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For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends
The experiment of a 'continuous week' was shift work, on a colossal scale. And it failed.
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French police officer caught selling confidential police data on the dark web
Police officer also advertised a system to track the location of buyers' gang rivals or spouses based on the telephone numbers.
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Why Half a Degree of Global Warming Is a Big Deal
It may sound small, but a half-degree of temperature change could lead to more dire consequences in a warming world, according to a sweeping new scientific assessment.
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Inside The Most Precise Atomic Clock in the World
From his basement lab in Boulder, Colorado, physicist Jun Ye and his team have built the world’s most precise atomic clock. The clock is so powerful it can measure otherwise imperceptible changes in the physical world.
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The French town that throws wine in the sea
The sea imbues the town of St-Malo with what locals describe as ‘a salty side’ that’s not only present in its culture and regional dishes, but also its wine.
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Trump on why he mocked Christine Blasey Ford: ‘I had to even the playing field’
President Trump said late Saturday that he mocked Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, because he needed to “even the playing field.”
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Limo Crash Leaves 20 Dead at Popular Tourist Spot in Upstate New York
Local reports said the limousine was carrying a wedding party when it collided with another vehicle.
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It took 8 years but Mozilla finally embraced Google's WebP image format for a faster web
Now Apple's Safari is the only major holdout.
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How to stop worrying about what other people think
To have a winner’s mentality, you have to stop caring what other people think. You’ve gotta get quiet in your own head. So many people make big life decisions based on other people’s opinions. You care so much about what your mom, dad, brother, or friends think that you’re allowing them to dictate your actions in life.
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Inside the World of D.I.Y. Ammunition
Millions of weapons aficionados reload their own ammunition and cast their own bullets, acts of individualism that are hallmarks of the broader American gun ethos.
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Banksy auction prank leaves art world in shreds
Canvas of Girl With Balloon passes through shredder in frame shortly after £1m sale
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Brett Kavanaugh confirmed to Supreme Court
The Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court Saturday afternoon, likely cementing a conservative majority on the court for a generation and bringing to an end months of bitter partisan feuding marked by shocking allegations of sexual assault and vehement and angry denials from the nominee.
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Arctic ice cap destabilizes at ‘unprecedented’ speed
Satellite images revealing an Arctic ice cap destabilizing at “unexpected and unprecedented” speed have scientists questioning the stability of some polar ice caps.
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What's your secret?
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House passes bill to require minimum standards for airplane seat size, legroom
The House passed a bill that would require minimum airplane seat sizes and configurations. The clause was part of a five-year extension of the Federal Aviation Administration.
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The Last Days of Venus as the Evening Star
That's not a young crescent Moon poised above the hills along the western horizon at sunset. It's Venus in a crescent phase. About 54 million kilometers away and less than 20 percent illuminated, it was captured by telescope and camera on September 30 near Bacau, Romania. The bright celestial beacon is now languishing in the evening twilight, its days as the Evening Star in 2018 coming to a close. But it also grows larger in apparent size and becomes an ever thinner crescent in telescopic views.
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On Washington's McNeil Island, the only residents are 214 dangerous sex offenders
Civil commitment centers are meant as a community safeguard and a means of providing treatment for offenders, but they’re riddled with controversies
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Why One Tech Security Expert Is Increasingly Worried About Google
I worry Google is trading away my trust for a short-term benefit.
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The World's Most Efficient Languages
How much do you really need to say to put a sentence together?
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Fitbit helps lead police to San Jose woman's alleged killer – her stepfather
A San Jose woman's Fitbit helped provide clues to police investigating her death, leading to the arrest of her 90-year-old stepfather this week. San Jose police said Tony Aiello was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of murdering 67-year-old Karen Navarra on Sept. 13. CBS San Francisco reported that officers responding to a welfare check for Navarra on the 1000 block of Terra Noble Way found her with visible injuries and unresponsive, police said. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
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I Lived With Brett Kavanaugh At Yale. The FBI Never Returned My Call.
This was not a real investigation.
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This is how much legal pot you can take on domestic flights
Travellers flying within Canada will be allowed to pack as much as 30 grams of cannabis. This what that looks like.
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The Neighborhoods Where Kids Have a Better Shot at Escaping Poverty
New research shows that neighborhoods just miles apart that look similar may offer vastly different chances to climb up the economic ladder.
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A Nobel Prize-winning physicist sold his medal for $765,000 to pay medical bills
Only in America.
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Why Do Computers Use So Much Energy?
It’s possible they could be vastly more efficient, but for that to happen, we need to better understand the thermodynamics of computing
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Artificial sweeteners are toxic to digestive gut bacteria: study
A new study found that artificial sweeteners commonly found in low-sugar foods can harm the gut microbial system. US News & World Report has the story.
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This New Lithium Battery Tech Can Simply Suck Up CO2 to Power Itself
Everybody knows the world's got a serious carbon dioxide problem, but an ingenious and potentially cost-effective way of dealing with our surplus CO2 could provide the means of tomorrow's battery technology.
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FEMA is about to send a ‘Presidential Alert’ to millions of U.S. phones
In a few hours, millions of Americans will get a test emergency “Presidential Alert” message sent to their phone — a simulation in case the president ever needs to reach to entire country in a national emergency.
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Raised by YouTube
The platform’s entertainment for children is weirder—and more globalized—than adults could have expected.
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This wild plant could be the next strawberry
Strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, and... groundcherries? A little-known fruit about the size of a marble could become agriculture's next big berry crop.




















