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Analysis paddystacksElephants rarely get cancer. Here's why this matters to humans
You'd think elephants would be getting cancer left and right, but they have evolved resistance. They're being studied for clues about how to treat cancer in humans.
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9 days ago
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9 days ago
Expression paddystacks
How to Make Students Care About Writing
Pirette McKamey, a veteran English teacher, spent 30 years investigating what helps young people to view themselves as writers.
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10 days ago
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Worth a thousand words
Published 2/2 image snaps! Congratulations paddystacks on this achievement!
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California Fires as Seen From the Space Station
The Earth, in all its majesty and its tragedy, is the subject of images taken aboard the International Space Station. This image of the Carr and Ferguson fires was captured by European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst (@Astro_Alex), on August 3, 2018, from the station. "California burning. These fires are frightening to watch, even from space. Here's a shout-out from space to all firefighters on this planet, my former colleagues. Stay safe my friends!" Gerst, a geophysicist...
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11 days ago
Current Event paddystacks
MoviePass keeps plan at $10, but limits subscribers to three movies a month
Troubled theater subscription service MoviePass is rejiggering its subscription plan once again. The company announced via press release that, due to consumer feedback, it won’t be raising the monthly subscription fee to $14.95 a month. Instead, things are staying at $9.95.
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11 days ago
I disagree. YT (and FB, Apple, etc) are all private corporations. "Free speech" argument doesn't apply. They were getting complaints and/or being boycotted by people that were sick and tired of all the BS/threats/calls for violence and decided to do something about it. I know a few people personally told me that they weren't paying for Spotify anymore because of him and others like him (alt right crazies) getting a share of the revenue, even if it's just a penny.
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13 days ago
Analysis paddystacks
Things they don't teach you running a business by yourself
One of the most hotly talked about topics in tech right now is starting an indie business. What is an indie business? It's one where you, and maybe a co-founder, attempt to start a business with no investor funding or large external influence. It goes by many names: boot-strapped, solo-founded, self-funded, indie-hackers...etc... and it's pretty hot right now!
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13 days ago
Analysis paddystacks
California’s Birds Are Testing New Survival Tactics on a Vast Scale
Retracing the steps of a century-old wildlife survey, ecologists find that birds are making remarkable adaptations to climate change.
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2 weeks ago
Text Post paddystacks
What's your favorite genre of music?
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2 weeks ago
Current Event paddystacks
Barnes & Noble says sales of books related to anxiety are soaring
Barnes & Noble said sales of books related to anxiety are up more than 25 percent through this past June from a year ago because "we may be living in an anxious nation." Shoppers are increasingly looking at workbooks that help them cope with anxiety, Barnes & Noble senior director of merchandising, Liz Hardwell, said in a statement issued Wednesday afternoon. Although times may be tough, wrought with political tension, "the good news is that book buyers across the country...
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2 weeks ago
Analysis paddystacks
A Slaughter in Silence
How a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign in DRC was made worse by Trump's "America First" policies and the world's neglect.
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2 weeks ago
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The Strange Life of a Murderer Turned Crime Blogger
Holland is home to a thriving community of journalists and bloggers who cover criminals and the drug trade. Those writers are often targeted by their subjects—and so was Martin Kok.
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2 weeks ago
Analysis paddystacks
This is what the life of an incel looks like
Incels believe that they are doomed by society’s cruel rules to never have sex. We spent time with a member of the incel community.
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2 weeks ago
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Apple is the first $1 trillion company in history
The consumer tech giant and maker of the iPhone rides a better-than-expected quarterly earnings report into the history books.
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3 weeks ago
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LAPD officer fired bullet that killed Trader Joe's employee during weekend standoff, chief says
The Los Angeles Police Department announced Tuesday that one of its officers fired the bullet that struck and killed a Trader Joe’s employee in the frantic moments they exchanged gunfire with an attempted murder suspect.
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3 weeks ago
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Japan declares heatwave a natural disaster
At least 65 people have died and more than 22,000 are treated in hospital amid record temperatures.
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3 weeks ago
Exactly. I actually lost work the other day when my windows decided to update overnight without my knowledge/permission. I was furious.
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3 weeks ago
Comment paddystacks
Take a break for a few days, and when its time to write again the words will flow!
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3 weeks ago
Analysis paddystacks
Germany sees sharp rise in 'fake science' journal publications
Thousands of German scientists — many using public funds — have published their results in quasi-scientific journals without being peer reviewed, according to a report
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1 month ago
I 2nd this. Evernote for life!
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1 month ago
Analysis paddystacks
In 1982, a Family Disappeared From Their Valley Home—What Happened to the Salomons?
A writer and former neighbor is still trying to put the pieces together
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1 month ago
Current Event paddystacks
Judge Orders Los Angeles Times to Delete Part of Published Article
Legal experts said the order, to remove references from a sealed document that was made public by mistake, was probably unconstitutional. The paper said it would appeal.
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1 month ago
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South Africa Celebrates Completion of Gigantic, Super-sensitive Telescope
MeerKAT has drawn astronomers, engineers and data scientists from around the world