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The Massive Fine The EU Hit Meta With… Is Really About The NSA, Not Meta
You may have heard the news that the EU hit Meta with a $1.3 billion fine for violating EU “data privacy rules” and assumed that this was just Meta being Meta and being bad about your privacy. But …
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How Stuart Little Uncovered an Avant-garde Masterpiece Missing for almost a Century
We love a good story about a missing painting missing. This one starts in Christmas of 2008: a Hungarian art historian is at home with his young daughter Lola, watching the popular children’s film Stuart Little, when he notices a painting in the background that shakes him up so much, he almost drops his daughter…
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The Surprisingly Sinister History Behind Texas’s Cliff Chirping Frog
It’s named for frontier naturalist Gabriel Marnoch, who led a life of crime while discovering new species.
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‘Mind-boggling’ palm that flowers and fruits underground thrills scientists
New species named Pinanga subterranea as Kew botanists admit they have no idea how its flowers are pollinated
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How Far Will Salmon Swim for a Craft Beer?
In Oregon, researchers hope a surprising aroma will lure stray salmon back to their home hatcheries.
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Friday essay: peyotes in suburbia – the secret world of Sydney's psychoactive cacti growers
They tend backyards brimming with cactus varieties, consuming the produce. Prudence Gibson meets a hidden group of gardeners and ponders the allure – and – danger of psychoactive plants.
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The Chronicles of a New York Locksmith -- Keys to the City
Leading up to his retirement, a New York craftsman trains his young protégé, in a short documentary by Ian Moubayed.
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Fish farts, snorting koalas, bonking frogs: How do animals make these crazy sounds?
Animals can make the strangest sounds. Tune into the noises made by some iconic species and find out how they make them.
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Seven metals, ringed with four magical inscriptions: what other secrets does the 'Alchemical Hand Bell' hold?
Habsburg emperor Rudolf II owned a spirit-summoning alchemical hand bell. We want to decipher its cryptic Greek inscriptions.
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Hell Pizza - Afterlife Pay
New Zealand-based Hell Pizza recently announced, "AfterLife Pay," which will allow a lucky 666 New Zealanders and another 666 Australians to order and eat pizza now, but not pay for it until after they die.
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Maui’s historic Lahaina is burning
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Friday essay: we knew we were Bundjalung – but I was shocked to discover a pardoned convict slave trader among my ancestors
When Shauna Bostock began researching a book on her family, she thought it would be limited to her Aboriginal ancestry. But then a late-night phone call led her down a surprising path.
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Bad news for nervous flyers: Turbulence is getting worse as the planet warms
A recent study from researchers at the University of Reading in England provides some insight into how our skies have changed over the past few decades.
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Suuns - 2020
From the album Images Du Futur (2013). Instant obsession when I discovered this gem half an hour ago. I love the internet.
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Mapping Manhattan Project radioactive waste across the St. Louis region
In partnership with The Missouri Independent and The Associated Press, MuckRock mapped various radioactive waste sites in the St. Louis area, over the past 75 years.
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Extreme weather killed 195,000 in Europe since 1980
Extreme weather conditions in Europe have killed almost 195,000 people and caused economic losses of more than 560 billion euros since 1980, the European Environment Agency said Wednesday.
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Before the colonists came, we burned small and burned often to avoid big fires. It's time to relearn cultural burning
Before the colonists came, we managed the land with careful use of cool burns. To stop giant bushfires, we have to learn again how to care for country.
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Flesh-Eating Bacteria Washing Ashore in Florida — and Plastic Is to Blame
The virulent Vibrio bacteria thrives in plastic, which intermingles with seaweed-like Sargassum washing up on beaches
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Apple could force a 111-year-old fruit company to change its apple logo
Apple wants to trademark an image of an apple in Switzerland, and this could force a 111-year-old fruit company to change its logo.
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These bracelets survived tomb robbers and time — now they're helping us understand the 'beginnings of the globalised world'
An analysis of bracelets owned by ancient Egyptian royalty more than 4,500 years ago has found Egypt and Greece were involved in long-distance trade much earlier than realised.