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Gotta wonder if this isn't a case of people counting a whole lot of chickens that haven't hatched yet. Sure, Tesla is much cooler than those old...

Viagra makes flowers stand up straight

Viagra (sildenafil citrate) is good not only for treating male impotence. Israeli and Australian researchers...

Here's an other wise PM to Doc X...

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Online porn ‘produces the same amount of carbon emissions as all the households in France’
Russia Today

A new study brings a whole new...

Interesting, mainly for the videos.

Not a mention of anything negative, journalism at it's finest.

You lot tell me if I am going crazy
Not a...

Elon Musk on Digging Big-Ass Tunnel: 'We Have No Idea What We’re Doing'

Traffic is driving me nuts. Am going to build a tunnel boring machine and...

Just wondering if this is some kind of audiophile woo-woo or if he has a legitimate point:

Neil Young says done with streaming due to 'worst' sound...

So, it's 13 years since we installed our gas central heating/hot water system based around a condensing boiler. While it's been fantastic to date,...

Always questioned, always still standing for now .

Einstein's general relativity theory is questioned but still stands for now
Science Daily...

3 meltdowns 1 of which was total, that is to say the entire core liquified.
1, possibly 2 containment breaches.
3 hydrogen explosions.
1 criticality...

The administration’s latest statement came after Russian media reports claimed dozens of medical workers had been exposed to radiation.

Reports...

(disclaimer: wife wanted HBO, we got HBO)

It's fucking really good, and the scenes about the 48 hours till doomsday is flat out one of the best ever...

Some Swiss are at it: .

Interestingly it uses waste heat. Let's just hope it can be competitive. They think yes, of course:

Thirty-Three Famous Physicists Sign Angry Letter About the Origin of the Universe

Cosmologists are in the business of figuring out how and why we...

How many Earth-like planets are around sun-like stars?

For purposes of this study, the planets they are including in this category are as follows:...

This idea is kinda cool, although there's too much history in the Gregorian Calendar to make it worth switching. But if we started history over from...

The Legislation That Targets the Racist Impacts of Tech
The New York Times

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The bill, called the Algorithmic Accountability Act and...

:De_Bunk: :cowbell:

Energy Vault to build grid-level, gravity-fed battery from a tower of concrete blocks

Meeting our growing energy demands without continuing to...

World’s first ever human-monkey hybrid grown in lab in China
Daily Star (UK)

Not sure if that's the UK paper with tits on page 3. :)

Scientists...

LightSail 2 successfully demonstrates solar sailing

It shows that satellites can use the Sun to propel themselves.

LightSail 2 is faring much...

High levels of estrogen in the womb linked to autism
Science Daily

Scientist have identified a link between exposure to high levels of oestrogen...

I hope this can be pulled off. Apparently construction has begun on an experimental commercial scale fusion reactor , and more importantly one that...

Interesting bio:
Mitchell Feigenbaum, Physicist, Dies at 74; He Made Sense of Chaos

Which you can read here: .

To mathematicians (and perhaps...

Say what you will about Thunderf00t --he goes on and on, has agenda, get a hair cut you hippy! --he does very good Bad Science Debunkage.

Perfectly...

Insects feel persistent pain after injury, evidence suggests
Science Daily

Scientists have known insects experience something like pain since...

Samsung. Who knows TVs?

Self-driving cars should be liable for accidents, not the passengers—UK gov’t

Where the manufacturer is found to be liable, the insurer will be...

The main feature of the circular runway is that it will become possible to let an aircraft operate always at landing and take-off with headwind....

At least that how I interpret this story, though still too early to call your broker and short all sex doll stocks.

How you and your friends can...

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Discovered: A new property of light
Space Daily

Researchers have discovered that light can possess a new property, self-torque....

The Pentagon has a laser that can identify people from a distance—by their heartbeat
The Jetson prototype can pick up on a unique cardiac signature...

Some extinct crocs were vegetarians
Science Daily

Based on careful study of fossilized teeth, scientists Keegan Melstom and Randall Irmis at the...

Let the Mystery Be?
Slate

Synopsis:
Homosexuality is held to be genetic. In fact that's somehow part of the non-libertarian gay rights...

I'm sure google will answer but I want your answers first.

The May 2019 AP-NORC Poll asks Americans about their interests in space exploration. It asks questions of minor interest, IMO. Some participants of...

The scientist is currently receiving a lot of criticism for this.

There is also some reason to be skeptical of the claim itself, since it was made...

The confession ( Science magazine)
A psychologist has shown how police questioning can get innocent people to condemn themselves. At 16, Huwe Burton...

Interesting lecture about what it would take to get our electric power system to zero CO2 emissions.

Getting to Zero

Obviously it's not so easy...

Damn they're good.

In Alabama's Blount County, off the highway, down a dirt road and up a hill is writer T.K. Thorne's house. She points to her roof and a shining row...

Study: Lab Mice Stressed Out By Male Scientists] Study: Lab Mice Stressed Out By Male Scientists
The Onion

Researchers avoid ‘messy’ hormonal...

An (Even More) Inconvenient Truth (ProPublica)

Why Carbon Credits For Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing

RIO BRANCO, BRAZIL — The state...

Amazon Is Working on a Device That Can Read Human Emotions

Designed to work with a smartphone app, the device has microphones paired with software...

This is not entirely new (you've probably heard about foxes and hedgehogs before) but I thought it was an interesting read. In general it seems that...

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Gas insulation could be protecting an ocean inside Pluto
Science Daily

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Researchers at Japan's Hokkaido University, the Tokyo...