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3 weeks ago
Current Event j0rgWoman wakes after 27 years in a coma
A woman from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) who was seriously injured in a traffic accident in 1991 has made a seemingly miraculous recovery after emerging from a 27-year-long coma. Munira Abdulla, who was aged 32 at the time of the accident, suffered a severe brain injury after the car she was travelling in collided with a bus on the way to pick up her son from school.
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3 weeks ago
Current Event j0rg
Meal Kits Have A Smaller Carbon Footprint Than Grocery Shopping, Study Says
Meal kit delivery services like Blue Apron or HelloFresh promise gourmet meals without the hassle of shopping for ingredients. But the environmentally conscious consumer may feel guilty about seeing all the plastic and cardboard it takes to bring that Pork and Veggie Bibimbap to their doorstep. That guilt may be misplaced, according to a new study.
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1 month ago
Current Event j0rg
The key to glorifying a questionable diet? Be a tech bro and call it ‘biohacking.’
One night in college, a member of my four-person study group showed up with a bunch of Snickers bars from a campus giveaway. The only man in the group picked one up and casually read the nutrition label. “Whoa,” he said, “You’d never guess how many calories are in just one of these.” Without missing a beat, the women raised our tired heads from our textbooks, collectively muttered, “Two-hundred and eighty,” and then went back to solving parametric equations.
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2 months ago
Current Event j0rg
It's Not Socialism; It's What the People Want
"Socialism," snarled Donald Trump at a recent pep rally of far-right Republicans. And the obedient crowd of faithful Trumpistas snarled back in unison: "So-shull-izz-ummm!" And there you have the entire intellectual content of the GOP's 2020 re-election strategy under Generalissimo Trump—slap Democrats silly with a scurrilous campaign branding them as Lenin-Trotsky-Stalin reincarnate.
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2 months ago
Current Event j0rg
Truck drivers messing with Tesla owner turns into great ad for Summon feature
Tesla owner and Youtuber Marques Brownlee came back to his Model S in a parking lot to find his vehicle partially blocked on each side by large trucks. It gave Brownlee a rare opportunity to use Tesla’s Summon feature and nullify what appeared to be the truckers’ attempt to annoy him. Under its current form, Tesla’s Summon feature is probably one of the least used features enable by Tesla’s Autopilot system.
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2 months ago
Current Event j0rg
Australian Science Teacher Uses Experiment To Demonstrate The Crazy Amount Of Sugar In A Soda!
A science teacher shows how much sugar is in a fizzy soda drink, by boiling away all the water and leaving the unhealthy residue behind. After about 2 hours and once all the water had evaporated, the sugar caramelised into toffee. With further heating, the sugar carbonised, turning black and puffing like a dragon.
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3 months ago
Expression j0rg
How to Stop Overthinking Your Writing
Overthinking is one of the biggest things that holds writers of all levels back. Yep, even seasoned writers overthink new ideas. Especially if it’s a new genre or medium. But experimenting in new genres and mediums is one of the best ways to flex your writing muscles in the same way that when you try a new piece of gym equipment, you exercise different parts of your body.
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3 months ago
Achievement j0rg
Hat Trick
Maintained a 3 day login streak 2/2 times! Congratulations j0rg on this achievement!
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3 months ago
Text Post j0rg
If there is TV in hell, what plays on it?
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3 months ago
Current Event j0rg
More Americans Than Ever Believe in Climate Change, No Matter What Trump Says
This country may be run by a rabid climate denier, but when it comes to the existential issue of our time, most Americans aren’t taking their cues from President Trump. Quite the opposite: More Americans than ever say climate change is real and that they’re worried about it. Those are the results of a new poll by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication. In nearly every way pollsters asked, the 1,114 people surve...
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3 months ago
Analysis j0rg
If a virus killed half the world, would this prevent climate change?
Whether halving the population would help to reduce the production of man-made CO2 and other greenhouse gases is open to doubt. We contribute about 20,000 megatonnes per year. Even if 3.5 billion bodies needed to be cremated to stop the spread of a viral pandemic, this would only add an extra one hundred megatonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere, far short of our current annual contribution.
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4 months ago
How-to j0rg
Four Creative Tactics To Elevate Your Personal Brand In 2019
Building a following for your personal brand and keeping it fresh isn’t always easy, but leveraging creative marketing tactics like these can make the process a lot easier.
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4 months ago
Expression j0rg
How Perfectionism Tricks You Into Downplaying Your Own Value
Why you need to stop basing your self-confidence on how much and what you accomplish. Starting today.
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5 months ago
Current Event j0rg
VIDEO: Men risk lives in heart-stopping rescue to save child falling from fifth floor of building
A bus driver named Tagir Magomedov and his colleague, Aydemir Kulduev, managed to catch a child falling from a fifth-floor apartment window in Dagestani, which is a federal subject of Russia.
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5 months ago
Level Up j0rg
Level 13
j0rg is now level 13 with 118,810 XP.
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5 months ago
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Red Eye Jedi
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5 months ago
Comment j0rg
Thanks for the all the replies!
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5 months ago
Current Event j0rg
China Preps for Launch of Historic Mission to Moon's Far Side on Friday
China is getting set to launch the first-ever surface mission to the moon's far side. The robotic Chang'e 4 mission is scheduled to launch atop a Long March 3B rocket on Friday (Dec. 7) at around 1:30 p.m. EST (1830 GMT; 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 8 local China time). If all goes according to plan, Chang'e 4's lander-rover duo will touch down within the moon's South Pole‐Aitken (SPA) basin after a 27-day flight, then study both the surface and subsurface of this region. [China&...