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How Your Android Phone Can Alert You to Earthquakes Before You Feel Them
CaLea Johnson
Many of the deadliest disasters in history have been earthquakes, including the 2005 tragedy in Pakistans North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir, and the 2010 quake in Haiti. Since earthquakes cant be ...[Continue Reading]
Mental Floss
1 day ago
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Cork forwards carry a torch into All-Ireland final that was first lit by Fitzgerald, Fitzgibbon and Hennessy
Denis Walsh
In a corridor of Midleton Hospital Kevin Hennessy rounds a corner followed by an outbreak of laughter. A nurse is pushing his electric wheelchair and Hennessy has passed some remark about the driving ...[Continue Reading]
The Irish Times
1 day ago
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Hugh Linehan: My right eye is now failing too. The world is slipping away, just a little, just enough to notice
Hugh Linehan
As a child, I used to sneak into my fathers study to leaf through his books on cinema. Fellini. Bergman. Kubrick. Hitchcock. It felt like trespassing into a world of illicit imagery and adult mystery ...[Continue Reading]
The Irish Times
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Joe Rogan fawns over Texas progressive James Talarico who said there are 6 sexes: You need to run for president
Victor Nava
Democratic Texas state Rep. James Talarico who once asserted that there are six sexes left Joe Rogan so impressed Friday that the popular podcast host urged the young lawmaker to run for president. ...[Continue Reading]
New York Post
1 day ago
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How superstimuli like porn and junk food flood our brains with dopamine but dont bring lasting satisfaction
Mary McCarthy
Superstimuli such as processed food, pornography and social media may be giving us too much of a good thing In Super Stimulated, Danish science writer Nicklas Brendborg successfully answers an unset ...[Continue Reading]
Independent.ie
1 day ago
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Scientists Make 'Magic State' Breakthrough After 20 Years
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In a world first, scientists have demonstrated an enigmatic phenomenon in quantum computing that could pave the way for fault-tolerant machines that are far more powerful than any supercomputer. The ...[Continue Reading]
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