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Current Event grandsalamiAnthony Weiner Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison
Anthony Weiner was sentenced to 21 months in prison for exchanging sexually explicit messages with a 15-year-old girl, capping the spectacular fall of the former congressman whose self-destructive behavior wrecked his career and marriage and played a role in the final days of the 2016 presidential campaign. A tearful Weiner told U.S. District Judge Denise Cote that “the crime I committed is my rock bottom.” He was ordered to surrender to prison on November 6.
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5 days ago
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Consciousness Goes Deeper Than You Think
An article on the neuroscience of infant consciousness, which attracted some interest a few years ago, asked: “When does your baby become conscious?” The premise, of course, was that babies aren’t born conscious but, instead, develop consciousness at some point. (According to the article, it is about five months of age). Yet, it is hard to think that there is nothing it feels like to be a newborn.
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8 days ago
Analysis grandsalami
In the Middle Ages, devil-fearing Christians killed cats, which carried the unintended consequence of increasing the rat population and the spread of ...
The Black Death, one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, spread across Europe between 1346 and The Black Death, one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, spread across Europe between 1346 and 1353. It is widely believed that the plague was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
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11 days ago
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Scientists find fungus with an appetite for plastic in rubbish dump
We are producing ever greater amounts of plastic – much of which ends up as garbage. What’s more, because plastic does not break down in the same way as other organic materials, it can persist in the environment over hundreds of years. Scientists from the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and the Kunming Institute of Botany in China have recently identified a fungus which could help deal with our waste problem by using enzymes to rapidly break down plastic materials.
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12 days ago
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Indonesian woman, 30, hospitalised after 100 lashes for adultery
An Indonesian woman was hospitalised after a Sharia court inflicted her with 100 lashes because she dared to be near a man who was not her husband. Dressed in a Burberry-style headscarf, the 30-year-old can be seen kneeling on a public stage in Banda Aceh in front of a huge crowd. According to the barbaric Islamic law, which rules over the region, she was guilty of adultery for merely being in the presence of a man who she was not married to.
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13 days ago
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NASA's Cassini probe is about to plunge to its doom — and its fiery death may be visible to telescopes on Earth
Early on Friday morning, NASA's Cassini probe will meet its doom as it becomes a streak of plutonium-laced fireworks in the clouds of Saturn. The nuclear-powered robot was launched in 1997 year to deeply study Saturn and its mysterious collection of moons. Cassini arrived in 2004, dropped off a lander on one moon, began orbiting Saturn, and has beamed back data and images to Earth ever since. Scientists would love to keep the $3.26-billion mission going, but knew their robot would eventuall...
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2 weeks ago
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Pastor caught raping 12-year-old, tied up to pole & thrashed, but yet to be arrested
A 12-year-old girl was on Monday night raped by a pastor in Kuravakaluva village of Renigunta mandal in Chittoor district. The incident came to light on Tuesday morning when some women of the village lodged a police complaint. The pastor, however, has not been arrested yet.
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3 weeks ago
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Wisconsin: 6 People Arrested Protesting Construction of Tar Sands Pipeline
And in Wisconsin, six people were arrested after one person locked himself to a piece of heavy machinery to stop the construction of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline. The proposed line would carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to a terminal in Superior, Wisconsin. It faces sustained resistance from indigenous nations and environmental activists in both the U.S. and Canada.
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3 weeks ago
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U.S.-China mission rushes bomb-grade nuclear fuel out of Africa
Dan Peng steps onto a narrow steel frame just above a 6-meter-deep pool, which holds a nuclear reactor about to go critical. Clad in a lab coat with a pocket radiation dosimeter, sweating in the stifling reactor hall here on the outskirts of Ghana's capital, the young nuclear physicist edges out to a tube jutting above the water's surface. He grabs a cord leading out of the tube and reels it up, hand over hand, until a cigar-shaped capsule...
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3 weeks ago
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Netflix's New Gawker vs. Hulk Hogan Doc Has Us All Conflicted
Shortly before Donald Trump was elected president, Hulk Hogan and Gawker Media ended their months-long legal battle over the wrestler's sex tape. The case may seem like a media law footnote, but as director Brian Knappenberger argues in his documentary, the fight over Gawker's decision to publish the footage irrevocably shifted the media landscape.
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3 weeks ago
Comment grandsalami
This (or a similar machine) will likely put another few million people out of a job, and mostly in the poorer countries.
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3 weeks ago
Comment grandsalami
Good! It will prevent all that posthumous watered down bollocks!
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1 month ago
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Why does Samsung think you’d be willing to spend nearly $1,000 on a phone?
I’ve been looking at the $930 starting price for the new Samsung Galaxy Note 8, scratching my head in bewilderment, looking at that price again, and furrowing my brows. We don’t usually get many mainstream phones with a starting price north of $900 ($960 if you opt for Verizon or AT&T, and even worse in the UK thanks to the pound’s Brexit-induced weakness), and I find myself wondering about the market dynamics nudging the flagship price tiers up.
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1 month ago
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Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio
In July last year, long-haul truck driver Stephanie Klang got a rare speeding ticket because she was too engrossed listening to public radio. “It’s okay, I only get a speeding ticket about once every 10 years,” she said. “… It was worth it for the story.” She told the state patrolman that yes, she knows listening to the radio is not a valid excuse, then proceeded to tell him all about the radio show that took her mind off her speed — an episode of BackStory about the history of tax...
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1 month ago
Analysis grandsalami
The Windows App Store is Full of Pirate Streaming Apps
In recent years streaming piracy has become a popular pastime for millions of people. A lot of this takes place through 'rogue' websites or dedicated pirate devices, which are often scolded by the movie industry.
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1 month ago
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How often do you "unplug" from technology?
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