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Social Distancing: (Fire) Escape from New York | Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 21, 2020 Photo credit: Mickey Z. The Covid quarantine has helped remind me of just how much I appreciate my fire escape -- and fire escapes, in general. Unable to spend much time on the streets of Astoria these days, I’ve come to utilize my fire escape like a top-floor terrace. With earphones plugged in, I listen to podcasts while feeding the birds, gazing at the ...

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The Bionic Breast Project | University of Chicago

May 15, 202 (MedicalXpress) -- About half of Prof. Stacy Lindau's patients over the last decade have had breast cancer and express new difficulties with sexual function during and after treatment. Th ...

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Scientists Break The Link Between A Quantum Material's Spin And Orbital States | Glennda Chui

These balloon-and-disc shapes represent an electron orbital -- a fuzzy electron cloud around an atom's nucleus -- in two different orientations. Scientists hope to someday use variations in the orien ...

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Emergency Bras (Adam Hunger)

(Editor's note: World News Trust first linked to this Reuters photo nearly 10 years ago. -Francis Goodwin) Oct. 16, 2010 (Reuters) -- Dr. Elena Bodnar holds up one of her "Emergency Bras," as John Du ...

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How Artificial Intelligence Can Save Journalism | Patrick White

Newsrooms need to take advantage of what AI can offer and come up with a new business model. (Shutterstock) Patrick White, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) May 5, 2020 (The Conversation) -- The ...

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Cuddling Brings Two Minds Together, MRI Study Reveals | Dennis Thompson

Love to cuddle up? It might bring a 'mind meld,' too, new research shows. May 4, 2020 (MedicalXpress) -- People in close physical contact appear to have synchronized brain patterns, a revolutionary n ...

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A System To Reproduce Different Animal Locomotion Skills In Robots | Ingrid Fadelli

Credit: Google May 1, 2020 (Tech Xplore) -- Researchers at Google Research and the University of California, Berkeley, have recently developed an imitation learning system that could enable a variety ...

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Facebook algorithm changes suppressed journalism and meddled with democracy | Jennifer Grygiel

July 24, 2019 (The Conversation) -- As the 2020 election approaches, there is much public concern that what was dubbed “Russian meddling” in the 2016 presidential election could happen again. But wha ...

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The Twilight of the Monofuture | John Michael Greer

July 31, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’m pleased to say that my post here two weeks ago, on the way that belief in progress depends on a certain kind of historical amnesia, got a lively and mostly though ...

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Progress and Amnesia | John Michael Greer

Giant laser walrus. Source: worldwidewalrusweb.comJuly 17, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’d meant to launch straight into a discussion of peak oil this week, and talk about how the ongoing attempt to extr ...

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Scientists combine light and matter to make particles with new behaviors | Louise Lerner

Credit: Petr Kratochvil/public domain July 4, 2019 (Phys.org) -- Every type of atom in the universe has a unique fingerprint: It only absorbs or emits light at the particular energies that match the ...

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