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5 days ago+14 14 0Startup Launches Plant-Based Hard Boiled Egg
A Texas-based startup, Crafty Counter, launched a revolutionary plant-based hard boiled egg available at Whole Foods Nationwide.
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9 days ago+21 21 0Art Gallery Owner Arrested For Spraying Homeless Woman With Hose
The San Francisco art gallery owner caught on video spraying a homeless woman with a hose was arrested Wednesday for the sickly act ... as the District Attorney called his actions "completely unacceptable." Collier Gwin was taken into polic ...
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13 days ago+16 16 0A Chinese bank is offering customers a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine if they deposit $500,000 into an account
A Hong Kong-based bank is offering new and existing customers an express reservation for a complimentary BioNTech/Pfizer mRNA vaccine if they deposit at least HK$4,000,000, or about $512,200, into an account. The vaccine is being offered as mainland ...
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3 weeks ago+2 2 0Ancient Roman concrete could self-heal thanks to “hot mixing” with quicklime
The famous Pantheon in Rome boasts the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome—an architectural marvel that has endured for millennia, thanks to the incredible durability of ancient Roman concrete. For decades, scientists have been trying to ...
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3 weeks ago+11 11 0Spain rules tobacco companies must pay for cigarette butt clean up
Spain has ruled that tobacco companies will have to pay to clean up cigarette butts. Millions of cigarette ends are tossed onto Spain’s streets and beaches by smokers each year. The new environmental regulations also include bans on single-use plasti ...
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3 weeks ago+12 12 010 Ways the World Got Better In 2022
2022 was full of challenges, but it was also a year of milestones toward a better future.
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1 month ago+14 14 0Covid test for travellers from China could have been avoided, says MP
The requirement for travellers from China to England to provide a negative Covid test before departure could have been avoided if Beijing was “upfront” about its data, the chair of the Commons health committee has said. Rishi Sunak announced a major ...
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1 month ago+23 23 0YouTuber builds a bike with two half wheels, and it functions just as well as the original
YouTuber The Q builds a strange bike that actually works despite its idiosyncrasies. He does this by taking a regular wheel and cutting it in half.
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1 month ago+16 16 0New Zealand Bans Cigarette Sales to Everyone Born After 2008
The new laws are aimed at eliminating most smoking by 2025 and slashing the number of licensed tobacco retailers.
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1 month ago+18 18 0Belkin Debuts Continuity Camera Mount for Mac Desktops
Belkin is expanding its line of MagSafe-compatible Continuity Camera mounts with the launch of the Belkin iPhone Mount for Mac Desktops, which is able to attach to iMac models and different displays. Priced at $30, the Belkin iPhone Mount for Mac Des ...
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1 month ago+13 13 0Kanye West Named 'Antisemite of the Year' by Watchdog Group
Kanye West may never win another music-related award again, but there's one group that's honoring him with a not-so-flattering title ... "Antisemite of the Year." After several weeks and nearly 10,000 votes from members online, wa ...
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2 months ago+9 9 0A bot that watched 70,000 hours of Minecraft could unlock AI’s next big thing
OpenAI has built the best Minecraft-playing bot yet by making it watch 70,000 hours of video of people playing the popular computer game. It showcases a powerful new technique that could be used to train machines to carry out a wide range of tasks by ...
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2 months ago+10 10 0Millennials Have More Debt and Many will be Renters for Life
In the recently released report, Millennials are $1 trillion in debt — more than any other generation in history. This isn’t exactly their fault. Over 44 million Americans have student loans, with the average debt hovering around $33,000 (2020). Yet ...
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2 months ago+15 15 0Bill Maher Just Described Being Straight and White In America As A Disadvantage
Bill Maher—the same man who thought that referring to himself as a “house n*gger” on his eponymous HBO show Real Time With Bill Maher would be a funny joke—decided to share even more of his unfunny antics in a new episode. During a guest appearance f ...
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2 months ago+4 4 0Iran's Currency In Freefall As Protests Sweep The Country
Iran's battered currency, the rial, was in a freefall on Saturday, hitting a historic low of more than 360,000 against the US dollar amid continuing protests. Since August, when there were some hopes for a nuclear deal with the United States, th ...
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2 months ago+21 21 0Kanye West Censored by ‘Free Speech’ Platform He Praised
Two weeks ago, news broke that rapper Kanye West—now known as Ye—was planning on buying the right-wing social media site Parler after he was temporarily booted from Instagram and Twitter over antisemitic posts. Despite West moving to the “free speech ...
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2 months ago+13 13 0Climate Anxiety: The Uncertainty Haunting Our Next Generation
Anxiety. It’s a normal part of life and plays a very important role in protecting humans from danger and preventing risk. The American Psychological Association (APA) defines anxiety as “an emotion characterized by feelings of tension, worried though ...
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2 months ago+18 18 0Why It’s Totally Possible for Jon Stewart to Be President
The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur can’t stand Republicans and can’t stand Democrats. So who can he possibly see as a viable progressive presidential option for 2024? asks host Andy Levy in this episode of The New Abnormal podcast.
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3 months ago+10 10 0For the 'Rings of Power' Showrunners, the Road Goes Ever On
After five long years spent developing, writing, and filming the most expensive television series of all time, Rings of Power showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay have finally reached the end of the road—of Season One, anyway. The explosive Seaso ...
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3 months ago+19 19 0Actor Robbie Coltrane, who played Harry Potter's Hagrid, dies at age 72
Robbie Coltrane, the baby-faced comedian and character actor whose hundreds of roles included a crime-solving psychologist on the TV series "Cracker" and the gentle half-giant Hagrid in the "Harry Potter" movies, has died. He was ...