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• Researchers find 3,600 year-old evidence that Tall el-Hammam was destroyed by a 'cosmic airburst'

  20-09-2021 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers have unearthed 3,600-year-old evidence that Tall el-Hammam was destroyed by a 'cosmic impact' and may have inspired Bible story of destruction of Sodom.
  
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• 'Vampire' catfish which can swim up man's urethra use larger host fish as Amazon water taxis

  20-09-2021 21:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study suggests that vampire fish, also known as candiru, attach themselves to a larger host to navigate the difficult waters of the Amazon river.
  
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• Stroke victims recover best if rehab starts 2-3 MONTHS after the event

  20-09-2021 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Georgetown University Medical Center worked with 72 volunteers who suffered a stroke within three weeks of the trial.
  
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• Mars is 'too small' to retain liquid water, according to a new study

  20-09-2021 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  About half the size of Earth, Mars is the second smallest planet in the solar system, sitting at the very outer edge of the habitable zone where liquid water 'could flow'.
  
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• 'Vampire' catfish may travel through the Amazon river by using their larger hosts as taxis

  20-09-2021 20:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study suggests that vampire fish, also known as candiru, attach themselves to a larger host to navigate the difficult waters of the Amazon river.
  
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• Rich nations must increase climate support funds, says Boris Johnson

  20-09-2021 20:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK prime minister says he is "increasingly frustrated" at support offered to poorer countries.
  
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• Hubble celebrates its 31st birthday by sharing spectacular photo of exploding star AG Carinae 

  20-09-2021 19:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Hubble Space Telescope recently celebrated its 31st anniversary in space by showing off two new images of an exploding star almost 20,000 light-years from Earth.
  
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• Bitcoin mining producing tonnes of waste

  20-09-2021 18:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Waste from the cryptocurrency process is similar to that from IT equipment somewhere like the Netherlands.
  
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• Apple releases iOS 15 TODAY

  20-09-2021 18:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The release of iOS 15 comes ahead of the release of Apple's latest flagship phone the iPhone 13, which was revealed by the Cupertino, California-based tech giant last week.
  
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• Scientists: Delta Infections Of Fully Vaccinated Produce 251 Times The Viral Load

  20-09-2021 17:54 via technocracy.news
  
  The Lancet preprint specifically states: “Viral loads of breakthrough Delta variant infection cases were 251 times higher than those of cases infected with old strains detected between March-April 2020.” A “breakthrough case” is one who contracts the virus after being fully vaccinated. ⁃ TN EditorWhile moderating the symptoms of infection, the jab allows vaccinated individuals to carry unusually high viral loads without becoming ill at first, potentially transformin
  
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• Ancient Mars was dotted with thousands of massive super volcanoes, NASA says

  20-09-2021 17:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at NASA have confirmed that Mars previously experienced 'super eruptions' in its past, with the blasts happening over a 500-million-year-period about 4 billion years ago.
  
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• Washington State Is Hiring ‘Strike Team’ For Secured Isolation/Quarantine Facility

  20-09-2021 17:22 via technocracy.news
  
  Leftist governor Jay Inslee established an isolation and quarantine facility in Centralia and is now seeking to hire a “strike team” to provide services, security and management to the facility. Patient check-in is said to be voluntary but you cannot leave without notifying the staff. The state provides around-the-clock security.
  While this sounds innocuous to some, it is a slippery slope in a dark blue state like Washington, that has already expressed tyrannical policies in other ar
  
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• Technocrats Are Preparing ‘Mandatory’ Personal Carbon Allowances

  20-09-2021 16:30 via technocracy.news
  
  As forecast, the pandemic and global warming memes are merging because they are both orchestrated by the exact same alarmist crowd of Sustainable Development ideologues. The UN’s Sustainable Development goals are the plumb line for the future of humanity and are totally embedded in the WEF’s Great Reset.
  The referenced Nature article states,
  The introduction of personal carbon allowances (PCAs), a mitigation policy proposal developed in the 1990s5, is ripe for revisitation. This poli
  
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• SpaceX's Inspiration4 crew detail 'emotional' mission in first interview since returning to Earth 

  20-09-2021 16:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In their first interview since returning to Earth, the all-civilian crew of SpaceX's Inspiration4 mission said on Monday that their the trip to space was 'awe-inspiring' and 'emotional.'
  
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• Climate pledges tough to secure before COP26 summit, PM warns

  20-09-2021 16:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Boris Johnson says he has a "six out of 10" chance of securing pledges before the COP26 conference.
  
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• China: Children given daily time limit on Douyin - its version of TikTok

  20-09-2021 15:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Douyin users aged under 14 will be limited to 40 minutes a day on the platform.
  
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• Men sleep worse during the first half of the lunar cycle, study finds

  20-09-2021 14:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Men's sleep may be more powerfully influenced by the lunar cycle than women's, report researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden.
  
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• The best electric toothbrushes you can buy right now

  20-09-2021 14:55
  
  WIRED Recommends the best sonic and oscillating electric toothbrushes to polish your gnashers
  
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• Harvest Moon will peak this evening - just two days before the official start of autumn

  20-09-2021 14:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This is the closest full moon to the autumnal equinox - the moment the sun appears to cross over the celestial equator - on September 22.
  
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• US Federal Aviation Administration issues draft assessment of SpaceX Super Heavy impact

  20-09-2021 13:43 via go.theregister.com
  
  The environmental impact, not the smoking crater made by an impact SpaceX took another step towards launching the orbital version of its Starship last week with the release of a Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment (DPEA) from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).…
  
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• Music: Listening to singalong hits while driving increases your chance of errors, study warns

  20-09-2021 13:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The performance and emotional state of 34 motorists under various music conditions was explored using a driving simulator by researchers led from Brunel University, London.
  
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• Google sends broadband across the Congo River via beams of light

  20-09-2021 13:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Project Taara is being carried out by X, Alphabet's secretive R&D branch based in Mountain View, California.
  
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• The real reason it's impossible to hire anyone right now

  20-09-2021 07:00
  
  Workers quit in droves during the Great Resignation of 2021. But companies desperate for hires are finding their job adverts are still ignored
  
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• How Hamburg became Europe’s unlikely data protection trailblazer

  20-09-2021 07:00
  
  Under former commissioner Johannes Caspar, Hamburg sent shock waves from Brussels to Silicon Valley
  
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• China's taikonauts return from heavenly palace after 92-day mission

  20-09-2021 06:57 via go.theregister.com
  
  Plenty more launches planned to attach another couple of modules The first crewed mission to China's space station has ended successfully.…
  
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• Can apps manage our chronic health conditions?

  20-09-2021 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Swedish tech firm has created an app to help alleviate people's joint pain.
  
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