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1 day ago
Current Event canuckBirth control vending machines installed in college campuses
Students at the University of California, Davis have a new selection in their vending machines. That late night or early morning contraceptive need now has a quick fix. UC Davis is offering students the morning after pill, condoms, and pregnancy tests inside the convenience of a vending machine on campus. Senior Parteek Singh came up with the idea after a friend was unable to buy the morning after pill in a timely manner.
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3 days ago
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Canada to get its first cryptocurrency ETF
Evolve Funds Group Inc. wants to offer Canada’s first cryptocurrency ETF. The company says in a release that’s it has filed a preliminary prospectus with Canadian securities regulators for a fund called Evolve Bitcoin ETF (BITS). BITS will seek to replicate the performance of exposure to Bitcoin obtained through investments in CFE Bitcoin (USD) Futures. The fund will invest directly or indirectly in exchange-traded futures contracts as well as other financial instruments and derivatives tha...
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4 days ago
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Religious children are meaner than their secular counterparts, study finds
Children from religious families are less kind and more punitive than those from non-religious households, according to a new study. Academics from seven universities across the world studied Christian, Muslim and non-religious children to test the relationship between religion and morality. They found that religious belief is a negative influence on children’s altruism.
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4 days ago
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7 countries are banning fossil fuel-based cars
Within the last 10 months, a number of countries announced huge plans to tackle emissions. Apart from generating energy from renewable and clean sources, they are targeting fossil fuel-based cars with the hope of eradicating them in the near future.
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5 days ago
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Lightning storms triggered by exhaust from cargo ships
SHIPS spewing soot into the pristine ocean air are causing extra lightning strikes along busy maritime routes. It is a bizarre example of how human activities can change the weather. When Joel Thornton at the University of Washington in Seattle and his colleagues looked at records of lightning strikes between 2005 and 2016 from the World Wide Lightning Location Network, they noticed there were significantly more strikes in certain regions of the east Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, compare...
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6 days ago
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Life On Earth Could Have Started With Molecules From The Sun
The Trump administration rejected a study from the Department of Health and Human Services showing refugees brought in $63 million than they cost for the government over the past decade. The New York Times reported Monday night the draft report showed refugees are not as costly as the administration often argues. Some within the administration didn't want the report to surface because it would go against the justification for President Trump possibly lowering the number of refugees admitted...
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7 days ago
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Uber Faces FBI Probe Over Program Targeting Rival Lyft
Federal law-enforcement authorities in New York are investigating whether Uber Technologies Inc. used software to interfere illegally with a competitor, according to people familiar with the investigation, adding to legal pressures facing the ride-hailing company and its new chief executive.
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7 days ago
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I decided to boycott nestle and all of their products a few years ago. These monsters don't deserve to exist.
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8 days ago
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Neil deGrasse Tyson says it might be 'too late' to recover from climate change
Scientist and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson said Sunday that, in the wake of devastating floods and damage caused by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, climate change had become so severe that the country "might not be able to recover." In an interview on CNN's "GPS," Tyson got emotional when Fareed Zakaria asked what he made of Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert's refusal to say whether climate change had been a factor in Hurricanes Harvey or Irma's strength ...
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12 days ago
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Cassini turns towards its death plunge
The international Cassini spacecraft at Saturn has executed the course correction that will send it to destruction at the end of the week. The probe flew within 120,000km of the giant moon Titan on Monday - an encounter that bent its trajectory just enough to put it on a collision path with the ringed planet. Nothing can now stop the death plunge in Saturn's atmosphere on Friday.
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13 days ago
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J.J. Abrams to Write and Direct Star Wars: Episode IX
J.J. Abrams, who launched a new era of Star Wars with The Force Awakens in 2015, is returning to complete the sequel trilogy as writer and director of Star Wars: Episode IX. Abrams will co-write the film with Chris Terrio. Star Wars: Episode IX will be produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Michelle Rejwan, Abrams, Bad Robot, and Lucasfilm. “With The Force Awakens, J.J. delivered everything we could have possibly hoped for, and I am so excited that he is coming back to close out this trilogy,” said L...
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2 weeks ago
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'Monkey selfie' legal fight settled
A photographer wins a legal fight against an animal rights group over a "monkey selfie" photograph.
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2 weeks ago
Nice, You getting NHL 18?
Posted in: To the gamers of Snapzu: What are you into?
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2 weeks ago
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Good guy Canadian pulls right over to (presumably) help. Thumbs up!
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2 weeks ago
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Would also expect this from the Saint's Row series.
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2 weeks ago
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I better question would be. Where have all the nude photos gone? Yeah, I'm talking to you Playboy. Oh, you're bringing them back. Cool!
Posted in: Where Have All the Sexy Movies Gone?
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3 weeks ago
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For a second I thought it was a pic of the recent BC wildfires.
Posted in: Sunrise at Yellowstone Lake