Post Overview
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Current Event
8 years ago+35 35 0 x 1Scientists record biggest ever coral die-off on Australia's Great Barrier Reef
Warm seas around Australia's Great Barrier Reef have killed two-thirds of a 700-km (435 miles) stretch of coral in the past nine months, the worst die-off ever recorded on the World Heritage site, scientists who surveyed the reef said on Tuesday ...
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Analysis
9 years ago+23 23 0 x 1What Happens Next Will Amaze You
Good morning! Today's talk is being filmed, recorded and transcribed, and everything I say today will leave an indelible trace online. In other words, it's just a normal day on the Internet. For people like me, who go around giving talks ab ...
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9 years ago+22 22 0Son of detained human rights lawyer among Chinese citizens missing in Burma
Around noon on October 6, 2015, Chinese citizen Bao Zhuoxuan (包卓轩, also known as Bao Mengmeng 包蒙蒙), the 16-year-old son of lawyer Wang Yu (王宇), and two grown men Tang Zhishun (唐志顺) and Xing Qingxian (幸清贤) were taken away by Burmese police from Room 8 ...
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Deal
9 years ago+22 22 0Glowforge - the 3D laser printer
Glowforge is a 3D laser printer: a new desktop tool that uses laser cutter/engraver technology to shape wood, leather, fabric & more.
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Current Event
9 years agoCurrent Event+23 23 0Spencer Stone, Airman Who Foiled Terrorist Attack in France, Is Stabbed
Airman First Class Spencer Stone, oNe of the three Americans who helped foil a terrorist attack On a PaRis-bound train in August, was stabbeD in Sacramento early Thursday, officials said.
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Current Event
9 years ago+23 23 0A NASA Experiment Is Going to Light Up the Sky With Beautifully Colored Clouds Tonight
If you’re on the east coast tonight, keep an eye on the sky between 7pm and 9pm: NASA is launching a test of some new tech that will include releasing colorful vapor tracers 130 miles above the Earth. It sounds like it’s going to be beautiful.
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Analysis
9 years ago+24 24 0Strong placebo response thwarts painkiller trials
Potential pain treatments are struggling to prove their worth over a rising placebo effect seen in US trials.
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Current Event
9 years ago+20 20 0Norway to Start Withdrawals From Oil Fund to Plug Deficits
Norway predicts it will for the first time need to withdraw cash from its $820 billion sovereign wealth fund as western Europe’s biggest oil exporter uses a record chunk of its petroleum revenue to cover budget holes and stimulate the economy.
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Analysis
9 years ago+22 22 0At U.N., China uses intimidation tactics to silence its critics
Beijing is blunting scrutiny of its rights record at the venue created to protect victims of state repression – the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. Its success is evidence of China’s growing ability to stifle opposition abroad.
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Analysis
9 years ago+24 24 0As America’s economic supremacy fades, the primacy of the dollar looks unsustainable
If hegemony are good for anything, it is for conferring stability on the systems they dominate. For 70 years the dollar has been the superpower of the financial and monetary system. Despite talk of the yuan’s rise, the primacy of the greenback is unc ...
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Analysis
9 years ago+26 26 0China's powerhouse industrial belt falls by the wayside
Once-thriving northeast factories waylaid by '90s economic reforms as millions of former 'employees-for-life' laid off.
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Analysis
9 years ago+22 22 0The two Estonians taking on the banks at currency exchange
How two Estonians took on the banks and changed the face of currency exchange
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Current Event
9 years ago+46 46 0 x 1Top EU court says U.S.-EU data transfer deal is invalid
A system enabling data transfers from the European Union to the United States by thousands of companies is invalid, the highest European Union court said on Tuesday in a landmark ruling that will leave firms scrambling to find alternative measures.
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Video/Audio
9 years ago+28 28 0How We Turned Our Lives Around In 30 Days
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Current Event
9 years ago+23 23 0Neighbors turn up the heat on Indonesia over forest fires
For weeks now, the quality of life in parts of Southeast Asia has been left to sheer chance — the direction of the wind. Every day, it alone determines which city will be shrouded by peaty white smoke blowing from burning forests in Indonesia.
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Video/Audio
9 years ago+40 40 0 x 1The most polluted place on Earth
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Current Event
9 years ago+20 20 0Gun stocks surge as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama call for tougher laws
Renewed calls for tougher gun control laws sent gun stocks surging on Monday as investors expected an increase in gun sales. The value of Smith & Wesson’s shares went up by 7.29% and Sturm, Ruger & Co increased by 2.75%.
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Interactive
9 years ago+8 8 0College-educated households spending more on student debt than on groceries or car payments
Student debt controls an ever larger chunk of family budgets – fundamentally changing how Americans spend and save. How huge are the changes? Young college-educated households now owe more annually for their student loans than they spend on groceries ...
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Analysis
9 years ago+29 29 0Report: Butt Dials Are Clogging The 9-1-1 System
What’s an emergency management department to do when 9-1-1 calls are spiking, but there aren’t enough workers to cover all those calls? San Francisco turned to researchers in an effort to understand a recent surge in emergency calls, which has been p ...
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Current Event
9 years ago+23 23 0Google close to investment in messaging startup Symphony
The Internet giant is close to taking a stake in the secure-messaging firm.