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• Unopened 1987 Nintendo Zelda game is up for auction for $100,000 

  08-07-2021 23:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A sealed copy of the original 'The Legend of Zelda' video game is up for auction this month and will sell for more than $100,000. It has a grade of 9.0 and is placed inside a plastic container.
  
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• Every US coast will experience a surge in flooding next decade, NASA warns 

  08-07-2021 22:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  By next decade, every US coast will see increased high-tide flooding caused by global warming, worsened by the moon's pull on tides,with cities like Boston, La Jolla and Honolulu at risk.
  
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• Scientists develop 'smart collar' that prevents tapeworms in dogs

  08-07-2021 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Authors found that dosing dogs monthly with deworming treatments is difficult, but this new collar can automate the process, according to experts from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control in Beijing.
  
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• Dippy the dinosaur 85-feet-long diplodocus replica reaches Norwich Cathedral on UK tour

  08-07-2021 19:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Visitors to the 11th century cathedral in Norwich will be able to admire the cast for free - with no need to book tickets in advance - from July 13 to and October 30 this year.
  
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• Boosting electric vehicle adoption in Hawaii could drop fossil fuel consumption by 99% in 30 years

  08-07-2021 18:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Boosting electric vehicle and renewable energy adoption could see Hawaii cut its fossil fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions by 99 and 93 percent by the year 2050, a new study says.
  
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• Euro 2020: ITV sorry for Apple TV streaming issue

  08-07-2021 18:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One viewer said on social media they had missed 14 minutes of Wednesday's England v Denmark game.
  
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• Football: Experts explore the science behind fan behaviours ahead of the Euro 2020 final

  08-07-2021 18:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MailOnline has delved into the science behind football fan etiquette, speaking to psychologists, evolutionary biologists and anthropologists to unravel the mystery of these behaviours.
  
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• People who start losing their teeth are more likely to develop DEMENTIA

  08-07-2021 16:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tooth loss is a risk factor for both dementia and cognitive impairment - and with each tooth lost, the risk grows, according to scientists from New York University.
  
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• Contraceptive pills to be sold over-the-counter without a prescription in UK for first time

  08-07-2021 16:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  British regulators have approved two brands of the Pill - known as Lovima and Hana - to be made available to women of child-bearing age without written authorisation.
  
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• Six species of sharks, including bull sharks, hunt in shifts

  08-07-2021 16:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Six species of large coastal sharks hunt in 'shifts,' according to a new study, with bull sharks, one of the most dangerous, most active in early morning hours.
  
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• Apple founder Steve Wozniak backs right-to-repair movement

  08-07-2021 14:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  "We wouldn't have had an Apple had I not grown up in a very open technology world," Mr Wozniak said.
  
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• Nun discovers handwritten manuscripts by Italy's national poet Dante

  08-07-2021 14:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This new discovery was found by a Florence-based researcher turned nun, who claims to have stumbled on the work hidden away in two libraries.
  
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• Just three consecutive nights of poor sleep 'impacts mental and physical well-being'

  08-07-2021 13:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sleep loss causes mental symptoms, like depression, and physical symptoms such as aches and breathing problems, report experts based in Tampa, Florida.
  
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• Google faces new anti-trust lawsuit over app store

  08-07-2021 13:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The tech giant faces legal action from 37 US states over its app store practices.
  
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• Chocolate side up or down? Scientist reveals the best way to eat a Chocolate Digestive

  08-07-2021 13:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The flip method lets the brain register chocolate while maximising the 'oral-somatosensory experience' of chocolate on tongue, according to University of Oxford research.
  
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• Scientists reveal where the most polluted AIR is along the European coastlines

  08-07-2021 13:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sardinia and the southern Spanish coast have high levels of particulate matter (PM), analysis by Palo Alto, California-based firm Airly shows.
  
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• Spending 17 minutes a day on a mobile phone increases cancer risk, study claims

  08-07-2021 11:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The controversial research involved statistical analysis of 46 different studies into mobile phone use and health around the world, by experts from UC Berkeley.
  
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• China divided as WeChat deletes LGBT accounts from platform

  08-07-2021 07:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Dozens of LGBT social media accounts run by university students,were deleted without explanation.
  
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• The net is closing on child sexual abuse images

  08-07-2021 07:00
  
  There are 150 child sexual abuse laws around the world. Metadata is being used to bring them closer together
  
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• Supermarkets have a rubbish problem

  08-07-2021 07:00
  
  They thrived during the pandemic. Now supermarkets want to tackle their mountain of waste
  
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• The James Webb Space Telescope, a project dating back to the late 1900s, may launch this very century

  08-07-2021 05:32 via go.theregister.com
  
  Europeans still hoping for Halloween lift-off After years of delays, the James Webb Space Telescope may actually launch this year, having passed a "final mission analysis review," we're told.…
  
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• Nature: Backyard moth spotting rises during lockdown

  08-07-2021 02:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Experts are heartened by a new found interest in the "underappreciated and under-threat" insects.
  
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• Climate change: US-Canada heatwave 'virtually impossible' without warming

  08-07-2021 02:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Without global warming, the searing heat seen in the western US and Canada "just doesn't occur," say scientists.
  
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• The Fatal Conceit Of Technocracy That Afflicts Most Policymaking

  08-07-2021 01:09 via technocracy.news
  
  As more people pick up on the historical and modern reality of Technocracy, more and more angles are being analyzed. The author declares, “It (Technocracy) fails to recognize that people are not chessboard pieces and could opt to respond in ways that defeat grand policy objectives” ⁃ TN Editor
  The great Austrian economist and political philosopher, Friedrich von Hayek, published The Road to Serfdom in 1944, arguing against socialism, planning and collectivism, and in
  
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• How de-cluttering grew Facebook Marketplace to 1bn users

  08-07-2021 01:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As Covid shut charity shops thrifty second-hand traders shifted online to bag a bargain, in droves.
  
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• Technocrat Elon Musk Celebrates China’s 100-Year Anniversary

  08-07-2021 00:49 via technocracy.news
  
  Birds of a feather flock together. Musk is a consummate Technocrat celebrating the world’s first complete example of Technocracy. Must greatly admires the fully-engineered society that China has created. ⁃ TN EditorBillionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk and his electric car company Tesla have shared full-blown praise of the Chinese Communist Party on China’s equivalent to Twitter, Breitbart News can reveal.
  The verified accounts for Elon Musk and top Chinese Tesla re
  
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• Mercola: To Prevent Three Deaths, COVID Jab Kills Two

  08-07-2021 00:38 via technocracy.news
  
  In normal times, every single gene therapy “vaccine” would have been terminated weeks after release. These are not normal times. As Technocracy’s coup progresses, all resistance, logic and common sense is tossed aside like rag dolls. ⁃ TN EditorIf there were any reasonable safety standard in place, the COVID injection campaign would have been halted in early January 2021. The reported rate of death from COVID-19 shots now exceeds the reported death rate of more than 70 v
  
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• Scientists develop online calculator to predict how long senior citizens have left to live

  08-07-2021 00:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team at the University of Ottawa, in Ontario, Canada, developed the Risk Evaluation for Support: Predictions for Elder-Life in the Community Tool (RESPECT).
  
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