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Just when you think banks are only in it for the money, along comes Goldman Sachs to advise us on the planetary atmosphere: “Goldman Sachs released a 34-page analysis of the impact of climate change. And the results are terrifying.” All these nice banks want to save Earth too. Yusef Kahn, Business Insider, Sept 2019 For some reason (what could it be?) a few months ago the Goldman Sachs investment

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One young zoo visitor recently got quite a scare when a tiger came charging towards him behind a glass wall. The incident occurred approximately one w...
Scientists have discovered what looks like bacteria in water retrieved from isolated 'pockets' in South Africa. Situated two miles beneath the grassy ...
As he has in years past, the 44th President of the United States just released a list of his favorite music, movies, TV shows and books of 2019. And as in years past, the main thing about Obama’s favorites are that he has pretty good taste . His movie list, for example, is full of solid choices, and he's careful to point out the one case where's he's biased: Next up are my favorite movies and TV
A new study of YouTube's algorithm attracting mainstream attention this weekend claims that the online video giant "actively discourages" radicalization on the platform. And if that sounds suspect to you, it should. The study flies in the face of everything we know about YouTube's recommendation algorithm. There has been plenty of evidence that it pulls users down a rabbit hole of extremist conte
Even though this is from the Washington Post (Bezos/CIA), it is a fascinating glimpse into the higher “education” ship of fools. Via: Washington Post: When Syracuse University freshmen walk into professor Jeff Rubin’s Introduction to Information Technologies class, seven small Bluetooth beacons hidden around the Grant Auditorium lecture hall connect with an app on their […]

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Vic Emergency has ordered the mass evacuation of a vast area, with catastrophic conditions also forecast for South Australia. Follow latest news and live updates 4.51am GMT Victorian emergency services minister Lisa Neville says it is likely that the Princes Highway “will fully close at some point to Bairnsdale right through to Mallacoota”. “This is a warning to all Victorians,” she says. “This i
The election of Donald Trump will likely define the 2010s, but a single day in January set his rise into motion
The stabbing attack on Saturday is the latest of 10 anti-Semitic attacks in the past week, prompting calls for greater security and vigilance.
Reference to conspiracy theory spray-painted on premises in Hampstead and Belsize Park Antisemitic graffiti sprayed across a synagogue and shops in north London during the Jewish festival of Hanukah has been condemned as “disgusting” and “senseless”. The Jewish holy symbol and the numbers 911 were spray-painted in red and purple on premises in the Hampstead and Belsize Park area, including South
In a month of terrible anti-Semitic attacks, including a stabbing yesterday of multiple people at a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York, the news that most depressed me did not involve violence. It was not something done to Jews but something Jews did. A synagogue in the Netherlands is no longer publicly posting the times of prayer services. If you want to join a service, y
Trump has used his Twitter account to post the name of a man believed to be the Ukraine scandal whistleblower

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Two related events shaped the last 10 years in science fiction and fantasy—the most transformative we've seen in the history of the genres.
Space is getting closer, thanks to small, cheap “satlets” that network themselves to solve problems in flight.
Twelve prompts to help you find mathematics-related books for the coming year -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The wildfires were more destructive. The drought was the longest on record. And the storms, when they finally came, unleashed more water than our dams could contain.
Coastal Maine has a lot of seaweed , and a fair number of cows. A group of scientists and farmers think that pairing the two could help unlock a way to cope with a warming world.

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TEHRAN (Sputnik) – Any spying aircraft spotted in the area of joint drills of Iran, Russia, China will be destroyed, the Coordinating Deputy of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army, Habibollah Sayyari, told Tasnim news agency on Saturday. “Many countries are definitely seeking to know what the matter is. Spies have also taken action. A […]
Neapolis was part of the ancient world’s greatest supply chain
This motion is something that we've never seen before
Quantum computers are crucial technology for speeding up calculations
Health Editor’s Note: For those of us in the northern hemisphere, it is the time of the year when we are kept indoors, often in close proximity to others, and susceptible to viruses wafting through the air as people cough and sneeze around us. Also, a clear way for viruses to come near your mucous […]
By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor What is it you think you are eating? Reporting on how food is raised, investigating food poisoning in most red states is a crime. Reporters are jailed, activists jailed, poisoning our food is now considered national security level technology. Thank fucking republicans, they did it, the pack of ignorant criminal […]

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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION - BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM - imdb.com/title/tt8954790/ Norwegian with English subtitles - Student Academy Awards Winner - **SYNOPSIS** Silje wants to leave her boyfriend, but when she finds him in a half-hearted attempt to hang himself she has to reconsider, in fear of acting reckless. **CAST & CREW** *CREW* Director: Rikke Gregersen Writer: Rikke Gregersen Producer: Reb
2018 BAFTA WINNER - BRITISH SHORT Based on a true story. Released: 19.12.19 Starring Sam Spruell, Steve Evets, Christine Bottomley, Dylan Naden and Matt Raikes. cowboydavefilm.com colinotoole.co.uk jonasmortensen.com Instagram: colin_m_otoole Cast: Colin O'Toole
YouTubers, authors, and experts in all things internet, The Try Guys, stopped by to give their takes on some of the internet’s weirdest questions. TikTok or Vine? Is cereal soup? Are you naked if you’re still wearing socks? The Try Guys get to the bottom of these pressing questions. Be sure to subscribe to their YouTube channel: youtube.com/channel/UCpi8TJfiA4lKGkaXs__YdBA #TheTryGuys #TheEllenSh
Night skiing without artificial light: Closing lift stations and the setting sun mark the end of the action for most skiers. Not for Max Kroneck and Jochen Mesle. While ski towns fall asleep they head into the mountains and see them awaking in a new light. The snow starts glistening again. It ́s just the sound of their skis turning in fresh snow that breaks the silence of the full moon night. "So
As 2019 comes to an end, Kalen Allen takes a walk down memory lane and shares some of his favorite and most memorable moments of 2019. #OMK #OMKalen #KalenAllen From: TheEllenShow
Three words: . Three more: Choreographed dance routines. Last three: You’re very welcome. #TheEllenShow #Ellen #EllenDeGeneres From: TheEllenShow

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About 200,000 domestic and international tourists have cancelled or postponed trips to Taj Mahal in last two weeks.
The lowest temperature this year was recorded at 4.5 degrees Celsius on Sunday in Tetulia, a border town in north.
(left, bemused soul. If it looks like an alien, consider that our souls might be emissaries from Heaven sent to create heaven on earth.) I turned 70 in November. After making a shipwreck of my life, (for reasons I will discuss elsewhere) I am cast up on the shores of old age. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man
Climate alarmists think they are always right, and when they aren’t…they just move the goalposts ahead 10 years. Our friend Willis Eschenbach calls it “serial doomcasting“. Some perspective: “What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Guardian has declared 2019 the year they defeated “climate denial”. But nobody in the green movement has any idea what comes next. Climate change denial was defeated in 2019. But what comes next won’t be easier Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti Defeating the climate crisis is just the beginning of the struggle…
We have sallied forth through a tumultuous election and come out the other end battered and bruised, and come what may here are the list of books I've read this last quarter. Abaddon's Gate by James SA Corey The Age of Revolution, 1789 - 1848 by Eric Hobsbawm Reading Capital

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