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• Penguins show signs of self-awareness in mirror tests

  28-12-2022 23:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists performed mirror tests with a dozen Adélie penguins living in East Antarctica and found the flightless birds recognized themselves in two of the three experiments.
  
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• Prehistoric 'living fossils' are spotted swimming in Arizona's 'The Wave'

  28-12-2022 21:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Triops, or tadpole shrimp, have lived on the planet since the dinosaurs. Their eggs lay dormant for decades until enough rainfall comes and provides ingredients for them to hatch.
  
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• TikTok is BANNED on US House of Representatives-issued devices

  28-12-2022 21:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  All US House Representatives and their staff received an email Tuesday mandating they delete TikTok from all government-issued devices immediately.
  
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• 2022 will be warmest year ever for UK, Met Office says

  28-12-2022 20:08 via bbc.co.uk
  Provisional figures suggest this year's average temperature will beat the all-time high set in 2014.
  
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• Federal Pandemic Aid Funds Universal Basic Income Pilot Programs

  28-12-2022 19:14 via technocracy.news
  Universal Basic Income is an original plank of the Technocracy movement dating back to 1934. Today, Technocrat actors are still pushing it despite lack of evidence that it does society any good. Now, over 80 cities and counties are running experimental UBI programs. ⁃ TN EditorAuthored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
  There are at least 82 municipalities across 29 states now engaged in guaranteed income experiments, including more than 70 with pilot programs create
  
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• NASA captures Mars winter wonderland of megadunes and cube-shaped snowflakes

  28-12-2022 18:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Winter on Mars transforms the Red Planet into something spectacular, but it's not quite like like a Hallmark greeting card's holiday scene.
  
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• Prehistoric 'living fossils' are spotted swimming in 'The Wave'

  28-12-2022 18:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Triops, or tadpole shrimp, have lived on the planet since the dinosaurs. Their eggs lay dormant for decades until enough rainfall comes and provides ingredients for them to hatch.
  
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• Coalition Of Private Companies Release ‘Policy Blueprint’ For State Government Officials To Push For Digital ID

  28-12-2022 17:39 via technocracy.news
  The manic drive to establish digital ID for everyone is now focussed on state and local entities, with preference to start by enhancing driver’s licenses. The globalist legal firm behind this consortium has a 100 year track record of promoting global governance. ⁃ TN Editor
  It’s all about control.
  A coalition of private companies has released a “digital ID blueprint,” which urges individual states to adopt the policies necessary to establish a digital ID system.
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• Look up tonight! All the planets in our solar system will be visible in the night sky

  28-12-2022 17:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  All other planets in our solar system are currently visible in the night sky. Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars can be seen with the naked eye, and Uranus and Neptune with binoculars.
  
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• Geoengineering: Startup Company Says It’s Already Begun Releasing Particles Into Atmosphere

  28-12-2022 17:04 via technocracy.news
  This is no joke operation. The co-founder and CEO of Make Sunsets is Luke Iseman, formerly director of hardware at thoroughly Technocratic-run Y-Combinator. Who gives a private company the right to alter the atmosphere for the planet? Answer: No One. ⁃ TN EditorA startup claims it has launched weather balloons that may have released reflective sulfur particles in the stratosphere, potentially crossing a controversial barrier in the field of solar geoengineering.
  Geoengineering refers to de
  
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• TikTok is BANNED on US House Representative-issued devices

  28-12-2022 16:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  All US House Representatives and their staff received an email Tuesday mandating they delete TikTok from all government-issued devices immediately.
  
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• Here are the best images from NASA's James Webb Telescope so far

  28-12-2022 16:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It has been just over a year since NASA's $10 billion (£7.4 billion) James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) blasted off into space. Here are its best images so far.
  
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• China plans huge optical telescope that resembles Earth-bound James Webb Space Telescope 

  28-12-2022 15:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  China wants to build the largest optical telescope in Asia that would rival America's James Webb Space Telescope.
  
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• Elon Musk's SpaceX launches the first batch of next-generation Starlink satellites

  28-12-2022 14:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This morning, SpaceX launched of its 'Gen2' Starlink internet satellites into orbit, which promise faster service for customers, and may offer smartphone connectivity.
  
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• Royal Mail hit by post-Christmas online outage

  28-12-2022 14:23 via bbc.co.uk
  Problems emerge on the website and app on the first day of regular post following the festive period.
  
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• The EU’s Privacy Protections Must Extend Beyond Its Borders

  28-12-2022 13:00
  Without more forceful global laws, tech will continue to cause harm to marginalized communities
  
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• The Best TV Shows of 2022—and How to Watch Them

  28-12-2022 13:00
  From Andor to Barry, here’s what you should binge now, if you haven’t already.
  
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• Humans and AI Will Understand Each Other Better Than Ever

  28-12-2022 13:00
  Transformers—data models based on neural networks—will radically change how machines interact with us.
  
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• Crispr’s Quest to Slay Donegal Amy

  28-12-2022 13:00
  A trial using the gene-editing tool inside the body hints at treating, or even curing, a rare fatal disease—and it’s changing a community in the process.
  
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• The astronomical events you don't want to miss in 2023

  28-12-2022 11:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  From meteor showers to solar eclipses, to crescent moons peaking out beside Saturn and Venus, there is a lot the sky you do not want to miss in 2023.
  
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• The top 10 weird and wonderful scientific discoveries of 2022

  28-12-2022 09:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  From Africa's oldest known dinosaur, to a pig's heart being transplanted into a US man in Baltimore, MailOnline looks at the most weird and wonderful scientific discoveries and achievements of 2022.
  
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• TikTok: Welsh speakers use social media to teach others

  28-12-2022 08:16 via bbc.co.uk
  Meet the social media influencers sharing their love of the Welsh language to new audiences.
  
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• Apple and Tesla: Tech shares tumble amid supply issues

  28-12-2022 08:10 via bbc.co.uk
  Both companies have suffered major losses over concerns about supply chain hiccups in China.
  
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• The Senegal man on a mission to plant five million trees

  28-12-2022 01:51 via bbc.co.uk
  Adama Diémé was motivated after seeing once-verdant villages in Senegal without a single tree.
  
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• Could a zombie virus frozen in mammoth remains leak from a Russian lab and spark a new pandemic?

  28-12-2022 01:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It's the story of how, right now, Russian researchers are unearthing the bodies of long-dead mammals in an attempt to 'reawaken' Stone Age viruses.
  
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• Fifth of dog owners worry their pet will put on weight over Christmas, survey reveals

  28-12-2022 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A UK survey by the Guide Dogs charity has revealed that, while a fifth of dog owners are concerned their pet will put on weight, at Christmas, a quarter admitted they also take them for fewer walks.
  
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• Butterflies, toads and lizards were devastated by extreme weather in 2022, says the National Trust

  28-12-2022 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Wildlife in the UK was negatively impacted by wildfires, drought, storms and December's cold snap according to a review of the year by the National Trust.
  
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