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• Asteroid headed toward Earth may arrive on Valentine's Day 2046 - Nasa

  10-03-2023 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The space rock has about a 1 in 560 chance of hitting this planet, the agency says.
  
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• Revolting video shows caterpillar infected by 'zombie' fungus from The Last of Us

  10-03-2023 21:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A victim of a zombie fungus made famous in The Last of Us has been revealed in a revolting video. The fungus infected a caterpillar, ate its insides and grew out of the insect's head.
  
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• Campaigners slam government river bathing decision

  10-03-2023 19:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Just one river included in government's proposal for new designated swimming sites
  
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• Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone

  10-03-2023 18:49
  
  Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data.
  
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• Meta exploring plans for Twitter rival

  10-03-2023 18:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Meta is looking at plans to launch a new social media app in its bid to displace Twitter.
  
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• Don't use the phrases 'pig out' because it makes obese people feel like ANIMALS, dietitians say

  10-03-2023 18:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Talking about a 'war on obesity' makes overweight people feel like the enemy, and they should be referred to as 'individuals with higher weight', according to the British Dietetic Association (BDA).
  
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• York Minster cathedral installing 199 solar panels on its roof

  10-03-2023 18:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The solar panels that are to be installed on York Minster will provide approximately 30 per cent of the nearly 800-year-old building's power every year.
  
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• Shocking video reveals happens if you don't treat head lice

  10-03-2023 18:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Head lice turns into a parasitic nightmare when left untreated. A video shares how the tiny blood-sucking insects multiple by the tens of thousands in just one month - and can be resistant to treatment.
  
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• Elon Musk is 'behaving like the local drunk: Ex-Twitter president criticizes CEO 

  10-03-2023 16:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A former Twitter president revealed his distaste for how Elon Musk is running the social media platform, stating he is 'behaving like the local drunk' because if the comments he made to a disabled ex-employee.
  
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• TikTokers target controversial Willow oil project

  10-03-2023 16:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US government may approve the Alaska drilling site soon - but its opponents are going viral.
  
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• The 42 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now

  10-03-2023 16:00
  
  From Lost in Space to Wednesday, these are our picks for the best streaming titles to binge this week.
  
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• The 37 Best Films on Netflix This Week

  10-03-2023 16:00
  
  From The Land of Steady Habits to Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, here are our picks for the best streaming titles to feast your eyes on.
  
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• Central Bank Digital Currency Is the Endgame Of Total Control

  10-03-2023 14:42 via technocracy.news
  The central bank cartel, headed by the Bank for International Settlements, is playing its CBDC card to dominate the world. Welcome to Fintech, the new financial arm of the Great Reset, the ordained financial system for Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy. The rise of central bankers is described in my book, The Evil Twins of Technocracy and Transhumanism. ⁃ TN EditorCentral bank digital currency (CBDC) will end human freedom. Don’t fall for the assurances of safeguards, the prom
  
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• Silicon Valley Bank share slump rocks financial stocks

  10-03-2023 13:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Global bank shares slide after problems at one US bank trigger fears of wider issues.
  
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• Russia Is Powering Up a Giant Laser to Test Its Nuclear Weapons

  10-03-2023 13:00
  
  To check that atomic weapons work, scientists run simulations of explosions using high-energy lasers—and Russia is building the strongest one of all.
  
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• Follow the asteroids racing towards Earth with NASA's interactive tool

  10-03-2023 12:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The US space agency's tool features all the asteroids near to Earth, including the next five closest approaches to our planet, starting with 2020 FV4 in three days' time.
  
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• Take a virtual tour of Norway's Svalbard Global Seed Vault that is safeguarding the world's crops 

  10-03-2023 11:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A virtual tour, by Devon-based company The Virtual Tour Experts, grants access to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway, which stores 'spare copies' of valuable plant seeds.
  
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• Boffins find 'missing link' between interstellar ice and what comes out of the tap

  10-03-2023 08:30 via go.theregister.com
  
  Now drink your space juice It looks likely that the water on Earth is older than the Sun and the stuff we drink today probably isn't all that different than it was over 4.6 billion years ago when our star formed.…
  
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• Can VR influencers save the metaverse?

  10-03-2023 08:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Some people think the vision of a virtual world is dead. But others still believe it's the future.
  
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• Transhumanist Scientists Create Mice With ‘Two Dads’

  10-03-2023 05:48 via technocracy.news
  
  The natural, organic way to procreate involves a man and a woman. This isn’t good enough for the Transhuman cartel, so they find a way to create viable eggs using only male cells, giving encouragement and credibility to the transgender community who already insist that women can be men and men can be women. ⁃ TN EditorResearchers in Japan claim to have successfully created eggs using cells from two male mice. What they are claiming is nothing less than the ability to enable two biolo
  
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• The Troubling Future Of The Green Electric Revolution

  10-03-2023 05:33 via technocracy.news
  
  Fatalism abounds. The human and environmental cost of making EVs is enormous. There will never be enough availability energy to charge all the EVs currently envisioned by manufacturers. The outcome in America will be identical to the UK as reality slaps the face of Utopian Technocrat dreamers. ⁃ TN EditorThe moment humankind harnessed electricity was a milestone and the world would never be the same. Defined as the modern era of western civilisation. Technology is developed to fulfil the c
  
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• Is there a better way to insulate our draughty homes?

  10-03-2023 01:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Aerogel is described as the most effective insulating material known to science, so why isn't it used more?
  
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