Post Overview
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Current Event
6 years ago
+21 21 0Password Sharing Costs Netflix Over $1.5 Billion Annually
Password sharing between friends and family is pretty standard practice when it comes to the copious amounts of streaming platforms available. The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) -- an anti-piracy group featuring Warner Bros., Disney, ...
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6 years ago
+3 3 0Silicon Valley billionaires have a problem: They get richer no matter how much money they give away
Silicon Valley billionaires keep getting richer, whether they want to or not. In an age of unprecedented generosity — the amount that Americans give to charity has increased almost every year for the last four decades — the very wealthiest tech titan ...
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6 years ago
+15 15 0It’s been a year since 20,000 Google employees walked off the job. And they’re madder than ever.
The search giant’s workers have become more political and critical, and they show no signs of quieting down — despite management’s efforts to rein in the debate.
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6 years ago
+13 13 0Ohio mom reportedly finds alleged intruder attempting to give 2-year-old son a bath
An Ohio mother said she recently woke up to find another woman inside her home preparing to give her 2-year-old a bath, according to a report. Areica Hill woke up Oct. 16 to the sound of her dog barking and saw a woman in the bathroom with her son, ...
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6 years ago
+18 18 0Inventor lands deal to manufacture ‘swappable’ aluminium-air battery that can power electric cars for 1,500 miles
With the global environmental movement highlighting the growing pollution problem of our transport choices, it’s no wonder that more and more people are ditching fossil fuels for an electric ride.
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6 years ago
+22 22 0Nobel price for chemistry awarded to three scientists for creating a rechargeable world
John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 "for the development of lithium-ion batteries."
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6 years ago
+22 22 0India pulls in the sharpest Moon surface images ever taken from orbit
Things haven’t quite gone to plan for India's Chandrayaan-2 mission, with the team losing the spacecraft’s Vikram lander following a touchdown attempt last month. But there is still plenty of science to come as the probe continues to circle the ...
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6 years ago
+12 12 0Donald Trump targets 16-year-old Greta Thunberg again on Twitter
President Donald Trump hurled another barb via Twitter at the 16-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg, a week after he mocked her emotional speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Trump quote-tweeted a supporter with the username @O ...
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6 years ago
+10 10 0Young Black Voters to Their Biden-Supporting Parents: ‘Is This Your King?’
An organic effort by black millennials and Gen Z-ers to influence older family members against Mr. Biden may be important in the Democratic primary.
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6 years ago
+2 2 0Novel Study Identifies Three Distinct Types of Teen Popularity
Adolescents place a lot of emphasis on popularity and they are keenly aware of the difference between being liked and being popular. If forced to choose, many opt for popularity. Popularity, however, has many faces. In prior research, two groups of p ...
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6 years ago
+17 17 0In the genes: overlooked tomatoes' drought resistance
A once overlooked gene, from a family of “jumping genes”, has been found to hold the potential to accelerate crop breeding through improved drought resistance in tomatoes.
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6 years ago
+16 16 0Earth May Already Be Inside A Black Hole, Scientist Says
Aphysicist claimed that Earth and the entire universe could already be inside a black hole. According to the physicist, this theory is related to the idea that the Big Bang was actually a black hole. As indicated in various scientific reports, black ...
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6 years ago
+6 6 0Conversion therapy crusader has something to say: He’s gay
“Conversion therapy is not just a lie, but it’s very harmful,” said McKrae Game, a South Carolinian who founded one of the nation's biggest ex-gay ministries.
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6 years ago
+11 11 0Scientists discover way to ‘grow’ tooth enamel
Scientists say they have finally cracked the problem of repairing tooth enamel. Though enamel is the hardest tissue in the body, it cannot self-repair. Now scientists have discovered a method by which its complex structure can be reproduced and the e ...
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6 years ago
+20 20 0The New American Homeless
Last August, Cokethia Goodman returned home from work to discover a typed letter from her landlord in the mailbox. She felt a familiar panic as she began to read it. For nearly a year, Goodman and her six children—two of them adopted after being aban ...
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6 years ago
+4 4 0The SpaceX Starman Roadster Has Completed Its First Orbit Around The Sun
After 557 days since they were launched into space, Starman and the Tesla Roadster have completed their first orbit around the Sun. Starman hitched a ride out of our atmosphere on the first Falcon Heavy launch in February 2018. Since then it has trav ...
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Analysis
6 years ago
+15 15 0Got Pain? A Virtual Swim With Dolphins May Help Melt It Away
A recent study found virtual reality experiences were better at easing pain than watching televised nature scenes. Immersive distraction seems key to the success, scientists say.
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Current Event
6 years ago
+2 2 0Afghan wedding suicide blast kills 63, amid hopes for talks
A suicide bomber killed 63 people and wounded 182 in an attack on a packed weddi...
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6 years ago
+17 17 0President Trump Eyes a New Real-Estate Purchase: Greenland
The idea of the U.S. acquiring Greenland has captured the president’s imagination, according to people familiar with the deliberations, who said Mr. Trump has repeatedly expressed interested in the notion.
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6 years ago
+4 4 0Plant-Based Meats Are Taking on These 3 Foods After Burgers
Plant-based meat, not content with replacing Burger King burgers, is dreaming bigger. This week, the two biggest names in the sector made steps into new areas to try and get more consumers to ditch meat.




















