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Related Link kxhClimate change: Australia pledges to reach net zero emissions by 2050
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Viruses are both the villains and heroes of life as we know it
Viruses have gotten a bad rap for the many illnesses and pandemics they’ve caused. But viruses are also genetic innovators – and possibly the pioneers of using DNA as the genetic blueprint of life.
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Anatomy texts should show sex as a spectrum to include intersex people
Around two in every 100 people have sex characteristics between the male-female binary definitions. Training for doctors and other health workers needs to reflect this.
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2 days ago
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But, actors have the right to bear arms too! /s
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2 days ago
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Secure email group Proton wins Swiss appeal over surveillance rules
Ruling says email services not subject to data retention rules.
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3 days ago
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When and Why Did Human Brains Decrease in Size? A New Change-Point Analysis and Insights From Brain Evolution in Ants
Human brain size nearly quadrupled in the six million years since Homo last shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees, but human brains are thought to have decreased in volume since the end of the last Ice Age. The timing and reason for this decrease is enigmatic. Here we use change-point analysis to estimate the timing of changes in the rate of hominin brain evolution. We find that hominin brains experienced positive rate changes at 2.1 and 1.5 million years ago, coincident with the early evolu...
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3 days ago
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Today I learned about blank cheque companies.
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4 days ago
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Unfreezing the ice age: the truth about humanity’s deep past
The long read: Archaeological discoveries are shattering scholars’ long-held beliefs about how the earliest humans organised their societies – and hint at possibilities for our own
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4 days ago
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That's just how the US democracy works. Money, lobbying. It was supposed to be about people.
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4 days ago
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On the film set of a movie about an accidental shooting!
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8 days ago
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China's FAST Telescope Could Detect Self-Replicating Alien Probes
One of the most challenging questions to answer when confronting the Fermi Paradox is why exponentially scaling technologies haven’t taken over the universe by now. Commonly known as von Neumann probes, the idea of a self-replicating swarm of extraterrestrial robots has been a staple of science fiction for decades. But so far, there has never been any evidence of their existence outside the realm of fiction.
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11 days ago
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I knew him when he was the Wizard of the University of NSW.
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John gets 'fact checked'
Aspiration before injection of vaccines
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12 days ago
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The Cultural Borders of Songs
We mapped last month’s #1 songs in 3,000 places. See where songs dominate across the globe.
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13 days ago
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If people don't want hospital treatment, let them go home. They can win their Herman Cain award at home.
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13 days ago
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It's amazing that people have credit scores that can be trashed by a company but companies can't have their debit and behaviour scored? When did that happen?
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2 weeks ago
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Ivermectin: How false science created a Covid 'miracle' drug
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Ivermectin: How false science created a Covid 'miracle' drug
Thousands worldwide have taken ivermectin to fight Covid. But what's the evidence?
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2 weeks ago
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The 2 key and critical areas about a secure messaging system is :
1. that it is technically secure and it is opensource.
2. Who owns it? How is it funded? What legal jurisdiction is it under?Lots of technical detail here but the second part, not so much.
From the Gadgets link
Session is a project of the Loki Foundation. The Loki Foundation (registered as LAG Foundation, LTD) is a registered charitable foundation based in Victoria, Australia.
It's Australian, so it can't be trusted. Australia has laws that allow it's police and secret police to secretly interfere with software. This is dealt with in the second link from restoreprivacy.com.
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2 weeks ago
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Session Is An Encrypted Messenger Geared Towards Privacy Enthusiasts
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- Gadgets: Session Is a Blockchain-Based Private Messenger That Uses Decentralised Server Nodes To Ensure Anonymity
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Is salt good for you after all? The evidence says no
A new study questions whether current global salt limits are too low. But don’t reach for the salt just yet – the guidelines are unlikely to change any time soon.
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How biodiversity loss is jeopardising the drugs of the future
From willow bark to mosquitoes, nature has been a source of vital medications for centuries. But species die-off caused by human activity is putting this at risk
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Loved to death: Australian sandalwood is facing extinction in the wild
Wild sandalwood populations in Australia have been slowly collapsing for decades. New research found the Western Australian government has been warned repeatedly for a century.
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