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2 weeks ago+12 12 0The Discovery That Transformed Pi
For thousands of years, mathematicians were calculating Pi the obvious but numerically inefficient way. Then Newton came along and changed the game.
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2 weeks ago+14 14 0Stephen Axford: How fungi changed my view of the world
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2 weeks ago+9 9 0Commented in Satellite imagery shows work underway to free ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal
Why don't they get some really big ropes and pull it off from the ground using large earthmoving equipment? Or is that a stupid suggestion?
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2 weeks ago+5 5 0Commented in Xinjiang cotton mechanised, not forced labor, says China in propaganda blitz
There's an easy fix China, allow foreign journalists in to see.
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2 weeks ago+19 19 0How the AstraZeneca vaccine became a political football – and a PR disaster
Newly accused of data manipulation by the US, AstraZeneca has faced unprecedented scrutiny over the past six months. Embattled scientists at AstraZeneca feel they have been unfairly targeted for trying to do something that goes against the profit-dr ...
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2 weeks ago+10 10 0Commented in Apple Forbids Facial Scanning of Employees—But Not Factory Workers
Apparently also does not apply to customers either.
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2 weeks ago+13 13 0Commented in Part of Wright brothers’ 1st airplane on NASA’s Mars chopper
That's a piece we'll never get back.
Oh and what will happen if it lands badly and tips over? Can it wright itself?
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2 weeks ago+12 12 0Connecticut Legislature Offers Up Bill That Would Make Prison Phone Calls Free
A lot of rights just vanish into the ether once you're incarcerated. Some of this makes sense. You have almost no privacy rights when being housed by the state. But rights don't disappear completely.
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3 weeks ago+10 10 0Commented in Opinion: For just $25 billion, the U.S. could jump-start a project to quickly vaccinate the entire world against COVID
This is not a matter of altruism. The virus mutates when it infects people, the more people, the more mutation. If we let it run rampart in poor countries, it will come back to bite us. We need to do this for our benefit.
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3 weeks ago+8 8 0Commented in Plummeting sperm counts, shrinking penises: toxic chemicals threaten humanity
Well, if by "humanity", you mean men, then I suppose it does, if you include women, then not so much.
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3 weeks ago+8 8 0Commented in Researchers have grown 'human embryos' from skin cells. What does that mean, and is it ethical?
Wouldn't it mean that everyone's skin is sacred? And every skin cell has a right to life?
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3 weeks ago+18 18 0A Maya ambassador’s grave reveals his surprisingly difficult life
The grave offers a rare glimpse at the lives of high-ranking Mayan officials.
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Expression
3 weeks ago+16 16 0Here's why women across India are sharing images of themselves in ripped jeans
Uttarakhand’s CM Tirath Singh Rawat said that women are setting a “bad example” for society and leading to substance abuse by wearing ripped jeans.
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3 weeks ago+11 11 0Bottom trawling releases as much carbon as air travel, landmark study finds
Dragging heavy nets across seabed disturbs marine sediments, world’s largest carbon sink, scientists report
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3 weeks ago+21 21 0Researchers have grown 'human embryos' from skin cells. What does that mean, and is it ethical?
Two research groups have turned human skin cells into structures resembling an early-stage human embryo, paving the way for exciting new research avenues, and opening up some tricky ethical questions.
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Expression
3 weeks ago+21 21 0Australian aphrodisiac honey creates a buzz in the Middle East
A boutique blend of honey from Australia becomes sought after as an aphrodisiac in the Middle East.
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3 weeks ago+11 11 0Why can't Britain handle the truth about Winston Churchill?
Nothing, it seems, can be allowed to tarnish the national myth – as I found when hosting a Cambridge debate about his murkier side, says academic Priyamvada Gopal
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3 weeks ago+21 21 0Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information
Whalers’ logbooks show rapid drop in strike rate in north Pacific due to changes in cetacean behaviour
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3 weeks ago+24 24 0The Australian Government News Bargaining Code is officially dead
The real purpose of the Australian government’s News Bargaining Code is now clear: It was a bargaining chip, for News Corporation and Nine Entertainment.
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3 weeks ago+20 20 0Starlink's latent China crisis could spark a whole new world of warcraft
The politics of a global decentralised high-speed public internet service