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11 years ago+27 27 0This guy thinks killing video game characters is immoral
Brian Tomasik argues that consciousness is a spectrum, and even the simplest processes — like computer opponents in video games — can be conscious. It's much worse, he says, to kill an animal than a bot, but the bot still matters.
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11 years ago+15 15 0 x 1This floating black ball is the creepiest thing you'll see all day
Designers at the Royal College of Art have created a floating black sphere that, in addition to stalking people, records and replays sounds it picks up after a short delay.
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11 years ago+18 18 0The Fascinating History of Eugenics
The name deriving from the Greek “eugenes,” meaning “well-born,” it should be no surprise that “eugenics” seeks to engineer a better human race by purposefully selecting good traits, and eliminating bad ones, as is common when breeding animals. Over ...
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11 years ago+10 10 0For Some, Sad Music Can Bring Happiness
New research suggests that music can lift you out of a funk—if you can truly immerse yourself in its beauty.
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11 years ago+15 15 0Antioxidants Speed Up Lung Cancer
Swedish scientists have discovered why two antioxidants accelerate tumor growth in mice, helping to explain the results of disappointing human trials.
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11 years ago+16 16 0What's Your Starbucks Name?
It was approximately 8:55 am last Friday morning when a stranger asked for my name. I was in a long line at Starbucks, and our conversation started with raised eyebrows from her—the barista—followed by my drink order: "I'll have a Grandé mo ...
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11 years ago+16 16 0 x 1Can You Walk on Water? (Non-Newtonian Fluid Pool)
Running, jumping and biking on 8,000 litres of non-newtonian fluid in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia! Brought to you by Mach by Hong Leong Bank together with We are KIX.
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11 years ago+13 13 0The New, Go-To Place for Illegal Organs
A massive wave of desperate Syrian refugees could create a new market in Lebanon for the illegal human organ trade On a recent night in south Beirut, a group of young men sat exchanging bits of neighborhood gossip in a tiny café. Slumped into a corne ...
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11 years ago+18 18 0Why Egyptians Are Voting Away Their Freedoms
The two-day referendum being held in Egypt is effectively a rubber-stamp vote that will guarantee the military-backed regime greater powers...
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11 years ago+13 14 1Tough Guys: Faces of the NFL in 1938
In the fall of 1938, in the midst of the Great Depression, LIFE magazine published a feature on professional football titled, “Beefy Bruisers Make It Rival College Game.” In those years, the biggest sports in the land were baseball, boxing, horse rac ...
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11 years ago+19 19 0China’s problem with smog, captured by NASA’s Terra satellite
To better illustrate the scale of China’s smog problem, NASA has captured an image of China’s northeastern seaboard — in the image above (a larger version is embedded below), the telltale gray haze of hazardous airborne pollution spans the 750 miles ...
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11 years ago+10 10 0Killing cancer like the common cold
Nick Wilkins was diagnosed with leukemia when he was 4 years old, and when the cancer kept bouncing back, impervious to all the different treatments the doctors tried, his father sat him down for a talk. John Wilkins explained to Nick, who was by the ...
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11 years ago+17 17 0Science: astronomy’s new ice age
One of the world’s strangest astronomical observatories, based on a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice, has opened a new window on the universe. The $270m IceCube facility at the South Pole has started to detect high-energy cosmic neutrinos – subatomic ...
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11 years ago+19 19 0Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Mobile Coming this December
Before GTAV took us to the sun-bleached sidewalks and humming concrete freeways of present-day Los Santos and beyond, there was Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the biggest GTA of the PS2 era. Now, head back to the early 90s with CJ and the Grove Stree ...
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11 years ago+14 14 0 x 1Crowdsourcing Murder: 50 Years After JFK, The History And Future Of Political Assassination
Teddy Roosevelt didn’t fear assassins. Though his predecessor in the Presidency, William McKinley, was killed by anarchist Leon Czolgosz’s bullet, Teddy shook off security. If an assassin was cowardly enough to attack from behind, he would simply “go ...
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11 years ago+26 26 0 x 3Software patent reform just died in the House, thanks to IBM and Microsoft
On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to consider legislation aimed at reining in abusive patent litigation. But one of the bill's most important provisions, designed to make it easier to nix low-quality software patents, will ...
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11 years ago+9 12 3Put down that doughnut: FDA takes on trans fats
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday took a first step toward potentially eliminating most trans fat from the food supply, saying it has made a preliminary determination that a major source of trans fats - partially hydrogenated oils - is no ...
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11 years ago+10 10 0Get ready! Hybrid solar eclipse on November 3
There is a special kind of solar eclipse coming up on Sunday, November 3, 2013. It’s a hybrid solar eclipse. That is, the eclipse appears fleetingly as an annular – or ring eclipse – at its start and becomes a brief total eclipse later on. But much o ...