George HW Bush Dead At 94

George HW Bush Dead At 94
George Bush, the 41st president of the United States and the father of the 43rd, who steered the nation through a tumultuous period in world affairs but was denied a second term after support for his presidency collapsed under the weight of an economic downturn and his seeming inattention to domestic affairs, died on Friday.

December 1, 2018 at 10:16AM
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This Is One Way To Respond When A Scammer DMs You On Twitter

This Is One Way To Respond When A Scammer DMs You On Twitter
Many people, upon receiving an obviously scammy message, would ignore it, or block the account it came from, or click the "This is SPAM" button. Not Popehat's Ken White.

December 1, 2018 at 01:26AM
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Is Our Constant Use Of Digital Technologies Affecting Our Brain Health? We Asked 11 Experts

Is Our Constant Use Of Digital Technologies Affecting Our Brain Health? We Asked 11 Experts
We now have a "national attention deficit," one neuroscientist says.

November 29, 2018 at 09:54AM
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What Would It Take To Shoot A Cannonball Into Orbit?

What Would It Take To Shoot A Cannonball Into Orbit?
The motion of a ball falling on the surface of the Earth is caused by the same interaction as the moon orbiting the Earth. That's crazy. It's even crazier to realize that humans figured out that these two motions (falling ball and moon) are from the same gravitational force.

December 1, 2018 at 04:14AM
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Curiosity Rover Just Spotted This Super-Shiny Object on Mars

Curiosity Rover Just Spotted This Super-Shiny Object on Mars
Immediate suspicions are that the rock, dubbed Little Colonsay, is a meteorite, but NASA scientists won't know for sure until Curiosity performs a chemical analysis.

December 1, 2018 at 04:14AM
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Huge earthquake rocks buildings in Anchorage; tsunami warning issued

Huge earthquake rocks buildings in Anchorage; tsunami warning issued
The US Geological Survey says the earthquake was centered about 7 miles north of Alaska's largest city. Officials issued a tsunami warning for coastal areas of southern Alaska after the earthquake.

November 30, 2018 at 11:40PM
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The First Clinical Trial Of A Male Birth Control Gel Is Under Way

The First Clinical Trial Of A Male Birth Control Gel Is Under Way
An elusive medical advance might finally be within grasp, one that could make some couples' sex lives a lot more convenient. This week, researchers officially kicked off the first wide-scale clinical trial of a male contraceptive topical gel.

November 30, 2018 at 10:11PM
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Rocko’s Modern Life: Inside the Barely Contained Chaos of a Nickelodeon Classic

Rocko’s Modern Life: Inside the Barely Contained Chaos of a Nickelodeon Classic
Creator Joe Murray and his team reminisce about their weird, wild, occasionally obscene cartoon — which was even loonier behind the scenes.

November 30, 2018 at 07:02AM
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Marriott says data breach compromised info of up to 500 million guests

Marriott says data breach compromised info of up to 500 million guests
The breach could potentially be one of the largest in history, behind the hacking of about 3 billion Yahoo accounts.

November 30, 2018 at 06:34PM
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A Single, Mystery Ballot Could Sway Control Of Alaska's State Government

A Single, Mystery Ballot Could Sway Control Of Alaska's State Government
Control of Alaska state government, at least for the next two years, could hinge on a mystery ballot that an election worker found on a table in a Fairbanks voting precinct more than three weeks ago.

November 30, 2018 at 06:34PM
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The Camp Fire's Destruction, Shown In 360-Degree Imagery

The Camp Fire's Destruction, Shown In 360-Degree Imagery
The Camp Fire, the most destructive in California's history, has finally been contained. To get a sense of the scale of the destruction, this interactive map collects drone imagery of destroyed structures.

November 28, 2018 at 09:49PM
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Insects Are Dying At An Alarming Rate, And Other Facts

Insects Are Dying At An Alarming Rate, And Other Facts
Welcome to What We Learned This Week​, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: it's not just the bees that are dying at an alarming rate, at least one guy bowled a perfect game on 9/11 and there was a big earthquake that no one felt.

November 30, 2018 at 05:45PM
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The 40 Greatest Family Games

The 40 Greatest Family Games
Codenames! Catan! Sorry! Transform screen time into game time with these immortal classics.

November 28, 2018 at 09:21PM
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Scientists Found A New Species Of Wasp That Turns Spiders Into Zombies

Scientists Found A New Species Of Wasp That Turns Spiders Into Zombies
In the Ecuadorian Amazon, a new species of wasp is inflicting horror movie-worthy terror on "social" spiders.

November 30, 2018 at 01:21PM
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What an Obscure German Novel Taught Me About Dictators

What an Obscure German Novel Taught Me About Dictators
Written as Hitler came to power, this book captured the confusion, fear and denial that allowed him to wreak havoc for 12 years.

November 28, 2018 at 11:38PM
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How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime

How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime
How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime.

November 28, 2018 at 09:21PM
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What Michael Cohen's Guilty Plea Could Mean For Trump

What Michael Cohen's Guilty Plea Could Mean For Trump
It's the second guilty plea from Cohen, and this time around, there's also a cooperation agreement between Cohen and the Mueller team. So how big a deal is this?

November 30, 2018 at 04:01AM
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Far Right Activist Laura Loomer Handcuffs Herself To Twitter HQ Door After Getting Banned, Rants To Disinterested New Yorkers

Far Right Activist Laura Loomer Handcuffs Herself To Twitter HQ Door After Getting Banned, Rants To Disinterested New Yorkers
Laura Loomer is a far-right provocateur and activist who made the news most recently for receiving a permanent ban from Twitter. And she wants back in.

November 30, 2018 at 03:12AM
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Are There Bacteria In Your Brain?

Are There Bacteria In Your Brain?
A surprising new result catches the attention of the neuroscience community.

November 30, 2018 at 12:27AM
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Strange Waves Rippled Around The World, And Nobody Knows Why

Strange Waves Rippled Around The World, And Nobody Knows Why
Instruments picked up the seismic waves more than 10,000 miles away — but bizarrely, nobody felt them.

November 29, 2018 at 01:44AM
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A Glimpse Into The Heart Of A Quasar

A Glimpse Into The Heart Of A Quasar
Astronomical objects called quasars have been difficult to study because of the limited spatial resolution of observations. An approach has been developed that allows the structure and dynamics of quasars to be investigated.

November 29, 2018 at 09:00PM
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What's The Fastest 100-Meter Dash A Human Can Run?

What's The Fastest 100-Meter Dash A Human Can Run?
Propelled by more effective training, grippier track surfaces, faster footwear and, yes, pharmaceuticals, competitors at every level of track and field's premier event have steadily chipped away at the world's best 100-meter times.

November 29, 2018 at 09:00PM
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The Persistent, Racist Myth Of "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" Just Won't Die

The Persistent, Racist Myth Of "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" Just Won't Die
Despite food scientists like Harold McGee sticking up for MSG, and the blizzard of food writers extolling its magical powers of deliciousness, the perception that it is somehow uniquely dangerous persists.

November 29, 2018 at 09:00PM
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Michael Cohen expected to plead guilty to lying to Congress in collusion probe; gave 70 hours of testimony to special counsel: Sources

Michael Cohen expected to plead guilty to lying to Congress in collusion probe; gave 70 hours of testimony to special counsel: Sources
Special counsel Robert Mueller has reached a tentative deal with Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney and long-time fixer for President Donald Trump, sources told ABC News.

November 29, 2018 at 07:25PM
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Why So Many People Hate Winter

Why So Many People Hate Winter
Science suggests that there are two types of people who tolerate the cold well. Sadly, I'm neither.

November 29, 2018 at 05:57PM
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Deutsche Bank Offices Are Searched In Money Laundering Investigation

Deutsche Bank Offices Are Searched In Money Laundering Investigation
One hundred seventy officers searched the headquarters of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and five other sites in the area early Thursday as part of a money-laundering investigation involving hundreds of millions of euros, prosecutors in Frankfurt said.

November 29, 2018 at 05:57PM
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Can A Physics Of Panic Explain The Motions Of The Crowd?

Can A Physics Of Panic Explain The Motions Of The Crowd?
Understanding crowds can help us manage the panic caused by a terrorist attack; a science of crowds is vital to managing many emergencies, especially when density becomes dangerously high.

November 29, 2018 at 05:18PM
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How To Survive The Next Era Of Tech (Slow Down And Be Mindful)

How To Survive The Next Era Of Tech (Slow Down And Be Mindful)
In his final State of the Art column, Farhad Manjoo reflects on the industry's changes and presents a new guide for navigating the future of technology.

November 29, 2018 at 06:47AM
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The Pentagon's Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed

The Pentagon's Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed
How US military spending keeps rising even as the Pentagon flunks its audit.

November 29, 2018 at 05:01AM
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How One Murder Could Reshape Oklahoma

How One Murder Could Reshape Oklahoma
The Supreme Court may declare that half the state is still Indian country under federal law.

November 29, 2018 at 05:01AM
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SCIENTIST WHO CRISPR’D BABIES BUCKED HIS OWN ETHICS POLICY

SCIENTIST WHO CRISPR’D BABIES BUCKED HIS OWN ETHICS POLICY
We said many years and years of boring bench science remain before anyone could even think about putting it near a woman’s uterus. Well, we might have been wrong. Permission to push the panic button granted.

November 28, 2018 at 06:20AM
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This Cow Is HUGE

This Cow Is HUGE
At just under 2 meters and just over 3,000 pounds, Knickers the Australian cow is one full-sized bull.

November 28, 2018 at 08:16PM
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America Is Poorer Than It Thinks

America Is Poorer Than It Thinks
Statistics don't quite capture the extent of US poverty. A new measure could change that.

November 27, 2018 at 05:23AM
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Ancient Viruses Are Probably Why Weed Has THC and CBD

Ancient Viruses Are Probably Why Weed Has THC and CBD
THC and CBD are probably the result of freak genetic mutations millions of years ago, scientists say.

November 29, 2018 at 02:54AM
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A Behind-The-Scenes Look At What Went Into NASA's Most Recent Mars Landing

A Behind-The-Scenes Look At What Went Into NASA's Most Recent Mars Landing
Every little thing had to go exactly right or $850 million and years of work would go right down the drain.

November 29, 2018 at 02:24AM
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Strange Waves Rippled Around The World, And Nobody Knows Why

Strange Waves Rippled Around The World, And Nobody Knows Why
Instruments picked up the seismic waves more than 10,000 miles away — but bizarrely, nobody felt them.

November 29, 2018 at 01:44AM
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What 'Emotional Labor' Actually Means

What 'Emotional Labor' Actually Means
The term has become a central part of an important conversation around the division of household labor. But the sociologist who coined it says it's being used incorrectly.

November 27, 2018 at 06:01PM
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To Break The Paper Folding Record You Need A Really Big Math Equation And A Really Thin Piece Of Paper

To Break The Paper Folding Record You Need A Really Big Math Equation And A Really Thin Piece Of Paper
Folding a piece of paper more than 8 times in a row was thought to be impossible. It's not, it's just seriously hard and takes a lot of careful calculus.

November 28, 2018 at 11:31PM
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How climate change wiped out the real unicorns

How climate change wiped out the real unicorns
By analyzing the animal's DNA, the researchers discovered that, despite appearances, the Siberian unicorn was only a very distant relative of today's living rhinos, and in fact the last surviving member of a unique mammal family. This was a completely different beast.

November 28, 2018 at 08:16PM
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The Pathology Of Prejudice

The Pathology Of Prejudice
What neuroscience tells us about the persistence of hatred.

November 28, 2018 at 08:16PM
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The Search For Alien Life Begins In Earth's Oldest Desert

The Search For Alien Life Begins In Earth's Oldest Desert
In the Martian landscape that is the Atacama desert, astrobiologists are learning how to recognize extraterrestrial organisms.

November 28, 2018 at 07:52PM
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The Era of Cheap and Easy STD Treatment Is Over. What Went Wrong?

The Era of Cheap and Easy STD Treatment Is Over. What Went Wrong?
Lacking a bacterium to test, rapid tests sacrificed the ability to tell whether an infection was antibiotic-resistant. Thus people with STDs received drugs that couldn't cure their infections, allowing resistant strains to spread as if they'd never been treated at all.

November 28, 2018 at 07:04PM
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A Defendant Shows Up in Immigration Court by Himself. He’s 6.

A Defendant Shows Up in Immigration Court by Himself. He’s 6.
Wilder Hilario Maldonado Cabrera was the youngest defendant on the juvenile docket that day, and he was one of the last children left in government custody who had been affected by the zero-tolerance policy.

November 28, 2018 at 05:46PM
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Meet Annie Easley, The Barrier-Breaking Mathematician Who Helped Us Explore The Solar System

Meet Annie Easley, The Barrier-Breaking Mathematician Who Helped Us Explore The Solar System
Although Easley never had a movie made of her life, she was a hidden figure in her own right as a barrier-breaking mathematician and rocket scientist who worked on countless NASA projects for over 30 years.

November 27, 2018 at 06:01PM
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SCIENTIST WHO CRISPR’D BABIES BUCKED HIS OWN ETHICS POLICY

SCIENTIST WHO CRISPR’D BABIES BUCKED HIS OWN ETHICS POLICY
We said many years and years of boring bench science remain before anyone could even think about putting it near a woman’s uterus. Well, we might have been wrong. Permission to push the panic button granted.

November 28, 2018 at 06:20AM
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'SpongeBob Squarepants' Creator Stephen Hillenburg Dies At 57

'SpongeBob Squarepants' Creator Stephen Hillenburg Dies At 57
"We are incredibly saddened by the news that Steve Hillenburg has passed away following a battle with ALS," Nickelodeon said in a statement.

November 28, 2018 at 05:35AM
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One Plausible Way We Could Trap Ourselves On Earth, Unable To Explore The Stars Again

One Plausible Way We Could Trap Ourselves On Earth, Unable To Explore The Stars Again
There is a hell of a lot of debris in our atmosphere. If anything were to go wrong, that could be a big issue.

November 28, 2018 at 01:05AM
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Man Greatly Underestimates The Electric Pulses Of Electric Eel Babies

Man Greatly Underestimates The Electric Pulses Of Electric Eel Babies
They might look cute and tiny, but don't go poking your hand in the same pool they're in.

November 28, 2018 at 12:01AM
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Video Of A Gender Reveal Explosion That Grew Into A Fire Consuming 47,000 Acres Of Arizona Land

Video Of A Gender Reveal Explosion That Grew Into A Fire Consuming 47,000 Acres Of Arizona Land
The Arizona Daily Star submitted a FOIA request, finally receiving this footage of the "spark" that started Arizona's Sawmill Fire which required 800 firefighters and cost $8.2 million to battle back.

November 27, 2018 at 11:02PM
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A Former Opioid Addict At Harvard Says We're Getting Addiction Wrong

A Former Opioid Addict At Harvard Says We're Getting Addiction Wrong
Peter Grinspoon went to rehab for his opioid addiction — and realized that current faith-based abstinence programs often lack scientific research.

November 27, 2018 at 10:39PM
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