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• Dead fish rain down in Texarkana after being swept up by waterspouts from a storm

  31-12-2021 23:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dead fish fell from the sky over Texarkana, which is known as 'animal rain' and occurs when small water animals are swept up in waterspouts or drafts that occur on the surface of the earth.
  
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• PAUL McKENNA launches a major series with a three-step plan to help you press reset on your emotions

  31-12-2021 23:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  PAUL McKENNA: Starting today, and continuing next week, I will introduce you to new ways of thinking that will help inoculate you against negativity and press reset on your emotions.
  
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• PAUL MCKENNA - You CAN switch off stress with these ingenious mind tricks

  31-12-2021 23:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For almost two years a part of our brain, called the amygdala - which is where we process feelings of threat and fear - has been receiving almost constant stimulation writes PAUL McKENNA.
  
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• NASA's ISS will live on! Operations for the space station will now extend through 2030

  31-12-2021 22:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA announced on Friday the Biden administration is extending operations of the ISS through 2030, but the ship was only meant to last 156 years and is starting to age.
  
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• FCC launches program to give low-income Americans cheaper internet

  31-12-2021 20:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Affordable Connectivity Program will give households with an income that is at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines a $30 discount off their monthly internet bill.
  
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• New photos show microscopic plankton in magnificent detail 

  31-12-2021 19:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Photographer Jan van IJken has snapped a wide variety of plankton in the Netherlands, including planktonic copepod with diatoms (algae) attached (pictured).
  
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• Beware 2022: Technocracy’s War Against Humanity Set To Continue

  31-12-2021 19:36 via technocracy.news
  
  On the last day of 2021, what better time to reflect on Technocracy’s recent gains and likely trajectory moving into 2022?
  Over Christmas, I showcased my Twelve Days of Technocracy articles that were originally written in December 2019. Even though these appear at the bottom of the home page at Technocracy.news, many people had not read them.
  The intent of Twelve Days of Technocracy was to provide a primer on Technocracy across several topics, such as central banking, academia, education a
  
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• Tech: Galaxy S22 Ultra leaks suggest Samsung's next smartphone will borrow heavily from the Note

  31-12-2021 18:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Renders published by phone leaker Evan Blass on Twitter suggest that the upcoming model will sport an S-Pen dock, a wider screen to write on and a flat top and bottom.
  
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• Fossilized eggs found in Brazil were laid by a carnivorous dinosaur some 60 million years ago

  31-12-2021 18:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A total of five fossilized dinosaur eggs were unearthed in Brazil that were buried by loose sediment some 60 million years ago. Thesediment has acted as a protectant to preserve the eggs.
  
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• NASA reveals this year's best scientific experiments on the ISS

  31-12-2021 16:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In an online photo gallery, NASA has shared images from 'breakthrough investigations' ISS crew members worked on this year, including growing veg in space.
  
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• Nature: Five sea stars and a well-camouflaged pygmy pipehorse among new species discovered in 2021

  31-12-2021 16:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The freshly-described flora and fauna hail from as far and wide as the lowland forests of Madagascar to the coral reefs around Easter Island and the treetops of Mexico.
  
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• BlackBerry is set to kill support for its classic smartphones on January 4

  31-12-2021 16:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  BlackBerry is killing its classic smartphone. On Jan 4, all smartphones and devices running on its operating system will no longer receive or make phone calls and texts, use data or call 911.
  
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• NHS Covid app sends record number of 'pings'

  31-12-2021 16:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The alerts ask people to test or self-isolate after contact with someone who had a positive result.
  
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• Google delays the first major update for its Pixel 6 and 6 Pro phones

  31-12-2021 13:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  One commentator has slammed the California tech giant for taking so long to release an important bug fix, calling it 'very poor form on Google's part'.
  
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• Why Aren’t You Using an Electric Heat Pump?

  31-12-2021 13:00
  
  This process to warm homes is far greener and cleaner than natural gas. Soon the economics will add up too.
  
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• Electric Vehicle Charging is the Next Billion-Dollar Market

  31-12-2021 13:00
  
  As electric goods-delivery lorries start to hit roads there will be massive demand for infrastructure that facilitates them.
  
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• Stargazers could enjoy the best meteor shower of 2022 NEXT WEEK

  31-12-2021 12:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This is the first meteor shower of 2022, and will peak on January 3 at about 20:40 GMT for those in the UK, appearing to emanate in the constellation Bootes, near the Big Dipper.
  
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• Earth's five mass extinctions and a sixth could be on the way

  31-12-2021 11:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Species are disappearing at more than100 times the natural rate, according to Stanford University's Paul Erhlich, who said it was yet more evidence the world is facing a sixth mass extinction.
  
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• Huge asteroid will race past Earth at 43,000 miles per hour next month 

  31-12-2021 10:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The space rock, called 7482 (1994 PC1), poses no threat to the Earth as it will be five times further away from the planet than the Moon, as it shoots by at 43,000 mph.
  
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• Year in tech: The stories making headlines in 2021

  31-12-2021 02:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  From the metaverse to NFTs and everything in-between, what's made the news in tech this year?
  
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