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9 hours agoCurrent Event junglman
How ‘Lolita’ Escaped Obscenity Laws and Cancel Culture
My father, John Mortimer, brought me up to believe that you can be a good person and kill someone and a perfectly awful person who never gets so much as a parking ticket your whole life. It’s an education I’m proud of. He was an author and a criminal defense barrister — in his words, “the only playwright ever to have defended a murderer in the central criminal court at the Old Bailey” — and his prowess in both professions rode on his ability to see past easy morality and to respect t...
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11 hours agoCurrent Event junglman
Amazon changes app logo that 'resembles Adolf Hitler'
The new design shows a folded corner of blue tape on an Amazon box.
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14 hours agoExpression junglman
A Better Way to Think About Conspiracies
People will always be interested in conspiracy theories. They need a tool kit for discriminating among different fringe ideas.
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2 days agoCurrent Event junglman
Donald and Melania Trump received Covid vaccine at the White House in January
Former President Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump received the Covid-19 vaccine at the White House in January, a Trump adviser told CNN on Monday.
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2 days agoExpression junglman
A Chapter In U.S. History Often Ignored: The Flight Of Runaway Slaves To Mexico
As the U.S. Treasury considers putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill to honor her role in the northbound underground railroad, new attention is being paid to the often overlooked southbound route.
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6 days agoUnspecified junglman
North Korea hacked Pfizer because it wants to sell bootleg COVID vaccines on the international black market, sources say
North Korea is well-practiced at drug smuggling and hacking, and needs as much foreign currency as it can get.
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9 days agoCurrent Event junglman
“Tidal wave” of new wind and solar will force early coal plant closures
Many of Australia’s coal-fired generators are facing unplanned and early retirements as revenues fall to unsustainable levels, according to a new analysis that finds a surge in wind and solar investment is pushing coal out of the electricity market.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event junglman
How An Infamous Hydroelectric Dam Changed Earth’s Rotation
A massive hydroelectric dam in China is providing citizens with clean energy, and the dam's water supply is enough to change the rotation of the Earth.
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3 weeks agoExpression junglman
The Downside to Life in a Supertall Tower: Leaks, Creaks, Breaks
432 Park, one of the wealthiest addresses in the world, faces some significant design problems, and other luxury high-rises may share its fate.
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3 weeks agoExpression junglman
Solar flare-style rocket thruster ‘could send astronauts to outer solar system’
Professional Engineering
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event junglman
Robots are speeding up the most boring job in astronomy
Telescopes retrofitted with hundreds of optical fibers dissect the light of stars and galaxies
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1 month agoCurrent Event junglman
Proud Boys Charged With Conspiracy in Capitol Riot
The conspiracy charges were the first to emerge against members of the extremist group in connection with the assault on Congress.
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1 month agoExpression junglman
No More ‘Fake Diversity’ on Screen. It’s About Quality, As Well As Quantity
In an exclusive guest column for Variety, writer and academic Marcus Ryder, co-author of the book “Access All Areas – The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond,” reflects on a recent diversity test introduced in the U.K. and interrogates what’s considered an “authentic” representation.
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1 month agoExpression junglman
The Hidden Mystery Behind Emotional Dumping And Venting
Emotional dumping is so basic in our lives that the vast majority of us are oblivious to the truth that we take part in it. I realise I was. A large portion of my connections rotated around common emotional dumping. This impermanent felt ‘better’ since it permitted me to feel a misguided feeling of association and closeness.
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1 month agoAnalysis junglman
The deadly viruses that vanished without trace
Scientists are only just starting to unravel why some viruses disappear, while others can linger and cause disease for centuries.
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1 month agoCurrent Event junglman
US Dietary Guidelines Revised to Recognize the Dangers of Dairy
For the first time, the US Dietary Guidelines have been revised to reflect the negative health effects that dairy can pose, thanks to Switch4Good.
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1 month agoCurrent Event junglman
US intelligence agencies have 180 days to share what they know about UFOs, thanks to the Covid-19 relief and spending bill
When President Donald Trump signed the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law in December, so began the 180-day countdown for US intelligence agencies to tell Congress what they know about UFOs.
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1 month agoCurrent Event junglman
Covid billionaires should help starving people, says charity boss
Billionaires whose wealth has soared during the coronavirus pandemic should stump up to provide emergency aid to the record numbers of people facing starvation, the head of a US charity supporting the World Food Programme has said.
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2 months agoExpression junglman
Facts won't fix this: experts on how to fight America's disinformation crisis
Trump’s false claims about the election and coronavirus are taking a dangerous toll. Can the divide be healed?