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Expert scientists wrong again: Bumper snow season kicks off in Australia
100+JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax / 4d
Year after year they told us it would get warmer, ski seasons would get shorter and children won’t know what snow is. Instead Thredbo in the Australian Alps has just had 125cm of snow, a full 4 feet in 7 days, which some are calling a 54 year record. Skiers in Australia are thrilled. https://twitter.com/grand_solar/status/1534181676854788097 NSW snow season ‘best in 20 years’ as weather experts’
One in six dementia cases might be avoided with Vitamin D
Vitamin D Dementia
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JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax / 3h
Click to enlarge | Paper Just imagine that 17% of dementia cases could be prevented with a new drug that cost five cents, had a huge safety margin, and virtually no risk? The study from the University of South Australia looked at data from 294,000 people in their 60s in the UK, and followed them for a median of 11 years or so. Researchers even controlled for time spent outdoors, types of physical
BEST OF THE WEB: Naomi Wolf: Rethinking the Second Amendment
Signs of the Times - Best of the Web / 5d
I wrote this essay some weeks ago, but I kept waiting to publish it til tragic mass shootings were no longer in the news. But that day looks as if it will never come, so I am publishing it anyway, with grief and mourning for those lost to gun violence, as we must nonetheless have this difficult conversation. The last thing keeping us free in America, as the lights go off all over Europe- and Austr
FLASHBACK: Shut Up and Eat Your GMOs (2007)
The Corbett Report / 1d
FROM 2007: Tinkering with the building blocks of life is more than just child play, it's big business. Today we examine the consequences, intended and unintended of chimera cross-species genetic engineering. The post first appeared on The Corbett Report .
BEST OF THE WEB: Shocking scenes emerge from 'child-friendly' drag show in Dallas gay bar
40Signs of the Times - Best of the Web / 5d
Newly-opened Dallas gay bar "Mr. Misster" hosted a "child friendly" drag show Saturday, where signs read "It's not gonna lick itself" and "I licked it so it's mine." "A 'child friendly' drag show is being hosted today in Dallas, TX at a gay bar. Here are two of the signs on display," tweeted journalist Tayler Hansen. Hansen posted videos of the event. One depicts a drag queen inviting children to

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Intense helicopter footage shows why Yellowstone National Park just closed
Yellowstone Park Flooding
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200+Mashable / 2h
Extreme deluges are growing more and more common . Yellowstone National Park superintendent Cam Sholly said on Monday that record flooding has necessitated the closure of all inbound traffic into the iconic park for at least a couple days. Extreme rains triggered rock and mudslides, which destroyed large swathes of a crucial road leading to the park's North Entrance. Yellowstone's helicopter mana
Elon Musk will answer questions from Twitter employees this week
Musk Twitter This Week
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200+Mashable / 8h
Elon Musk will answer questions from Twitter employees for the first time ever, when he joins a virtual company meeting scheduled to be held on Thursday, June 16. This is according to a letter sent to workers by Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, seen by Business Insider (via Engadget ). Agrawal said the meeting will "cover topics and questions that have been raised over the past few weeks," and employee

NEWS

Rwanda asylum flight in doubt after 11th-hour ECHR intervention
UK Asylum Seekers Rwanda
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2KThe Guardian / 2h
Lawyers make successful emergency application to European court that could lead to grounding of first flight The European court of human rights has made a dramatic 11th-hour intervention into the government’s controversial plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda that could ground the inaugural flight to the east African nation. Lawyers for one of the asylum seekers due to fly this evening have mad
The Bourne Identity at 20: the surprise hit that changed action film-making
4KThe Guardian / 14h
Doug Liman’s rousing thriller gave Matt Damon a blockbuster franchise and audiences a skeptical take on the US government at an opportune time In the early 2000s, the action movie was in mortal danger. The reliable heroes of the 80s and 90s – Sly, Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson – were getting old and out of touch. Director Michael Bay was the new guy on the block, with hits like The
Minority Report Tried to Warn Us About Technology
500+The Atlantic / 3h
In Minority Report , when the detective John Anderton goes on the run in Washington, D.C., one of the first things he needs to do is swap out his eyes. The police of Steven Spielberg’s film, set in 2054, are not the only ones tracking people with eye-scanning machines mounted around the city. Public transit does so too, as does every business, and even all the billboards, which scream slogans suc

SCIENCE

Physicists build an atom laser that can stay on forever
300+Phys.org / 6h
Lasers use coherent waves of light: All the light inside a laser vibrates completely in sync. Meanwhile, quantum mechanics tells us that particles like atoms should also be thought of as waves. As a result, we can build "atom lasers" containing coherent waves of matter. But can we make these matter waves last, so that they may be used in applications? In research that was published in Nature this
A dynamic duo of cells identified in lung blood vessels
ScienceDaily / 17min
Scientists have identified two subtypes of lung blood vessel cells. One subtype expresses more genes involved in inflammation and the regulation of the immune response; the other expresses more genes involved in cell regeneration and proliferation. The findings could lead to better treatments for lung infections.
As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for structural change in academia intensify
400+Science Magazine / 2h
Some content has been removed for formatting reasons. Please view the original article for the best reading experience. Dmitry Kovalchuk/iStock When Jennifer Mason posted an ad for a postdoc position in early March, she was eager to have someone on board by April or May to tackle recently funded projects. Instead, it took 2 months to receive a single application. Since then, only two more have co

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Clan of the North (Full Episode) | Kingdom of the Polar Bears
400+National Geographic (uploads) on YouTube / 4h
Dennis searches the Manitoba wilderness for a polar bear den in hopes of capturing the first moments of a cub’s life in the wild. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ Get more Nat Geo Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLivjPDlt6ApSiD2mk9Ngp-5dZ9CDDn72O ➡ Get more Nat Geo Wild Full Episodes: https://youtu.be/qAG2SkTPltw And check out more National Geographic series and speci
Sonic Postcards from The Appian Way | Podcast | Overheard at National Geographic
200+National Geographic (uploads) on YouTube / 9h
“All roads lead to Rome” was once more than a saying; it was a fact. And the first of those great roads, the Appian Way, was the most important of them all. Italians still travel what’s left of the “Queen of Roads,” even if they don’t always know it. National Geographic writer Nina Strochlic and photographer Andrea Frazzetta take us on an immersive trip down the ancient road; the soundscape they
The Future Of | A new series from Netflix + The Verge
1KThe Verge on Youtube / 1d
What if we could look into the future and see how technology will change everything; from raising pets and houseplants, to how we dress, eat, date, and even how we die. We made a Netflix show to explore these ideas. In our new docuseries, The Future Of, we look at how innovative technologies will change our everyday lives hundreds of years from now. Premiering on Netflix on June 21st. Subscribe:
Then and Now: Chris Pratt
500+The Ellen Show / 2d
In 2012, Chris Pratt joined co-star Brad Pitt on "The Ellen Show" to talk baseball, his career, and his love of Ellen branded-boxers. The "Jurassic World: Dominion" star returned in 2021 to talk about his kids and his life on the farm. From: TheEllenShow

ANALYSTS

How can you create differentiated thought leadership?
Insights - Source Global Research / 5d
Our recent research has shown that thought leadership plays an integral role when it comes to the extent to which clients trust consulting firms , as well as the prices they are willing to pay . With thought leadership clearly playing such an important role, it is more important than ever that your firm’s thought leadership output stands out in the marketplace. There are many ways to achieve this
Light at the end of the funnel? Why consulting firms need to think again about how clients buy
Insights - Source Global Research / 27d
Anyone involved in the marketing of consulting and other professional services will be familiar with the funnel, which analyses how well a firm is performing from overall awareness (the top of the funnel) to final choice (the bottom). But looking at the purchase process through clients’ eyes reveals other, equally important lessons. The point at which a consulting firm’s funnel starts—a client’s

UNCATEGORIZED

Social Engineering Kill–Chain: Predicting, Minimizing & Disrupting Attack Verticals
Social Engineering
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Ahead by Feedly / 12d
It was a Friday afternoon when Bill was on his way back home from work when he received a call that made him take the next U-turn back to his office. It was one of these calls that he was dedicating all of his working hours to avoid. He was not given much detail through the phone, but it seems that Andre, someone working in the account payments department, had just fallen victim to a scam and had
Alberta pulls plug on efforts to control COVID-19; Rajan Sawhney quits cabinet, joins race to replace Jason Kenney
47David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary / 14h
One minute before midnight tonight, the United Conservative Party Government will pull the plug on all public health measures intended to slow the spread of COVID-19, even as the disease continues to infect and kill Albertans. Premier Jason Kenney during a visit to the University of Calgary’s school of engineering last week (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). The pandemic may not be over – we’ll se
A Geologic map of the Entire Moon has Been Released at 1:2,500,000-Scale
China Detailed Map Moon
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28Universe Today / 2h
Chinese scientists have created the most detailed map of the Moon yet. It took them 10 years and involved hundreds of researchers. The new map will be a boon to lunar exploration and for anyone who just wants to study our natural satellite in more detail. Up until now the USGS map of the Moon has been the standard. But that map has a resolution of 1:5,000,000. The new map supersedes that with a r

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