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%feed http://twitter.com/FelixWildlife/status/765502393010229250 @NirpSecretariat @jag_bros I also hope they are not using Endangered Animals. There are CITES & Endangered species act that protects these. http://ifttt.com/missing_link?1471344989
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%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgo.theregister.com%2Ffeed%2Fwww.theregister.co.uk%2F2016%2F08%2F16%2Fswedish_pig_rampage%2F&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 Swedish Pokemon teens terrorised by laser-wielding 'sex pigs'
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%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2016%2F08%2F16%2F490174061%2Fwhy-high-income-households-benefit-more-from-product-innovations%3Futm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3Dresearchnews&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 Why High-Income Households Benefit More From Product Innovations
A Stanford University researcher finds that products purchased mainly by poor people were increasing in price much more quickly than those purchased by the wealthy.
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Researchers have for the first time, decoded and predicted the brain activity patterns of word meanings within sentences, and successfully predicted what the brain patterns would be for new sentences. The study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure human brain activation.
Image credit: University of Rochester/Andrew Anderson, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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This is a scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of soil dust, composed mainly of silicon-oxygen minerals. This particle was collected along a highway in Scottsdale, Arizona, as part of a research study conducted by Arizona State University researchers on the flow of air pollution in the Phoenix metro area. Dust kicked up by road traffic creates a large proportion of the particles, while others are the combustion products of gasoline or diesel fuel, sometimes in combination with dust.
Image credit: Hua Xin, Ph.D., Arizona State University
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%feed http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/astronauts-kate-rubins-and-jeff-williams-prepare-for-a-spacewalk Astronauts Kate Rubins and Jeff Williams Prepare For a Spacewalk Expedition 48 crew members Kate Rubins (left) and Jeff Williams (right) of NASA outfit spacesuits inside of the Quest airlock aboard the International Space Station. Rubins and Williams will conduct a spacewalk on Friday, Aug. 19, 2016, to install a new docking port that will enable the future arrival of U.S. commercial crew spacecraft. astronomy
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%feed http://twitter.com/GozoPedzi/status/765479150190784512 CITES stands for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. The meeting happens in Jozi this September @WWFSouthAfrica http://ifttt.com/missing_link?1471339643
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%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Finternational%2Fworld%2Feditorial-why-trump-would-be-a-danger-for-the-entire-world-a-1107880.html%23ref%3Drss&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 Narcissist and Agitator: Donald Trump Is One of the Greatest Threats of Our Time During his campaign, Donald Trump has repeatedly flirted with violence. Crude political notions aside, he lacks the character to become president of the United States and represents a true danger to the entire world. general
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%feed http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheDailyGalaxyNewsFromPlanetEarthBeyond/~3/wtXrABCeu-Y/methuselah-stars-oldest-stars-in-the-universe-discovered-at-milky-way-center-date-from-before-its-bi.html 'Methuselah Stars' --Oldest Stars in the Universe Found at Milky Way Center: "Date from Before Its Birth"
These oldest known stars, date from before the Milky Way Galaxy formed, when the Universe was just 300 million years old. The stars, found near the center of the Milky Way, are surprisingly pure but contain material from an even earlier star, which died in an enormous explosion called hypernova. The discovery and analysis of the nine pure stars challenges current theories about the environment of the early Universe from which these stars formed.
"These pristine stars are among the oldest surviving stars in the Universe, and certainly the oldest stars we have ever seen," said Louise Howes from The Australian National University (ANU), part of the 2015 discovery team along with the University of Cambridge. "These stars formed before the Milky Way, and the galaxy formed around them."
"The stars have surprisingly low levels of carbon, iron and other heavy elements, which suggests the first stars might not have exploded as normal supernovae," said Ms Howes. "Perhaps they ended their lives as hypernovae - poorly understood explosions of probably rapidly rotating stars producing 10 times as much energy as normal supernovae."
Project leader Professor Martin Asplund, from ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics said finding such rare relic stars amongst the billions of stars in the Milky Way center was like finding a needle in a haystack.
"The ANU SkyMapper telescope has a unique ability to detect the distinct colors of anaemic stars - stars with little iron - which has been vital for this search," said Professor Asplund.
Following the team's discovery in 2014 of an extremely old star on the edge of the Milky Way, the team focused on the dense central parts of the galaxy, where stars formed even earlier. The team sifted through about five million stars observed with SkyMapper to select the most pure and therefore oldest specimens, which were then studied in more detail using the Anglo-Australian Telescope near Coonabarabran in New South Wales and the Magellan telescope in Chile to reveal their chemical make-up.
The team also demonstrated that the stars spend their entire lives near the Milky Way center and are not just passing through, a further indication that the stars really are the oldest known stars in the Universe.
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Several thousand years ago, a star some 160 000 light-years away from us exploded, scattering stellar shrapnel across the sky. The aftermath of this energetic detonation is shown here in this striking image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 .
The exploding star was a white dwarf located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of our nearest neighbouring galaxies. Around 97% of stars within the Milky Way that are between a tenth and eight times the mass of the Sun are expected to end up as white dwarfs. These stars can face a number of different fates, one of which is to explode as supernovae, some of the brightest events ever observed in the Universe. If a white dwarf is part of a binary star system, it can siphon material from a close companion. After gobbling up more than it can handle — and swelling to approximately one and a half times the size of the Sun — the star becomes unstable and ignites as a Type Ia supernova.
This was the case for the supernova remnant pictured here, which is known as DEM L71. It formed when a white dwarf reached the end of its life and ripped itself apart, ejecting a superheated cloud of debris in the process. Slamming into the surrounding interstellar gas, this stellar shrapnel gradually diffused into the separate fiery filaments of material seen scattered across this skyscape.
Giant sulphur (Colias gigantea) collected in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, and photographed at the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (sample ID: 04HBL003032; specimen record: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Public_RecordView?processid=LCH032-04; BIN: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Public_BarcodeCluster?clusteruri=BOLD:AAA3447)
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%feed http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/08/16/80-of-all-android-devices-are-vulnerable-to-hackers-hijacking-their-web-traffic/ 80% of all Android devices are vulnerable to hackers hijacking their Web traffic A bug that was first found in version 3.6 of the Linux OS kernel (released in 2012) allows attackers to terminate a device's connections to servers and applications. It could also be exploited to spy on unencrypted traffic or inject malware into the user's data stream. The security flaw, which was noted by security firm Lookout on its blog, is worrying because it's also present in Android KitKat 4.4 and later versions. That means that 80 percent of all Android devices, or about 1.4 billion of them, are affected and vulnerable to attacks. There's good news and bad news. The…
%feed http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/08/16/snapchats-110m-acquisition-of-vurb-could-remedy-its-biggest-problems/ Snapchat's $110M acquisition of Vurb could remedy its biggest problems Snapchat today acquired mobile search and recommendation app Vurb for a reported $110 million. Why Snapchat was interested in a mobile search app at a all is what makes the purchase interesting. It's no secret that Snapchat is growing. After initially turning down a $3 billion acquisition bid from Facebook in 2013, Snapchat has grown to a reported 150 million daily users and a valuation north of $20 billion. It also passed Twitter this year in daily active users. But still, Snapchat has problems. The most oft-heard gripes center on a confusing interface that makes it difficult for new users to…
%feed http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nybooks/~3/JNoHeKiTfk0/ African Wildlife: Darkness Falls Today, wildlife experts speak of an “elephant holocaust.” The regions of Africa that have suffered most from poaching are those steeped in conflict, where it is too dangerous for conservationists to work. Robert Ross's new book of photographs of the African Selous reserve brings us into a fast disappearing world and keep us there. culture
%feed http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/08/16/study-current-electric-car-batteries-suitable-for-87-of-all-drivers/ Study: Current electric car range suitable for 87% of all drivers If you're still worried that an electric car battery isn't enough to get you from Point A to Point B and back, stop. According to a new study by MIT, the ‘range anxiety' discussion is overblown. By analyzing driving habits across the country, MIT researcher Jessika Trancik and a team of colleagues found that currently available electronic car technology would prove suitable to replace 87 percent of the personal vehicles on the road, and up to 98 percent by 2020 — assuming current rates of battery improvement remain stable. For the study, researcher's used the Nissan Leaf, an electric vehicle with…
%feed http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/08/16/eon-board-adds-an-electric-motor-capable-of-22-mph-speeds-to-any-skateboard/ Eon Board adds an electric motor capable of 22 MPH speeds to any skateboard Personal movement devices like Segway's Mini Pro, hoverboards, and electric scooters are starting to gobble up an increasing amount of marketshare from those that used to walk or ride a bike to work. Eon Board is trying to join their ranks. Designed by Unlimited Engineering, the board uses a low-drag in-wheel motor and replaceable battery pack to propel a skateboard at speeds of up to 22 MPH with a range of 15 miles on a single charge. Through a system dubbed ‘regenerative braking,' the board will also be able to partially recharge itself each time you slow down. Perhaps even more…
%feed http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/08/15/striking-out-on-tinder-use-more-gifs/ Striking out on Tinder? Use more GIFs Humans have spent centuries trying to understand the intricacies of love. The answer, as it turns out, might be as simple as GIFs and a dating app. While you spend 20 minutes trying to craft a perfect opener, the guy who sent this GIF is about to take that girl you just matched with out for some cheap beer and free pretzels. According to Tinder, GIF messages are 30 percent more likely to receive a response than their non-GIF counterparts. The company also revealed that conversations with GIFs were two times longer than those without. Tinder's sociologist Dr. Jess Carbino told Engadget she…
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