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6 hours agoAnalysis socialiguana
Electrical Brain Stimulation May Alleviate Obsessive-Compulsive Behaviors
Noninvasive electrical zaps, tuned specifically to individual brain-activity patterns, appear to reduce checking, hoarding and other compulsions for up to three months
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1 day agoCurrent Event socialiguana
Coca-Cola Joins Pepsi in Benching Ads During Super Bowl LV
Concerned they might strike the wrong tone, both brands have opted to sit out.
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2 days agoCurrent Event socialiguana
DuckDuckGo surpasses 100 million daily search queries for the first time | ZDNet
DuckDuckGo reaches historic milestone in a week when both Signal and Telegram saw a huge influx of new users.
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3 days agoAnalysis socialiguana
Shocking Study Finds Electric Eels Hunt Together
The study challenges what researchers know about eels’ supposed loner behavior.
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3 days agoExpression socialiguana
The Radicalization of Kevin Greeson
How one man went from attending President Barack Obama’s inauguration to dying in the mob protesting Donald Trump’s election loss during the Capitol insurrection.
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4 days agoUnspecified socialiguana
The far right embraces violence because it has no real political program
Theatrical brutality makes people believe they have power, even if they don’t.
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6 days agoAnalysis socialiguana
New traumatic brain injury test is 'game-changing,' concussion experts say
A "game-changing" new blood test from medical device company Abbott could allow doctors to diagnose traumatic brain injuries in under 15 minutes.
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12 days agoCurrent Event socialiguana
Soil bacteria can help to control climate change
Soil bacteria can live on air – and also assist to control climate change. Soil plays a significant role in regulating climate change than earlier thought according to a new study co-authored by an academic from Queen Mary University of London.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event socialiguana
Opinion | 2020 Taught Us How to Fix This
This is the year that broke the truth. This is the year when millions of Americans — and not just your political opponents — seemed impervious to evidence, willing to believe the most outlandish things if it suited their biases, and eager to develop fervid animosities based on crude stereotypes. Worse, this was the year that called into question the very processes by which our society supposedly makes progress.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event socialiguana
Georgia county absentee ballot envelope audit finds no fraud
Investigators who audited the signatures on more than 15,000 absentee ballot envelopes in one Georgia county say they found “no fraudulent absentee ballots.”
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event socialiguana
NYC Must Face Suit to Provide Wi-Fi to More Than 100,000 Homeless Kids Learning Remotely, Judge Rules
New York City has an estimated 114,000 homeless children, many of whom have had to adapt to an age of virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in shelters with no internet access. That could change soon thanks to a federal ruling on Wednesday advancing a putative class action lawsuit that would force the city to connect these students online.
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3 weeks agoReview socialiguana
Amazon Releases Best Sellers of 2020, Top 10 Dominated by Nintendo
One surefire sign of how well a game sold is online retailer Amazon's Best Sellers of the year. This year Nintendo dominated the top 10.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event socialiguana
New rules to tackle ‘wild west’ of plastic waste dumped on poorer countries
International convention to stop richer countries exporting contaminated material for recycling could mean a cleaner ocean in five years
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3 weeks agoExpression socialiguana
A Pardoning Time of Year
The resistance to the apparent election of Joe Biden as President of the United States is continuing to play out.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event socialiguana
Apple loses early challenge in virtualization copyright claim
Fair use wins again
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event socialiguana
French designer Pierre Cardin dies aged 98
The French designer Pierre Cardin, who upended fashion in the 1960s and 70s with his futuristic looks and pioneering approach to merchandise, has died at the age of 98. His death was announced by France’s Fine Arts Academy on Twitter. Cardin’s family told Agence France-Presse he died in hospital in Neuilly, near Paris.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event socialiguana
Oysters return to Belfast Lough after more than 100 years
Native oysters have unexpectedly returned to the shores of Belfast Lough after more than 100 years, researchers have discovered – though scientists are still unsure how they got there. Ostrea edulis, the European flat oyster, is listed as threatened and/or declining by the Ospar conservation scheme and is the focus of numerous biodiversity projects around Europe. But now it has impressed scientists by establishing itself in Belfast Lough without the aid of a reintroduction programme.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event socialiguana
Medical schools see surge in applicants, thanks to "Fauci effect"
Medical schools applications are surging, as the coronavirus outbreak prompts young people to reconsider health care professions. Applications are up 18% nationwide to medical school nationwide, compared to the same period last year, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event socialiguana
Aliens Likely Annihilated Themselves Through Progress, Suggests New Extraterrestrial Research
There are many people who strongly believe that aliens are real and they are living somewhere far from the blue planet, Earth. But a new scientific study suggested that such civilizations destroyed themselves through progress.
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3 weeks agoExpression socialiguana
How Amazon Wins: By Steamrolling Rivals and Partners
CEO Jeff Bezos still runs the e-commerce giant with the drive of a startup trying to survive. That strand of its corporate DNA is becoming a liability, as its tactics to dominate nearly every market—furniture, diapers, tripods, shoes—make it a target for antitrust enforcers and politicians.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event socialiguana
Trump pardons Manafort, Stone, father of Jared Kushner
Trump issued full pardons to 26 individuals and commuted the sentences of three others.
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3 weeks agoExpression socialiguana
How Elon Musk, Blue Origin, and the US could set up the first extraterrestrial government
A murder in the Arctic could provide legal precedent for extraplanetary laws
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3 weeks agoExpression socialiguana
Who Did J.K. Rowling Become?
Deciphering the most beloved, most reviled children’s-book author in history.