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• Why Doesn’t the N.F.L. Use Tracking Technology for First Down Calls?

  18-12-2017 23:50 via nytimes.com
  An N.F.L. spokesman said the league has “not found one to date that we were comfortable with to deploy.”
  
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• Mind-Controlling Parasites Find a Home in the Lab

  18-12-2017 23:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mind-controlling parasites are the stuff of nightmares and blockbuster horror movies, yet organisms that turn normally sensible creatures into zombies are all too real. Most of the microbes and fungi that do this are restricted to the insect world, luckily, though those cases are gruesome enough.Ants with fungal spores growing from their heads, cockroaches eaten from the inside by parasitic wasp larva, fish driven to suicide-by-bird — the list goes on, and it's a veritable treasure tr
  
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• Sony 1000Xm2 headphone review: fantastic and a little finicky

  18-12-2017 23:15
  
  GadgetsOne of the best noise-cancelling options on the market gets an update.
  Sony's adaptive noise-canceling headphones are great for business travelers who love bass.
  
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• Breaking the Sound Barrier, Quietly

  18-12-2017 23:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  NASA wants to make sonic booms a little less…boom-y.When a jet breaks the sound barrier, it generates shockwaves that are eventually heard—and felt—on the ground as sonic booms. The boisterous nature of supersonic flight is one of the primary driving forces behind the Federal Aviation Administration's ban on supersonic flights over land. But NASA scientists are working to design an aircraft that can smash the sound barrier quietly, and that could cut travel times in the United
  
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• Evolutionary Quirks Helped Poinsettias Rule the Holidays

  18-12-2017 21:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Poinsettias are a holiday icon. Their crimson colors are so commonplace this time of year that they practically blend into the background. And once the holidays are over, they'll disappear like so many Christmas trees.But these seemingly boring flowers actually hide a fascinating history. Poinsettias owe their holiday prevalence to some weird quirks of evolution — and one clever Southern California entrepreneur.
  Christmas Colors
  The poinsettia has been tied to Christmas for centuries,
  
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• Yes, monkeys are having sex with deer. Why would they do that?

  18-12-2017 21:30
  
  AnimalsIt isn’t the first time two wildly different species have gotten a little wild.
  The deer don't get anything sexual out of the pelvic thrusting, but they get something else in return.
  
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• Satellite 'License Plates' Could Prevent a Disaster in Low Earth Orbit

  18-12-2017 20:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Space may look vast, but it’s actually pretty crowded near Earth.As of a couple of years ago, more than 1,300 active satellites orbited Earth, in addition to tens of thousands of dead satellites, discarded rockets and other bits and pieces that have accumulated in space in the 60 years since Sputnik, ranging in size from softballs to school buses. When we turn on a new radar in a few years that can see even smaller pieces, we are going to see millions of them.And it's going to contin
  
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• Gear to make your kitchen more like a laboratory

  18-12-2017 20:30
  
  GadgetsBring scientific precision to your cooking.
  Normal kitchen gadgets are fine and all, but you know that cooking—like baking—is a science. Treat it that way.
  
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• Merger of Two Neutron Stars Challenges Dark Energy Theories

  18-12-2017 19:30 via scitechdaily.com
  When scientists recorded a rippling in space-time, followed within two seconds by an associated burst of light observed by dozens of telescopes around the globe,...
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• Physicists Discover the Temperature at Which Carbon Nanotubes Become Superconductors

  18-12-2017 19:17 via scitechdaily.com
  Scientists from Ural Federal University (UrFU) together with their colleagues from Lomonosov Moscow State University found out the mathematical method to calculate the temperature at...
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• This floating rig promises better way to make zero-emission fuel

  18-12-2017 19:10 via nbcnews.com
  Device uses sunlight and seawater to make hydrogen gas — without releasing carbon dioxide.
  
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• Wired Magazine: 2018 Will Usher In The Green Cryptocurrency Revolution

  18-12-2017 19:08 via technocracy.news
  Finally, the global Green Economy (aka Sustainable Development or Technocracy) has been tied directly to the development of blockchain-based ‘green’ cryptocurrencies. From a pro-Technocracy point of view,  this makes perfect sense. Until now, financing the transformation of the global economic system has been an undeclared mystery. TN predicts that green ‘assets’ of the world (heritage zones, nature conservancies, etc.) will be monetized by green cryptocurrencies. &#
  
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• Neu5Gc Sugar is Related to the Appearance of Spontaneous Tumors in Humans

  18-12-2017 19:04 via scitechdaily.com
  A sugar called Neu5Gc, present in red meat, some fish and dairy products, is related to the appearance of spontaneous tumors in humans. Researchers at...
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• China will become a major space power by 2050

  18-12-2017 19:00
  
  Eastern Arsenal Plans include launches, robotic moon bases, and interplanetary manned missions.
  China's comprehensive space plans—including launches, robotic moon bases, and interplanetary manned missions—will make the country a major space power by 2050.
  
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• China could become a major space power by 2050

  18-12-2017 19:00
  
  Eastern Arsenal Plans include launches, robotic moon bases, and interplanetary manned missions.
  China's comprehensive space plans—including launches, robotic moon bases, and interplanetary manned missions—will make the country a major space power by 2050.
  
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• Claim: China Will Be Key To Creating A Global Circular (Green) Economy

  18-12-2017 18:53 via technocracy.news
  The terms ‘circular economy’ and Sustainable Development are UN terms that are tied together as synonymous thoughts. It stresses efficiency and cutting waste. As a Technocracy, China is agressively leading the global community in its path. ⁃ TN EditorInterest in the “circular economy” has grown over the past decade in recognition that current rates of resource consumption are unsustainable. The shift to a more sustainable model of economic growth requires a circular
  
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• Galactic Microquasar GRS 1758-258 Mimics Winged Radio Galaxies

  18-12-2017 18:50 via scitechdaily.com
  Researchers of the Group “Fuentes de Alta Energía de la Galaxia” of the UJA, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Barcelona and its...
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• Lack of Freshwater Places Colorado River Delta Fish at Risk of Extinction

  18-12-2017 18:37 via scitechdaily.com
  A new study from UCLA shows that Colorado River delta fish risk extinction due to a lack of freshwater. The study is a warning for...
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• Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao To Keynote Smart Cities Conference

  18-12-2017 18:21 via technocracy.news
  If Elaine Chao is not a Technocrat herself,  her globalist history and current outlook plays into their hands and their doctrine of connectivity and smart cities. Smart cities have emerged as a key global component of Technocracy. ⁃ TN EditorU.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao will headline the Smart Cities conference programming at CES 2018 next month.
  Chao and Consumer Technology Association (CTA) president/CEO Gary Shapiro will have a candid conversation about
  
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• Glow-in-the-dark plants put green energy in a whole new light

  18-12-2017 18:15 via nbcnews.com
  Light-up foliage provides illumination without electricity.
  
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• Astronomers Reveal How a Jupiter Jet Stream Shifts into Reverse

  18-12-2017 18:13 via scitechdaily.com
  Speeding through the atmosphere high above Jupiter’s equator is an east–west jet stream that reverses course on a schedule almost as predictable as a Tokyo...
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• New Computer Systems Seek to Replicate Human Intelligence

  18-12-2017 18:04 via scitechdaily.com
  Josh Tenenbaum, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, directs research on the development of intelligence at the Center for Brains, Minds, and...
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• New Method for Planet Detectability in the Alpha Centauri System

  18-12-2017 17:52 via scitechdaily.com
  Astronomers from Yale University have taken a fresh look at the nearby Alpha Centauri star system and found new ways to narrow the search for...
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• Yale Study Shows Disease-Bearing Mosquitoes Adapt to Winters

  18-12-2017 17:45 via scitechdaily.com
  Near Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., a population of mosquitoes capable of transmitting tropical diseases is hunkering down for a sixth straight winter. A new...
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• Hubble Image of the Week – Globular Cluster Messier 79

  18-12-2017 17:33 via scitechdaily.com
  It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a blizzard of stars, which resembles a swirling storm...
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• Tech gifts for your favorite fitness enthusiast

  18-12-2017 17:30
  
  Gift Guides For some, the way to the heart is through the stomach. For others, it's through the biceps.
  Gifts for the tech-y fitness nerd.
  
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• Last week in tech: Net neutrality is spoiled, but Star Wars isn't

  18-12-2017 16:15
  
  TechnologyNet neutrality lost, but Star Wars won as we slide toward 2018.
  Last week's big news was net neutrality, but there's lots going on as always.
  
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• WATCH: Apple AirPods sold out on Apple website

  18-12-2017 15:58
  If ordered today, the popular wireless headphones will not be delivered until January, 2018 at the earliest.
  
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• WATCH: New warnings on the possible dangers of cellphones

  18-12-2017 15:32
  A report from the California Department of Health is raising concerns about the possible risk of radiation and guidelines on how to reduce it.
  
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• Fin24.com | Best memes poking fun at #ANC54

  18-12-2017 14:37
  
  With just hours left until South Africa's ruling party has a new leader, social networks have become a stand-up comedy platform poking fun at the ANC's 54th elective conference.
  
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• Little kids think birthday parties actually make you get older

  18-12-2017 14:00
  
  ScienceAdorable munchkins fundamentally misunderstand how times passes.
  Children as old as four and five think that the actual purpose of a birthday party is to increase your age. It’s not a celebration—it’s a ritual.
  
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• Fin24.com | MultiChoice not shy about sponsorship at #ANC54

  18-12-2017 12:50
  
  Despite being implicated in the #GuptaLeaks, video entertainment and internet company MultiChoice has made no secret of its sponsorship at the ANC’s 54th National Conference.
  
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• Fin24.com | The worst passwords of 2017

  18-12-2017 09:38
  
  Despite high levels of cyber hacking, internet users continue to use simple passwords to secure their digital financial and personal information.
  
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• Bitcoin futures slide after trading debut on CME

  18-12-2017 04:38
  Second major bitcoin security declines in trading debut on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange
  
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• Bitcoin futures begin trading on CME, price little changed

  18-12-2017 01:11
  The second major security based on bitcoin is starting to trade on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange
  
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