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  A high-level whistleblower at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has revealed that the organization published manipulated data in a major 2015 report on climate change in order to maximize impact on world leaders at the UN climate conference in Paris in…
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  Those who struggle to recall even the most recent of memories could one day be able to revive them with a zap of magnetic energy to the brain, according to a new study which sheds further light on the “working memory”. The notion of working memory has to do with the part of the brain which…
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Doctors have known for some time that radiation treatment for cancers of the head and neck can often result in changes to a patient’s sense of smell or taste, but they have attributed this effect mostly to temporary destruction of taste buds. But according to a study published in the journal Practical Radiation…
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In the beginning of February 2017, renewed heavy fighting has broken out in Ukraine's Donbass region between government troops (and allied militias, though they are supposed to be nationalized) and the separatists. Naturally both sides claim the other started it, but it does not take a genius to see who has something to gain…
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover may be in full swing, but it’s definitely not the first space vehicle to transmit pictures of the Red Planet. We’ve rounded up five bizarre things that have been spotted on Mars during past missions. Rock Structure This particular scene is imaged from the…
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We live in an abundant world. There is an abundance of resources, an abundance of ideas, an abundance of opportunities, and an abundance of possibilities, yet it seems as though as a collective race we are incessantly moving from a deeply rooted sense of scarcity, a profound sense of lack. It seems rather important that we…
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This is an „anthology” of sorts about the etiology of the current cancer pandemic. “Cancer” is the word that strikes horror in the hearts and minds of every human alive. However, that was not always the case. Many can still remember when cancer was a rather rare disease or condition. Furthermore,…
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Why does “the news” have to be 99 percent bad news? It is certainly very true that our world is facing great challenges, and those challenges are only going to become more intense during the years ahead, but why can’t we celebrate the good things that are happening as well? For decades, one of the motto-s…
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At the end of 2016, there have literally been dozens of significant earthquakes in the US, right along the Ring of Fire, and two giant ones made headlines all over the globe on December 8th. First, a magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck off the coast of Humboldt County, California, and that was followed later in the day by a magnitude…
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Italian voters have embraced the global trend of rejecting the established world order, but the “No” vote in December 2016 has plunged global financial markets into a state of utter chaos. The euro had fallen, Italian government bonds were poised for a tremendous crash, and futures markets were indicating that…
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