2021-02-08
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Worthy
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Along with the radiocarbon dating of the Alaska twine and charcoal found near the beads, they figured the beads arrived at Punyik Point sometime between 1440 and 1480, years before Columbus was even thinking of his journey.
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This Teenager Helped Launch Seed Libraries in Every State - Modern Farmer
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(2011) MPG of a Human | Do the Math
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De Cecco Reveals Why There Is a Bucatini Shortage in America
I know you and your mom are missing bucatini. We are working in making sure that you and your mom get a very conspicuous refurbishment of bucatini.
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Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit used by police • The Register
a man accused of murder is entitled to review proprietary genetic testing software to challenge evidence presented against him.
[the company] argued against source code analysis by claiming that the program, consisting of 170,000 lines of MATLAB code, is so dense it would take eight and a half years to review at a rate of ten lines an hour.
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Gun sales spiked in 2020 amid pandemic, social justice protests
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Study of supergiant star Betelgeuse unveils the cause of its pulsations
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No ‘gay gene’: Massive study homes in on genetic basis of human sexuality
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Dutch airline KLM says operated first flight with synthetic kerosene
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Royal Photographic Society makes 165 years of its Journal free online
Horseshit
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Baby Bottom Art - Totally Absurd Inventions & Patents, America's Goofiest Patents
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Someone attempted to poison water supply in Florida city during hack
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Video, skip ahead to ~25sec Sheila Jackson Lee: AR-15 Heavy as 10-boxes and fires .50 caliber bullets:
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"Republicans were bad in the 80s too." Oddly, no mention of Teipper Gore at all. The Conservative Christian War on Rock and Roll | JSTOR Daily
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Major creators aim to deplatform and destroy income of YouTuber over medical disorder concerns
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Netflix: The New Outlet for US Progressive Politics?
- Yes, "Progressive" voices have so few platforms ...
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Where Did All The Bellwether Counties Go? | FiveThirtyEight
From 1980 to 2016, 19 counties voted for the winner of the presidential election every single time. The most impressive of those was Valencia County, New Mexico, which voted for the victor in every presidential election from 1952 to 2016.
But in 2020, 18 of these 19 “bellwether counties” voted for former President Donald Trump. Just one — Clallam County, Washington — voted for President Joe Biden.
TechSuck
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Kids might be digital natives – but a study shows they aren’t computer literate
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AT&T claims a phone made in 2019 will stop working, urges users to upgrade | Ars Technica
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Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10m users with one update
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Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked
I absolutely have not done anything to violate your terms of service, so I can take this no other way than you deciding to burn this bridge. Consider it burned. #Terraria for @GoogleStadia is canceled. My company will no longer support any of your platforms moving forward.
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Developer exposes multiple million-dollar scam apps on the App Store
Economicon
Politickles
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Biden Appears To Be Expanding The US Occupation Of Syria | ZeroHedge
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Donald Trump should be convicted unanimously by secret ballot | TheHill
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Parler Wanted Donald Trump on Its Site. Trump’s Company Wanted a Stake
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Civil-Liberties Groups Ask Justice Dept. To Drop Julian Assange Case
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Claudia Tenney wins New York House race | TheHill
Claudia Tenney will be certified as the winner in the race to represent the state’s 22nd Congressional District, according to a ruling from the state Supreme Court on Friday.