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• How to throw a punch

  20-04-2018 15:30 via Popular Science
  
  DIYWithout hurting yourself more than your opponent.
  Understanding how to throw a punch—before you go all John Wayne on a bad guy—will prevent you from hurting yourself more than whatever you’re swinging at.
  
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• This year's Lyrid meteor shower coincides with Earth Day, but light pollution is ruining the show

  20-04-2018 14:00 via Popular Science
  
  EnvironmentLight pollution makes it hard for many people to appreciate the stars.
  The Lyrids are one of the year’s most impressive displays of shooting stars, and though most Americans can stand outside and spot a few streaks, the vast majority won’t…
  
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• Bill Gates Backs Plan To Surveil The Entire Planet From Space

  20-04-2018 02:40 via Technocracy News
  Bill Gates and his Technocrat buddies must be in data heaven over this announcement. Buried on EarthNow’s website is one telling purpose that is in the middle of a larger list: “Help ‘Smart Cities’ become more efficient.” Honestly, TN doesn’t think they really care about the first offering: “catching illegal fishing ships in the act.” The entire EarthNow press release is here. ⁃ TN EditorEarthNow is a new company looking to provide satellite
  
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• These octopuses just wanted a safe place to lay their eggs, but now they’re doomed

  20-04-2018 00:00 via Popular Science
  
  AnimalsWarmer isn't always better.
  Want to see something incredible? Head to a spot in the ocean 155 miles west of Costa Rica. Get in a sub and descend 9,482 feet beneath the surface to a stretch of…
  
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• A new study on concussions and Parkinson's provides one more reason to protect your noggin

  19-04-2018 23:15 via Popular Science
  
  HealthEven a minor brain injury might raise your risk.
  A new study is making waves for suggesting a single traumatic brain injury, even a mild one, can significantly increase the risk of developing Parkinson’s. But that…
  
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• There’s still time for us to save the Great Barrier Reef

  19-04-2018 21:30 via Popular Science
  
  EnvironmentJust how much trouble is coral in? The answer is complicated.
  "It's been pretty well established that if you take the present day coral and you put it into the future conditions, it will most likely die,” Mikhail Matz explains. The…
  
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• Saving pollinators is about more than just honeybees

  19-04-2018 19:00 via Popular Science
  
  AnimalsWild insects are the most important and vulnerable pollinators.
  The decline of pollinators is linked with destruction of natural habitats like forests and meadows, the spread of pests such as Varroa mite and diseases like foulbrood,…
  
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• Trudeau’s Follies: The Coming Carbon Tax Showdown In Canada

  19-04-2018 18:56 via Technocracy News
  Canadians who see through Technocrat PM Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax are getting some traction to spread the protest to a wider audience. Carbon tax is a disingenuous fraud that takes money from citizens and gives it to globalist cronies. ⁃ TN EditorNot so long ago, Justin Trudeau’s energy strategy looked so simple. It rested on a Grand Bargain. Canada would build a pipeline or two, and the citizens would do penance in the form of carbon taxes that would reduce greenhouse gas em
  
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• Exclusive first look: Daisy is Apple's new robot that eats iPhones and spits out recyclable parts

  19-04-2018 18:30 via Popular Science
  
  TechnologyA two-minute journey through this machine renders a smartphone into recyclable materials.
  This 30-foot robotic line breaks up iPhones with a mix of precision and percussion.
  
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• China Blanketing Tibet With Massive Rain-Making Geoengineering Project

  19-04-2018 18:30 via Technocracy News
  As a Technocracy, China has a scientific solution for everything, including its perceived lack of fresh water. Their solution is to install tens of thousands of cloud-seeding chambers in Tibet that will create clouds to dump rain on China. The project is developed by state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, a defense contractor. This article was reported in the South China Morning Post. ⁃ TN EditorChina needs more water. So it’s building a rain-making network t
  
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• Neolithic surgeons might have practiced their skull-drilling techniques on cows

  19-04-2018 15:30 via Popular Science
  
  ScienceTrepanation may not have been limited to humans.
  Bovine brain surgery is pretty rare. So if you were visiting the Neolithic dig site at Champ-Durand in France and you found a roughly 5,200 year-old cow skull with a…
  
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• How to purge all your search histories

  19-04-2018 14:00 via Popular Science
  
  DIYAsking for a friend...
  Your browser makes it relatively easy to purge your search history, but many sites keep their own records of your past queries. Here's how to delete that data.
  
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• A shark-shaped, climate-shifting blob of warm water — as wide as the Pacific Ocean — is rising from the depths

  19-04-2018 07:40 via Top Stories
  The 'shark' will soon gobble up La Niña's cool surface waters. What might this mean for the climate later this year?
  It's not every day that you see an animated graphic like the one above hosted on the website of an ordinarily staid U.S. government agency.And yes, that is indeed an illustration comparing a complex Earth system phenomenon to, well, a shark.The comparison comes from the fabulous folks at the ENSO Blog, published under the aegis of the National
  
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• Fin24.com | Facebook is forming a team to design its own chips

  19-04-2018 05:15 via Fin24 Tech
  
  By doing so the social media giant is adding to a trend among technology companies to supply themselves and lower their dependence on chipmakers such as Intel and Qualcomm.
  
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• Google Is Pursuing The Pentagon’s Giant Cloud Contract Quietly, Fearing An Employee Revolt

  19-04-2018 05:10 via Technocracy News
  The employee culture at Google is generally anti-war, but Google’s Technocrat leadership is not. Thus, leadership is trying to keep their employees off the protest line as it pursues a huge, juicy contract from the Pentagon. ⁃ TN EditorLast August, U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis made a journey to the West Coast and met with Google founder Sergey Brin and CEO Sundar Pichai. Over a half day of meetings, Google leaders described the company’s multi-year transition to cloud co
  
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• Autonomous Killer Drones Will Soon Decide Who, When And Where

  19-04-2018 04:50 via Technocracy News
  Technocrat engineers create because they can, not because they have a moral base to do so. A few short years ago, the military swore they would not create killer drones or robots. Now they are building with impunity. Well, they lied. When WWIII starts, it will be a drone/robot war. ⁃ TN EditorThe United States Army wants to develop a system that can be quickly integrated and deployed into its weaponized drone fleet to automatically Detect, Recognize, Classify, Identify (DRCI
  
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• Definitive List Of When Can Law Enforcement Look At Your Devices

  19-04-2018 04:37 via Technocracy News
  In the age of total surveillance and while there is still a Constitution in place, it is important to know your rights and your vulnerabilities. Police frequently have memory lapses but you should not. Technocrats who push for your data infrequently have any concern for your privacy or rights. ⁃ TN EditorIn late 2015, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized the iPhone of a shooter involved in a terrorist attack in San Bernadino, California. The problem? The phone was locked,
  
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• We're so close with dogs, even our poop looks similar

  19-04-2018 02:00 via Popular Science
  
  AnimalsA new study finds that human and dog microbiomes have more in common than you might expect.
  Evidence of our relationship with dogs goes deep—far into the gut, in fact. A new study published today in the journal Microbiome suggests that our microbiomes and those…
  
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• Watch NASA TV Coverage of the Launch of TESS

  19-04-2018 00:35 via SciTechDaily
  LIVE, 6:30 p.m. Eastern: NASA TV coverage of the launch of TESS, NASA’s new planet-hunting mission. Launch is targeted at 6:51 p.m. EDT. TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet...
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• At the Bottom of the Ocean, a Surprising, Gloomy Discovery

  18-04-2018 23:03 via Top Stories
  Almost two miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, on a lonely outcrop of bare rock 100 miles from Costa Rica, researchers on a geological expedition found something odd. As their remotely controlled submersible sunk through the black waters toward the seafloor, they saw a collection of purple lumps dotting the rocky bottom.As they got closer, they resolved themselves into something resembling a bowling ball with suckers. It was a group of female octopuses, of the genus Muusoctop
  
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• One Simple Trick To Improve Credibility

  18-04-2018 21:37 via Top Stories
  It's intuitive: We hear a message, think about it, and decide whether or not we believe it. We have to do it whenever we get a new piece of information in our lives, from politics to the news to gossip, so you’d think we’d be good at it by now.But studies constantly show that our squishy human brains don’t make it quite so easy. Presenting information in different ways — whether there’s a photo included, or changing the colors of the words — affects our interp
  
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• Earth's climate went kind of schizo in March

  18-04-2018 21:34 via Top Stories
  Earth has been taking a very slight breather this year from the seemingly unrelenting record-setting global temperatures observed in the previous two years. And this past month was no exception.By NASA's accounting, March 2018 was the sixth warmest such month in records dating back to 1880. In an independent analysis, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration pegged March as fifth warmest. And for the first quarter of the year (January through March), NOAA shows the peri
  
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• Watch SpaceX launch NASA’s new planet-hunting satellite

  18-04-2018 21:30 via Popular Science
  
  SpaceTESS is blasting off on Wednesday night.
  NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will search the brightest stars in our galactic neighborhood for evidence of planets. Its mission starts today.
  
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• Your Next Pilot Could Be Drone Software

  18-04-2018 20:56 via Top Stories
  Would you get on a plane that didn’t have a human pilot in the cockpit? Half of air travelers surveyed in 2017 said they would not, even if the ticket was cheaper. Modern pilots do such a good job that almost any air accident is big news, such as the Southwest engine disintegration on Tuesday.But stories of pilot drunkenness, rants, fights and distraction, however rare, are reminders that pilots are only human. Not every plane can be flown by a disaster-averting pilot, like Southwest Cap
  
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• My ancestor died of a splinter. Wait, what?

  18-04-2018 20:30 via Popular Science
  
  HealthLittle bumps and blisters used to kill.
  How did bumps, pricks, and bruises kill? I followed my great-great-great-grandma’s obituary down a deadly rabbit hole.
  
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• Unprecedented ‘Dissection’ of Twin Galaxies in Final Stages of Merging

  18-04-2018 19:21 via SciTechDaily
  Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have completed an unprecedented “dissection” of twin galaxies in the final stages of merging. The new study, led...
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• This company wants to replace braille with a controversial new font

  18-04-2018 18:30 via Popular Science
  
  TechnologyMeet ELIA, a new tactile reading system.
  Little has changed in the way of tactile reading and writing since Louis Braille published his braille system in 1829. But ELIA has big plans.
  
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• Paleontologists Identify a New Species of Ancient Whale

  18-04-2018 18:09 via SciTechDaily
  University of Otago paleontologists are rewriting the history of New Zealand’s ancient whales by describing a previously unknown genus of baleen whale, alive more than...
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• New Images Provide Insights Into How HSV-1 Works

  18-04-2018 17:52 via SciTechDaily
  UCLA researchers have produced the clearest 3-D images to date of the virus that causes cold sores, herpes simplex virus type 1, or HSV-1. The...
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• Biologists Reveal How Marine Fish Won An Evolutionary Lottery

  18-04-2018 17:36 via SciTechDaily
  Most marine fish, including tuna, belong to a group called acanthomorphs, which experienced an explosion of diversity after an asteroid crash 66 million years ago....
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• Engineers Develop New Manufacturing Process That Spools Out Strips of Graphene

  18-04-2018 17:12 via SciTechDaily
  MIT engineers have developed a continuous manufacturing process that produces long strips of high-quality graphene. The team’s results are the first demonstration of an industrial,...
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• Researchers Link Dyslexia Gene Variants to Consonant Use Across Populations

  18-04-2018 17:01 via SciTechDaily
  In a new study of languages spoken in 43 different populations worldwide, Yale School of Medicine researchers and their colleagues identified variants of a dyslexia...
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• An evolutionary biologist takes on the absurd bodies of superheroes

  18-04-2018 17:00 via Popular Science
  
  Nexus Media News An interview with evolutionary biologist Shane Campbell-Staton.
  Evolutionary biologist Shane Campbell-Staton loves reading comic books almost as much as he loves studying unusual animals. Now he’s combining his twin passions in a new…
  
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• Seeing your phone's screen while wearing sunglasses just takes one quick trick

  18-04-2018 15:30 via Popular Science
  
  DIYHere’s why.
  As summer returns, it’s time to relax and read by the pool. So you pull out your phone, don your shades, and...you can’t see a thing on the screen. What gives?
  
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• Everything you never wanted to know about artificial sweeteners

  18-04-2018 14:00 via Popular Science
  
  HealthYour diet soda might just be worse than a regular one.
  Low-calorie sweeteners have been around for decades now, and we’re finally at a point where we’ve studied them enough to understand roughly how they work and what effect…
  
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• Fin24.com | Tech rally boosts US stocks, Netflix surges

  18-04-2018 13:58 via Fin24 Tech
  
  Wall Street stocks have powered higher on strong corporate earnings, with a blowout report from Netflix igniting a rally in technology shares.
  
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• New U.S. Army Facial Recognition Tech Works In The Dark

  18-04-2018 06:20 via Technocracy News
  Technocrats at DARPA have been working on this project for several years and have apparently found success. As this technology makes its way into law enforcement and other surveillance situations, darkness will no longer provide any protection. ⁃ TN EditorIt’s no mean feat for a computer to identify an individual’s face in daylight. The process involves precisely measuring a photograph — eye size, distance from nose to mouth, etc. — adjusting the distances
  
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• New Portable DNA Scanner Gives Results In 90 Minutes

  18-04-2018 05:59 via Technocracy News
  Two years ago, TN predicted that portable DNA scanners would hit the market and be instantly snapped up by police departments. The barrier to privacy has been completely demolished and laws will soon require routine testing for any citation. Initially, law enforcement is using the tech for crime scene analysis of DNA material. ⁃ TN EditorFor the last 10 months, Houston police have been testing cutting-edge technology that could potentially get criminals off the streets faster.
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• Los Angeles Pays $40,000/Mile For Street Coating To Fight Climate Change

  18-04-2018 05:47 via Technocracy News
  Los Angeles already has a $74 million budget deficit thanks to its homeless problem, but Technocrat city managers are not deterred in their fight against global warming. Since the ‘paint’ only lasts 7 years, they will get to do it all over again.  ⁃ TN EditorCalifornia officials are hoping their latest attempt to stem the rising tides of climate change leads to a more socially conscious — and cooler — summer.
  Officials in Los Angeles have been painting streets
  
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• Taxpayers are getting an extra day to file because of an IRS technical glitch

  18-04-2018 02:03 via NBC News Technology
  But don't fret: Last minute filers still have alternative options.
  
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• Changes to conservation policy could put the future of migratory birds up in the air

  18-04-2018 00:00 via Popular Science
  
  AnimalsU.S. policies for protecting them could be shifting drastically.
  The Trump administration has announced a position on protecting migratory birds that is a drastic pullback from policies in force for the past 100 years.
  
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• No One Knows How Long the U.S. Coastline Is

  17-04-2018 23:02 via Top Stories
  How long is the U.S. coastline? It's a straightforward question, and one that's important for scientists and government agencies alike. The U.S. Geological Survey could give you an answer, too, but I'm going to tell you right now that it's wrong.In fact, no one could give you the right answer, and if you look around, you'll find a number of estimations that differ by seemingly improbable amounts. One government report lists the number as 12,383 miles. The same report admits that a differ
  
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• Anker's smart home brand is crowdfunding a new security system

  17-04-2018 22:59 via Popular Science
  
  GadgetsImproved battery, picture quality, and security.
  The new Eufy EverCam smart home security system is now on Kickstarter. Read on.
  
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• 'Sex compass' app harvested user data, former Cambridge Analytica employee says

  17-04-2018 21:45 via NBC News Technology
  The former staffer also claimed Cambridge Analytica most likely harvested data from more than 87 million people.
  
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• Scientists stumbled upon a plastic-eating bacterium—then accidentally made it stronger

  17-04-2018 21:30 via Popular Science
  
  EnvironmentHungry, hungry enzymes.
  We’re slowly suffocating a lot of natural ecologies with our trash. Fish, birds, and other animals all unwittingly consume the five trillion tons of plastic (and…
  
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• Thousands of Android apps are tracking your kids private info

  17-04-2018 21:13 via NBC News Technology
  That digital nanny may be a 'gossip.'
  
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• The Lighthouse security camera uses AI to recognize your family and your pets

  17-04-2018 20:30 via Popular Science
  
  GadgetsThis $300 security camera recognizes you, your family, and even your pets.
  Lighthouse is a pricy, but intelligent solution for a connected security camera.
  
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• Diamonds Provide Evidence of a Lost Planet That Once Roamed Our Solar System

  17-04-2018 18:44 via SciTechDaily
  Fragments of a meteorite that fell to Earth more than a decade ago provide compelling evidence of a lost planet that once roamed our solar...
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• These diamonds are tiny, flawed, and may come from a long-lost planet

  17-04-2018 18:30 via Popular Science
  
  SpaceThe early solar system was a wild, world-destroying place.
  A study published in Nature Communications offers a dramatic origin story for the meteorite. Based on materials found inside the diamonds, researchers think this may be…
  
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• New Research Helps Explain Mercury’s Magnetic Tail

  17-04-2018 18:22 via SciTechDaily
  Theoretical physicists used simulations to explain the unusual readings collected in 2009 by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission. The origin...
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