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8 months agoAnalysis j0rg
Alcohol, relationships, and longevity: Couples with similar drinking habits tend to live longer
Couples who share similar drinking habits, either both drinking or both abstaining, tend to live longer compared to those with mismatched drinking behaviors. This highlights the complex link between marital harmony, lifestyle choices, and longevity.
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11 months agoCurrent Event j0rg
Webb directly images two planets orbiting white dwarfs
In several billion years, our sun will become a white dwarf. What will happen to Jupiter and Saturn when the sun transitions to become a stellar remnant? Life could go on, though the giant planets will likely drift further away from the sun.
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1 year agoCurrent Event j0rg
Climate-heating gases reach record highs, UN reports
World Meteorological Organization sees ‘no end in sight to the rising trend’, largely driven by fossil fuel burning
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1 year agoCurrent Event j0rg
A Disney Sale to Apple? Don’t Count It Out This Time
Facing the staggering problems afflicting all legacy studios, is Bob Iger contemplating a once-unthinkable option? The signals he sent in Sun Valley suggest that it could happen.
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1 year agoCurrent Event j0rg
The Backlash to Plant-Based Meat Has a Sneaky, if Not Surprising, Explanation
During the pandemic, plant-based meat consumption and media coverage exploded. Now, a host of trend pieces decry its demise. That shift is no organic accident.
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1 year agoAnalysis j0rg
Why do some people get rashes in space? There's a clue in astronaut blood
A new study of astronaut blood finds that space travel reduces the expression of 100 genes related to the immune system.
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1 year agoCurrent Event j0rg
World leaders headed to Paris summit in push for global debt, climate reform
French President Emmanuel Macron has said the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact is aimed at building a "new consensus" to meet the interlinked global targets of tackling poverty, curbing planet-heating emissions and protecting nature. Ideas on the table range from taxation on shipping, fossil fuels or financial transactions, to innovations in lending and a structural rethink of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.
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1 year agoLevel Up j0rg
Level 19
j0rg is now level 19 with 400,105 XP.
View Unlocks- Save Credits The maximum amount of save credits you can store has been raised by 2 to a total of 28.
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1 year agoCurrent Event j0rg
The A.I. Revolution Will Change Work. Nobody Agrees How.
The tally of how many jobs will be “affected by” world-changing technology is different depending on who you ask.
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1 year agoExpression j0rg
Activision Quietly Adds Pay To Win To Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2
As Season 3 is officially on its way in Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2. Activision has quietly snuck pay to win mechanics into its DMZ mode.
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1 year agoCurrent Event j0rg
NYPD reboots robot police dog after backlash and, again, civil rights advocates warn against high-tech hound
The NYPD robot pooch Digidog got a new leash on life Tuesday — and police leaders insist it’s not the dystopian surveillance nightmare it was made out to be the first time New Yorkers got a look at it. Two years after the robot landed the NYPD in the doghouse with civil rights advocates, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell promised to keep New Yorkers abreast of how the operations of the cyber mutt and two other tech tools pilot tested.
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1 year agoCurrent Event j0rg
Zimbabweans question membership to international convention on legal wildlife trade
Legislators are calling on the government to quit the United Nations’ Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in order for the trade and consumption of wildlife animals to go on unencumbered, owing it to increased human-wildlife conflict.
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1 year agoCurrent Event j0rg
Sheffield 'get well soon' message carved on snowy hospital roof
A giant "get well soon" message has been carved by a mystery artist into snow on a Sheffield hospital's roof. The words, accompanied by a huge smiley face, appeared on the top of of the Royal Hallamshire Hospital car park. Hospital visitor Joe Dawson posted the image on social media and said it had "really cheered everyone" and described the unknown snow-artist as a "legend".
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1 year agoCurrent Event j0rg
Physicists Rewrite a Quantum Rule That Clashes With Our Universe
Ajarring divide cleaves modern physics. On one side lies quantum theory, which portrays subatomic particles as probabilistic waves. On the other lies general relativity, Einstein’s theory that space and time can bend, causing gravity. For 90 years, physicists have sought a reconciliation, a more fundamental description of reality that encompasses both quantum mechanics and gravity. But the quest has run up against thorny paradoxes.