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A rare yellow cardinal has been spotted in Illinois - and there's a less than one-in-a-million chance to see one, expert says |
Cardinals are usually associated with the bright red color of their feathers, but a couple in Illinois say a yellow version of the bird hangs out in their backyard. Chelsea Curry told CBS News she first saw the yellow cardinal at her backyard bird feeder last year. |
Apr 02, 2021
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Dolphins Seem to Use Toxic Pufferfish to Get High |
Pufferfish release a toxin when they puff out that is meant to impair the attacker. This doesn’t work on Dolphins in the same way. It gets them high. So they purposely inflate them and pass them around to their dolphin friends for fun. |
Mar 12, 2021
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A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children |
A new test of cephalopod smarts has reinforced how important it is for us humans to not underestimate animal intelligence. Cuttlefish have been put to a new version of the marshmallow test, and the results appear to demonstrate that there's more going on in their strange little brains than we knew. |
Mar 10, 2021
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Michelle Starr - Science Alert
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The US Military Secretly Built An Artificial Brain Called The Sentient |
Since 2010, various US agencies have been developing a top-secret artificial intelligence system that they called Sentient, a term that translates as "conscious" or "endowed with senses." The documents confidential and classified recently published by The Verge describes the Program Sentient National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) as an intelligence system fully integrated system that can coordinate satellite positions, and will soon be used to manage operations in the battlefield during military clashes. |
Feb 25, 2021
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Infinity Explorers
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High-power SYLOS laser could 'transmute' nuclear waste |
Two Lithuanian companies and a Nobel Prize-winning professor have created and demonstrated a laser powerful enough to reduce nuclear waste decay from hundreds of years to just a few hours. The Single Cycle Laser SYLOS uses technology that 'transmutes' nuclear waste by bombarding atoms, and is being developed by 2018 Nobel Physics Prize co-winner, Professor Gerard Mourou. |
Feb 25, 2021
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Reuters Events
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U.S. Navy controls inventions that claim to change "fabric of reality" |
U.S. Navy holds patents for enigmatic inventions by the aerospace engineer Dr. Salvatore Pais. He came up with potentially revolutionary technology that can "engineer" reality, devising an ultrafast craft, a fusion reactor and more. While mostly theoretical at this point, the inventions could transform energy, space, and military sectors. |
Feb 24, 2021
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Big Think
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The Ghost Town In Oregon That Fell Into The Ocean |
Between Tillamook Bay and the sea there's a narrow, sandy peninsula where, 100 years ago, a town stood. Not just any town - one of the biggest ones on the Oregon Coast. With a municipal swimming hall full of warm saltwater and a surf generator. The reason it's gone today? |
Feb 24, 2021
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Tyler Willford - The Oregon Life
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Inside New York's $95 Million Penthouse: 432 Park Avenue |
The buzz has been building for years: 432 Park Avenue, located between 56th and 57th street, is the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere. With topping complete at 1,396 feet and the last of the concrete finally poured three years after the start of construction, it surpasses the Empire State Building (1,250 feet) and the Chrysler Building (1,046 feet) without its spire, and its rooftop is the highest in the city. |
Feb 06, 2021
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Alicia Adamczyk - Forbes
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The Down Side to Life in a Supertall Tower: Leaks, Creaks, Breaks |
The nearly 1,400-foot tower at 432 Park Avenue, briefly the tallest residential building in the world, was the pinnacle of New York's luxury condo boom half a decade ago, fueled largely by foreign buyers seeking discretion and big returns. |
Feb 06, 2021
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DNyuz
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Newly discovered "nano-chameleon" is world's smallest known reptile |
A tiny new species of chameleon has been discovered, and it seems to be the smallest reptile in the world. Known as Brookesia nana, or the nano-chameleon, the petite species can perch on a fingertip and may have the smallest adult males of any vertebrate. |
Feb 04, 2021
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Michael Irving - New Atlas
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Arizona Police Lieutenant Adopts Little Girl He Met While On Child Abuse Call |
Kingman, AZ - A Kingman police lieutenant and his wife are now the proud parents of a little girl he met while assisting with a child abuse call over two years ago. Kingman Police Department (KPD) Lieutenant Brian Zach said he was working as a patrol sergeant in March of 2018, when he was asked [...] |
Dec 14, 2020
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Holly Matkin - The Police Tribune
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2017 Stealth Neutron - Electric LightCycle |
Home / Motors / NeuTron Electric Light Cycle / Limited Edition "Stealth Neutron" New Electric Motor with an Increased Top Speed. Enter the world of 2017 Tron with the newly engineered Neutron Motorcycle. Once an imaginary bike envisioned in the movie 2017 Tron, it is now available to blow the socks off anyone who sees you cruising down the street. |
Dec 13, 2020
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Rich Boys' Toys
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Scientists Accidentally Bred a Bizarre Hybrid of Two Endangered Fish: The SturddleFish! |
You'd think at least 184 million years of evolution on entirely separate continents would be enough to make two species of fish sexually incompatible. That was the assumption scientists in Hungary were going on when they placed sperm from an American paddlefish near eggs from a Russian sturgeon in the lab. |
Jul 22, 2020
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Carly Cassella via ScienceAlert
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The $6,374 Pineapple |
In 1667 John Rose, the royal gardener, took a knee at the foot of Charles II, the King of England, and presented him with a pineapple. This wasn't the $3.00 discount pineapple from your local grocer, but rather the single most expensive fruit in the Western world. |
Nov 25, 2020
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Tony M Morley - @tonymmorley
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Biologists Find Spectacular Bird That's Both Male And Female, Split Down The Middle |
A super rare bird showing both male and female plumage has scientists in Pennsylvania counting their lucky stars. Split down the middle, with one side flaunting yellow 'wing pits', and the other side rocking a pink underwing, researchers say this spectacular-looking songbird is one for the record books. |
Oct 08, 2020
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Carly Cassella
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Royal Caribbean Cruises sues victims of volcano eruption to stop lawsuit
Roq Ur Mind Blogs · Dec 29, 2020 by Jeffery Martin - NewsWeek Royal Caribbean, the world's largest cruise company, is trying to prevent legal action from individuals seeking damages in connection with a volcanic eruption in 2019. In December 2019, passengers from the Royal Caribbean ship Ovation of the Seas took a side trip to White Island, a popular tourist site in New Zealand. tags: #volcano #lawsuits #survivors #eruption #cruise #island #royal-carribean #damages #2019 #ovation #white-island |
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The spooky world of the 'numbers stations'
Crypto Blogs · Dec 03, 2020 by BBC News This is the era of hyper-tech espionage, encrypted emails and mindboggling cryptography. But you can hear a very old-fashioned form of espionage on shortwave radio. It is 13:03 on a Tuesday in a cramped room with some fairly advanced radio equipment. What is suddenly heard on a shortwave receiving station is a 10-minute message in Morse code. |
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2,400 year old intact shipwreck discovered in Black Sea
Roq Ur Mind Blogs · Dec 02, 2020 by Born to Engineer Modern engineering has just met ancient engineering as the Black Sea Maritime Archaeology Project reveals it has discovered the worlds oldest shipwreck. The 2,400 year old trading vessel has only ever been seen on the sides of pottery until now. tags: #london #ancient #history #exploration #shipwreck #black-sea #maritime #vessel #untouched #archeology #greek #pottery #southampton #wellcome #collection |
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A Michigan woman was declared dead by paramedics. The funeral home found she was alive.
Roq Ur Mind Blogs · Aug 26, 2020 by NBC News Paramedics declared a Michigan woman dead before her remains were taken to a funeral home - where staff found she was very much alive, authorities said Monday. The bizarre mishap unfolded on Sunday morning in Southfield, when local paramedics rushed to the aid of an unresponsive 20-year-old woman, officials said. tags: #zombie #roq-ur-mind #undead #paramedics #declared |
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A rare yellow cardinal has been spotted in Illinois - and there's a less than one-in-a-million chance to see one, expert says |
Cardinals are usually associated with the bright red color of their feathers, but a couple in Illinois say a yellow version of the bird hangs out in their backyard. Chelsea Curry told CBS News she first saw the yellow cardinal at her backyard bird feeder last year. |
Apr 02, 2021
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CBS News
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Dolphins Seem to Use Toxic Pufferfish to Get High |
Pufferfish release a toxin when they puff out that is meant to impair the attacker. This doesn’t work on Dolphins in the same way. It gets them high. So they purposely inflate them and pass them around to their dolphin friends for fun. |
Mar 12, 2021
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A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children |
A new test of cephalopod smarts has reinforced how important it is for us humans to not underestimate animal intelligence. Cuttlefish have been put to a new version of the marshmallow test, and the results appear to demonstrate that there's more going on in their strange little brains than we knew. |
Mar 10, 2021
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Michelle Starr - Science Alert
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The US Military Secretly Built An Artificial Brain Called The Sentient |
Since 2010, various US agencies have been developing a top-secret artificial intelligence system that they called Sentient, a term that translates as "conscious" or "endowed with senses." The documents confidential and classified recently published by The Verge describes the Program Sentient National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) as an intelligence system fully integrated system that can coordinate satellite positions, and will soon be used to manage operations in the battlefield during military clashes. |
Feb 25, 2021
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Infinity Explorers
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High-power SYLOS laser could 'transmute' nuclear waste |
Two Lithuanian companies and a Nobel Prize-winning professor have created and demonstrated a laser powerful enough to reduce nuclear waste decay from hundreds of years to just a few hours. The Single Cycle Laser SYLOS uses technology that 'transmutes' nuclear waste by bombarding atoms, and is being developed by 2018 Nobel Physics Prize co-winner, Professor Gerard Mourou. |
Feb 25, 2021
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Reuters Events
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U.S. Navy controls inventions that claim to change "fabric of reality" |
U.S. Navy holds patents for enigmatic inventions by the aerospace engineer Dr. Salvatore Pais. He came up with potentially revolutionary technology that can "engineer" reality, devising an ultrafast craft, a fusion reactor and more. While mostly theoretical at this point, the inventions could transform energy, space, and military sectors. |
Feb 24, 2021
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Big Think
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The Ghost Town In Oregon That Fell Into The Ocean |
Between Tillamook Bay and the sea there's a narrow, sandy peninsula where, 100 years ago, a town stood. Not just any town - one of the biggest ones on the Oregon Coast. With a municipal swimming hall full of warm saltwater and a surf generator. The reason it's gone today? |
Feb 24, 2021
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Tyler Willford - The Oregon Life
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Inside New York's $95 Million Penthouse: 432 Park Avenue |
The buzz has been building for years: 432 Park Avenue, located between 56th and 57th street, is the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere. With topping complete at 1,396 feet and the last of the concrete finally poured three years after the start of construction, it surpasses the Empire State Building (1,250 feet) and the Chrysler Building (1,046 feet) without its spire, and its rooftop is the highest in the city. |
Feb 06, 2021
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Alicia Adamczyk - Forbes
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