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1 day agoCurrent Event jasont
Washington D.C.'s free bus bill becomes law as zero-fare transit systems take off
D.C. is the largest U.S. city to codify a fare-free public transit system into law.
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5 days agoCurrent Event jasont
‘There Is a Real Sense That the Apocalypse Is Coming’
When Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — many of them carrying Christian symbols like crucifixes, statues of the Virgin Mary and even life-sized portraits of Jesus Christ — a terrible thought occurred to Bradley Onishi: “Could I have been there?”
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8 days agoExpression jasont
It’s Not Sci-Fi—NASA Is Funding These Mind-Blowing Projects
The space agency gave money to researchers working on liquid telescope mirrors, a lunar oxygen pipeline, and Martian building blocks made of fungi.
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9 days agoUnspecified jasont
Old mice grow young again in study. Can people do the same?
All mammals hold a backup copy of cellular youth, a new study says. All we have to do is trigger the switch to turn back the clock, researchers say.
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9 days agoExpression jasont
Inside the US facility that has cryofrozen 199 'patients' and 100 pets
This American cryonics facility has preserved "patients" in liquid nitrogen-filled tanks until a future date when technology allows them to be thawed.
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2 weeks agoLevel Up jasont
Level 34
jasont is now level 34 with 3,555,295 XP.
View Unlocks- Tribe Membership The maximum amount of tribes you can join has been raised by 10 to a total of 165.
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- Tribe Claiming You can claim tribes with max level 8.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event jasont
Bitcoin enters the curriculum in US universities
A Texas university is the latest to offer a Bitcoin course for students. The course will teach Bitcoin programming. Bitcoin and cryptocurrency courses are becoming increasingly popular in colleges and universities across the United States. The latest institution to join the trend is Texas A&M University, which has announced that it will be offering a course on the "Bitcoin Protocol" to its students starting from January 17th.
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1 month agoCurrent Event jasont
Here's how many times you need to reuse your reusable grocery bags
The battle against the single-use plastic bag may not be won but it’s definitely under way. Restrictions on their use are in place in almost a dozen US states and in many other countries around the world. And in many cases, these efforts have been successful at eliminating new sales of thin, wispy plastic bags that float up into trees, clog waterways, leech microplastics into soil and water and harm marine life. (Of course, these restrictions don’t address the plastic bags already out there ...
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1 month agoCurrent Event jasont
The AI-Written Sci-Fi Book 'Holding Out Hope': A Look into the Possibilities of Artificial Intelligence in Literature
In recent years, artificial intelligence has made strides in a variety of fields, from healthcare to finance. But could it also have a place in the world of literature? ‘Holding Out Hope’, a sci-fi book written by AI, challenges the idea of what it means for a work to be truly “human-written.” In this article, we will delve into the possibilities of AI in literature and explore the unique features that were used in the making of ‘Holding Out Hope’.
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1 month agoExpression jasont
Water pipe robots could stop billions of litres leaking
About 20% of our water supply is lost to leaks and scientists say miniature 'pipe robots' could help.
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1 month agoExpression jasont
This Christmas, make sure your chocolate does not harm the planet
Our insatiable demand for chocolate is destroying forests.
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1 month agoCurrent Event jasont
It’s time to talk about eating less meat and dairy, ministers SNP told
A GREENS MSP has called on her colleagues in government to have a “conversation” with the public about eating less meat and dairy after progress on hitting climate targets stalled. SNP ministers have been told to target the move by their top climate advisers. Under the Scottish Government’s vision, the country will legally become net zero by 2050, while 1990 levels of emissions will be cut by 75 per cent by 2030.
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1 month agoCurrent Event jasont
Binance temporarily halts withdrawals of stablecoin USDC as investor concerns mount after FTX collapse
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, said Tuesday it is pausing withdrawals of the stablecoin USDC while it carries out a “token swap.” The move comes as investor concerns grow about Binance’s stability following the collapse of rival exchange FTX as well as a report of a potential criminal investigation from the U.S. government.
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2 months agoUnspecified jasont
Biden administration commits millions of dollars to relocate Native tribes threatened by climate change
The Biden administration announced Wednesday a $135 million commitment to helping to relocate Native American tribes whose homes are threatened by the effects of climate change.
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2 months agoCurrent Event jasont
Australia opposes U.N. "in danger" listing of Great Barrier Reef
The Australian government expressed its opposition Tuesday to a recommendation by a United Nations-backed mission that the Great Barrier Reef be added to a list of "in danger" World Heritage sites, warning of the significant impact climate change is having on the world's largest coral reef ecosystem.
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2 months agoCurrent Event jasont
Apple is becoming an ad company despite privacy claims
For years, Apple watched Google and Meta make billions by collecting every scrap of people’s data to target them with ads. Now it appears it was just taking notes. Apple’s advertising operation follows the surveillance capitalism model of its rivals, using data it collects from various Apple services and your Apple account to show you ads in the App Store as well as its News and Stocks apps.
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2 months agoCurrent Event jasont
Bacteria that break down nicotine found in the guts of mice
A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in China, working with a colleague in the U.S., has isolated a type of bacteria in the guts of mice that break down nicotine. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes how they isolated the bacteria and why their finding could reduce incidences of fatty liver disease in humans.
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2 months agoCurrent Event jasont
Balenciaga files $25M suit against producers of controversial ‘BDSM teddy bear’ ad campaign
Balenciaga has filed a $25 million lawsuit against the producers of a controversial ad campaign that included a child pornography court ruling and BDSM teddy bears, new court papers show. The fashion house brought the suit Friday against production company North Six, Inc. and set designer Nicholas Des Jardins and his eponymous company for the inclusion in one of the ads of legal documents from a US Supreme Court decision on child porn laws.
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2 months agoCurrent Event jasont
SpaceX to launch tomato seeds, other supplies to International Space Station after weather delay
SpaceX will once again try to get a fresh haul of supplies to the International Space Station this weekend after bad weather at the launch site forced the company to wave off its first attempt.