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• Elon Musk posts cryptic tweet about the 'sun of the old world setting in a dying blaze of splendor' 

  24-08-2021 21:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted a bizarre tweet on Monday, referencing the novel The Guns of August, a 500-page book about the early stages of World War I.
  
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• Airbnb offers free accommodation for 20,000 Afghan refugees

  24-08-2021 21:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Airbnb says it will house 20,000 Afghan refugees at no charge to help them resettle across the world.
  
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• Virgin Hyperloop unveils new pod concept video

  24-08-2021 20:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The high-speed evacuated-tube transportation company reveals its plans for passenger pods
  
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• NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snaps image of new stars popping out of a 'stellar nursery'

  24-08-2021 20:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Hubble Space Telescope has taken an image of new stars coming out of a 'stellar nursery' 50 light-years away in the constellation Gemini. The image was taken by Hubble's WFC3.
  
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• Why Coverage On Pandemic Tyranny Is So Important

  24-08-2021 19:52 via technocracy.news
  
  As editor of Technocracy News & Trends, I am not particularly satisfied in reporting story after story, day after day, on various aspects of the so-called Covid pandemic. Why fight the propaganda machine? Does it really matter? Aren’t other sites covering it anyway?
  After replaying these questions every morning in light of Technocracy, I always come to the same conclusion:
  IT’S NOT JUST A STORY, IT IS THE ONLY STORY!
  This is Technocracy’s coup d’état. It specif
  
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• Fauci: Pfizer’s FDA Approval Will Spawn Vaccine Mandates

  24-08-2021 18:12 via technocracy.news
  
  The nation’s leading unelected and unaccountable Technocrat, Dr. Anthony Fauci, seems happy that more vaccine mandates will rapidly be set into place since the FDA gave full approval to Pfizer’s gene therapy injection. With Fauci, it’s about power, or being “empowered” to force your will on others. ⁃ TN EditorDr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, said on Tuesday that he expects “a lot more” COVID-19 vaccine mandat
  
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• Snow on Mars is 'dustier' than that on Earth meaning it's more likely to melt and help sustain life

  24-08-2021 18:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have found Martian snow is 'dustier' than Earth snow, which could mean it's warmer and more likely to melt into water, a new study suggests.
  
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• The formula for the perfect egg and soldiers requires 'thermometer and ruler'

  24-08-2021 18:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For the ultimate egg and soldiers you'll need a measuring tape, thermometer and the ability to solve an equation, according to Dr James Hind, from Nottingham University.
  
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• Sunshine can reduce the risk of premature birth, study claims 

  24-08-2021 18:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pregnant women exposed to the least natural sunlight in Scotland had a 10 per cent greater risk of a premature birth, experts at the University of Edinburgh report.
  
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• European Space Agency asks for patience as it sifts through over 23,000 astronaut applications

  24-08-2021 18:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  ESA says the number of applicants far exceeded even its most optimistic forecasts, describing it as a positive indication of the level of interest in space activities.
  
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• Pollution: Mt Snowdon may become a plastic-free zone amid concerns over microplastics at the summit 

  24-08-2021 17:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A survey of Snowdon - conducted by the French geophysical services company CGG - found that plastics accumulated where people tend to congregate on the mountain.
  
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• Alabama Doctor Denies Treatment To Unvaccinated

  24-08-2021 17:59 via technocracy.news
  
  Vaccine hysteria punishes the unvaccinated, regardless of how they arrived in that condition. Since COVID injections are a cash cow to the entire medical industry, every level, including doctors in private practice, are protecting their livelihood.
  While the “concerned” doctor could treat his patients with very successful non-vaccine protocols that literally define “an eminently preventable disease”, he chooses to ignore those in favor of the gene therapy shot.
  This
  
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• Health: Drinking eight glasses of water daily can prevent or slow heart failure, study finds

  24-08-2021 17:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The health and hydration habits of 15,792 initially middle-aged people were monitored over the course of 25 years by researchers from from the US National Institutes of Health.
  
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• Iran prisons chief apologises over leaked videos of Evin abuse

  24-08-2021 16:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hackers leaked videos showing detainees being beaten by guards at Tehran's notorious Evin prison.
  
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• Sensors and AI to monitor Dorset social care patients

  24-08-2021 15:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Data from sensors in patients' homes will be analysed to warn of health problems.
  
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• Pulsar discoverer awarded Royal Society's highest prize

  24-08-2021 15:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell is only the second woman to be awarded the Copley Medal.
  
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• Nature: Ants dig their nests by looking for loose grains of soil to remove - like playing Jenga

  24-08-2021 14:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  X-ray images of ants digging their tiny tunnels in cups of soil were taken and analysed by mechanical engineers and biologists from the California Institute of Technology.
  
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• Tokyo Games: Robot Zen garden inspired by athletes

  24-08-2021 14:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sportspeople’s movements are interpreted and artistically recreated making ever changing artwork.
  
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• World's first 3D-printed WAGYU BEEF is revealed - with marbling just like the real deal 

  24-08-2021 13:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Grown in a laboratory from Waygu cow stem cells, the 3D-printed 'meat' includes muscle, fat and blood vessels arranged to resemble steaks by the team from Osaka University in Japan.
  
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• Uranium cube could reveal more about Nazi plot to build a nuclear bomb

  24-08-2021 13:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Uranium cubes that formed part of a failed Nazi nuclear reactor are being studied by experts at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington.
  
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• Solar System's fastest-orbiting asteroid spotted, flies closer to the Sun than Mercury

  24-08-2021 08:33 via go.theregister.com
  
  Boffins ponder where space rock came from Astronomers have discovered the Sun's fastest-orbiting asteroid yet, a one-kilometre-wide rock that completes a lap of our star every 113 Earth days.…
  
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• Solar System's fastest-known asteroid spotted, flies closer to the Sun than Mercury

  24-08-2021 08:33 via go.theregister.com
  
  Boffins ponder where Usain Bolt of space rocks came from Astronomers have discovered the fastest asteroid orbiting the Sun yet, a one-kilometre-wide space rock that completes a lap of our star every 113 Earth days.…
  
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• Didi: China ride-hailing giant halts plan to launch in UK

  24-08-2021 07:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It comes as Chinese firms face scrutiny by Western nations and as Beijing cracks down on data privacy.
  
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• How to delete your YouTube history and stop it tracking you

  24-08-2021 07:00
  
  Delete your YouTube watching and search history if you want Google to know less about you
  
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• A hidden Arctic cave holds secrets about our past and future

  24-08-2021 07:00
  
  For half-a-century scientists have wondered what clues this enigmatic Greenland cave might hold. Now they're about to find out
  
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• From earrings to tiles – what you can do with plastic waste

  24-08-2021 01:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How people around the world are recycling plastic waste themselves and turning it into cool stuff.
  
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• New report reveals Apple has been scanning emails for child-porn pictures since 2019

  24-08-2021 01:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a newly surfaced iMessage thread, Apple anti-fraud chief Eric Friedman said the company's emphasis on privacy over safety made it 'the greatest platform for distributing child porn.'
  
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• Climate change: Europe's extreme rains made more likely by humans

  24-08-2021 01:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Heavy rainfall that led to deadly floods in Germany and Belgium was influenced by human induced warming.
  
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• Covid US: CDC says 19-FOLD increase in patients using deworming drug despite FDA warnings

  24-08-2021 00:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Distribution of ivermectin, an anti-parasite drug, has increased 19-fold has falsehoods about the drug's ability to treat COVID-19 have spread on social media, per CDC data.
  
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