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Seems somewhat contradictory for their claims he had dementia throughout his term. I mean if you're making a close/robot, wouldn't you get a good one?

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Making urban planning exciting and exposing NIMBY myths. This is spectacular.

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In any sane world Eastman would be a household name, someone with public buildings named after him.

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While Musk's rockets blow up, here's a new solution to the challenges of a different sort of flight. Liquid sodium fuel cells could theoretically allow flight that takes CO2 out of the air. Practicallity still far from proven, but good to see such new thinking www.iflscience.com/liquid-metal...

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My mea culpa for giving the paper more credibility than it deserved when it first came out, although I showed more skepticism than most.

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It's a rodent of unusual size, it exists, AND it's very furry.

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I think I need to frame this, or at least have it bookmarked to roll out at regular intervals.

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The finds refute the idea that early humans were isolated on Indonesian islands, showing they were often connected when low-lying areas were dry. www.iflscience.com/140000-year-...

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Yes well I am not a lawyer but I feel like this clearly violates the precedent set in Yougotta v. Kiddingme

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People steal what is in short supply. It seems glaciers do the same thing, and in a warming world, that's ice. www.iflscience.com/antarctic-gl...

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Reporter: I was watching your face during the meeting.. what was going through your mind when the President talked about erasing the border.. Carney: I’m glad that you couldn’t tell what was going through my mind Reporter: Oh I could

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THE FOUR STAGES OF PRO-FOSSIL EXPLOITATION OF MAJOR BLACKOUTS [a thread with videos] Stage 1: Guilt By Proximity - "any blackout that happens in a region with renewable energy must have been caused by renewable energy" [we are in the later end of this stage -see, FT, Bloomberg (Blas), etc]

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When I read this I thought the world was in deeper S--t than we realised, but then it occurred to me that RFK Jr would say that is fine because the bacteria in feces can't harm us if we eat well.

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Rep Eric Swalwell walked out in *shock*—and who could blame him? Every single GOP member on the House Judiciary Committee just voted to let Trump “deport” American citizens. This is illegal, authoritarian, and unforgivable 🤬 Time to call, write, & protest before the full House votes.

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Defining a nation's oldest rock is complex, because science is often not given to the clear divisions some would like. However, one thing this effort to identify America's oldest rock proves is that none of the candidates can compete with Canada's champion. www.iflscience.com/the-usa-has-...

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Amazing example of something so enormous, and close by astronomical standards, and we didn't know about it. This gas cloud with the mass of thousands of Suns takes up 25 degrees of the sky, and yet no one had seen it. www.iflscience.com/theres-an-en...

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