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Marijuana in Jamaica. Puff peace
IT WOULD have seemed a lot more revolutionary just two years ago but for Jamaica, it is still a welcome whiff of sense. The island’s energy minister, Philip Paulwell, who also leads government business in parliament, has said he will find time this year to decriminalise possession of small amounts of marijuana. At a stroke, the move will cut the number of criminal offences by as many as a million a week. It will also make a Jamaican break somewhat less nervy for ganja-puffing tourists.
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Humans May Have Been Stuck on Bering Strait for 10,000 Years
The ancestors of Native Americans may have lived on and around the Bering Strait for about 10,000 years before streaming into the Americas, researchers argue.
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Great places for fans of steam locomotives
The mournful wail of the whistle, the whoosh of boiler steam and the welcome warning of "All aboard!"
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Liam Neeson: Senior citizen action hero
Liam Neeson has had, to put it brusquely, a weird career in film. He's been in countless classics and also some movies remembered primarily for their terribleness. But the strangest part of his career to me is no doubt his current and ongoing late-career action movie rennaissance, which has its latest chapter with the release of this weekend's airplane film “Non-Stop.”
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Here's How Crimea Is Different From the Rest of Ukraine
The Crimean peninsula, the main flashpoint in Ukraine's crisis, is a pro-Russia part of Ukraine separated from the rest of the country geographically, historically and politically. It also hosts Russia's Black Sea Fleet. Ukraine has accused Russia of invading it, while Moscow argues that the new Ukrainian government is illegitimate and poses a threat to ethnic Russians in Crimea.
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The Week in Death: Irving Milchberg, the Teenage Gunrunner of the Warsaw Ghetto
Irving Milchberg, who has died aged 86, was the wartime leader of the “cigarette sellers of Three Crosses Square,” a gaggle of Jewish youths who sold smokes to German officers in wartime Warsaw while covertly spiriting food into the city’s ghetto and smuggling arms to the resistance.
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How Slavery and African Food Traditions Shaped American Cooking
A groundswell of researchers, many of them African-American, are reaching back to a painful period to show the ways slaves and their descendants influenced American cuisine.
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Why Were the Oscars Created?
In the late 1920s, MGM bigwig Louis B. Mayer (above) got antsy when studio construction unions began forming in Hollywood.
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20 Things You Didn’t Know About Dr. Seuss
A wizard of the written word, today marks the 110th birthday of Theodor Geisel — better known as the dear Dr. Seuss. The beloved children’s author and illustrator created a menagerie of creatures that recited anapestic tetrameter, caused trouble, and captured our imaginations. The man behind beasties like the Grinch, Lorax, and Sneetches was a fascinating character in his own right. Here are 20 facts about the great Dr. you might have missed.
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What Games Are: Going Small
Some changes are as obvious as night and day. Where once mobile phone gaming was the preserve of Java studios against a backdrop of handset operators taking 70% revenue cuts, now there are smartphone gaming and app stores. Steve Jobs got up on stage and announced the App Store and changed the world in a moment. Things would never be the same again.
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How an athlete uses physics to shatter world records
When Dick Fosbury couldn't compete against the skilled high jumpers at his college, he tried jumping in a different way -- backwards. Fosbury improved his record immediately and continued to amaze the world with his new technique all the way to Olympic gold. Asaf Bar-Yosef explains the physics behind the success of the now dominant Fosbury Flop.
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World's oldest person celebrates her 116th birthday: 'Eat and sleep and you will live a long time'
Misao Okawa, a Japanese woman born in 1898, has told The Telegraph her recipe for longevity: eating lots of sushi and sleeping eight hours a night
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Atomic Bomb blast with shock and effects in HD
These clips are from shot Grable, the Atomic Cannon test in 1953 showing the initial burst and shockwave. Identified also are the various vehicles on the desert floor which are very, very tiny compared to the fireball of the blast. There are cars, jeeps, buses and tanks under the blast area. I have put a title over a frozen frame to be able to see the positions of the vehicles. Can anyone find the bird?
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The rise of OpenStreetMap: A quest to conquer Google’s mapping empire
THis definition of omnipresent sums up many facets of society. Fast food chains? Everywhere. Reality TV shows? You know the answer. And what about Google? Yup, right again.
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Lake Michigan: Most ice since 1979, most ever for March
Monday’s analysis by the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory shows total ice concentration on Lake Michigan at 90.1% — the most ever recorded in March. This is officially the most ice we’ve had at any time of the year since 1979 when Lake Michigan ice cover stood at 93% on Feb. 26, according to records from Environment Canada, the weather agency that publishes the most detailed ice records from the Great Lakes dating back to 1973.
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How Moroccan Ruler Could Sire 1,000 Kids Revealed
Computer simulations suggest Sultan Moulay Ismaïl could have done it by having sex about once a day for 32 years.
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161 years later, New York Times corrects its '12 Years a Slave' story
The New York Times today published corrections to a story that ran more than 150 years ago, thanks to the twin forces of Twitter and Hollywood. The article, published on January 20th, 1853, describes the story of Solomon Northup, a freed African-American who was kidnapped and sold into slavery. Northup's memoir, Twelve Years a Slave, was turned into the movie that won the Oscar for best picture at Sunday's Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
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We'll See (2007)
Last 120 years on Earth, in 120 seconds. Made in 2007 by Aćim Vasić. The voices are Aćim Vasić and Merlyn Haycraft. www.imdb.com/title/tt1365044/
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A Powerful New Way to Edit DNA
In the past year or so, researchers have discovered that the bacterial system can be harnessed to make precise changes to the DNA of humans, as well as other animals and plants. This means a genome can be edited, much as a writer might change words or fix spelling errors. It allows “customizing the genome of any cell or any species at will,” said Charles Gersbach, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University.
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Will This Be the U.K.'s New Flag?
Long after the Empire's collapse, the Union Jack remains an internationally recognized symbol of Britain. But all that could change soon. Scotland, one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom (along with England, Northern Ireland, and Wales), will hold a referendum on independence this September. If it succeeds, Britain's iconic flag may need a makeover.
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