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This Haunting Animation Maps the Journeys of 15,790 Slave Ships in Two Minutes
Usually, when we say “American slavery” or the “American slave trade,” we mean the American colonies or, later, the United States. But as we discussed in Episode 2 of Slate’s History of American Slavery Academy, relative to the entire slave trade, North America was a bit player. From the trade’s...
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The uncomfortable truth about dealing with climate change
This week, the EPA released a major report that tried to tally up the specific benefits to the United States if the whole world took action on climate change. Fewer deaths from heat waves, billions in saved infrastructure costs, and so on. So far, so good. But a closer look at the EPA's report also reveals two other nuanced points about climate that are getting lost in the media coverage.
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Chemists devise technology that could transform solar energy storage
Chemists have developed a major improvement to capture and retain energy from sunlight, where the stored energy can last dramatically longer than current solar technology allows -- up to several weeks, instead of the microseconds found in today's rooftop solar panels.
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Sydney Opera House / Living Mural
A global animation project by Universal Everything, collaborating with over 20 different animation studios worldwide to create a living mural on one of the world’s most iconic buildings.
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Alaska’s glaciers are now losing 75 billion tons of ice every year
In a new study, scientists with the University of Alaska at Fairbanks and several other institutions report a staggering finding: Glaciers of the United States’ largest — and only Arctic — state, Alaska, have lost 75 gigatons (a gigaton is a billion metric tons) of ice per year from 1994 through 2013. For comparison, that’s roughly half of a recent estimate for ice loss for all of Antarctica (159 billion metric tons). It takes 360 gigatons of ice to lead to one millimeter of sea level rise...
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Elevator shows rise of New York City skyline through time
Rise of NYC
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The sad, strange life of Joseph Stalin's daughter
The first sentence of Svetlana Alliluyeva’s obituary was set from her birth in 1926, for she was the only daughter of Joseph Stalin, the notorious Soviet dictator, and one of the worst mass murderers in history. “Wherever I go, whether to Australia or some island, I will always be the political prisoner of my father’s name,” she said. Indeed, it’s by reading those obituaries that biographer Rosemary Sullivan decided there was a dramatic story that needed to be told.
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Release 5.1.1 - Snapzu usability update focuses on social aspects
Today we are happy to introduce a number of design updates which enable us to further promote the amazing social aspects of our community. We decided to take a quick step back and correct a few glaring issues that some of our members were experiencing, before we further focus on upcoming functionality. This post will outline all changes in list format along with a few more upcoming tweaks we have planned over the next month or so.
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How Things Break
Ali fought Liston 50 years ago. Two legends were born, but another was broken.
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Tracking Honeybees to Save Them
Can outfitting bees with tiny radio transmitters solve colony collapse disorder?
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Peak Oil
Roughly half of the world’s oil supply is gone; half is left. How will our society choose to use the oil that remains? By Stuart McMillen.
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The Nazi Death Machine: Hitler’s Drugged Soldiers
The Nazis preached abstinence in the name of promoting national health. But when it came to fighting their Blitzkrieg, they had no qualms about pumping their soldiers full of drugs and alcohol. Speed was the drug of choice, but many others became addicted to morphine and alcohol.
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1975 Article On Internet Spying Not Written By Time Traveler, Probably
People often think about internet spying as relatively new. But the internet was used for spying before we even called it the internet—and when we look back at news articles from the era, we can’t say we weren’t warned. As just one more in a long list of examples, take a December 1975 article by Tad Szulc in The Washington Monthly. Szulc explains that this new thing called the ARPANET (the packet-switched precursor to our modern internet) had the potential to be used by...
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Texas earthquakes: Fracking is likely cause, study says
Jim and Gail Wells have lived in the upscale Las Colinas area of Irving, Texas, for 14 years. Nestled between Dallas and Fort Worth, they love their quaint neighborhood for its custom homes amid rolling hills and large trees. One of the neighborhood's newer features is a spate of seismic activity. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the Dallas area has suffered almost 40 small earthquakes (magnitude 2.0 or higher) since the beginning of this year...
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Saving sunshine for a rainy day
The Sun is a huge source of energy. In just one hour planet Earth is hit by so much sunshine that humankind could cover its energy needs for an entire year if only we knew how to harvest and save it. But storing sunshine is not trivial. Now a student has researched his way to a breakthrough which may prove pivotal for technologies trying to capture the energy of the sun, and saving it for a rainy day.
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Pollen and clouds: April flowers bring May showers?
The main job of pollen is to help seed the next generation of trees and plants, but a new study from the University of Michigan and Texas A&M shows that the grains might also seed clouds.
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This Is What Thunder Looks Like
Researchers from the Southwest Research Institute in Texas launched a rocket with a trailing copper wire into a storm, and were able to make lightning happen right where they thought it would. With this predictability, they could train arrays of microphones at the spot and capture the sound waves of thunder visually, in unprecedented detail. Science has come a long way since 1752, but when it comes to inducing lightning not that much has changed since Ben Franklin.
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Why Tesla Batteries Are Cheap Enough To Prevent New Power Plants
Tesla's Powerall home battery stole the headlines all weekend, but the shocker was the new low price for the utility-scale battery, which could reduce the need for new power plants.
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Monsters Together by John Lukacs
In the vast literature about Stalin and Hitler during World War II, little is said about their being allies for twenty-two months. That is more than an odd chapter in the history of that war, and its meaning deserves more attention than it has received.
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Asthma could be cured within five years after drug breakthrough
Asthma could be cured within five years after scientists discovered what causes the condition and how to switch it off. In a breakthrough which could change the lives of Britain’s five million sufferers, researchers at Cardiff University and Kings College London identified which cells cause the airways to narrow when triggered by irritants like pollution.
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Rainforests are being felled... so why is the world getting greener?
The dramatic demise of the world’s rainforests has caused concern for years while they have been chopped down at breakneck speed to grow crops and rear cattle – yet the planet has actually become greener in the past decade, with the total amount of plant coverage soaring.
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Dramatic photos of Vancouver oil spill spark pipeline outrage on social media
As striking photos of the oil spill in Vancouver's English Bay spread on social media Thursday, many voiced concerns that the sight of fuel on water will become common if B.C. becomes home to more oil pipelines. As a toxic bunker fuel spill spread across Vancouver's English Bay and washed ashore on the city's many beaches, people took to social media to share worrying photos, along with fears for the province's environmental future.
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How Vaccines Work: The Complete History of Vaccines
Understanding how vaccines are made and how they work can help inform your decision to vaccinate or not. Do vaccines really cause autism? Are they necessary? Are vaccinations safe? This video provides an engaging and easy-to-digest overview of the science behind vaccines and why vaccinating children is essential to maintaining public health.
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Solving the Four Corners Mystery: Probes Map Methane 'Hot Spot'
Scientists are working to unravel the mystery of a methane blob over the Four Corners region of the U.S. Southwest. The hot spot, first detected from space, contains a significant amount of the greenhouse gas.
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How a Colorado Family Built a Home for the World’s Weirdest, Most Beautiful Bugs
Driving along a nondescript section of Highway 115 a few miles south of Colorado Springs, it's hard not to swerve at the sight of a gigantic Hercules beetle, its horns as tall as a house, standing beside a sign for the May Natural History Museum. But this monstrous beetle isn’t advertising some two-bit roadside attraction...
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More scientists doubt salt is as bad for you as the government says
For years, the federal government has advised Americans that they are eating too much salt, and that this excess contributes yearly to the deaths of tens of thousands of people. But unknown to many shoppers urged to buy foods that are “low sodium” and “low salt,” this longstanding warning has come under assault by scientists who say that typical American salt consumption is without risk. Moreover, according to studies published in recent years by pillars of the medical community...
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Our co-founder Ben Cohen on Citizens United
Some people say that a Constitutional amendment is impossible, but nearly every generation has amended the Constitution to protect and expand our democracy. This is our generation’s fight to win.
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Invasion of the Hedge Fund Almonds
It takes a gallon of water to produce one almond. And that's not the most insane fact about the mad dash to plant the thirsty trees in the middle of a catastrophic drought.
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A Day In The Life Of Extreme Weather Photographer Marko Korošec
Photography—it’s all about day-to-day passion, skill, and commitment. Ever wondered what a day in the life of a professional photographer is like? Every week, we ask a 500px photographer to document a typical day at work, giving you an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at their shooting schedule and techniques in the field. This week, let’s hit the road and chase storms with Slovenia-based photographer Marko Korošec. He also happens to be one of the top-selling photographers in 500px Prime...
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The Blood Cries Out: Murder and Malthus in Africa’s Great Lakes
In one of Africa’s most densely populated countries, brothers are killing brothers over the right to farm mere acres of earth. There’s just not enough land to go around in Burundi — and it could push the country into civil war.
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