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Russia has lost nearly 90% of its troops in Ukraine war: US intel report
Russia-Ukraine War: Losses are the reason Russia has loosened recruitment standards for deployment in Ukraine.
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1 year agoCurrent Event bkool
Astronomers make scientific prediction about finding alien life
Four decades ago we sent a message asking 'Is anybody out there?'.
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1 year agoCurrent Event bkool
Digital distortions: Study explores the consequences of photo editing on self-perception and self-esteem in social media users
A recent study published in BMC Psychology looked into how editing photos on social media platforms affects people’s self-image, self-esteem, and comparisons with others. The findings suggest that editing photos can negatively impact how individuals perceive their attractiveness and overall self-esteem.
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1 year agoCurrent Event bkool
Batteries And Renewables Are Saving Texas During The Heat Wave
Renewables and storage are saving Texans money as temperatures soar and coal and natural gas power plants fail.
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1 year agoCurrent Event bkool
Iran claims to have created long-range hypersonic missile
State TV says Fattah missile has range of up to 870 miles and can bypass any regional missile defence system
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1 year agoCurrent Event bkool
US doctors forced to ration as cancer drug shortages hit nationwide
Toni Dezomits, a 55-year-old retired law enforcement officer, is fighting a recurrence of her stage 4 ovarian cancer. She had already undergone several rounds of chemotherapy when her doctor told her she had some more bad news. Just a day before her third round of treatment last month, Ms Dezomits was told there was a nationwide shortage of the generic chemotherapy drug, carboplatin - one of three medications she was meant to receive.
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1 year agoCurrent Event bkool
Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps
Moderators say third-party apps are essential for their work.
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1 year agoCurrent Event bkool
Social media dependency is linked to a reduced preference for freedom, study finds
Social media dependency is associated with a reduced preference for freedom, according to new research published in Psychological Reports. The study suggests that people who are heavily dependent on social media may use it as a way to escape from the uncertainties and challenges of the real world.
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1 year agoCurrent Event bkool
Meta hit with a record-breaking $1.3 billion fine over data privacy breaches
Meta failed to comply with the EU's warning about transferring users' data to US servers, and the fine eclipses Amazon's $807 million fine in 2021.
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1 year agoCurrent Event bkool
Why the video game industry is making a big mistake by ignoring older adults
In April, AARP held its first Games Summit at its headquarters in Washington D.C., and for many people outside the video game industry, the event might seem like a head-scratcher. An organization focused on advocating for people in the 50-plus demographic talking about video games, a medium typically thought to be for younger people?
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1 year agoCurrent Event bkool
Attleboro middle school time capsule found after 25 years
Mystery solved! After forgetting where former students at Attleboro's Brennan Middle School buried their time capsule more than 25 years ago, a search team found it Wednesday. A ground-penetrating radar was brought in to find the exact location and it took about 20 minutes to end the mystery.
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1 year agoCurrent Event bkool
How the meat industry indoctrinates children, explained by a viral story of a girl and her goat
The story of a California girl and her goat named Cedar, which captured national and international headlines this past week, almost reads like it could have been penned by a Hollywood screenwriter. The tale of a child battling cruel adults for the life of a beloved animal companion has been the plot of everything from a classic children’s story (Charlotte’s Web), sci-fi film (2017’s Okja), and even an episode of The Simpsons (“Apocalypse Cow”).
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1 year agoCurrent Event bkool
Male Canadian Powerlifter Breaks Women’s Bench-Press Record in Protest against Trans-Inclusion Policy
A male Canadian powerlifting coach broke the Alberta women’s bench-press record over the weekend in an act of protest against the presiding organization’s extremely lenient trans-inclusion policy.
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1 year agoCurrent Event bkool
Microsoft: Sony's Stance on Activision Blizzard Deal Is A Self-Serving Attempt To Protect Its Dominance
Microsoft has responded to the CMA’s preliminary findings, claiming that Sony’s stance on the Activision Blizzard King deal is a self-serving attempt to protect its market dominance.
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1 year agoCurrent Event bkool
The Cruel Practice of Banning Books Behind Bars
In Florida , the list of 20,000-plus banned books includes Nutrition For Dummies and PCs For Dummies . In New Hampshire , the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy makes the list. Texas , which bans nearly 9,000 books , once counted a…
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1 year agoCurrent Event bkool
A skinny robot documents the forces eroding a massive Antarctic glacier
Scientists got their first up-close look at what's eating away part of Antarctica's Thwaites ice shelf, nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier because of its massive melt and sea rise potential, and it's both good and bad news.