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How Much TV Is President Trump Watching This Week?
Photo: Getty Donald Trump is having a complicated week. His son released a bunch of emails that appear to show collusion with the Russian government. He got sued by a bunch of people he blocked on Twitter. Even the Drudge Report turned on him. How’s the president handling all this? Definitely not by watching a…
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Why Is Greenland’s Ice Sheet Covered in Industrial Waste-Chowing Bacteria?
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’Bomb Brussels as powerful as it was 15 grenades’
BRUSSELS – The handcrafted bomb that Oussama Zariouh on June 20, an attack wanted to commit to Brussels Central had a force of fifteen grenades as the explosive in the better together was set. That say experts in the Belgian newspaper The Latest News. The bomkoffer engulfed in flames and is, in part, to blast.…
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The south Pole has a huge iceberg in
AMSTERDAM – Antarctica has been in place since Wednesday, an enormous iceberg. The piece of ice, that the name of Larsen C, it is just as large as the whole province of Gelderland. That the plate would break had been there for a while to come: there is, since 2011, a giant crack in the…
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Man checking beer in at the airport
MELBOURNE – In the context of ” he who does not enter who does not win, wanted to make Dean Stinson trying to be just a can of beer as luggage to check in for a domestic flight from Perth to Melbourne. And sure enough, it worked. It encouraged other passengers not to do the…
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From Faraday Future ran out of money — a huge factory canceled
Faraday of the Future, engaged in the development of electric cars, began very quickly, showing his electric supercar. Many predicted her future competitor to Tesla, citing steep investors and factory for a billion dollars, which had already begun to build. Unfortunately, the company LeEco, one of the main investors FF, she is now experiencing not…
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Women of Color Face a Staggering Amount of Harassment in Astronomy
Image: Flickr/RStonejr The sciences are overwhelmingly hostile to women, and in astronomy, it’s doubly bad for women of color. New research published yesterday in The Journal of Geophysical Research affirms what these women have been saying for years: As a result of persistent harassment by their male colleagues, many women of color feel unsafe at work,…
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Microsoft’s Plan to Beam Internet Over TV Frequencies Is So Crazy It Might Work
Image: Carlson Wireless As Tuesday’s announcement makes clear, Microsoft scientists have been on the bleeding edge of white space research. The increasingly hip company intends to drop $10 billion to launch a new white space service in 12 states, including New York and Virginia, connecting an estimated two million Americans to the internet, The New…
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The First Gonorrhea Vaccine May Be on The Horizon
Image: Norman Jacobs/CDC/Public Domain Vaccines are one of the most important advances in the history of medicine. They’ve helped humankind more or less eliminate smallpox, and kicked measles out of the Americas with the exception of folks who’ve decided to believe a retracted, manipulated, widely-criticized study of twelve children. Vaccines are good. Gonorrhea, on the…
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Behold the Tiniest Star Ever Discovered
The small star (artist’s depiction shown in reddish orange) is about the size of Jupiter, and slightly smaller than the ultracool dwarf Trappist-1 (shown in grey). (Image: A Boetticher et al., 2017) Astronomers at the University of Cambridge have discovered a star that’s barely bigger than Saturn, making it the smallest stellar object known to…