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StarTalk With Neil deGrasse Tyson --"Cosmic Queries" From Alien Plant Life to Jupiter's Ocean Moon (LISTEN)  
 
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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/aug/29/eyes-on-the-prize-the-must-see-art-and-design-of-autumn-2016  
Eyes on the prize: the must-see art and design of autumn 2016  

Elton John shares his photography collection, Tracey Emin gets into bed with William Blake and David Shrigley gives everyone a big thumb's-up

• Autumn culture: Dance

Neon might once have been considered a quintessentially American medium but the British artists who have worked with it are numerous. Martin Creed, Tracey Emin, Cerith Wyn Evans and Eddie Peake are just some of the homebred talents to feature alongside international names in this major survey of neon art in, where else, Blackpool. Home to the world-famous Illuminations, first switched on in September 1879, the city has played a central role in the UK history of neon, as the Grundy seeks to prove with an exhibition that includes rare 1930s designs for the biggest free light show on earth.
• 1 September to 7 January 2017, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool.

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‘Media Hell': An 18 tweet memoir about curating Facebook's trending topics  

Three days after Facebook fired all its human curators, Saira Khan, a former Facebook curator, took to Twitter to share her experience with the company. Khan, now the social media editor at The New Yorker, detailed “the most absurd” things she saw in her time as a Facebook news curator. Some are heart-warming, others are gut-wrenching, but it's an interesting peek into the lives of the people that formerly decided what was important enough to be a trending topic. According to Khan, the most accurate and in-depth explanation of life as a news curator is found in a Guardian post titled:…

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Snapchat just released an 8-bit marketing campaign disguised as a video game  

In the past, Snapchat has seen platform-specific releases of films and television shows, but this marks the first time the service has ventured into the video game market. It's a forgettable move and one that's more marketing than gaming, but it does give us at least a glimpse into what the future of the platform could look like. The game, ‘Serena Match Point' lets you play as Serena Williams through 22 levels of timing-based monotony. Each of the 22 levels signifies one of the 22 major events she's won over the course of her career. Each event takes you through a historic…

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Zuckerberg meets with The Pope, offers him a drone  

As part of Mark Zuckerberg's trip to Italy, the Facebook CEO and his wife, Priscilla Chan, sat down with Pope Francis. Following the devastating earthquake that hit Italy last week, Zuckerberg discussed the importance of connecting people around the world without internet access. He spoke on his admiration of The Pope's mercy, tenderness and progressive views on technology, especially as they pertain to communicating with people of every faith around the globe. Zuckerberg then offered him a replica of its solar-powered drone, Aquila, designed to facilitate this sort of communication for unconnected — or under-connected — areas. Sadly, this one is affixed to…

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Apple just got hit with a class action lawsuit over its so-called ‘touch disease'  

A California legal firm filed the necessary paperwork to start a class action lawsuit over Apple's so-called ‘touch disease' problem. As we reported last week, iPhone 6 and 6 Plus owners are complaining of a gray flickering bar at the top of the screen that renders the phone unresponsive — or less responsive — to touch. After restarting the phone, the issue normally disappears temporarily, only to come back at a later time. Repair facilities, like iFixit, report that it's one of the most common problems it sees with the iPhone 6. Apple, on the other hand, is basically pretending it doesn't…

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Here's how to get a refund if you bought the PC version of ‘No Man's Sky'  

No Man's Sky (NMS) is a truly remarkable game with untold potential. Sadly, it only gives you the warm and fuzzies for the first few hours. Soon after, the excitement wears off. What replaces it is a feeling of repetition as you explore a different-looking planet and ultimately find the same things. It's easily the biggest gaming disappointment in 2016. Steam recognizes this, and it has altered its return policy ever-so-slightly to accommodate a mob of slighted gamers. Typically, Steam only issues refunds if you've played no more than two hours and purchased the game no longer than 48 hours ago.  Steam wasn't…

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The etiquette of breaking someone's phone, and having your phone broken  

I like to think of myself as an inherently trusting person. Take this story, for example. Two weeks ago, I was in Liverpool city center with my fiancee. It was 1am and we were walking to the hotel. This is typically the time when most pubs and bars close, sending their patrons off into the night in search of ATMs, fast food, and other places to drink. As we were trundling up the aptly-named Hardman Street, a young man no more than nineteen years old approached us. “Excuse me” he said, as my fiancee tugged my arm, silently imploring me to…

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Madden 17 developers are trying to ruin my life and these glitches prove it  

Madden, it's one of my must-purchase games each year and yet each iteration is slightly more disappointing than the last. The only people that get joy out of this game anymore are the hardcore football fans and the racist teenagers that like to make me cry while playing online. Seriously, it's a shit storm of epic proportions and I'm a glutton for punishment that forgot my umbrella. To be fair, the dozen-or-so hours I've put into Madden 17 this year have shown real potential. It's also shown a few glitches that make me believe that Madden developers are cruel, cruel people…

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You can now buy a fully functioning macOS laptop for only $329  

You read that right. You can now buy a fully functioning Mac for only $329. Well, until Apple sends out a cease and desist letter. The HacBook Elite is a so-called Hackintosh laptop that's capable to run macOS and is quick enough to boot in only 15 seconds. It comes inside a HP laptop case and is fully upgradable after purchase, just like any Windows PC. All other specifications are roughly as good as an entry-level MacBook Pro, except for notable parts like the Retina display. I really want to like the HacBook, if only for its extremely low price point — something rarely…

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Use this tool to quickly port your Chrome app to Electron and run it on any OS  

Don't you just love it when companies kill off useful services and platforms? Yeah, neither do we. Earlier this month, Google announced its plans to phase out Chrome apps for every OS except Chrome OS, starting in the second half of 2017. That means that the Chrome app you painstakingly built won't work on anything other than Chrome OS in 2018. Sure, you could port your creation to the Web or to Electron for desktop use, but the latter would entail rewriting every component and distributing fresh binaries for each OS. Thankfully, code wizard Koushik Dutta, a.k.a. Koush, who's previously…

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moviepostertwins: Polish poster by Bronislaw Zelek for FAR FROM...  

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Polish poster by Bronislaw Zelek for FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (John Schlesinger, UK, 1967) and the Spanish poster for YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER (Woody Allen, USA, 2010).

 
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US teaser one sheet for LA LA LAND (Damien Chazelle, USA,...  

US teaser one sheet for LA LA LAND (Damien Chazelle, USA, 2016)

Designer: LA (appropriately enough)

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Animated Music Video: “Ich A Mazeldicker Yid” by The Brothers Nazaroff  

Last October Smithsonian Folkways released “The Brothers Nazaroff: The Happy Prince,” a boisterous, high-energy tribute to cult Yiddish troubadour Nathan “Prince” Nazaroff, who recorded the mysterious Folkways 10-inch record Jewish Freilach Songs in 1954. International klezmer supergroup The Brothers Nazaroff, composed of Daniel Kahn, Psoy Korolenko, Michael Alpert, Jake Shulman-Ment, Bob Cohen, and Hampus Melin, breathe new life into the discordant, obscure, jubilant legacy of their Happy Prince.

This animation by Ben Katchor gives a preview of The Brothers Nazaroff's raucous reinterpretation of The Happy Prince's song “Ich A Mazeldicker Yid (Oh! Am I a ‘Mazeldicker' Jew!).”

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The Milky Way's blowout bash 6 million years ago!  

The center of the Milky Way galaxy is currently a quiet place where a supermassive black hole slumbers, only occasionally slurping small sips of hydrogen gas. But it wasn't always this way. A new study shows that 6 million years ago, when the first human ancestors known as hominins walked the Earth, our galaxy's core blazed forth furiously. The evidence for this active phase came from a search for the galaxy's missing mass.

Measurements show that the Milky Way galaxy weighs about 1-2 trillion times as much as our Sun. About five-sixths of that is in the form of invisible and mysterious dark matter. The remaining one-sixth of our galaxy's heft, or 150-300 billion solar masses, is normal matter. However, if you count up all the stars, gas and dust we can see, you only find about 65 billion solar masses. The rest of the normal matter stuff made of neutrons, protons, and electrons seems to be missing.

“We played a cosmic game of hide-and-seek. And we asked ourselves, where could the missing mass be hiding?” says lead author Fabrizio Nicastro, a research associate at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and astrophysicist at the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF).

“We analyzed archival X-ray observations from the XMM-Newton spacecraft and found that the missing mass is in the form of a million-degree gaseous fog permeating our galaxy. That fog absorbs X-rays from more distant background sources,” Nicastro continues.

The astronomers used the amount of absorption to calculate how much normal matter was there, and how it was distributed. They applied computer models but learned that they couldn't match the observations with a smooth, uniform distribution of gas. Instead, they found that there is a “bubble” in the center of our galaxy that extends two-thirds of the way to Earth.

Clearing out that bubble required a tremendous amount of energy. That energy, the authors surmise, came from the feeding black hole. While some infalling gas was swallowed by the black hole, other gas was pumped out at speeds of 2 million miles per hour (1,000 km/sec).

Six million years later, the shock wave created by that phase of activity has crossed 20,000 light-years of space. Meanwhile, the black hole has run out of nearby food and gone into hibernation.

This timeline is corroborated by the presence of 6-million-year-old stars near the galactic center. Those stars formed from some of the same material that once flowed toward the black hole.

“The different lines of evidence all tie together very well,” says Smithsonian co-author Martin Elvis (CfA). “This active phase lasted for 4 to 8 million years, which is reasonable for a quasar.”

The observations and associated computer models also show that the hot, million-degree gas can account for up to 130 billion solar masses of material. Thus, it just might explain where all of the galaxy's missing matter was hiding: it was too hot to be seen.

More answers may come from the proposed next-generation space mission known as X-ray Surveyor. It would be able to map out the bubble by observing fainter sources, and see finer detail to tease out more information about the elusive missing mass. The European Space Agency's Athena X-ray Observatory, planned for launch in 2028, offers similar promise.

These results have been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal and are available online.

 

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Smithsonian Channel: Killer hornet war  

A giant killer hornet war is waged between two colonies, and the resources, territories, and survival of a new generation are at stake. Watch the battle unfold as these huge hornets risk their lives for their kingdoms. From: KILLER HORNETS

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Russian Telescope Detects 'Strong Signal' From Sun-Like Star  
A signal was detected from HD164595, a star only 95 light years away and with at least one planet, but Seti scientists are scanning the area and have yet to find it.  
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Milky Way had a blowout bash 6 million years ago  
The center of the Milky Way galaxy is currently a quiet place where a supermassive black hole slumbers, only occasionally slurping small sips of hydrogen gas. But it wasn't always this way. A new study shows that 6 million years ago, when the first human ancestors known as hominins walked the Earth, our galaxy's core blazed forth furiously. The evidence for this active phase came from a search for the galaxy's missing mass.  
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160824135752.htm  
A better way to learn if alien planets have the right stuff  
A new method for analyzing the chemical composition of stars may help scientists winnow the search for Earth 2.0. Researchers describe a computational modeling technique that gives a clearer sense of the chemistry of stars, revealing the conditions present when their planets formed.  
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@cites pls help endangered species trapped in zoo in war torn Yemen. Need food and clean water #savetiaz https://t.co/dHtDLt424D 
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An imbalance in nutrients threatens plant biodiversity  
An unnatural balance of nutrients threatens biodiversity in a survival of the fittest scenario, according to new research. A global network of researchers who have tested the impact increased nutrient levels is having on grasslands across six continents.  
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Your Gut's Gone Viral, And That Might Be Good For Your Health  

Think of it as a gift within a gift. Some beneficial gut bacteria contain viruses called "bacteriophages." And some of these phages now have been associated with good intestinal health in humans.

 
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Michelle Kwan Is Working For Hillary Clinton  
As a "surrogate outreach coordinator" it's Michelle Kwan's job to wrangle celebs and make sure They're With Her.  
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Beautiful Monarch  

Foxy Belle posted a photo:

This monarch flew around our heads in the backyard and then landed on this wildflower. It stayed still and was very patient as I took a close up.

I am sooo pleased to see another of these gorgeous butterflies. I had not seen any in years and now 2 within 2 days. I just love these beauties. I once did a huge painting of a wing in art class in high school. I dedicate a bullentin board to them in my classroom and have paper ones hung about.

 
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