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4 years ago+12 13 1What the Mueller Report Actually Said
The special counsel pointed back to the words of his report. Here are its key findings.
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4 years ago+29 29 0China tried to erase the memory of Tiananmen Square. But its legacy lives on.
Three decades after the crackdown, Beijing is still terrified of the movement and what it stood for.
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4 years ago+14 14 0From Barter To Bitcoin: 5000 Years Of Payments
We went a long way since the first time two people decided to exchange goods. At the dawn of civilisation, barter was the only peaceful…
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4 years ago+34 34 0Locking up guns could reduce teen and childhood firearm deaths by a third
Most US households with children do not safely store firearms in the way the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends: locked up and unloaded. If parents simply locked up all their guns, then up to a third of gun suicides and accidental deaths among ...
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4 years ago+33 33 0The Actual Chernobyl Death Toll Is Way Greater Than The HBO Miniseries Could Ever Show
At one point in time, Chernobyl was a relatively unremarkable town that happened to be the site of a nuclear power plant. The HBO series Chernobyl shows how it went from an unremarkable Russian town to becoming shorthand for the devastating effects t ...
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4 years ago+8 8 0John Oliver Talks Climate Change on 'Last Week Tonight'
On Sunday night’s episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver joined the growing chorus of voices pointing out that we aren’t doing enough to save our planet. Oliver sounded the alarm in light of a new report on climate change from the United Nations t ...
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4 years ago+21 21 0In the deep, dark ocean fish have evolved superpowered vision
When the ancestors of cave fish and certain crickets moved into pitchblack caverns, their eyes virtually disappeared over generations. But fish that ply the sea at depths greater than sunlight can penetrate have developed super-vision, highly attuned ...
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4 years ago+13 13 0Facebook's effort to stop suicides by monitoring your posts reveals a worrisome gap between tech giants and healthcare experts
Facebook has a suicide-monitoring tool that uses machine learning to identify posts that may indicate someone is at risk of killing themselves. The tool was involved in sending emergency responders to locations more than 3,500 times as of last fall. ...
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4 years ago+22 22 0Brain imaging lie-detector can be beaten with simple techniques, research shows
People have certain physical ‘tells’ when they conceal information – and studies show that good liars can prevent these ‘tells’ being detected by displaying physical red herrings of their own. But scientists have now shown that even a brain imaging t ...
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4 years ago+15 15 0Kenya Becomes First African Nation to Export Avocados to China
It is estimated that when the agreement is fully implemented, the Chinese market will absorb over 40% of the country's avocados, making it one of the largest importers of the fruit. Other destinations for Kenya's avocado include Europe and ...
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5 years ago+10 10 0Gynecologist can’t believe she has to tell women not to put garlic in their vaginas
Thank god Canadian gynecologist Dr. Jen Gunter exists. Without the author of The Vagina Bible: The Vulva And The Vagina: Separating The Myth From The Medicine, who else would be out there telling people to keep certain items out of their vaginas? (Ce ...
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5 years ago+19 19 0Nasa lander 'detects first Marsquake'
The American space agency's InSight lander appears to have detected its first seismic event on Mars. The faint rumble was picked up by the probe's sensors on 6 April - the 128th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. It is the first seismic s ...
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5 years ago+10 10 0Google Walkout Organizers Say They're Facing Retaliation
Two Google employees who helped organize a November walkout of thousands of employees say they've either been demoted, or been told to drop concerns about ethics.
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5 years ago+7 7 0Children in U.S. don't drink enough water, opt for sugary juice instead
On any given day, 1 in 5 American youngsters don't drink any water at all, a new survey shows -- and those who don't end up consuming almost twice as many calories from sugar-sweetened beverages.
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5 years ago+15 15 0Weapons trade reveals a darker side to dark web
Debates over gun regulations make headlines across the world, but there’s an underground operation for weapons that has drawn very little attention – until now. Researchers from Michigan State University crept into the dark web to investigate how fir ...
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5 years ago+13 13 0Scientists added human brain genes to monkeys. Yes, it’s as scary as it sounds.
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5 years ago+1 1 0Cop fired after charging police chief and mayor with forgery
A tiny Ohio village was embroiled in controversy after a local police sergeant publicly filed felony charges against the mayor and police chief — and was immediately fired. Villagers were shocked when New Holland police Sgt. Charles “Brad” Mick walke ...
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5 years ago+24 24 0Weather not looking good for SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch from Kennedy Space Center
The weather forecast continues to look less than favorable for the launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket on its first operational mission Tuesday, according to the Air Force. Conditions are only 30 percent "go" for the 6:36 p.m. launc ...
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5 years ago+7 7 0Objects of Despair: Mars
Mars is an impossible planet: waterless, desolate, barren. Its atmosphere is drenched in UV radiation and contains only trace amounts of oxygen. Temperatures in the winter are comparable to Antarctica’s, and in the summer there are dust storms that s ...
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5 years ago+4 4 0‘Is this real?’: Disneyland employees react in disbelief as they find out they will be working in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge
Disneyland employee Teddi Moreau broke down in tears when she found out she would be on the team opening the highly anticipated Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge themed land coming to the Anaheim theme park “Oh my gosh, this is a dream come true,” said Moreau ...