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10 hours agoCurrent Event zritic
People in US and UK face huge financial hit if fossil fuels lose value, study shows
Individuals in rich countries face huge financial losses if climate action slashes the value of fossil fuel assets, a study shows, despite many oil and gas fields being in other countries. The researchers estimated that existing oil and gas projects worth $1.4tn (£1.1tn) would lose their value if the world moved decisively to cut carbon emissions and limit global heating to 2C. By tracking many thousands of projects through 1.8m companies to their ultimate owners, the team found most of the los...
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4 days agoCurrent Event zritic
Asteroid four times the size of the Empire State Building barreling toward Earth on May 27
An enormous asteroid four times the size of the Empire State Building will make a close approach to Earth on May 27, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Fear not: the asteroid, named 7335 (1989 JA), will soundly miss our planet by about 2.5 million miles (4 million kilometers) — or nearly 10 times the average distance between Earth and the moon.
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5 days agoCurrent Event zritic
Roman Polanski Always Thrived in France, But Now Even His Adopted Country is Turning On Him (EXCLUSIVE)
There was a time, not so long ago, when Roman Polanski was the toast of the film industry in France, where the director has been living since 1978, when he fled the United States before sentencing after pleading guilty to having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.
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6 days agoCurrent Event zritic
iFixit will sell nearly every part of the Steam Deck — including the entire motherboard
The era of fixing your own gadgets has nearly arrived, and Valve’s Steam Deck handheld gaming PC may be setting the best example yet — not only does it offer a repair-friendly design, but it now looks like almost every part will be sold separately at iFixit. This evening, the company prematurely revealed a huge collection of its promised repair parts at its website, and we were surprised to see everything down to the motherboard with the AMD Aerith chip at the heart of the Steam Deck will so...
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8 days agoCurrent Event zritic
Rihanna Gives Birth to Baby Boy
Rihanna is officially a new mom. The pop star gave birth to a baby boy on May 13 in Los Angeles, TMZ reports. The infant is her first child with ASAP Rocky. The couple first announced the happy news that they were expecting back in January with a series of paparazzi photos taken in the snowy streets of Harlem, the New York City neighborhood where Rocky was born and raised. In the images, Rihanna's pregnant belly peeks out from behind a pink, partially-unbuttoned Chanel Fall 1996 coat as the...
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9 days agoCurrent Event zritic
Fox hosts feel the heat but deflect criticism after Buffalo massacre
In the wake of the Buffalo mass shooting and widespread discussion of far-right violent extremism, Fox's prime time hosts pivoted to what they claim is the true threat: The left.
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10 days agoCurrent Event zritic
The extraordinary heat wave in India and Pakistan, explained
What makes South Asia’s recent severe temperatures so surprising. Nearly one in eight people on Earth are enduring a relentless, lethal heat wave that is stretching into its third week.
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10 days agoCurrent Event zritic
Carbon Dioxide Pipelines Are Going Dangerously Unregulated
In February 2020, a cloud of gas washed over Sartartia, Mississippi, causing residents to pass out on the spot and sending nearly 50 people to local hospitals. Unbeknownst to the residents, a carbon dioxide pipeline half a mile away from the town had ruptured, sending a cloud of CO2 washing over the community. Rescuers were forced to don protective gas masks as cars stalled, unable to run without oxygen.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event zritic
With the Milky Way's black hole revealed, one big mystery still remains, Nobel Prize winner says
There are few people in the world as qualified to talk about the black hole at the center of our galaxy as 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate Reinhard Genzel. It was his decades-long research into this odd object called Sagittarius A* that gathered enough evidence to prove "beyond any reasonable doubt" that this radio wave-emitting body is indeed the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event zritic
After losing contact with its helicopter, NASA put the entire Mars mission on hold
The achievement of powered flight on another world is one of the great spaceflight feats of the last decade. Since its first brief hop on April 19, 2021, the Mars Ingenuity helicopter has subsequently made an additional 27 flights, traveling nearly 7 km across the surface of the red planet and scouting ahead of NASA's Perseverance rover. It has wildly exceeded the expectations and hopes of its scientists and engineers.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event zritic
24 years ago, Steve Jobs made tech sexy again
Tech is sexy, or at least it can be, and that's mostly thanks to Steve Jobs and the iMac, which was unveiled 24 years ago this week. Your options for home and office computing in 1998 were dull and duller. So-called white-box PCs dominated the personal computing landscape. They were invariably white or beige rectangles, featuring multiple removable storage slots, a grill to let some air move over the large motherboards, and giant CRT monitors balanced on top of them. The keyboard and mouse ...
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1 month agoCurrent Event zritic
N. Korea conducts audits on how well provincial trade bureaus met foreign currency quotas
North Korean authorities are reviewing how well provincial trade bureaus have met their foreign currency quotas in the first quarter of the year and are auditing bureaus that failed to meet their quotas, Daily NK has learned.
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1 month agoCurrent Event zritic
Why climate change could cause the next pandemic
Climate change will result in thousands of new viruses spreading among animal species by 2070 and that's likely to increase the risk of emerging infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans, according to a new study.
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1 month agoCurrent Event zritic
Telescope discovers galactic space laser at a record-breaking 5 billion lightyears away
A powerful telescope in South Africa has detected a space laser, known as a "megamaser," that is 5 billion lightyears from Earth. Scientists named it Nkalakatha, an isiZulu word meaning "big boss." Nkalakatha is the most distant hydroxyl megamaser of its kind ever detected, and it was discovered by the MeerKAT telescope on the first night of a survey that was expected to include 3,000 hours of observation. The team of scientists, working for the International Center for Radio...
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1 month agoCurrent Event zritic
Kellogg's takes Britain to court over new sugar rules
U.S. food company Kellogg's is taking the British government to court over new rules that would stop some of its breakfast cereals being displayed prominently in grocery stores because of their high sugar content.
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1 month agoAnalysis zritic
Eating meat may not have been as crucial to human evolution as we thought
The oldest evidence of Homo erectus comes from an arid hillside near the border of Ethiopia and Kenya. Though the 1.9-million-year-old fossil is only a tiny shard, more complete, if more recent individuals show that the species looked recognizably human. The species had long legs and short arms. Its face was flat, without a chimp-like snout. Behind that face was a hefty brain, bigger than that of any of its predecessors.
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1 month agoCurrent Event zritic
New Documents Shed Light on Government-Funded Advanced Weapons Research
The government is looking into worm holes, anti-gravity, and invisibility cloaks, according to documents obtained by Motherboard through FOIA.
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1 month agoCurrent Event zritic
CDC says masking on transportation 'remains necessary for the public health,' DOJ to file appeal to overturn order voiding mandate
The Justice Department is filing an appeal seeking to overturn a judge's order that voided the federal mask mandate on planes, trains and travel hubs.