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18 hours ago
Analysis jedlickaUS needs megawatt class combat lasers to counter hypersonic missiles
Michael Griffin, the undersecretary for research and engineering, expects future budgets to provide funds for lasers that the missile defense agency can more rapidly develop and field. Space-control needs to have megawatt-class lasers. Hypersonic weapons’ low signature in flight and high degree of maneuverability upon final approach to targets make the weapons difficult to defend against. The last time the US really invested in transformative capabilities that overwhelmed adversaries [in Des...
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7 days ago
Analysis jedlicka
Humans are about to touch the deepest corners of the ocean for the first time — an endeavor as dangerous as landing on the moon
The Five Deeps expedition aims to explore the bottom of each of the world's oceans. The first stop is in Puerto Rico this December.
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7 days ago
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Purple bacteria can turn human waste into clean hydrogen energy
The new method reduces carbon emissions and turns wastewater treatment plants into green generators. A significant downside to wastewater treatment plants is their carbon footprint. Now, researchers have found a way to reduce carbon emissions from sewage and produce hydrogen energy at the same time. Their method uses purple bacteria and electrical currents to capitalize on the organic materials we flush down the toilet every day. We spoke with one of the study’s authors, Daniel Puyol of Spain...
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7 days ago
Analysis jedlicka
Indonesia 737 crash caused by “safety” feature change pilots weren’t told of
737 Max safety bulletin revealed changes to system that pilots never knew about.
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8 days ago
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Pilots report seeing UFO in sky off Ireland
"We saw a bright light and then it disappeared at a very high speed," pilot says
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9 days ago
Analysis jedlicka
‘We’ll Be Back After This Concussion’
Football announcers care about brain injuries. But they often lack the vocabulary to talk about them. Chris Nowinski has a new program that’s trying to help them.
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9 days ago
Analysis jedlicka
Marina Benjamin considers isolating, maddening, shared experience of ‘Insomnia’
Stay up nights with the British writer as she takes on insomnia.
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9 days ago
Analysis jedlicka
Super recognisers: the people who never forget a face
We all have an innate ability to pick a face out of a crowd. But some can memorise thousands of people – often seen only fleetingly on CCTV. Alex Moshakis meets the ‘super recognisers’
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11 days ago
Current Event jedlicka
How To Succeed At Anything
You want to know how to succeed at anything? — It’s simple. Start, keep going and don’t stop until you succeed. That is how to succeed at anything. Three steps. A beginning, a middle and an end. We don’t like to think about an ‘end.’ It seems too practical and measurable and perhaps even shallow. Thinking of ‘success’ as a ‘destination’ tends to conjure images of horrendous personal cost and regret at the lost family time — a life of failing to stop and smell roses.
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12 days ago
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The House Science Committee May Soon Become... Pro-Science
FOR THE PAST eight years, climate science has been under a sort of spell in the House of Representatives. Instead of trying to understand it better or even acknowledging some of the field’s current uncertainties, House Science Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) used his position to harass federal climate scientists with subpoenas while holding hearings on “Making the EPA Great Again” or whether “global warming theories are alarmist” and researchers are pursuing a “personal agenda.”
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13 days ago
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Louis C.K. Performs Stand-Up Performance In Paris; Low-Key Show Held At Theatre De L’Oeuvre
Louis C.K. performed a low-key stand-up performance in Paris, France – the latest as he returns to the comedy world following the sexual harassment allegations that torpedoed his career. The comedian performed a show, understood to be a set of over an hour, at the The New York Comedy Night at the Theatre de l’Oeuvre. The show, which is hosted by American expat comedian Sebastian Marx, comes after his advertised stand-up performance at Manhattan’s Comedy Cellar at the end of October.
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13 days ago
Analysis jedlicka
What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?
New research is zeroing in on a biochemical basis for the placebo effect — possibly opening a Pandora’s box for Western medicine.
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13 days ago
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Can these 35-ton bricks solve renewable energy’s biggest problem?
It’s already cheaper to build a new solar or wind farm than a coal plant. But when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing, renewable electricity can still be fairly expensive to store–even though the cost of batteries is dropping. If the world shifted to 100% renewable electricity right now, we might pay more on electric bills.
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2 weeks ago
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US government to go ahead with fatal experiments on dogs
Controversial tests to proceed despite opposition from congress and others
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2 weeks ago
Analysis jedlicka
The public “deserve to know” that there is an overlooked subset of people who thrive after major depression
By Emma Young. More research is needed into people who experience “high functioning after depression”.
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2 weeks ago
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4 Crypto Exchanges to Watch In 2019 | ChainBits
Given the steep rise in the value and popularity of cryptocurrencies over the past few years, we’ve witnessed a massive increase in the number…
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2 weeks ago
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Nine Inch Nails hope to start working on their ‘next project’ later this year
"In six weeks we’re going to have a few weeks off. Maybe we could start on it there."
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2 weeks ago
Yeah, everyone is wired differently, and that's why social profiling like cambridge analytica can be so dangerous.
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2 weeks ago
Current Event jedlicka
Hyundai and Kia unveil new solar roof to charge batteries in vehicles, launching next year
Electric vehicles enable owners to have more choices for the sources of energy to power their vehicles.
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3 weeks ago
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Robert Downey Jr. Celebrates Halloween With Iron Man And Spider-Man Pumpkins
Avengers love Halloween too, and the hero that kicked off the Marvel Cinematic Universe is celebrating with some superhero pumpkins. The movie world has changed considerably since Robert Downey Jr's turn as Tony Stark in the original Iron Man, and all these years later it is still going strong. His Marvel alter ego has also managed to work its way into his decorations for Halloween this year, though as he revealed in a new photo he also had some help from his pal Spider-Man.
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3 weeks ago
Current Event jedlicka
Brazil: Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro poised for victory
Bolsonaro's rise has come amid a backdrop of economic and political turmoil, corruption scandals and rising violence.
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3 weeks ago
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Pittsburgh shooting: Multiple casualties at Squirrel Hill synagogue
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3 weeks ago
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PlayStation players are livid with Sony because of their RDR2 ad
After Digital Foundry confirmed that RDR2 plays in native 4K on the Xbox One X and that PS4 Pro is using the upscaled resolution, known as the "checkerboard rendering", some fans are feeling let down and misled by Sony's RDR2 commercial.
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3 weeks ago
Expression jedlicka
Ban entire pesticide class to protect children's health, experts say
Evidence is ‘compelling’ that organophosphates increase risk of reduced IQs, memory and attention deficits, and autism for prenatal children
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3 weeks ago
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Catch this assclown and lock him up.