Post Overview
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8 days ago+9 9 0Commented in California bar shooting: At least 12 killed in Thousand Oaks
American arms manufacturers are doing something about it. Something very American. Making a profit.
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Analysis
10 days ago
+16 16 0Divided US political scene sees dead brothel owner win race for GOP over alive Democrat
Brothel-owner Dennis Hof, who presented himself as an 'American pimp', beat Democrat Lesia Romanov to a seat in Nevada's state assembly with 68 per cent of the vote. The trouble is, he died on October 16.
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Analysis
11 days ago
+23 23 0Strange snafu misroutes domestic US Internet traffic through China Telecom
Telecom with ties to China's government misdirected traffic for two and a half years.
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Current Event
12 days ago
+16 16 0Swedish ISP Protests 'Site Blocking' by Blocking Rightsholders Website Too
Bahnhof has suffered a major defeat against publisher Elsevier after a court ordered the Swedish ISP to block a series of domain names, including Sci-Hub. The decision goes against everything the company stands for but it can't ignore the blocki ...
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12 days ago
+29 29 0 x 1Stringybark is tough as boots (and gave us the word 'Eucalyptus')
One of the great Australian trees – messmate stringybark, Eucalyptus obliqua.
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12 days ago+8 8 0Commented in The Little-Known Reason Pencils Are Yellow (2017)
An Australian politician comments on pencils and airplane security.
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Analysis
12 days ago
+19 19 0Autopilot makes driver reactions up to three times slower - study
There have been a number of high-profile crashes involving Tesla Autopilot in 2018, caused by drivers overestimating the semi-autonomous assistance system's capabilities.We know leaning heavily on Le...
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2 weeks ago+9 9 0Commented in The Little-Known Reason Pencils Are Yellow (2017)
What? Where I live they are nearly always red.
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2 weeks ago+14 14 0Commented in Major Study Finds ‘Some Evidence’ of Link Between Cellphone Radiation and Brain Cancer
The study has been going for a long time.
People who like phones don't want it to be true, people who hate phones want it to be true.
Since many claim that there is no mechanism for non-ionising radiation to cause cancer, this study being true indicates there is a mechanism.
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Analysis
2 weeks ago
+24 24 0Your poo is (mostly) alive. Here's what's in it
Around 75% of our faeces is made up of water. The other 25% is the good stuff, including bacteria, viruses and undigested food.
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2 weeks ago
+19 19 0Disgusting Food Museum - 80 of the world’s most disgusting foods. Opening October 31 in Malmö.
Disgusting Food Museum invites visitors to explore the world of food and challenge their notions of what is and what isn’t edible. Could changing our ideas of disgust help us embrace the environmentally sustainable foods of the future? The exhibit ha ...
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2 weeks ago+4 4 0Commented in For $150,000 you can now order your own Hoverbike
You wouldn't want to fall off it into those rotating blades.
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Analysis
2 weeks ago
+13 13 0Steve Mnuchin stole Cesar Sayoc's house
Before Steve Mnuchin was in charge of the nation's economy, he was a foreclosure kingpin who left Goldman Sachs to found OneWest Bank (with money from George Soros!) in 2008; after the crisis, OneWest Bank acquired busted mortgage lender IndyMac ...
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Analysis
2 weeks ago
+15 15 0Why Private Equity Is Furious Over a Paper in a Dermatology Journal
The sudden, unexplained removal of a research paper on private equity firms buying dermatology practices has raised questions about corporate influence.
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Analysis
2 weeks ago
+16 16 0Detailed And Thorough Debunking Of Bloomberg's Sketchy Story About Supply Chain Hack
Last week we noted that the general consensus at this point is that Bloomberg screwed up its story about a supposed supply chain hack, in which it was claimed that Chinese spies hacked Supermicro chips that were destined for Apple and Amazon...
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Analysis
3 weeks ago
+17 17 0Global stilling: global land wind speeds slowing since 1960
Wind speeds around the world seem to be decreasing in a phenomenon known as 'stilling' and European scientists are hoping to find out why.
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3 weeks ago
+24 24 0Differences Found in Women's Birth Canals Are Contradicting What Evolutionary Science Told Us
No two child births are the same, but the female physiology that brings people into the world is more varied and complex than what science textbooks would have you believe, new research suggests.
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Analysis
3 weeks ago
+22 22 0Suspicious packages spotlight vast postal surveillance system
The Postal Service photographs the outside of every piece of mail, and frequently shares images and metadata from mail with law enforcement.
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3 weeks ago+7 7 0Commented in New Survey Shows Young People Are Staying Liberal, Conservatives Are Dying Off
So why do republicans keep getting voted in?
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3 weeks ago+4 4 0Commented in Which planets do space scientists love most?
The one they live on?