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2 days ago
Current Event jedlickaMuslim terror attacks get 357 percent more media coverage than others: Study
A new study has found that religion is a significant predictor for the amount of coverage given to terror attacks, and specifically that those carried out by Muslims receive far more attention than any others. In a study published in Justice Quarterly, researchers at Georgia State University and the University of Alabama found that terror attacks by Muslims receive an average of 357 percent more media coverage than those by other groups.
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4 days ago
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U.S. Will Not Seek to Prosecute Ancient Tribe Who Murdered Missionary John Allen Chau
The United States has announced that it will not be pressing charges against the remote Indian tribespeople who brutally murdered American missionary John Allen Chau. Chau, 26, was attempting to illegally engage the indigenous people group on North Sentinel island when he was killed in a hail of arrows. Though it was unlikely the protected tribe would face prosecution, Ambassador-at-Large for Religious Freedom, Sam Brownback, confirmed that the U.S. would not be taking the case any further.
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5 days ago
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Pomp: Bitcoin is becoming the global reserve currency | Micky
Pompliano says the shift to Bitcoin as a reserve currency is happening “right before our eyes”. “Sovereign nations are already settling transactions in Bitcoin. Don’t blink,” he tweeted. “Bitcoin is becoming the global reserve currency right before our eyes.”
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7 days ago
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Kaspersky Study Shows 700% Increase in Bitcoin Adoption; 13% Online Buyers use Cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are experiencing a bearish experience, but that hasn’t dampened the experience of this phenomenon. Russian cybersecurity titan Kaspersky and Coinmap have conducted a study that proves critics wrong. The research shows that Bitcoin adoption has grown 700 percent in the last five years while one in every ten online buyers has paid for purchases using cryptocurrencies.
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9 days ago
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Chernobyl: The end of a three-decade experiment
The abandoned Chernobyl exclusion zone could be about to change for the first time since the world's worst nuclear disaster.
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10 days ago
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Opportunity did not answer NASA’s final call, and it’s now gone to us
Late Tuesday night, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent their final data uplink to the Opportunity rover on Mars. Over this connection, via the Deep Space Network, the American jazz singer Billie Holiday crooned "I'll Be Seeing You," a song which closes with the lines:
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10 days ago
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How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t do it.
Kara Swisher’s live-tweeted interview with Jack Dorsey highlighted some of Twitter’s product issues.
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2 weeks ago
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Russian trolls are still wreaking havoc on many Reddit communities
An investigation by Engadget and Point has unearthed troubling details that show several Russia-linked propaganda websites and trolls are continuing to influence pro-Trump communities on Reddit. Last September, numerous posts on Reddit's "The_Donald" forum were discovered to have originated from the websites brutalist.press and usareally.com. Both of these domains have been linked to Russia's Internet Research Agency and individuals under investigation by Robert Mueller'...
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2 weeks ago
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Revealed: how big dairy pushed fattier milks into US schools
The US Department of Agriculture secretary, Sonny Perdue, raised a glass of chocolate milk to dairy lobbyists in an unannounced visit to their board of directors’ meeting in October, as the group celebrated a recent trade win. The Trump administration’s North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) negotiations gave American dairy farmers more access to the Canadian market, allowing them to export an addition 50,000 metric tons of milk northward.
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2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
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JD Salinger's unseen writings to be published, family confirms
Exclusive: The Catcher in the Rye author’s son tells the Guardian estate will publish almost ‘all of what he wrote’ over next decade
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3 weeks ago
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Britain's most endangered species identified for first time as Natural England launches 'Back from the Brink' campaign
Britain's 20 most endangered species have been identified for the first time by a host of wildlife and woodland charities, as Natural England has launched a campaign to bring them back from the brink of extinction. The charities, including the RSPB and the Woodland Trust, have been given over £7.7 million in funding from the National Lottery and other donors to work together to save the endangered animals and plants.
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3 weeks ago
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Groundhog Day 2019: Punxsutawney Phil Predicts An Early Spring
Phil, the famous groundhog, did not see his shadow, meaning an early spring is upon us.
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3 weeks ago
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Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway
I don't mind letting your programs see my private data as long as I get something useful in exchange. But that's not what happens. A forme...
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3 weeks ago
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Bring reader back plz google?
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3 weeks ago
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Alcohol triggers DNA changes that increase cravings
“We found that people who drink heavily may be changing their DNA in a way that makes them crave alcohol even more,” says senior author Dipak K. Sarkar, a professor in and the director of the endocrine program in the animal sciences department at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. “This may help explain why alcoholism is such a powerful addiction, and may one day contribute to new ways to treat alcoholism or help prevent at-risk people from becoming addicted.”
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3 weeks ago
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Old 80's sitcoms on repeat.
Posted in: If there is TV in hell, what plays on it?
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3 weeks ago
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The Hidden Automation Agenda of the Davos Elite
In public, executives wring their hands over automation’s negative consequences for workers. In private, they talk about how they are racing to automate.
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1 month ago
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We value your privacy now, but maybe not later
Everybody knows these modal dialogs when visiting a website for the first time that ask you to accept cookies and consent to being tracked by third-party advertising networks. It actually became a habit for me to always click through these things and reject any kind of tracking or use of my personal information except for the “required” cookies.
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1 month ago
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U.S. set to send first group of asylum seekers back to Mexico
The United States was expected to send a first group of 20 Central American asylum seekers back to Mexico through the border city of Tijuana on Friday as part of President Donald Trump’s hardening of longstanding U.S. immigration policy.
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1 month ago
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This makes me feel soo old!
Posted in: Macintosh Turns 35
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1 month ago
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Man 'who stole own car' wins settlement
A man arrested by Illinois police for stealing what turned out to be his own car has come to an out-of-court settlement with a Chicago suburb. Northwestern University PhD student Lawrence Crosby was 25 when the incident happened in 2015. A woman called the police when she saw him trying to fix a loose part on his car and thought he was a thief. Evanston City Council will vote on the final settlement next week but a lawyer said it would be $1.25m (£960,000).