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ABC fantasies: Climate change has started to influence our language

JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax / 1h

Could the ABC be more incompetent? Not only do they deny linguistic history, fail to do basic research, have no data, nor cogent argument, they don’t come up with any new words in common use, and they resort to kindergarten name-calling as if it was “scientific”. Here’s a group of paid propaganda workers who have destroyed basic English — now pretending that the distortion of the language was som

Supernova caused lightning, which caused fires, which (maybe) caused humans to stand upright

JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax / 13h

Back in the unpoliticized Pliocene it’s possible that cosmic rays bombarded Earth and triggered lightning which started fires all around the Earth. This may (warning: speculation) have pushed human ancestors to stand on two legs. In the politicized Holocene, however cosmic rays are “irrelevant”. Ancient cosmic rays can set the Earth on fire apparently, change dominant species, and leave a charcoa

First They Came For Your Fingerprints . . . #PropagandaWatch

39The Corbett Report / 23h

We chuckle at the old-timey FBI propaganda soliciting the public to turn in their fingerprints so that Hoover and his henchman could establish a file on every citizen. But is it so different today, with the exhortations to turn in our DNA? Find out the truth behind the propaganda as James Corbett tackles the nightmare of government identification databases.

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Pokémon's new game lets you catch 'em all while you sleep

Pokémon Sleep Nintendo

14KMashable / 1d

As if you didn't cram enough game time into your waking hours, Pokémon is launching a new way to catch 'em all... while you sleep. The Pokémon Company announced the perplexing new app, Pokémon Sleep , at a preview event in Tokyo on Wednesday. According to the announcement , the game will be paired with a device developed with Nintendo called the Pokémon Go Plus Plus, which uses an accelerometer t

What is this strange structure near Area 51 ?

100+Unexplained Mysteries / 13h

A peculiar construction north of the infamous base has been leaving conspiracy theorists scratching their heads. Consisting of an inexplicable hodgepo...

A war against modernity

41Contrary Brin / 4h

A little fame can be pleasant... until it's not. You'll get frustrated standing just a rung or two below influencing events, for example. Or see your ideas enacted without credit (lots of times that's just fine! We're in this together.) Or you can become a target of loony ankle-biters seeking to raise themselves by styling themselves as your nemesis. (Yeah, right.) Some of you have written to me

Lil Nas X performed for the kids who went crazy for 'Old Town Road'

Mashable / 10min

Those kids who went absolutely wild to "Old Town Road" got the best surprise ever. In case you missed it, a video of students from Landers Elementary School in Cleveland, Ohio enthusiastically singing along to the chart-topping Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus tune went viral earlier this week. The video was tweeted by the school's principal , Felecia Evans, who said the track was played at the end

'Happy' Memorial Day?: 'BradCast' 5/28/2019

The BRAD BLOG / 1d

Someone needs to let the President of the United States know that Memorial Day is, at least in theory, a somber remembrance for the nation's war dead. It might have been nice if that someone had done so before Trump showed up in Japan over the weekend --- for talks with that nation's Prime Minister --- and wished U.S. troops stationed with our ally and former WWII foe a "Happy Memorial Day!" It c

NEWS

US energy department rebrands fossil fuels as 'molecules of freedom'

268KThe Guardian / 10h

Press release from department said increasing export capacity is ‘critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world’ America is the land of freedom, as any politician will be happy to tell you. What you don’t hear quite so often is that the stuff under the land is also apparently made of freedom as well. That is, at least according to a news release this week from the Department of Energy (D

Mueller Stirs Controversy by Urging Americans to Read

68KThe New Yorker - Culture / 10h

Andy Borowitz satirizes the special counsel Robert Mueller’s report and President Trump’s reaction to the idea that people should read it.

Clarence Thomas makes it clear: The right is coming for birth control next

20KSalon.com / 12h

By attacking Margaret Sanger's legacy, Justice Thomas isn't going after abortion — this is about contraception

The Department of Energy Is Now Calling Fossil Fuels “Molecules of Freedom” and “Freedom Gas”

159KSlate - Culture / 15h

Freedom gas!

New York tenants fight as landlords embrace facial recognition cameras

61The Guardian / 58min

More than 130 residents at a Brooklyn apartment complex oppose plan to use the cameras, whose use, experts say, is quietly expanding in cities Tenants in a New York City apartment complex are fighting their landlord’s effort to install a facial recognition system to access parts of the buildings, calling it an affront to their privacy rights. The row, which the tenants believe could become an imp

A Cheat Sheet to the Very Crowded Race to Be Britain’s Next Prime Minister

The Atlantic / 22min

Theresa May’s decision to stand down as the leader of Britain’s Conservative Party—and, consequently, prime minister—has sparked a leadership battle months in the making. As many as 11 Conservatives have announced their candidacy, and more can be expected to enter the race once it formally begins June 10. Whoever succeeds May will carry the burden of steering Britain through its seemingly intract

SCIENCE

A warming Arctic produces weather extremes in our latitudes

1KScienceDaily / 1d

Atmospheric researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have now developed a climate model that can accurately depict the frequently observed winding course of the jet stream, a major air current over the Northern Hemisphere.

Man Restoring a Classic Synthesizer Goes On a 9-Hour Acid Trip After Accidentally Touching LSD-Covered Knob

24Kio9 / 1d

There are plenty of wild rumors, mythologies, and eyebrow-raising stories from the long history of music, including claims that parts of synthesizers designed by electronic music pioneer Don Buchla had been dipped in LSD. But as engineer Eliot Curtis recently discovered, those claims might actually hold some truth . Read more...

‘Freedom Gas,’ the Next American Export

26KNYT > Science / 5h

The Department of Energy announced plans to boost exports of liquefied natural gas abroad, calling the fuel “molecules of U.S. freedom.”

The 'Forbidden' planet has been found in the 'Neptunian Desert'

2KPhys.org / 1d

An exoplanet smaller than Neptune with its own atmosphere has been discovered in the Neptunian Desert, by an international collaboration of astronomers, with the University of Warwick taking a leading role.

Astronomers find 'Forbidden' planet in 'Neptunian Desert' around its star

500+ScienceDaily / 1d

An exoplanet smaller than Neptune with its own atmosphere has been discovered in a region close to its star where no Neptune-sized planets would normally be found.

Beyond 1 and 0: Engineers boost potential for creating successor to shrinking transistors

Phys.org / 34min

Computers and similar electronic devices have gotten faster and smaller over the decades as computer-chip makers have learned how to shrink individual transistors, the tiny electrical switches that convey digital information.