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Vi Talte med den Ph.d. – Studerende, Der Lavede Mursten Fra Menneskelige Tisse
Dyllon Randall og studerende Vukheta Mukhari og Susanne Lambert med tisse mursten.Foto: University of Cape Town Pee indeholder nogle ret fantastiske ting. Forskere har kendt i næsten et årti, at det er muligt at producere mursten fra bakterier, sand, og urinstof—et kemikalie, der findes i urinen. Forskere er gået foran og har produceret dem mursten,…
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Absolut Intet Vil Gå Galt, Når MIT Lader Internet Control en virkelig Person på Halloween
Skærmbillede: MIT Media Lab (Twitter) I en snart-til-lancere online sociale eksperiment, som er absolut på ingen måde kommer til at give bagslag, forskere med Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘ s Media Lab, er efter sigende planer om at aflevere en individuel fri vilje over til internettet. Forsøget, som er titlen BeeMe og er ved at…
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DOJ Er efter Sigende at Undersøge Tesla ‘ s Påstande Om Sin Model 3 Produktion
Foto: David Zalubowski (AP) Lige så støvet så ud til at være afregning for Elon Musk er Tesla, fremgår det, at selskabet har en anden undersøgelse på sine hænder. The Wall Street Journal rapporterede fredag, at den Federal Bureau of Undersøgelse ser nærmere på, om den elektriske bil, vildledt investorer om sin produktion mål for…
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Man Arrested for Attempted Theft of Magna Carta After Display Smashed With Hammer
Photo: Wiltshire Police On Thursday, a 45-year-old man wielding a hammer reportedly smashed through a glass screen protecting one of only four copies of the original Magna Carta. The incident, which predictably has a lot of people making National Treasure jokes, happened at Salisbury Cathedral in the UK. The man, who is not Nicolas Cage,…
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How Industrial-Scale Tar Production Powered the Viking Age
“Viking Ships Before a Rocky Coast,” by Michael Zeno Diemer (1911)Image: Wikimedia Vikings acquired the capacity to produce tar at an industrial scale as early as the 8th century AD, according to new research. The protective black goo was applied to the planks and sails of ships, which the Vikings used for trade and launching…
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Warner Bros. and Turner Are Killing One of the Internet’s Last Good Things
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This Dictionary Time Machine Tells You Which Words Were First Printed the Year You Were Born
Screenshot: Merriam-Webster In 2018, the Oxford English Dictionary added words like beerfest, jumbotron, modder, antifa, binge-watch, and nothingburger, reflecting the awful, awful times we live in. But have you ever wondered what words officially entered our lexicon the year you were born? Probably not, but it turns out Merriam-Webster’s Time Traveler tool is a fascinating…
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Working at Netflix Sounds Like Hell
Photo: Netflix There are many, many jobs that are much worse than working at Netflix. But based on an extensive profile of the company’s culture, the streaming company certainly seems to have built a unique version of corporate hell. Citing interviews with more than 70 current and former employees (some on the record, some off),…
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Florida Mail-Bomb Suspect Used Twitter to Repeatedly Threaten Politicians and Journalists
PLANTATION, FL – OCTOBER 26: The AutoZone at 801 S. State Road 7 is seen where Cesar Sayoc, a 56-year-old man from Aventura, Florida was arrested in the possible connection with pipe bombs being mailed to critics of President Donald Trump on October 26, 2018 in Plantation, Florida. The pipe bomb devices have been recovered…
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Google’s .New Feature Makes Starting a Doc or Spreadsheet a Little Less Soul-Sucking
Photo: Don Ryan (AP) If you’ve long been a user of Google Docs, Google Sheets, or any other various G Suite tools, you may be familiar with the semi-arduous process of navigating to a document, sheet, form, or other file every time you need to start a new one. On the scale of things to…