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• Meet the designer who wants to make fruit labels out of soap and save the world from swizzle sticks

  25-06-2018 23:15
  
  TechnologyInside the mind of Scott Amron.
  Scott Amron, of the product design lab Amron Experimental, is known for his clever creations. But every design is downright useful.
  
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• The White House is calling for Space Traffic Control

  25-06-2018 21:30
  
  SpaceIt's time to stop sending up so much garbage.
  Officials at the White House announced a new space policy directive today, focused on managing the increasing numbers of satellites that both companies and governments…
  
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• Last week in tech: Movies in the theater, TV on our phones

  25-06-2018 20:36
  TechnologyShake off your Westworld hangover with a recap of last week's big tech stories.
  Dive into the latest episode of our podcast and catch up on the latest news in tech.
  
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• Why it would have been impossible for a T. rex to stick out its tongue

  25-06-2018 19:30
  
  AnimalsEverything we thought we knew about dinosaur tongues is wrong.
  A mouthful of bone-crunching teeth might be the scariest thing about a dinosaur. But there’s something about a wet, waggling T. rex tongue that’s particularly…
  
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• The Latest: Buzz Aldrin faces evaluations this week

  25-06-2018 19:26 via abcnews.go.com
  Court-appointed mental-health experts will evaluate the competency of Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin this week as two of his three children try to become his guardians, claiming he suffers from memory loss and confusion
  
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• This restaurant booted Sarah Sanders. Then came the digital pitchforks.

  25-06-2018 18:14 via nbcnews.com
  Red Hen's Yelp and Facebook pages were inundated with bad reviews, poor ratings and politically charged comments.
  
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• Buzz Aldrin sues children, alleging misuse of his finances

  25-06-2018 17:54 via abcnews.go.com
  Former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin is suing two of his children and a business manager, accusing them of misusing his credit cards, transferring money from an account and slandering him by saying he has dementia
  
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• Uber goes to court to remain in business in London

  25-06-2018 17:36 via abcnews.go.com
  Uber is beginning an appeal a decision to deny it a new operating license in London, saying it has made significant reforms that address mistakes the company had made in the past
  
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• Thinking about aliens could help us beat climate change

  25-06-2018 17:18
  
  Nexus Media News “Climate change is not our fault. Not doing something about it — that will be our fault.”
  We are not the first civilization to face climate change. But how we decide to deal with it could determine the fate of our existence.
  
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• How To Hunt Like A Neanderthal

  25-06-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Our hominin family tree includes plenty of meat-eaters, going back a couple million years at least — this is not news. But it's one thing to find evidence of animals that were butchered and consumed by our ancestors and closest kin. It's another to figure out how they got their groceries.Deer bones excavated from a site in Germany and dated to 120,000 years ago are the earliest clear evidence of how our evolutionary siblings, the Neanderthals, hunted.
  To be clear, European excavatio
  
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• Fin24.com | We need to run the SABC like a commercial entity – board chair

  25-06-2018 16:39
  
  The SABC currently receives 85% of its revenue coming from commercial advertising, 12% from TV licences and 3% from government grants, its board chair Bongumusa Makhathini has said.
  
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• An Outsider’s View: American Exceptionalism In Context and Under Siege

  25-06-2018 16:32 via technocracy.news
  Some say the internet is the cause of a dramatic increase in conspiracy theories. What is actually happening is that for the first time in history everybody has access to an amount of information unavailable even for many governments in the past. They find out how much they were deceived, and they are sounding off. A story appears, and within minutes millions of people see it, and thousands are commenting. Historic ideas and information, not previously part of the general public awareness are co
  
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• AT&T buys AppNexus for $1.6 billion as it prepares to take on Google and Facebook

  25-06-2018 16:31 via nbcnews.com
  The deal comes shortly after closing the $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner.
  
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• Technopopulism: The Dangerous Bonding Of Hyper-Populism And Technocracy

  25-06-2018 16:06 via technocracy.news
  Technopopulism is rising at an alarming rate in Europe and England and can be seen in the United States as well. Articles describing the phenomenon are appearing almost weekly in the foreign press, and it is being discussed in leading academic think-tanks like The Brookings Institution. ⁃ TN EditorIt was Michael Gove who before the Brexit referendum said “people in this country have had enough of experts”. The highly educated Mr Gove was mining a rich seam of voters fed up with
  
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• Xi Jinping: China Must Lead Way For Global Governance

  25-06-2018 15:49 via technocracy.news
  Technocracy in China is going to be exported to the entire world in the form of ‘governance’. This is the science of social engineering, and it has already blanketed China with ubiquitous surveillance and manipulation through social credit scoring. Technocrat and global scholar Parag Khanna predicted, ”We are building this global society without a global leader. Global order is no longer some-thing that can be dictated or controlled from the top down. Globalization is itself th
  
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• Yes, you can stop snoring. Here's how.

  25-06-2018 15:30
  
  DIYFinally sleep soundly (and silently).
  We’ve all lost sleep from someone sawing logs. And this habit isn’t just a nuisance—it actually affects your health. Luckily, there are a few ways to stop it.
  
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• Astronomers Investigate Supermassive Black Hole Radio Jet In Unprecedented Detail

  25-06-2018 15:21 via scitechdaily.com
  In the centre of the galaxy OJ 287, there is one active, super-mass-rich black hole. An international research team led by Silke Britzen of the...
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• Lipid-Based Nanoparticles Enable Improved Therapy for Cystic Fibrosis Patients

  25-06-2018 15:20 via scitechdaily.com
  Researchers at Oregon State University and Oregon Health & Science University are working on a treatment that holds great promise for improving the lives of...
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• Neuroscientists Discover Fundamental Rule of Brain Plasticity

  25-06-2018 15:09 via scitechdaily.com
  Our brains are famously flexible, or “plastic,” because neurons can do new things by forging new or stronger connections with other neurons. But if some...
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• Hubble Telescope Views An Aging Beauty – NGC 6139

  25-06-2018 14:57 via scitechdaily.com
  This rich and dense smattering of stars is a massive globular cluster, a gravitationally-bound collection of stars that orbits the Milky Way. Globular clusters are...
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• Trying to figure out where you fit on the sexuality spectrum? Dabbling in these tests might help.

  25-06-2018 14:00
  
  HealthHuman sexuality spans too wide a scope to possibly be covered by a single test.
  It’s by far the best-known sexuality scale, both for its creator’s fame and for its simplicity, but it’s far from the most accurate or most helpful. In fact, it probably…
  
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• WATCH: Hidden Facebook feature allows users to monitor time spent on Facebook

  25-06-2018 13:01 via abcnews.go.com
  The social media giant says the feature isn't currently available to users and won't say whether it ever will be.
  
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• Must Science Conflict With Spirituality?

  25-06-2018 11:00 via nytimes.com
  The astrophysicist and novelist Alan Lightman doesn’t think so. And his new book, “Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine,” explains why.
  
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