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8 years ago+8 9 1Is Europa habitable? NASA mission will use these 9 instruments to find out
NASA has unveiled how a spacecraft bound for Europa will help to figure out if the Jupiter moon has the right conditions for life, as many scientists think it may. The mission, expected to launch in the 2020s, will carry nine instruments chosen from ...
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9 years ago+29 29 0 x 1The Homeless Scientist Who Tried to Prove Selflessness Doesn't Exist
January 6, 1975. A young Israeli immigrant pushes open the door of his north London squat to find the dead body of a homeless man. George Price had cut the carotid artery out of his own throat with a pair of nail scissors. It was a bloody end for a t ...
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9 years ago+18 18 0The ER docs said 'stop smoking,' and they did!
An intervention in the emergency department designed to encourage tobacco cessation in smokers appears to be effective. Two and a half times more patients in the intervention group were tobacco-free three months after receiving interventions than th ...
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9 years ago-1 1 2AdBlock Plus defeats German publishers in court
The creator of software that stops adverts from appearing on websites has defeated two news publishers that want to prevent its tech being used on their pages. The owners of Germany's Die Zeit and Handelsblatt had claimed that AdBlock Plus' ...
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9 years ago+2 3 1Publishers Gave Away 122,951,031 Books During World War II
In 1943, in the middle of the Second World War, America's book publishers took an audacious gamble. They decided to sell the armed forces cheap paperbacks, shipped to units scattered around the globe. Instead of printing only the books soldiers ...
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9 years ago+1 2 1Rainworks: Water-Activated Street Art & Games in Rainy Seattle
Rainworks are pieces of street art that only appear when wet, featuring messages, images and interactive games that work great for a city infamous for its frequent precipitation. The idea, in part, is to encourage people to enjoy the rain, and reward ...
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9 years ago+15 15 0Scientology’s Sneaky Google Ads Slam HBO Documentary?
The Church of Scientology is famous for attacking its critics in every way possible. Now, to discredit HBO's upcoming documentary, is it turning to…Google? Trying to learn more about Going Clear, the new HBO documentary premiering March 29 about ...
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9 years ago+5 5 0The problem with modern Lawrences of Arabia
Westerners who pack up their bags and join foreign wars always know what they are fighting against, but rarely do they understand what they are fighting for, writes C August Elliott. In the documentary Point and Shoot, we are introduced to Matthew Va ...
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9 years ago+9 9 0 x 1A Massacre in Jamaica
Most cemeteries replace the illusion of life’s permanence with another illusion: the permanence of a name carved in stone. Not so May Pen Cemetery, in Kingston, Jamaica, where bodies are buried on top of bodies, weeds grow over the old markers, and t ...
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9 years ago+9 9 0Tag Heuer, Intel challenge Apple with Android smartwatch
Tag Heuer, French luxury group LVMH's biggest watch maker, said it will launch a smartwatch later this year using Google Inc's Android operating system in a venture with Intel Corp to compete head-on with the Apple Watch. Tag Heuer Chief Ex ...
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9 years ago+18 18 0Uber endures nightmare week
Uber's "low-cost" UberPop service has been banned in Germany after a court decided it contravened transport laws. Judges imposed fines of €250,000 (£181,000) for each violation of the order. It followed the news that the company's ...
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9 years ago+19 19 0Self-Driving Cars Will Be The Biggest Auto Safety Innovation Ever
Like so many things in life, the future of driving is automated. We've known this for some time. But as carmakers and tech companies tinker away crafting the future of autonomous transportation, we're only beginning to foresee the benefits ...
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9 years ago+14 14 0Evolution 'favours big sea beasts'
The animals in the ocean have been getting bigger, on average, since the Cambrian period - and not by chance. That is the finding of a huge new survey of marine life past and present, published in the journal Science. It describes a pattern of increa ...
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9 years ago+24 24 0Park installs Rachel Maddow-designed owl warning signs
An Oregon park plagued by attacks from a dive-bombing owl installed warning signs designed by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. Maddow unveiled the humorous owl attack sign on her show after at least four joggers in Salem were attacked by the dive-bombing ow ...
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9 years ago+18 18 0Why animals eat psychoactive plants
The United Nations says the drug war’s rationale is to build “a drug-free world — we can do it!” U.S. government officials agree, stressing that “there is no such thing as recreational drug use.” So this isn’t a war to stop addiction, like that in my ...
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9 years ago+17 17 0Brands Are Not Your Friends
When was the last time Coca-Cola did anything nice for you? People tend to talk to brands on the internet like they might have lost their virginity to them. They very well may have—an empty bag of @Doritos under the mattress or in the parking lot of ...
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9 years ago+5 6 1Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are paying to get around Adblock Plus
Some of the web's biggest companies have been paying to get around Adblock Plus, according to a new report from Financial Times. Microsoft's Bing search ads and Taboola's "recommended links" box are among the ads that are cur ...
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9 years ago+9 10 1Geeks who rocked the world: Documentary looks back at origins of the computer-games industry
During the early days of Thatcher's Britain, a suburban branch of WH Smith was one of the last places you'd expect to have a Damascene awakening. But an act of creative disobedience in the stationery section meant that a small TV screen cou ...
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9 years ago+17 17 0 x 1"NFL 2015" A Bad Lip Reading of The NFL
"...and then you invented dirt lumps." More of what COULD have been said in the NFL.
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9 years ago+18 18 0The mystery of shellshock solved: Scientists identify the unique brain injury caused by war
When the war poet Wilfred Owen wrote of “men whose minds the Dead have ravished” he was attempting to describe the mysterious effects of shellshock which started appearing during the First World War and of which he himself was a sufferer.