
The country is using oil and gas riches to engineer emission-free vessels
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2 days ago
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Your mistake, your problem. Pay up.
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3 days ago
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Isolated Nomads Are Under Siege in the Amazon Jungle
Protected forests in Brazil and Peru hold some of the world’s last remote indigenous groups, increasingly threatened by resource-hungry outsiders.
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3 days ago
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'For me, this is paradise': life in the Spanish city that banned cars
In Pontevedra, the usual soundtrack of a Spanish city has been replaced by the tweeting of birds and the chatter of humans
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4 days ago
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Mexico uses refrigerated trucks to store dead bodies as morgues fill
Mexican officials have promised to investigate after a truck filled with 157 bodies ended up dumped in a field as the country struggles with a record murder rate. The bodies were loaded on to the refrigerated lorry in Jalisco state after morgues ran out of space, before it ended up behind a residential building. Those living in the nearby city of Guadalajara eventually complained about the smell, prompting local officials to launch a probe into how it ended up there.
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4 days ago
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Our obscene hypocrisy on animal rights
Would you eat a cat or dog? If Congress has its way, consuming our four-legged companions could soon land you a $5,000 fine.
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5 days ago
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Yes, Animals Think And Feel. Here's How We Know
The author of a new book also says that animals can feel empathy, like the humpback whale that rescued a seal.
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5 days ago
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Mueller: Manafort used ‘Obama’s Jews’ to smear Ukrainian leader
Paul Manafort tried to use misleading charges of antisemitism against a senior Obama administration official to pressure the former president to go soft on his Ukrainian client, Viktor Yanukovych, in 2012, according to documents released on Friday by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office.
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5 days ago
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Brazil Nuts Are Brought to You by Rodents
The snack wouldn’t exist without the help of one furry critter and its unusually sharp teeth.
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6 days ago
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I would not want to get in the way of one of those, jeez
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7 days ago
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Trump Doubles Down on Puerto Rico Conspiracy Theory
President Trump late Friday renewed his claim that Puerto Rico’s death toll from Hurricane Maria was doctored, even after receiving widespread criticism for casting doubt on the deaths of nearly 3,000 people. Citing a Washington Post report that mentioned the fact that Puerto Rican officials initially told Trump only 16 people had died in the hurricane, the president questioned how the death toll then climbed to 64. “Then, like magic, ‘3000 PEOPLE KILLED,’” he tweeted.
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8 days ago
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Financial crisis hit millennials hardest, IFS says
Earnings for UK workers are still lower than they were in 2008, having failed to recover in the 10 years since the financial crisis and millennials are the hardest hit, according to figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies. GDP is just 11 per cent higher than it was was at the peak of the crisis, meaning the economy is 16 per cent, or £300bn, smaller than it would have been based on pre-crisis trends. The “most direct effect of this has been to hit workers’ pay packets”, the IFS said.
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8 days ago
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'Single piece of plastic' can kill turtles
New study: Ingesting even a single piece of plastic exposes sea turtles to a 20% chance of death.
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9 days ago
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Scientific publishing is a rip-off. We fund the research – it should be free
Those who take on the global industry that traps research behind paywalls are heroes, not thieves, says George Monbiot
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9 days ago
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Old 60's and 70's tech design was so ugly.
Posted in: The surprising origins of the TV remote
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9 days ago
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Holy hell that thing looks powerful.
Posted in: Staring Down Hurricane Florence
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11 days ago
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These robotic 'trees' can turn CO2 into concrete
Tomorrow’s atmospheric scrubbers will suck carbon straight from the air
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11 days ago
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'World-class' skeleton of herbivorous dinosaur excavated in Hokkaido
Announcing the completion of time-consuming “cleaning” work, a research team in Hokkaido has unveiled what it claims is the largest dinosaur skeleton ever found in Japan. Through the work to remove rocks and sediments in which the fossils were embedded, a total of 157 pieces were identified as bones of a large herbivorous dinosaur from the Hadrosaurid family, according to the team comprising curators of the Hobetsu Museum in Mukawa, Hokkaido, and Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, an associate professor ...
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11 days ago
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No One Knows the Exact Year of the Largest Volcanic Eruption of Our Age
Scientists are hoping archaeology, carbon dating, and tree rings together can help solve the mystery.
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11 days ago
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Maybe It's Time to Get Out of the iPhone Upgrade Rat Race
A refurbished electronics seller is trolling Apple with a parody ad that argues that, if the Cupertino company said it was an amazing phone back in 2015 it still has to be amazing three years later — and they are making a very good point.
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11 days ago
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A neuroscientist explains how religious fundamentalism hijacks the brain
In moderation, religious and spiritual practices can be great for a person’s life and mental well-being. But religious fundamentalism—which refers to the belief in the absolute authority of a religious text or leaders—is almost never good for an individual. This is primarily because fundamentalism discourages any logical reasoning or scientific evidence that challenges its scripture, making it inherently maladaptive.
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