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1 day ago
Comment kxhThe suspected drug traffickers were not spared [after rescuing the police officers] - the four people on board were arrested after officers recovered more than 80 bundles of hashish, weighing more than three tonnes.
No good deed goes unpunished, eh?
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1 day ago
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US Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies
The justice, an iconic champion of women's rights, dies at 87 after suffering from pancreatic cancer.
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1 day ago
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What We Know About the Allegations of Forced Hysterectomies at an ICE Facility in Georgia
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What We Know About the Allegations of Forced Hysterectomies at an ICE Facility in Georgia
Whistleblower allegations of forced hysterectomies leave troubling questions and reveal a system ripe for abuse
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1 day ago
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This is what it's like to walk into a building filled with a billion cockroaches
It sounds like the stuff of nightmares: a giant, dark, steamy hangar filled with a billion cockroaches feeding off food scraps. But these roaches are not just household pests, they could be the key to more sustainable farming and reducing landfill.
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3 days ago
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'He was in agony': How the Australian stinging tree hurts — and keeps on hurting
Australia's rainforest-dwelling stinging trees are notoriously painful, and Queensland researchers say they now know why.
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4 days ago
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Sci-Fi Short Film “FTL"
DUST
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4 days ago
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The rise of ultra-processed foods and why they're really bad for our health
We looked at 37 studies which show eating ultra-processed foods is bad for our health. So why are we eating more of them than ever before?
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8 days ago
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This tiny reproduction of Girl With a Pearl Earring is “painted” with light
Scientists used millions of nanopillars to control color, density of incident light.
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9 days ago
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Too Much CO2 Has an Unnerving Effect on The World's Trees, New Study Finds
Trees that grow quickly die younger, risking a release of carbon dioxide that challenges forecasts that forests will continue to be a "sink" for planet-warming emissions, scientists said Tuesday.
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9 days ago
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A Shocking Percentage of Our Planet's CO2 Emissions Is Directly Traced to Multinational Companies
New research shows that around a fifth of all carbon emissions in recent years has come from the assets and suppliers of multinational corporations – and the flow of money indicates that pollution is effectively being outsourced from the developed world
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9 days ago
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Mastercard to Help Central Banks Test Their Own Digital Currencies - Decrypt
Payments provider Mastercard has launched a digital currency testing kit to help central banks trial their own coins.
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9 days ago
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UK mathematician wins richest prize in academia
Martin Hairer takes $3m Breakthrough prize for work a colleague said must have been done by aliens
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9 days ago
Comment kxh
It's like far RWNJs think everyone else is left wing. Hell, even facts are left wing. If Zucks thinks that FB is fair and balanced, it would therefore by definition have a conservative bias.
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9 days ago
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Beware of sandworms: Dune trailer gives us our first look at an epic world
Director Denis Villeneuve's adaptation provokes mixed reactions among Ars staffers.
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9 days ago
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The Most Common Pain Relief Drug in The World Induces Risky Behaviour, Study Suggests
Acetaminophen, one of the most consumed drugs in the US – and the most commonly taken analgesic worldwide – could be doing a lot more than simply taking the edge off your headache, new evidence suggests.
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10 days ago
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Bill Oddie of the Goodies has been suffering from lithium toxicity. This could be quite dangerous.
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11 days ago
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Australia's Banana Republic move: protecting lazy locals in battle with Google, Facebook
Proposal to force digital giants to hand a colossal sum of money to local media companies is almost a textbook definition of ‘sovereign risk’.
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11 days ago
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Most cyber-security reports only focus on the cool threats
Academics: Only 82 of the 629 commercial cyber-security reports (13%) published in the last decade discuss a threat to civil society, with the rest focusing on cybercrime, nation-state hackers, economic espionage.
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11 days ago
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These 3 Recent Studies Radically Change What We Understand About Dogs
It often seems impossible to know what's going on in Fido's head as he lounges on his dog bed.
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12 days ago
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California blaze, which burned 7,000 acres, caused by firework at gender-reveal party
The El Dorado fire in California that has burned more than 7,000 acres (2,800 hectares) was caused by a firework set off at a “gender-reveal party”, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) has found.
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12 days ago
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Tear Gas Is More Dangerous Than Most Realise And Should Be Banned, Experts Argue
The laws that govern the use of tear gas are downright illogical, argue human rights advocates.
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13 days ago
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“I had prepared a long list of what I thought were very tough questions,” recalls Sandel, now 67, via video-link from his study in Boston. “On Vietnam, on the right of 18-year-olds to vote – which Reagan opposed – on the United Nations, on social security. I thought I would make short work of him in front of that audience. He responded genially, amiably and respectfully. After an hour I realised I had not prevailed in this debate, I had lost. He had won us over without persuading us with his arguments. Nine years later he would get elected to the White House in the same way.”
Such an extraordinary difference to modern US politics.
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13 days ago
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'Gotta catch 'em all': What Pokémon tells us about Japan's Shinto spirits
For those familiar with Japan's oldest religion, Pokémon is more than a cartoon fantasy — it takes place in a universe full of Shinto elements, where the natural and the supernatural meld together.
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2 weeks ago
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Humans might have lived at this coastal site 120,000 years ago — the trick lies in proving it
Scientists examining an ancient Aboriginal site are split over whether charred rocks and weather-worn shells are 120,000-year-old evidence of Indigenous life.
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