11 April 2019

Ultranationalism on the rise in Ukraine

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Photo essay in The Guardian .

New Zealand bans assault and military-style weapons

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Excerpts from an article in New Zealand's Stuff : The banning of a range of rifles will become law less than a month after the massac...
10 April 2019

Commonly called the "Picasso bug"

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Sphaerocoris annulus , common names Picasso Bug or Zulu Hud Bug, is a species of shield-backed bugs belonging to the family Scutelleridae...
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"Ranked choice voting" lucidly explained

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Radiolab produces superb podcasts.  "Tweak the Vote" is a detailed but reasonably concise study of ranked choice voting . The...
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One-sixth of the U.S. population lives in this megalopolis

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More information about the Northeast megalopolis . Via
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Ransomware erases medical records

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A computer virus recently injected itself into the electronic medical record system of Brookside ENT & Hearing Services and ruined t...
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09 April 2019

The leg of Argentinosaurus

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To estimate the gait and speed of Argentinosaurus , the study performed a musculoskeletal analysis combined with computer simulations. ...

"Piano stairs"

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YouTube link
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2018 Scrabble championship game

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YouTube link Related - an advertisement for Scrabble: YouTube link See also :  Fun variants of Scrabble

A suggestion to BROIL chocolate-chip cookies

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YouTube link
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Arctic now in an "unprecedented state"

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YouTube link A new research paper by American and European climate scientists focused on Arctic warming published Monday reveals that ...

Convenient map shows all the pubs in the U.K.

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via
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Revealing the plastic liner inside a can of Coke

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YouTube link
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08 April 2019

Skull of the Altamura Man

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The Altamura Man is a fossil of the genus Homo discovered in 1993 in a karst sinkhole in the Lamalunga Cave near the city of Altamura, ...

The "journey north" has begun

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You can follow the monarch migration and many other signs of spring (songbirds, frogs, leafing out) for this year and previous years in t...
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