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• Cat brains became SMALLER as the animals were domesticated 10,000 years ago

  31-01-2022 22:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A combined team of researchers from the University of Vienna and National Museums Scotland, compared cranial capacity in multiple types of cats.
  
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• Earth could have as many as 73,000 tree species 

  31-01-2022 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  South America contains about 43 per cent of the world's tree species and the highest number of rare ones, according to a three-year international project involving almost 150 scientists.
  
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• Remains of Oxford University's 'lost college' discovered 500 YEARS after they were abandoned

  31-01-2022 20:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  St Mary's College had been intended as a base for Augustinian canons to study but was one of many Catholic facilities to be abandoned during Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s.
  
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• Remains of Oxford University's 'lost college' are discovered

  31-01-2022 20:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  St Mary's College had been intended as a base for Augustinian canons to study but was one of many Catholic facilities to be abandoned during Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s.
  
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• Geological goldilocks zone discovered by scientists, where precious metals are near the surface

  31-01-2022 20:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of experts from Cardiff University discovered this 'geological goldilocks zone' at the base of the Earth's crust, where temperatures are about 1,832 F (1,000C).
  
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• Apple AirPods could soon identify you based on the shape of your EAR CANAL, patent suggests 

  31-01-2022 18:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new biometric device would use ultrasonic signals reflected against the walls of a user's ear canal to authenticate a user, the Cupertino tech giant explains in a new patent.
  
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• NASA's asteroid alert system ATLAS upgraded to scan the entire night sky

  31-01-2022 18:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Based at the University of University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA), the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) has expanded its reach.
  
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• Epic backed by 35 US states in Apple legal rematch

  31-01-2022 17:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A coalition of 35 state attorneys general is supporting the Fortnite-maker's appeal against an in-app purchases ruling.
  
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• 'Ultra-hot' exoplanet has a layered atmosphere like Earth's, study says

  31-01-2022 17:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers used the HARPS spectrograph at the La Silla Observatory in Chile to analyse the atmosphere of the exoplanet, called WASP-189b, in detail.
  
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• A jab even needlephobes can stomach! Scientists develop potential Covid vaccine PILL 

  31-01-2022 17:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MIT scientists have moved one step closer to developing a needle-free vaccine after successfully delivering mRNA, the same technology used in some Covid jabs, into the stomach cells of pigs.
  
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• Boys spending longer watching screens more likely to have autism at 3

  31-01-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study of 84,000 babies by researchers in Japan found autism rates were 3.5 times higher among one-year-old boys exposed to screens for two to four hours per day.
  
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• Wordle: Analysis by computer scientist suggests 'LATER' is the best starting guess

  31-01-2022 16:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  US-based software developer Chris Wanek analysed the frequency of each letter among the 2,315 words that the puzzle game can draw upon for its solutions.
  
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• NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's first target is a sun-like star in the Big Dipper

  31-01-2022 15:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  After reaching its orbit, at the second Lagrange point (L2), an area of balance betweengravitational forces of the Earth and the sun, NASA revealed its first target.
  
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• Naomi Wolf: On The Subtlety Of Monsters

  31-01-2022 15:45 via technocracy.news
  
  Wolf correctly notes, “people are asked to join a cult and offer up their bodies; if they don’t, they are ostracized and denied social life and professional advancement.” Similarities must be drawn to the period of Nazi Germany during 1931-33 that set the stage for unspeakable evil. ⁃ TN EditorMy first post in this three-part series, about how the evil that surrounds us has manifested, was about the elite global technocrat class and their distance from the people whose li
  
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• Wokeism: The Cruel Destruction Of Society To Make Way For ‘Build Back Better’

  31-01-2022 15:19 via technocracy.news
  
  The scorched earth practice of Wokeism is not the end in itself, but the means to the end of the global elite’s Great Reset and Build Back Better, aka Technocracy. Capitalism and free market economy must be destroyed in order for Technocracy to take total control, so burning down the existing order is the interim goal. ⁃ TN EditorWokeism has been described by its critics as the omnipresent use of race—and to a lesser extent, gender—to replace meritocracy and thus ensure e
  
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• Why Uranus and Neptune are different shades of blue

  31-01-2022 15:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Uranus has a haze layer in its atmosphere that is roughly double the thickness of Neptune, giving it the much paler colour, according to researchers led by the University of Oxford.
  
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• 'Smart Snout' app uses dogs' NOSE PRINTS to help identify and reunite lost pups with owners

  31-01-2022 15:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Smart Snout is the brainchild of Suffolk-based Bradley Watson, 44. He realised fingerprint technology used to collar crooks could also be applied to pooches.
  
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• Transportation Secretary Buttigieg Sparks Massive Surveillance Speed Camera Nightmare

  31-01-2022 15:01 via technocracy.news
  
  One way to defund the police is to obsolete their usefulness, like making face-to-face traffic stops to rein in dangerous drivers. Speed cameras have already been outlawed in many cities and some states, thus setting up direct conflict with federal mandates. The second aspect is continuous, mass surveillance of citizens. ⁃ TN EditorUS Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s plan to ‘promote speed safety cameras’ is raising the troubling specter of ubiquitous automated t
  
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• Women who make more money than their partner are TWICE as likely to fake orgasms

  31-01-2022 15:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Men who earn less than their partner may have a 'fragile sense of masculinity', according to researchers from the University of South Florida.
  
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• North Korea releases images taken from SPACE during missile test

  31-01-2022 13:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  North Korea said the pictures were taken using a camera mounted to a dummy warhead it launched on top of a Hwasong-12 ballistic missiles during a test on Sunday.
  
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• Big Tech Needs to Stop Trying to Make Their Metaverse Happen

  31-01-2022 13:00
  
  From Microsoft to Meta, the race is on to sell an amorphous concept that no one really wants them to build.
  
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• Space: NASA turns on James Webb Space Telescope's high-gain antenna

  31-01-2022 11:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Until now, communications with the telescope - now positioned at its L2 point home - had all been via its medium-gain antenna, using the microwave 'S-band' of frequencies between 2-4 GHz.
  
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• Crater on Mars looks just like a tree stump with concentric rings 

  31-01-2022 11:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The shot of the crater was snapped last June by the CaSSIS camera onboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), which blasted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, southern Kazakhstan in 2016.
  
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• Joe Rogan pledges to try harder after Neil Young Spotify row

  31-01-2022 11:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The podcaster supports the streaming giant's move to add warnings to podcasts discussing Covid-19.
  
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• Earth to Voyager 2: Standby for connection – after we tip this water out of the dish

  31-01-2022 08:15 via go.theregister.com
  
  Deep Space Network scope tilts to find its targets, or to dispose of the effects of recent rain Video  The venerable Voyager 2 spacecraft is currently more than 19 billion kilometres from Earth, travels at 15 kilometres per second and talks to NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) at a torturously slow 160 bits per second.…
  
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• Earth to Voyager 2: standby for connection - after we tip this water out of the dish

  31-01-2022 08:15 via go.theregister.com
  
  Deep Space Network scope tilts to find its targets, or to dispose of the effects of recent rain Video  The venerable Voyager 2 spacecraft is currently more than 19 billion kilometres from Earth, travels at 15 kilometres per second and talks to NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) at a torturously slow 160 bits per second.…
  
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• True story? Lie detection systems go high-tech

  31-01-2022 01:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A number of teams are working on advanced ways to tell more accurately if someone is lying.
  
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• The Belgians getting the right to disconnect from work

  31-01-2022 01:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  From next month, Belgium's civil servants may not be contacted outside working hours.
  
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• Inside Kazakhstan's giant crypto-mine

  31-01-2022 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Kazakhstan is now the world's second biggest crypto-currency mining country, thanks partly to a vast mine in the desert.
  
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