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An ocean first: Underwater drone tracks CO2 in Alaska gulf
SEWARD, Alaska (AP) — In the cold, choppy waters of Alaska’s Resurrection Bay, all eyes were on the gray water, looking for one thing only. It wasn’t a spout from humpback whales that power through this scenic fjord, or a sea otter lazing on its back, munching a king crab.
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1 day agoReview funhonestdude
Funny Books for an Unfunny World: A Reading List
Be more like Nero. Not reality’s dull politician, but his enemies’ fiddle-playing caricature. He embodied joyful sanity in the midst of the opposite. The grinning avatar of comedy. I named my book’…
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Why Isn’t New Technology Making Us More Productive?
Innovations like cloud computing and artificial intelligence are hailed as engines of a coming productivity revival. But a broad payoff across the economy has been elusive.
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1 day agoCurrent Event funhonestdude
Atwood responds to book bans with ‘unburnable’ edition of Handmaid’s Tale
Auction of fire-resistant edition comes ahead of an expected US supreme court ruling reversing the right to abortion
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2 days agoAnalysis funhonestdude
Magnetic device isolates rarest white blood cells
Stanford researchers quickly isolate rare, allergen-reactive white blood cells, called basophils, using microfluidics and magnets. The new device could help revolutionize allergy diagnosis from the current slow and painful process of skin tests and oral food challenges.
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3 days agoReview funhonestdude
Everything we know so far about a new HomePod model
With Apple discontinuing the original HomePod last year, users were eager for a new iteration of the company’s bigger smart speaker. Although its mini version is slowly expanding globally, it feels that Apple’s audio ecosystem is lacking a more powerful speaker.
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4 days agoCurrent Event funhonestdude
Michael Avenatti apologizes to Stormy Daniels ahead of sentencing
“I am truly sorry,” said Avenatti, a California lawyer, in a letter submitted by his attorneys.
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6 days agoExpression funhonestdude
Privacy. Ad bidders haven't heard of it, report reveals
Irish Council on Civil Liberties said this is first time the scope of real-time bidding is being measured
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10 days agoExpression funhonestdude
Spot the difference: the invincible business of counterfeit goods
The long read: Selling cheap fakes of a successful product makes horribly good business sense. Is there any way to stop it?
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11 days agoCurrent Event funhonestdude
Britney Spears suffers miscarriage
The singer announced in April that she was expecting her third child — and first with Sam Asghari.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event funhonestdude
Scientists Discover Unexplained Abundance of Rare Nuclear Fusion Fuel on Earth
Scientists have discovered evidence that a key rare resource, called helium-3, is potentially ten times more common on Earth than previously known—though the source of all this extra supply remains mysterious, reports a new study. The finding is important because helium-3 could serve as a foundation of limitless clean power for our civilization, but has been seen as inaccessible since it is largely found in outer space locations, especially the Moon.
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2 weeks agoExpression funhonestdude
How companies blame you for climate change
Businesses shape how we talk about climate change, and sometimes this can stop us from paying attention to their actions.
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2 weeks agoAnalysis funhonestdude
Just 1 in 20 adults in England exercise their muscles enough
A survey suggests only one in 20 people aged 19 to 64 are meeting England’s strictest weekly strength exercising guidelines
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2 weeks agoExpression funhonestdude
'Buy now, pay later' sends TikTok generation spiraling into debt
“Buy now, pay later” may be jeopardizing Gen Z's financial future in just four easy...
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event funhonestdude
Scientists begin studying 50-year-old frozen Apollo 17 samples
Scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, recently received samples of the lunar surface that have been curated in a freezer at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston since Apollo 17 astronauts returned them to Earth in December 1972.
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1 month agoCurrent Event funhonestdude
AAPL earnings Q2 2022: Analysts expect strong growth across the board (except iPads)
AAPL earnings for Q2 2022 (calendar Q1) will be announced by the company later today, and analysts are expecting the news to be good. While professional analysts are more cautious than independent ones, all expect significant year-on-year growth almost across the board …
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1 month agoExpression funhonestdude
Inside the Frenzied World of Rare Watches and the Rich People Who Love Them
Paul Newman’s $17 million Rolex was just the beginning. Now, celebrities, style icons, dealers, auctioneers, and regular Joes do battle for vintage Patek Philippes, Audemars Piguets, and Richard Milles.
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1 month agoCurrent Event funhonestdude
In a remote Alaskan village, a solar-plus-storage microgrid is replacing diesel
The issue of solar panel reliability has existed since the beginning of the industry, in part because solar panels do not function effectively in cold and snowy conditions. That myth has been debunked time and again as a small but significant solar-plus-storage microgrid project in Alaska is implemented.
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1 month agoAnalysis funhonestdude
AI study finds that males are represented four times more than females in literature
An artificial intelligence study on female prevalence in literature finds a staggering discrepancy in female representation.