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Bats: The hunt for the origins of SARS-CoV-2 will look beyond China
The virus may have been born in South-East Asia. An intriguing observation: the low incidence of covid-19 in South-East Asia, particularly in Vietnam despite no lockdowns.
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Google is Killing Unlimited Drive Storage for Non-Enterprise Users
If you're one of the Google Drive users who is taking advantage of unlimited storage for $12 per month on G Suite, beware. Workspace is replacing G Suite
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Countries that backed renewables over nuclear power have cut more CO2
Countries that embraced renewable sources of energy have significantly cut their carbon emissions, but nations pursuing nuclear power failed to do so, researchers have found
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Remembering the Nucleon, Ford's 1958 nuclear-powered concept car that never was
The 1950s was a different time for car design. It represented an abstract belief of the future. Take Ford's nuclear-powered concept as one example.
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Facebook's big 2020 fear is a Democrat in the White House
One of Facebook's biggest headaches leading up to 2020 isn't election interference or fake news — it's worrying about what a Democrat in the White House could mean for the business.
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Humans Aren’t Inherently Destroying the Planet — Capitalism Is
One of the biggest ironies of the right-wing trope accusing socialists of wanting “free stuff” is that in reality, the entire capitalist economy would immediately collapse if it couldn’t continue to rely on free stuff. Without free or artificially cheap access to things like natural resources, care work, labor and a whole array of other elements, capitalism could not stay afloat. In fact, the only way that capitalism was ever able to even emerge was through a process of “primitive accumulation” — where things like slavery and colonialism were utilized to extract free labor and resources.
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Everyone Knows Memory Fails as You Age. But Everyone Is Wrong.
Even 20-year-olds forget the simplest things.
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First US steel plants powered by wind, solar energy are coming for industry with big carbon...
A Nucor steel plant in Missouri will be the first in the U.S. powered by wind energy, while an old steel facility in Colorado is transitioning to solar from Xcel Energy. These renewable-energy sources for recycled steel will make a dent in steel's carbon footprint. The industry contributes as much as 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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How to get an old macOS installer from Apple
Your collection of old macOS installer disk images is now worthless, and Apple has changed where it hides downloadable copies. Yet there are still good reasons to get old OSes, and here's how to do it.
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World's largest storage battery will replace gas peaker plants in New York
A proposal (pdf) recently approved by the state's Public Service Commission (PSC) at Ravenswood's generating station in Long Island will see the construction of the world's largest battery storage facility that will help to "offset dirtier resources and enhance New…
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The Great Land Robbery
“you ever chop before?” Willena Scott-White was testing me. I sat with her in the cab of a Chevy Silverado pickup truck, swatting at the squadrons of giant, fluttering mosquitoes that had invaded the interior the last time she opened a window. I was spending the day with her family as they worked their fields just outside Ruleville, in Mississippi’s Leflore County. With her weathered brown hands, Scott-White gave me a pork sandwich wrapped in a grease-stained paper towel. I slapped my leg. Mosquitoes can bite through denim, it turns out.
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Your heartburn drugs may be giving you allergies, study suggests
When heartburn or ulcer pain strikes, drugs can target stomach acid to calm bellies and offer relief. But a new study suggests the medications may come with a hive-inducing side effect: allergies.
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How the Plastics Industry Is Fighting to Keep Polluting the World
Pushes to “recycle” plastics are one element of a massive industry-led effort to suppress meaningful efforts to reduce plastic waste.
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What Does That DNR Really Mean? w/Dr. Fred Mirarchi | Incident Report 246
We routinely misinterpret patients' wishes around medical interventions. Dr. Fred Mirarchi may have a way to fix that.
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Do cyclists think they're above the law, and does it even matter?
Cyclists can be a nuisance, running red lights, riding on the pavement ... but are they dangerous, and if not, is it a problem if they break the law?
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Complex life may only exist because of millions of years of groundwork by ancient fungi
Newly discovered billion-year-old fossilised fungi are more than twice as old as previous finds, and suggest that fungi may have been preparing Earth's lands for plant life for millions of years.
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How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer
I have been a pilot for 30 years, a software developer for more than 40. I have written extensively about both aviation and software engineering. Now it’s time for me to write about both together. The Boeing 737 Max has been in the news because of two crashes, practically back to back and involving brand new airplanes. In an industry that relies more than anything on the appearance of total control, total safety, these two crashes pose as close to an existential risk as you can get.
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Feds Used Monsanto-Funded Studies to Decide Monsanto’s Weed Killer Is Safe
In June, the Environmental Protection Agency released the results of its assessment of 52 chemicals and the likelihood that any of them could be classified as endocrine disruptors—those substances known to interfere with the hormonal system and linked to such health ills as certain cancers, birth defects, and developmental disorders. On the list of chemicals the agency examined was glyphosate, which most Americans know better as Roundup...
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Enough with the 'Actually, Electric Cars Pollute More' Bullshit Already
I know, I know, dunking on the Wall Street Journal editorial board is a bit like smacking your four-year-old nephew’s would-be jumper out of the air before it even leaves his hands. But in an Op-Ed last week it peddled the tired and disingenuous notion that electric cars, by the very virtue of their production, pollute more than fossil fuel cars. This is wrong, and it cannot stand.
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Shutting down social media does not reduce violence, but rather fuels it
Internet blackouts deprive people of impartial information and crucial connections with loved ones, without delivering improved safety or stability.
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20 great free streaming services for cord cutters
Why spend money on even more subscriptions when you can freeload?
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10 best free video streaming services for cord cutters
It's possible to watch a lot of excellent movies and TV shows for free -- if you know how.
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Renewables ‘have won the race’ against coal and are starting to beat natural gas
The rapidly dropping cost of renewable energy has upended energy economics in recent years, with new solar and wind plants now significantly cheaper than coal power. But new research shows another major change is afoot: The cost of batteries has been declining so unexpectedly rapidly that renewables plus battery storage are now cheaper than even natural gas plants in many applications, according to a report released this week by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).
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Commented in California bar shooting: At least 12 killed in Thousand Oaks
History points the way. If you want gun control in the U.S., arm women, red, yellow, black and brown people and sim salabim, just that easily, you’re done.
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The Best Atheism Quotes Through the Ages
Atheism is not a recent phenomenon; despite the tendency before Darwin and modern science to believe in supernatural forces and a creator—not to mention the penalties for challenging the doctrine of the Catholic Church—freethinkers throughout history have noticed the circularity of the god argument. (god created the universe because the universe can’t exist without god.)
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Prof. Werner brilliantly explains how the banking system and financial sector really work.
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Is The Sun Conscious?
Rupert Sheldrake
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What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?
New research is zeroing in on a biochemical basis for the placebo effect — possibly opening a Pandora’s box for Western medicine.
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'Spectacular' diabetes treatment could end daily insulin injections
A potential medical breakthrough that could put an end to the daily insulin injections endured by people living with diabetes has been unveiled by Dutch scientists. By destroying the mucous membrane in the small intestine and causing a new one to develop, scientists stabilised the blood sugar levels of people with type 2 diabetes. The results have been described as “spectacular” – albeit unexpected – by the chief researchers involved.
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Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing [2016]
A painstaking investigation of Europe’s cave art has revealed 32 shapes and lines that crop up again and again and could be the world’s oldest code
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