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  Madagascar has embarked on its most ambitious tree-planting drive yet, aiming to plant 60 million trees in the coming months. The island nation celebrates 60 years of independence this year, and the start of the planting campaign on Jan. 19 marked one year since the inauguration of President Andry Rajoelina, who has promised…
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  Mechanical energy, converted into kinetic energy can provide the energy that we use on a regular basis to power our homes and electronic devices. Rather than focusing on the current problems in our world it is great to change gears and have a look at all of the solutions that are popping up all over the planet.…
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  In the 2019 film Angel Has Fallen starring Morgan Freeman as the U.S. leader and Gerard Butler as his trusted aid, the bad guys stage a rather unorthodox attack against the president and his Secret Service. As the characters played by Freeman and Butler fish in the middle of a small lake one chilly morning, a…
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  A new bill sponsored by Lindsey Graham, Richard Blumenthal, Josh Hawley and Dianne Feinstein called the EARN IT Act of 2020 will force encrypted communication providers, like Telegram and Protonmail, to give American intelligence services the ability to wiretap private chats or face steep legal penalties. The law’s…
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  Austin Steinbart, the self-proclaimed QAnon, was arrested in the US on March 31, being accused of blackmail by tech company Datto. He is currently under house arrest, pending further hearings. The 29-year-old Steinbart - nicknamed "Baby Q" by his fans - claimed in recent posts that he could escape any arrest as he…
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  Kent research suggests that men can distinguish between the scents of sexually aroused and non-aroused women. The detection of sexual arousal through smell may function as an additional channel in the communication of sexual interest and provide further verification of human sexual interest. This research, done by…
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  Researchers from the University of Wurzburg (JMU) in Germany investigated the signaling pathways involved in the movement of stomata to find out if it could help make agriculture more sustainable. In their study, published in the journal Trends in Plant Science, they found that given the proper stimulus, these can either open…
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  On August 8th 2019, a federal appeals court rejected Facebook’s call to undo a lawsuit that indicated the social media giant has been collecting and storing unauthorized biometric facial data of millions of users without their expressed consent. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco came to…
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  While federal health regulators and safety officials use adverse event data to identify potential risks associated with drugs or devices that are already on the market, a report suggests that only a tiny fraction of issues are ever submitted, which may allow serious side effects to go unnoticed. Researchers with…
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  Is magic real? That depends on how you define it. Cases of ‘supernormal’ powers and ‘magic’ of all kinds have been reported throughout history and across almost all cultures. Proponents of what we now call ‘magic’ include nearly all ancient literature from all parts of the…
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