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4 hours agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Heartbroken Man Wins Over $4 Million In Lottery On Same Day He Got Dumped By Girlfriend
A man, who was heartbroken, ended up winning over $4 million in lottery on the same day he got dumped by his boyfriend. Yes, that happened. I can imagine the face of the girlfriend regretting because they dumped him on the wrong day.
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7 days agoAnalysis spacepopper
Biomarkers in fathers’ sperm linked to offspring autism
Biomarkers in human sperm have been identified that can indicate a propensity to father children with autism spectrum disorder. These biomarkers are epigenetic, meaning they involve changes to molecular factors that regulate genome activity such as gene expression independent of DNA sequence, and can be passed down to future generations.
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8 days agoCurrent Event spacepopper
This man has given away 500 free pizzas. He lowers them from his apartment window.
Ben Berman makes pizzas and drops them from his window for anyone who wants one, with a suggestion that they donate to charities that help people who are hungry or homeless.
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10 days agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Amazon, Apple, and Google Cut Off Parler, Citing Failure to Moderate Extremism
Parler, the “free speech” Twitter competitor that has become an anything-goes haven for diehard Trump supporters and right-wing extremists — and where users planned, promoted, and/or glorified Wednesday’s deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob — may not survive the Trump era.
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10 days agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Arnold Schwarzenegger Says Donald Trump Will Go Down In History As Worst President Ever
Arnold Schwarzenegger has branded Donald Trump ‘a failed leader’ and said he will go down as ‘the worst president ever’ in a new video. Posting to Twitter, the actor recalled his childhood growing up in Austria and the long-lasting impact of the Night of Broken Glass, ‘a night of rampage against the Jews carried out in 1938 by the Nazi equivalent of the Proud Boys,’ he said.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Japan Has Opened Hayabusa2’s Capsule, Confirming It Contains Samples From Asteroid Ryugu
The Japanese space agency (JAXA) says it has begun opening the capsule returned to Earth by its historic Hayabusa2 mission – and has confirmed asteroid samples are inside. Today, Monday, December 14, the capsule was opened for the first time since it touched down in the Australian outback on December 6 following its journey through space.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Greg Norman back in US hospital with 'hideous' Covid-19 symptoms
Greg Norman is back in hospital in Florida with “hideous” Covid-19 symptoms after the Australian golfing great tested positive. The 65-year-old, whose two major titles came at the Open in 1986 and 1993, has been posting regular updates regarding his diagnosis on his Instagram page.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Bitcoin Rally Attracts Wave Of Private Investment As Leading Blockchain VC Raises New $120 Million Fund
The bitcoin rally has seen the cryptocurrency climb to uncharted highs and this hasn’t just been reflected in the markets. Away from the exchanges and OTC desks setting the price of BTC, private and institutional investor interest is growing at pace. Evidence of this can be seen in the growth of crypto venture capital funds, which have raised billions of dollars in 2020.
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1 month agoCurrent Event spacepopper
NASA Exploring Possibly 3D Printing a Lunar Base
A Texas-based company, ICON, wants to help NASA return to the Moon in 2024 by 3D printing a lunar base from moon dust.
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1 month agoCurrent Event spacepopper
OnlyFans Creators and Sex Workers Are Getting 'Purged' from TikTok
The last TikTok Ally Hardesty posted on her page was a video of her and her friend doing a dance to the KaMillion remix of “Twerk For Me.” Although she is a sex worker who posts NSFW content on her OnlyFans, a subscription-based platform that allows influencers to monetize personal interactions with fans, she was sure to keep the video PG, dressing in her videos only in sweats or pajamas. “I’m always really intentional about keeping lingerie or little outfits or anything I wear on OF sep...
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1 month agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Supreme Court Rejects Religious School’s Challenge to Kentucky Virus Order
The governor had ordered all of the state’s K-12 schools, whether public or private, to close temporarily to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
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1 month agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Why People Don't Trust Pfizer's Covid Vaccine
Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? Michael Shermer, a famous skeptic, was forced to admit that one of the reasons is that some of them are true. In his research he found that the fact that some conspiracy theories are real feeds people’s suspicion and makes them susceptible to the belief in others that are far less credible.
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1 month agoCurrent Event spacepopper
‘Competition Is for Losers’: How Peter Thiel Helped Facebook Embrace Monopoly
Only one thing can allow a business to transcend the daily brute struggle for survival,” Peter Thiel wrote in his bestselling 2014 book, Zero to One. That one thing, Thiel stated outright, is “monopoly profits.”
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1 month agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Americans Don’t Read… and That’s Affecting Our Elections
In 2013, the Nation’s Report Card showed that only 38% of high school seniors were proficient in reading. With scores like that, the U.S. isn’t likely to earn the “most literate country” award any time soon. So what is America’s international literacy ranking? According to The Washington Post, the U.S. places seventh behind Nordic countries such as Finland, Norway, and Sweden.
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1 month agoCurrent Event spacepopper
New York Power Authority’s plan for 70% renewable energy by 2030 approved
A new strategic plan putting the New York Power Authority (NYPA) on the path to 100% carbon-free electricity by 2035 - five years earlier than the target set out in the US state’s policy goals - has been approved by the state public power organisation’s Board of Trustees.
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1 month agoCurrent Event spacepopper
'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' renewed for four more seasons, making TV history
The gang is returning to Paddy's Pub for another four years. "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" was renewed by FX for four more seasons Thursday, making it the longest-running, live-action sitcom in TV history. The Philadelphia-centric show, which aired it 14th season last year, will bump "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," from that title. "Ozzie and Harriet" ran for 14 seasons.
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1 month agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Covid blood test can predict patient survival chances
A blood test has been developed that can predict whether Covid patients will need intensive care – or are even likely to survive – shortly after they develop symptoms.
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1 month agoCurrent Event spacepopper
5G Truthers Bought Faraday Cages to Protect Their Routers. They're Mad They Worked.
Let's say you hate 5G and genuinely believe it causes cancer or spreads COVID-19, despite there being no evidence to support those wild conspiracies. To shield 5G's myriad evils, then, you put your WiFi router in a metallic box that "blocks about 90 percent" of the signal. There! Now you're instantly protected from those treacherous waves of radiation!