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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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Trix: A rich text editor for everyday writing
Compose beautifully formatted text in your web application. Trix is an editor for writing messages, comments, articles, and lists—the simple documents most web apps are made of. It features a sophisticated document model, support for embedded attachments, and outputs terse and consistent HTML.
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The real Goldfinger: the London banker who broke the world
The true story of how the City of London invented offshore banking – and set the rich free
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How to Be Better at Parties
People love to party! Well, at least some of them do. For the rest of us, parties bring on waves of feelings, good and bad, much like the events themselves. Here's everything you've ever wanted to know about being the hit of the party.
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Research shows that knowingly taking placebos can be highly beneficial
On Amazon, you can shell out about $15 to buy pills made of cellulose, titanium dioxide, gelatin, and dye. None of these ingredients have any medical effect, but customers report taking these pills for pain relief, to reduce excessive sweating, and even to quit smoking. It’s not surprising, really. Medical quackery has a long and proud history, and so long as there’s gullible people, there will be somebody selling snake oil. But here’s the rub: Right on the bottle, in big, blue letters is the word “placebo.” The only claim the manufacturer makes about these pills is that they are guaranteed not to contain any kind of medicine.
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Altered Intestinal Microbiota with Increased Abundance of Prevotella Is Associated with High Risk...
Alterations in gut microbiota are postulated to be an etiologic factor in the pathogenesis of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). To determine whether IBS patients in China exhibited differences in their gut microbial composition, fecal samples were collected from diarrhea-predominant IBS (IBS-D) and healthy controls
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Is this Japanese concept the secret to a long, happy, meaningful life?
Finding your everyday reason for living, or ikigai, could lead to a longer and better life.
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Why emergency braking systems sometimes hit parked cars and lane dividers
Recent Tesla Autopilot crashes hold a lesson for the whole industry.
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Beijing Wants to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet
Xi Jinping wants to wrest control of global cyber governance from the market economies of the west.
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Early source of irritable bowel syndrome discovered
MSU scientists have identified an early cause of intestinal inflammation, one of the first stages of inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome, which afflict around 11 percent of the world’s population.
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3 Arguments Why Marijuana Should Stay Illegal Reviewed
We take a fair look at some of the best counter arguments for legalization and see how they hold up in review.
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Don’t believe the hype: We’re a long way from 5G
There’s a host of reasons why we won’t see 5G roll out in production anytime soon.
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The Trust Machine: The Story of Bitcoin
Explains how Bitcoin works for general audiences without skipping the key technical insight. Covers money, value, gold, blockchain & proof of work.
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Human race just 0.01% of all life but has eradicated most other living things
Groundbreaking assessment of all life on Earth reveals humanity’s surprisingly tiny part in it as well as our disproportionate impact
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My Own Personal Nothingness
From a childhood hallucination to the halls of theoretical physics. By Alan Lightman.
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What is the best diet for humans? | Eran Segal |
Exploring human diets in a different way.
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What are the fastest DNS providers?
Cloudflare is only the latest company to provide free, fast, and secure Domain Name System services. Here's how the major DNS resolvers perform on the internet race track.
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The Gut Digest
A new site jam packed with all manner of interesting tidbits on the human GI tract.
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How Big Wireless Made Us Think That Cell Phones Are Safe: A Special Investigation
The disinformation campaign—and massive radiation increase—behind the 5G rollout.
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Is everything you think you know about depression wrong?
In this extract from his new book, Johann Hari, who took antidepressants for 14 years, calls for a new approach
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