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1 hour agoCurrent Event jedlicka
Volocopter Will Start Its Air Taxi Service 'Within Two Years'
Founded in Bruschal, Germany in 2011, Volocopter looks set to be the company to get flying taxi services off the ground. The eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) company has just announced, via a press statement, that it has raised €200 million in its Series D funding round. Cumulatively, the company has raised €322 million.
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2 days agoAnalysis jedlicka
Psychology Of The Victim Complex
Back in clinical psychology, a “victim complex” or “victim mentality” refers to a character trait of persons who think they’re always the victims of others’ damaging activities, even if made aware of proof to the contrary. Many men and women undergo regular periods of easy self-pity — within their grieving process, for instance.
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9 days agoAnalysis jedlicka
Fuel for earliest life forms: organic molecules found in 3.5 billion-year-old rocks
For the first time, biologically-relevant organic molecules have been detected in Archaean fluid inclusions, which most likely served as nutrients for early life on Earth.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event jedlicka
How a Family of Scammers Made Millions Off Fake 5-Hour Energy
Counterfeit energy drinks were lightning in a bottle for Adriana and Joseph Shayota, netting them a million dollars a month until the feds closed in. But they had one chance to clear their name: President Donald Trump.
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3 weeks agoAnalysis jedlicka
The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record
We live on a wild planet, a wobbly, erupting, ocean-sloshed orb that careens around a giant thermonuclear explosion in the void. Big rocks whiz by overhead, and here on the Earth’s surface, whole continents crash together, rip apart, and occasionally turn inside out, killing nearly everything. Our planet is fickle.
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1 month agoCurrent Event jedlicka
Robinhood Is a Perfect Example of Fintech’s Insidious Power
THIS PAST WEEK, we saw a perfect illustration of financial technology’s power. To spite “hedge fund bros,” retail investors led a surge in GameStop’s stock price largely through the trading app Robinhood. While progressives relished watching Wall Street’s old guard scramble amid the chaos, fintech firms like Robinhood — apps for lending, investing, and so on — certainly aren’t seeking an end to financial capitalism.
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1 month agoCurrent Event jedlicka
Bernie Sanders' inauguration memes help raise $1.8 million for charity
"We're glad we can use my internet fame to help Vermonters in need," Sanders said. "But even this amount of money is no substitute for action by Congress."
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1 month agoCurrent Event jedlicka
Reddit co-founder calls GameStop frenzy a 'bottom-up revolution,' shifting power to small investors
Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian said Thursday that the GameStop stock-trading frenzy, originating in large part on the online platform he helped create, is a turning point in the U.S. investing landscape.“I do think this is a seminal moment. I don’t think we go back to a world before this because these communities, they’re a byproduct of the connected internet,” Ohanian said in a “Squawk Box” interview. “Whether it’s one platform or another, this is the new normal.”
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1 month agoCurrent Event jedlicka
A Bitter Archaeological Feud Over an Ancient Vision of the Cosmos
The Nebra sky disk, which has been called the oldest known depiction of astronomical phenomena, is a “very emotional object.”
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1 month agoCurrent Event jedlicka
Stocks Could Plunge Even if the Economy Booms
We keep being reminded that the stock market isn’t the economy. But then, is it possible for the market to go into a long bear run even if the economy booms? Yes, although there is little record of it ever happening.
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1 month agoCurrent Event jedlicka
Bitcoin falls 11% after report suggests a critical flaw in the cryptocurrency called 'double spend' may have occurred
If the $21 double spend did occur, it would be a critical blow to bitcoin and exposes a vulnerability Satoshi Nakamoto set out to solve in 2009. Bitcoin fell as much as 11% on Thursday, hitting its lowest level in nearly three weeks, as the popular cryptocurrency was hit with a double whammy that jolted faith in its user base.
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1 month agoAnalysis jedlicka
Why cats are crazy for catnip
Cat owners flood the internet with videos of their kitties euphorically rolling and flipping out over catnip-filled bags and toys. But exactly how catnip—and a substitute, known as silver vine—produces this feline high has long been a mystery. Now, a study suggests the key intoxicating chemicals in the plants activate cats’ opioid systems much like heroin and morphine do in people. Moreover, the study concludes that rubbing the plants protects the felines against mosquito bites.
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1 month agoCurrent Event jedlicka
Bumble removed its political views filter after women ID Capitol rioters on the app
A Bumble representative told SFGATE that they have turned the political views filter back on in the United States.
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1 month agoCurrent Event jedlicka
Trump’s devastation of the Republican Party is nearly complete
It is time for Republicans to face an uncomfortable but increasingly obvious truth. President Trump is just not that into you. He never has been. To Trump, the party of Lincoln was a rental vehicle, one that he took for a joyride and is getting ready to turn back in, with trash jammed under the seats and stains covering the upholstery. Also, the tank is empty, and there’s a crack in the windshield.
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1 month agoCurrent Event jedlicka
Scientists Discover 20 New Species in Bolivian Andes Including Those Thought to be Extinct
Scientists have discovered 20 new species of plants and animals that have not seen in decades near the Bolivian capital of La Paz, Zongo Valley, which is known as the "heart" of the region.
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2 months agoCurrent Event jedlicka
Thailand to launch a moon space programme to boost efforts to become a high-income economy
Moon spaceship programme to be launched officially in January by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Innovation in what is a serious effort to establish Thailand’s credentials not only in the space race but among the top tier of countries claiming the highest technological expertise as well as giving a boost to national confidence.