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• Amazon is pushing for a milestone union vote to take place in person despite the pandemic

  22-01-2021 23:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Amazon is once again asking the National Labor Relations Board to direct thousands of the company's warehouse workers at an Alabama facility to cast votes in-person on whether to form a union, rather than by mail, despite the ongoing pandemic.
  
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• Feds: Man in Capitol attack tried to flee to Switzerland

  22-01-2021 23:39 via abcnews.go.com
  A judge has ordered a Colorado geophysicist accused of dragging a police officer down steps to be beaten outside the Capitol building detained after a prosecutor says he tried to flee the country and commit suicide
  
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• Incoming CEO wants Intel to again be the 'unquestioned leader' in industry

  22-01-2021 23:15 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Intel investors and analysts got their first glimpse at incoming CEO Pat Gelsinger's vision for the company during its earnings call on Thursday.
  
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• Exploring Earth From Space: Sardinia – The Second-Largest Island in the Mediterranean Sea

  22-01-2021 23:08 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Sardinia, the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, is featured in this false-color image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Sardinia (also known as Sardegna)...
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• 'We can fix this': Californians build their own vaccination-tracking website

  22-01-2021 22:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  The creation of VaccinateCA underscores the growing frustration in California with the state’s handling of the pandemic and vaccine distribution.
  
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• Tom Brokaw announces retirement after 55 years at NBC News

  22-01-2021 21:49 via nbcnews.com
  
  He's the only anchor to have helmed all three of NBC News' flagship programs: "TODAY," "Nightly News" and "Meet the Press."
  
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• Wormholes May Be Lurking in the Universe – Here Are Proposed Ways of Finding Them

  22-01-2021 21:47 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity profoundly changed our thinking about fundamental concepts in physics, such as space and time. But it also left us...
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• It's a secret: California keeps key virus data from public

  22-01-2021 21:37 via abcnews.go.com
  
  California's public health agency recently surprised local officials by lifting a stay-at-home order in the 13-county Greater Sacramento region
  
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• NBC to shut down sports cable channel NBCSN

  22-01-2021 21:23 via nbcnews.com
  
  Programming that aired on the cable channel will eventually be broadcast across other platforms, including USA Network and the streaming platform Peacock.
  
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• Solving a Long-Debated Scientific Controversy: Climate and Carbon Cycle Trends of the Past 50 Million Years Reconciled

  22-01-2021 20:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Predictions of future climate change require a clear and nuanced understanding of Earth’s past climate. In a study published today (January 22, 2021) in Science...
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• Google's parent deflates internet-beaming balloon company

  22-01-2021 19:29 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Google’s parent company is letting the air out of an internet-beaming balloon company that was providing online access from the stratosphere
  
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• Why Is Fish Good For You? It's Not Because of Omega-3s

  22-01-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  You can't pop a supplement to get the nutritional benefits of eating fish. Here's why.
  
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• Biden inherited one of the worst hacks in history. How will his administration respond?

  22-01-2021 18:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  Biden faces two main problems: how to punish Russia, if at all; and how to fully kick its hackers out of U.S. networks, a process that experts say will take months at least.
  
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• Quantum Computer Breakthrough: New Blueprint for Better, Faster Qubits

  22-01-2021 18:12 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have put forward a detailed plan of how faster and better defined quantum bits — qubits — can...
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• “Extinct” Pinatubo Volcano Mouse Rediscovered on Volcano That Erupted 30 Years Ago

  22-01-2021 17:56 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A small mouse rediscovered on a volcano that erupted 30 years ago provides hope for wildlife conservation in the Philippines. In June 1991, Mount Pinatubo,...
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• Massive Rotating Stars in the Pleiades Cluster

  22-01-2021 17:16 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The Pleiades star cluster, a brilliant collection of several hundred stars visible in the winter sky near the constellation of Orion, has been admired by...
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• EU To Implement Block-Wide Vaccine Passport Standard

  22-01-2021 17:10 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats pushing the Great Reset, total surveillance and social engineering are moving at high speed to lock in gains at the expense of real science and thousands of statements from health and medical professionals to the contrary. Anyone who thinks this madness will not come to America isn’t paying attention. ⁃ TN EditorThe European Union is set to recognize a standard for vaccine passports in a what is being pitched as a move to reignite travel within the bloc.
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• “Something Is Happening to the Bees” – 25% of Known Bee Species Haven’t Appeared in Public Records Since the 1990s

  22-01-2021 17:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Researchers at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) in Argentina have found that, since the 1990s, up to 25% of reported bee...
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• Harsh Lockdowns In UK Fail To Curtail COVID-19 Infections

  22-01-2021 16:56 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats who pushed policies like masks, social distancing and lockdowns in the first place had no evidence that they would work. Now the data is coming in that they are largely worthless against stopping COVID-19 or any other virus and in fact may be increasing the spread. ⁃ TN EditorInfectious diseases expert Professor Steven Riley says current data shows that the national lockdown in the United Kingdom is not working.
  Riley, who is professor of infectious disease dynamics at Imperial
  
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• Magnetic Waves Explain Mystery of Sun’s Puzzling Outer Layer

  22-01-2021 16:44 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A theory as to why the Sun’s outer atmosphere differs in its chemical make-up from its inner layers has been confirmed by direct observation for...
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• Mayors Of 30 Cities Now Pushing For Universal Basic Income

  22-01-2021 16:42 via technocracy.news
  
  Universal Basic Income was an original tenet of 1930s Technocracy, but every UBI experiment in modern days has failed. Nevertheless, thirty more mayors have stepped up to the plate to push for UBI. Governments have no source of income to pay for UBI, but that is overlooked. ⁃ TN Editor
  In Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” the civil rights leader discussed how to best address poverty in the United States.
  “I am now con
  
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• Google threatens to pull search engine in Australia

  22-01-2021 16:24 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Google is threatening to make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government proceeds with plans to make tech giants pay for news content
  
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• Astronomers Discover First Cloudless, Jupiter-Like Planet – “Smoking Gun Evidence”

  22-01-2021 16:23 via scitechdaily.com
  
  This marks the second time astronomers have ever observed a cloud-free exoplanet. Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have detected the...
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• UN Warns: Aging Dams Pose Growing Threat – Most of Humanity Could Be at Risk

  22-01-2021 16:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  By 2050, most of humanity will live downstream of large dams built in the 20th century; Increasingly expensive to maintain, experts foresee a trend to...
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• Forget Dieting. Here’s What Really Works to Lose Weight

  22-01-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Science can explain why it’s so hard to lose weight and keep it off — and the results don’t support dieting. Try these strategies instead.
  
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• Stanford Researchers Develop an Innovative New Way to Predict Beach Water Quality

  22-01-2021 14:54 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using water samples and environmental data gathered over 48 hours or less, Stanford engineers develop a new predictive technique for forecasting coastal water quality, a...
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• NASA’s Juno Mission Expands Into the Future – To Explore Jupiter and Its Rings and Moons

  22-01-2021 14:29 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The spacecraft, which has been gathering data on the gas giant since July 2016, will become an explorer of the full Jovian system – Jupiter...
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• How Chess Plays Out at MIT: Shaping the Future of the Game

  22-01-2021 13:43 via scitechdaily.com
  
  For decades, experts at the Institute have been shaping the future of the game. Chess has a long history at MIT that began decades before...
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• Magnetic Resonance Imaging Helps Unravel the Mysteries of Sleep

  22-01-2021 13:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Our state of consciousness changes significantly during stages of deep sleep, just as it does in a coma or under general anesthesia. Scientists have long...
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• Elves Seen From Space [Video]

  22-01-2021 12:06 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Artist impression of lightning in clouds seen from space followed by a blue flash that lasts 10 micro seconds, a blue jet lasting 400 milliseconds...
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• Alphabet is shutting down Loon, its ambitious internet balloon venture

  22-01-2021 11:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Loon, a subsidiary of Google's parent company Alphabet, is winding down its operations.
  
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• New Results From Monkeys Infected With SARS-CoV-2 Suggest COVID-19 Vaccines Will Be Successful

  22-01-2021 11:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Rhesus macaques develop promising immune response to SARS-CoV-2; Results suggest lasting immunity after infection. In a promising result for the success of vaccines against COVID-19,...
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• Google threatens to shut down search in Australia

  22-01-2021 07:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Google says it will shut down its search engine in Australia if a controversial bill designed to benefit the news media becomes law.
  
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• How wearable airbags could make motorbikes safer

  22-01-2021 02:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Balanced on two wheels without a protective shell, riding a motorbike is far more dangerous than driving a car -- but innovations in airbags could help keep motorcyclists safe.
  
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• Apple CEO Tim Cook once gave President Trump a $5,999 Mac Pro

  22-01-2021 00:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In a new financial document released just hours after he left the White House, former President Donald Trump disclosed Apple CEO Tim Cook once gave him a $5,999 Mac Pro computer.
  
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• Federal judge blocks Parler's bid to be restored on Amazon Web Services

  22-01-2021 00:07 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A federal judge has denied Parler's request for a court order blocking Amazon from kicking the social media app off its platform, marking yet another setback in Parler's efforts to get back online.
  
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