Post Overview
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9 years ago+16 16 0Yazidi Woman Recalls Horrors of Slave Auction
Frida says there were 80 girls in that large room in Raqqa, the ISIS capital in eastern Syria. They were all about to be bought as slaves by ISIS fighters. She remembers the girls wept — and the men laughed. The slave auction lasted for several days. ...
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9 years ago+5 5 0Like People, Bees Can Be Fooled by False Memories
Memory is a notoriously slippery ally. It’s alarmingly easy to purposely distort recall, even in people with the unusual ability to remember minute details, going back to childhood. Absent manipulation, it is still extraordinarily difficult to be a r ...
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9 years ago+30 30 0 x 2Life in Prison for Selling $20 of Weed
On September 5, 2008, Fate Vincent Winslow watched a plainclothes stranger approach him. Homeless and hungry, on a dark street rife with crime, the 41-year-old African American was anxious to make contact, motivated by one singular need: food. Anothe ...
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9 years ago+20 20 0No federal charges for Zimmerman in Trayvon Martin death
The Justice Department said Tuesday its independent investigation found "insufficient evidence" to charge George Zimmerman with federal civil rights violations in the shooting death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Attorney General Eric Hold ...
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9 years ago+13 13 0An Amazing Book About the World-Changing Technology You Forgot
'Technology' normally means a gadget — but really, it's any technical invention that solves problems and improves lives. Often, the most important tech is the one you take completely for granted. Like shipping containers, which are exp ...
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9 years ago+17 17 0GOP, tech industry mostly out of step over net neutrality issue
The intensifying debate over how to keep the Internet open and ripe for innovation has heightened tensions between Republican congressional leaders and tech entrepreneurs they have been trying to woo. As tech firms and cable companies prepare for a f ...
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9 years ago+12 12 0Bahraini ISIS respond to striping their nationalities: "We will enter Bahrain by arms not passports, and we will behead the King"
Bahrain's King, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, issued a royal decree on 31st January 2015 to strip 72 Bahrainis of their nationalities. This included 50 opposition supporters and activists, as well as 22 of those who joined the extremist ISIS organiz ...
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9 years ago+16 16 0Science to look forward to in 2015
It’s a new year, but it’s not just any new year. 2015 is shaping up to be a huge year for scientific exploration and discovery plus science policy. There are some important decisions that will be made this year on climate change, three-parent in vitr ...
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9 years ago+16 16 0Physicists achieve superconductivity at room temperature
Physicists from the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter have kept a piece of ceramic in a superconducting state, disproving the widely-held assumption that materials need to be cooled to temperatures of at least -140 degrees ...
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9 years ago+14 14 0Sarah Palin speech inadvertently raises $50,000 for Hillary Clinton
Sarah Palin’s eccentric speech to a Republican conference in Iowa last weekend, which has been criticised even by some of her conservative supporters, has now helped a group backing Hillary Clinton to raise $50,000, a spokesman said on Thursday. Read ...
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9 years ago+19 19 0$7M verdict against cops upheld in Caravella's DNA exoneration
Two former Miramar police officers who framed a mentally challenged 15-year-old boy for the rape and murder of a woman must pay him $7 million for the nearly 26 years he spent in prison, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
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9 years ago+12 12 0Tear gas used on revelers at Ohio State University campus, reports say
Police in Columbus have used tear gas and pepper spray to try and disperse crowds flooding onto North High Street to celebrate Ohio State's national championship victory Monday night. The Columbus Dispatch reports police were trying to get the t ...
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9 years ago+27 27 0 x 1At least 3.7 million march across France in record mobilisation
More than a million people thronged the streets of Paris on Sunday in the biggest rally in French history, led by dozens of world leaders walking arm-in-arm as cries of "Freedom" and "Charlie" rang out across the country. The inte ...
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9 years ago+19 19 0Nuclear power is the greenest option, say top scientists
Nuclear power is one of the least damaging sources of energy for the environment, and the green movement must accept its expansion if the world is to avoid dangerous climate change, some of the world's leading conservation biologists have warned ...
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9 years ago+6 6 0Details Unveiled For Twitter’s Native Video Player To Rival YouTube
Back in November 2014, Twitter announced that it would be launching a native video service in the first half of 2015 as part of its bigger strategy to position itself as a media platform. Now some more details have been uncovered about how this will ...
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9 years ago+15 15 0Should Video Games Get Olympic Representation?
Video Games! You've heard of them. But what you might not be so aware of is 'eSports' - the growing genre of highly competitive multiplayer gaming. But are eSports really on a level where we should be seeing digital athletes at the Oly ...
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9 years ago+7 7 0More than 160,000 evacuated in Malaysia's worst ever floods
Malaysia has been hit by its worst flooding in 30 years, leaving at least eight people dead and forcing an estimated 160,000 from their homes. Rescuers were struggling to reach parts of Kelantan, Terenggagu and Pahang - the eastern regions hardest hi ...
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9 years ago+14 14 0Christmas in jail is worse than you can imagine. Now imagine if you've been wrongfully convicted
I spent 16 years in prison, wrongfully convicted at age 17 of murder and rape, despite a negative DNA test. I lost all seven of my appeals, and I was turned down for parole. Finally, at age 32, I was exonerated after further DNA testing that identifi ...
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9 years ago+20 20 0Watch a Green Comet Streak Across the Sky for Christmas
Discovered only this past August, comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) is now quickly brightening to naked-eye visibility as it moves from the deep southern sky into prime viewing location for observers throughout the Northern Hemisphere. The comet is already p ...
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9 years ago+12 12 0Ancient Roman Water Networks Made the Empire Vulnerable
Anncient Romans were masters of water manipulation. They moved fresh water around their vast empire with aqueducts and canals. Farmers shipped their wares across the seas to big cities such as Alexandria, Memphis and Rome. Trade routes allowed people ...