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11 years ago
Current Event apasterUS warns Russia not to annex Crimea
US Secretary of State John Kerry told Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov that Crimea is part of Ukraine and Moscow should avoid military escalation.
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11 years ago
Current Event apaster
Saudi princesses claim they are being held prisoner at the palace
Princesses Sahar, 42, and Jawaher, 38, said that they are being kept against their will in a guarded villa in the royal compound in Jeddah, the Saudi capital.
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11 years ago
Current Event apaster
Freescale Semiconductor, a company based in Texas, confirmed 20 of its employees were passengers on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL) has confirmed that 20 of its employees were confirmed passengers on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Twelve are from Malaysia and eight are from China. The entire Freescale Semiconductor community is deeply saddened by this news. The company is continuing to monitor the situation and will provide more information as it becomes available.
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11 years ago
Current Event apaster
Family of Chinese passenger missing on flight MH370 makes contact with his phone
The family of a Chinese passenger missing on flight MH370 have made contact with his mobile phone and Malaysian authorities are trying to use the signal to locate the plane, Chinese state television reported on Sunday.
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11 years ago
Current Event apaster
FBI to investigate disappearance of a Malaysian Airlines jet
The FBI is deploying agents and technical experts to assist in investigating the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jet, based on the American citizenship of three of the passengers aboard the lost flight, a top federal law enforcement official in Washington said Saturday.
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11 years ago
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11 years ago
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Libya threatens N Korea ship over seized oil
Tripoli says force will be used if the vessel does not stop loading at an eastern port controlled by separatists.
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11 years ago
Current Event apaster
4 On Board Had Illegitimate Passports, Say Officials
A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday, and European officials said two people on board were using false identities.
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11 years ago
Current Event apaster
Military radar trace shows MH370 turn-back, but no distress signal
A Malaysian military radar showed trace of flight MH370 turning back before it vanished early yesterday although the pilots did not issue any distress signals.
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11 years ago
Analysis apaster
TIL In Japan gambling is illegal, the way they get around the law is to give out prizes instead of cash, which the winner can then sell back for cash.
Pachinko (パチンコ?) is a mechanical game originating in Japan and is used as both a form of recreational arcade game and much more frequently as a gambling device, filling a Japanese gambling niche comparable to that of the slot machine in Western gaming.
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11 years ago
Expression apaster
TIL Pokemon is Japanese for Pocket Monsters and Chinpokomon (the South Park parody) is Japanese for Penis Monsters.
Interesting facts about south park.
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11 years ago
Expression apaster
TIL that the widow of the inventor of the Winchester rifle built a house with mazes and dead end staircases to confuse the ghosts killed by the gun.
The Winchester Mystery House is a mansion in San Jose, California which was once the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of gun magnate William Wirt Winchester.
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11 years ago
You are more likely to crash in a car than a plane. You are more likely to survive a crash in a car than in a plane.
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11 years ago
Current Event apaster
Spacecraft heads for Pluto, taking along its discoverer's ashes
THE first space mission to Pluto contains an unusual piece of cargo: ashes from the cremated remains of Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomer who discovered the outermost planet in 1930.
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11 years ago
Achievement apaster
Brainiac
Published 10/10 analysis snaps! Congratulations apaster on this achievement!
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11 years ago
Analysis apaster
Scientists Directly Measure Spin of Extremely Distant Supermassive Black Hole
A team of astrophysicists has directly measured the spin of a supermassive black hole in the quasar RX J1131-1231, located 6 billion light years away.
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11 years ago
Analysis apaster
"Cosmos" Premiere Brings Together Science Guys - Mars Rover Art Car
On March 4, three members of the MRAC crew — Char […]
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11 years ago
Analysis apaster
Too Little Sleep Increases Heart Disease Risk in Obese Adolescents
Obese teenagers who don't get an adequate amount of sleep are more likely to develop certain diseases.
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11 years ago
Analysis apaster
Physicist proposes huge walls across Tornado Alley (Wired UK)
The threat of tornadoes in America's midwest could be eliminated by building three huge walls, according to physicist Rongjia Tao
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11 years ago
Analysis apaster
The First US City Was Full of Immigrants
A sprawling city in the heartland of the United States was a cultural melting pot hundreds of years before Europeans ever set foot on the continent.
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11 years ago
Analysis apaster
Deadly diarrhea caused by wastewater on crops
The research, published in the journal Risk Analysis today, which focused on the Beijing region, found that the risk posed to children eating vegetables grown with wastewater far exceeded the World Health Organization (WHO) acceptable level. Diarrheal disease is the second leading cause of death globally. More than 99 percent of deaths of diarrheal disease occur in developing countries and 90 percent of these are in children under five.
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11 years ago
Achievement apaster
Hat Trick
Maintained a 3 day login streak 2/2 times! Congratulations apaster on this achievement!
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