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3 days agoCurrent Event larylin
Peppa Pig is getting her own Orlando-area theme park, complete with muddy puddles
Peppa Pig is looking to hog some of the Florida sunshine enjoyed by Mickey Mouse and Harry Potter. The animated British piglet popular with preschoolers is getting her own tourist attraction -- complete with muddy puddles -- that developers say will be "perfect for a first theme park experience."
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7 days agoCurrent Event larylin
The joys of being an absolute beginner – for life
One day a number of years ago, I was deep into a game of draughts on holiday with my daughter, then almost four, in the small library of a beachfront town. Her eye drifted to a nearby table, where a black-and-white board bristled with far more interesting figures (many a future chess master has been innocently drawn in by “horses” and “castles”).
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7 days agoCurrent Event larylin
NASA discovered a dark, freaky pit on Mars and stared into the shadowy abyss
I used to have reoccurring nightmares about falling into a pit. A new image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft (aka the MRO) pushes all my childhood scary-dream buttons.
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7 days agoCurrent Event larylin
Innovation is a Geographically Localized and Temporary Phenomenon
Innovation is the “main event” of the modern age. It’s the reason why after millennia of comparative stagnation, the last several hundred years featured sudden, dramatic improvements in technology and therefore living standards: from steam engines to search engines, from vaccines to vaping.
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9 days agoCurrent Event larylin
YouTube AI Blocked Chess Channel after Confusing 'Black' and 'White' for Racist Slurs
Did YouTube block a chess channel over violation of community guideline and usage of racist language? Late last year, a YouTuber who produces popular chess videos found that his channel was blocked over charges of 'harmful and dangerous' content.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event larylin
Jack Black Joins Borderlands Movie Cast As Claptrap
Lionsgate has announced that Jack Black has been cast as Claptrap in the upcoming Borderlands live-action movie. Black will provide voice acting for the yellow robot, which has long been seen as the mascot of the Borderlands series.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event larylin
Striking NASA animation reveals the harrowing descent to Mars that the Perseverance rover is about to attempt
A capsule carrying Perseverance will plunge through Mars's atmosphere (left) and a jetpack will fly the rover to a safe landing spot (right).
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event larylin
The search for dark matter gets a speed boost from quantum technology
Researchers have found a way to speed up the search for dark matter using technology from quantum computing. By squeezing quantum noise, detectors can now look for axions twice as fast.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event larylin
Tiny home village for homeless people opens in North Hollywood
The Chandler Street Tiny Home Village has opened in North Hollywood. The village, which has 40 homes and 75 beds for people experiencing homelessness, is one of the first communities of this kind to open its doors in Los Angeles County. Redondo Beach set up a similar village in 2020.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event larylin
Trump's Pal Roger Stone Caught Hanging With Oath Keepers Before Capitol Attack
Video obtained by ABC News shows the Donald Trump confidant flanked by members of the far-right militia the morning of the insurrection.
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1 month agoCurrent Event larylin
Dolly Parton rejected Trump’s offer of Presidential Medal of Freedom — twice
Speaking to The Today Show this Monday, country music legend Dolly Parton said she was offered the Presidential Medal of Freedom two times from President Trump, but she turned him down on both occasions.
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1 month agoAnalysis larylin
Dark personality traits might help explain the link between childhood neglect and malevolent creativity
New research suggests that childhood experiences can be a statistical predictor of malevolent creativity and that Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism — the so-called “Dark Triad” of personality traits — play an important role in this relationship. The findings have been published in Frontiers in Psychology.
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1 month agoCurrent Event larylin
Green propellant successfully demonstrated on NASA mission
A recent NASA mission successfully demonstrated the performance of a non-toxic “green” propellant, creating opportunities for its use in a wide range of future spacecraft. NASA flew the Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) spacecraft as one of the payloads on the Space Test Program 2 mission that launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy in June 2019. The spacecraft’s mission ended when it reentered in October 2020 after a series of deorbiting maneuvers.
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1 month agoCurrent Event larylin
Biden's Interior Department temporarily blocks drilling on public lands
The Interior Department took swift action to deliver on President Biden’s campaign pledge to block oil and gas drilling on public lands, freezing such leases for the next 60 days. An order signed by acting Secretary Scott de la Vega on Wednesday bars the department from pushing ahead with any new leasing or drilling permits. It also blocks any new major mining actions.
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1 month agoAnalysis larylin
The World's Oldest Story? Astronomers Say Global Myths About 'Seven Sisters' Stars May Reach Back 100,000 Years
Many cultures refer to the Pleiades as “seven sisters” and tell similar stories about them. Why? Researchers suggest an answer in the motion of the stars.
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1 month agoAnalysis larylin
Behind a Secret Deal Between Google and Facebook
Facebook was going to compete with Google for some advertising sales but backed away from the plan after the companies cut a preferential deal, according to court documents.
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1 month agoExpression larylin
Why Everyone Should Be Concerned About Parler Being Booted From the Internet
The real coordinated inauthentic behavior on social media made itself abundantly clear in the aftermath of the assault on Congress. The culprit isn’t a troll farm or Russian influence. This time, the coordinated inauthentic behavior is coming from California.
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1 month agoAnalysis larylin
What Happens If We Hit Sperm Count Zero?
A strange thing has happened to men over the past few decades: We’ve become increasingly infertile, so much so that within a generation we may lose the ability to reproduce entirely. What’s causing this mysterious drop in sperm counts—and is there any way to reverse it before it’s too late?