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16 hours ago
Analysis kxhA Giant 'Wall' of Galaxies Has Been Found Stretching Across The Universe
The Universe isn't just a random scattering of galaxies sprinkled throughout an expanding void. The closer we look, the more we see that there are structures - some of which are incomprehensibly vast groupings and clusters of galaxies that are gravit
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1 day ago
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Poor little snowflake! It's not as if he has some of the largest media platforms in the world to defend himself. Oh, wait, he does!
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2 days ago
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Chevalier de Saint-Georges
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Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745 – 1799) was a champion fencer, classical composer, virtuoso violinist, and conductor of the leading symphony orchestra in Paris. The son of a wealthy married planter, and his wife's African slave. The black Mozart
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2 days ago
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How the Buddha became a Christian saint
It was only in the 19th century the West became aware of Buddhism as a religion in its own right – but the Buddha had been a Christian saint for centuries.
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2 days ago
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Yeah, cause only google's allowed to do that.
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3 days ago
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A bit of a post-it note works fine.
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3 days ago
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How to Remove Pinned Google Search icon from Firefox Address bar
Firefox latest version pinned Google search in the address bar of the browser. If you're not happy with this behavior, learn how to remove it.
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4 days ago
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Favorite Heroes
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5 days ago
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Harper's Gives Prestigious Platform To Famous Writers So They Can Whine About Being Silenced
There's a slightly bizarre Letter on Justice and Open Debate that Harper's Magazine is publishing, signed by a long list of famous people (many of whom I respect, and plenty of whom I think are terribly entitled wannabe...
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5 days ago
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Skynet?
Posted in: What is hyper-automation?
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6 days ago
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'Living fossils': we mapped half a billion years of horseshoe crabs to save them from blood harvests
A chemical refined from the blue, copper-based blood of horseshoe crabs helps identify contaminants in medical equipment inserted into humans.
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6 days ago
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Health warning: Alcohol industry can cause lifelong harm to your baby - Michael West
Are powerful vested interests behind Liberal MP Richard Colbeck's delay in adopting stronger health warnings for pregnant women. “HEALTH WARNING: Alcohol can cause lifelong harm to your baby.”
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6 days ago
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CBD Could Treat Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Says New Study
The first-of-its-kind study demonstrates how the cannabinoid can be used to treat intestinal permeability.
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6 days ago
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If Cannabis Is “A Potential Way To Prevent COVID-19” Then Why Is Trump Blocking Research?
Forbes is reporting, “two Canadian researchers think that a special strain of cannabis might potentially be a valuable tool in the fight against COVID-19.”
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7 days ago
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The H.266/VVC video coding standard has been finalized, promising the same quality at half the size of H.265/HEVC
However, it will still be up to patent holders to decide how the technology is licensed. The cost could potentially run into hundreds and millions of dollars. This steep costing poses the obvious problem of inflating the cost of the end product/service, making it more difficult to break even as a company. For projects like Mozilla Firefox, this is simply out of the equation because of ideological, economical, and practical reasons.
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10 days ago
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The explosive physics of pooping penguins: they can shoot poo over four feet
It builds on findings of a 2003 study that won an Ig Nobel Prize in Fluid Dynamics.
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10 days ago
I've had a Sony e-reader for years. I still love it.
I remember a friend had a really old kindle, the kind that would read a book aloud in a computer voice from the page you were up to, if you needed to stop reading, but could still listen. Amazon nuked that feature, so you had to buy an audio book separately, but the e-book and the audiobook don't fit together seamlessly any more.
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10 days ago
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The room of the dead: how a museum became a halfway house for bones and spirits
Overwhelming on a human scale, the Indigenous remains held at the South Australian Museum speak to a terrible stain on Adelaide’s past. But justice is coming
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10 days ago
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Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations
If you studied algebra in high school (or you're learning it right now), there's a good chance you're familiar with the quadratic formula. If not, it's possible you repressed it.
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11 days ago
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Watch this Tolkien expert's master class on every race in Middle Earth
Cory Olsen, aka The Tolkien Professor, explains how Tolkien’s hobbit stories got fused with his earlier mythologic work around languages he created to become the Tolkien universe inhabited by…
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12 days ago
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Microsoft is back to its old tricks then.
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12 days ago
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Sometimes websites won't give out prices unless you put it in a cart. Often you can't find out delivery fees without checking out a product. Not a big deal really.
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12 days ago
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The parrots that understand probabilities
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12 days ago
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'Every black man have to fight': Buju Banton on prison and liberation
Jamaica’s reggae megastar received a hero’s welcome when he came home after seven years in a US jail. ‘No guts, no glory – that’s my genesis,’ he says in a rare interview
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