Post Overview
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Analysis
6 years ago+15 15 0Many cases of "dementia" are actually side effects of prescription drugs or vaccines, according to research.
Included in the list of drugs published in the guide that cause dementia-like symptoms are antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, sedatives, corticosteroids, narcotics, antihistamines, cardiovascular drugs, and anticonvulsants. It’s a very broad ...
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Expression
6 years ago+14 14 0Artist celebrates ‘Year of the dog’ with expressive pencil and ink drawings.
Serbian artist Endre Penovác masterfully captures the charm of animals with his expressive brush strokes and gestural marks.
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Analysis
6 years ago+15 15 0Adverse cardiovascular effects of noise in humans.
Noise has been found associated with annoyance, stress, sleep disturbance, and impaired cognitive performance. Furthermore, epidemiological studies have found that environmental noise is associated with an increased incidence of arterial hypertension ...
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Current Event
6 years ago+9 9 0Thousands of Americans jailed for debts chased by private collectors.
An estimated 77 million Americans have a debt that has been transferred to a private collection agency. Thousands end up in jails. More than 6,000 debt collection firms operate in the United States, collecting billions of dollars each year.
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Analysis
6 years ago+16 16 0Humans may not always grasp why AI act. Don’t panic.
There is an old joke among pilots that says the ideal flight crew is a computer, a pilot and a dog. The computer’s job is to fly the plane. The pilot is there to feed the dog. And the dog’s job is to bite the pilot if he tries to touch the computer.
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Current Event
6 years ago+15 15 0Cobalt mining: Dark side of the electric car revolution.
Electric cars are causing a boom in cobalt mining, but most of the resource is mined in dangerous conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Current Event
6 years ago+19 19 0Ford wants to patent a driverless police car that ambushes lawbreakers using artificial intelligence.
What if a police officer tapping on your car window asking for your license and registration became a relic of the past?
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Video/Audio
6 years ago+14 14 0Become ungovernable.
A video compilation of anarchist street activity in 2017.
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Analysis
6 years ago+15 15 0Medical journal officially classifies fluoride as a neurotoxin.
The Lancet peer-reviewed medical journal has officially classified fluoride as a neurotoxin. Hopefully this will add weight to what a number of experts have been saying for years and help raise awareness about the dangers and the myths about its bene ...
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Analysis
6 years ago+12 12 0The death effect on artists prices actually occurs when they’re alive.
According to economists the death effect of artists prices is actually only observable for the five years before an artist dies. The theoretical underpinnings for their conjecture are simple, but sophisticated in their application. Prices are governe ...
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Review
6 years ago+17 17 085 cool and unusual things to do in Belgium.
Discover 85 hidden attractions, cool sights, and unusual things to do in Belgium from The Blue Forest to Vlindertuin.
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Analysis
6 years ago+17 17 0The mystery of the rounder, sweeter chocolate bar.
People are known to associate sweetness with roundness and angularity with bitterness and, hence, making a traditionally rectangular food rounder may be expected to alter the perceived taste by priming notions of sweetness in the mind of the consumer ...
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Analysis
6 years ago+18 18 0Plants to uncover landmines. (2004)
A genetically engineered plant that detects landmines in soil by changing colour could prevent thousands of deaths and injuries by signalling where explosives are concealed.
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Current Event
6 years ago+26 26 0Scientists have figured out how to make wounds heal without scars.
If you've ever wondered why scar tissue looks so different from regular skin, it's because scar tissue doesn't contain any fat cells or hair follicles.
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Analysis
6 years ago+18 18 0Why we say things before we think.
Researchers found that the brain began to prepare the motor areas to respond very early, during initial stimulus presentation, suggesting that we get ready to respond even before we know what the response will be. This might explain why people someti ...
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How-to
6 years ago+18 18 0Living green walls: Their benefits and how they're made.
Living green walls may have gotten their start 80 years ago, but they’ve recently become some of the most striking and important eco-friendly features in buildings across the world.
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Expression
6 years ago+26 26 0A relaxing video demonstrates the detailed steps of making paper by hand.
Li presents the days long process of traditional Chinese paper making, a process which can be traced back to the early years of the Han Dynasty sometime within the 2nd century BC.
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Analysis
6 years ago+12 12 0Why these 6 artists destroyed their own art.
Six stories of artists who chose to destroy their own art. Michelangelo took a hammer to his “Florentine Pieta,” Monet destroyed several “water lily” paintings, and Baldessari vanquished a whole phase of his career.
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Current Event
6 years ago+19 19 0Cardiologists succeed in localized cooling of the heart to limit damage from heart attack.
Cardiologists at the Catharina hospital in Eindhoven have succeeded in the localized cooling of the heart during a heart attack, a world first. By cooling part of the heart prior to and following angioplasty, the cardiologists believe that the damage ...
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Review
6 years ago+22 22 0Pictures that show just how hardcore ’70s punk really was.
"All punk is is attitude, that's what makes it, the attitude." —Joey Ramone.