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Moon Will Occult Saturn on May 14
from autoworldnews.com: Saturn will appear in the sky later tonight just to the lower left of the moon, according to SPACE.com. “At dusk on Tuesday, Saturn will appear about 5.5 degrees to the lower left of the moon,” said SPACE.com. “The moon will move toward Saturn at its own apparent width (one-half degree) per hour…
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Unable to Find New Location, Harvard Drops Satanic Black Mass
from myfoxboston.com: After being unable to find an off-campus location that would host the club’s black mass, the Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club announced it would no longer be sponsoring the event, but the New York-based Satanic Temple planned to stage their own black mass at an “undisclosed private location.”
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FCC Net Neutrality Plan in Chaos
from time.com: FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, a former top cable and wireless industry lobbyist, appears to have misjudged both public opinion and his fellow Democratic commissioners regarding his “Open Internet” proposal… Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler is scrambling to change his “Open Internet” proposal after a torrent of criticism from Internet giants, startups, venture…
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Some Denounce Return of 9/11 Remains to World Trade Center
from nydailynews.com: A dawn procession carried the unidentified remains from the city medical examiner’s office to the new WTC memorial site. Some families wore black tape over their mouths in protest of the transfer, while others praised it. The long-unidentified remains of missing World Trade Center victims returned to Ground Zero in a solemn Saturday…
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Frozen Food Group Goes on Offense as Sales Feel the Burn
from SOURCE: Frozen food makers plan to launch their first national TV ad in defense of their products on Tuesday as the category fights to boost slipping sales. The ad will include the tag line “Frozen: How Fresh Stays Fresh” and is intended to address negative misconceptions people have about frozen foods. It’s part of…
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Nasty Beef: World’s Best Worst Food Sites
from cnn.com: Is it possible to vomit while laughing? This appears to be the question behind a pair of websites that lampoon the popular practice of people taking pictures of their food and posting the results on social media. Someone Ate This and Cook Suck (websites contain obscenities), which celebrate the botched efforts of would-be…
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Personal Health Connectivity Pervasive By 2025
from modernhealthcare.com: Connections between people and interoperable computerized devices such as home and personal-health monitors will become so ubiquitous that, in little more than a decade, we’ll scarcely know the devices and networks are there, according to a report based on canvassing of more than 1,600 technology experts on the future of the Internet, released…
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Anti-surveillance mask lets you pass as someone else
from cnet.com: Uncomfortable with surveillance cameras? “Identity replacement tech” in the form of the Personal Surveillance Identity Prosthetic gives you a whole new face. If the world starts looking like a scene from “Matrix 3” where everyone has Agent Smith’s face, you can thank Leo Selvaggio. His rubber mask aimed at foiling surveillance cameras features…
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New species of metal-eating plant discovered in the Philippines
from pensoft.net: Scientists from the University of the Philippines, Los Baños have discovered a new plant species with an unusual lifestyle — it eats nickel for a living — accumulating up to 18,000 ppm of the metal in its leaves without itself being poisoned, says Professor Edwino Fernando, lead author of the report. Such an…
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‘The Galapagos Affair: When Satan Came to Eden’ Film Review
from washingtonpost.com: “The Galapagos Affair: When Satan Came to Eden” is a story ripped from the headlines, although this mystery has been around for close to a century. The documentary looks at three groups of settlers who landed on a previously uninhabited island in the 1920s and ’30s. Two people disappeared and two ended up…
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Satanic Inmate Sues Reno Jail for Religious Meals
from elkodaily.com: A Nevada inmate who says he practices Satanism is accusing county jailers of violating his constitutional rights by denying him meals consistent with the strict diet of his pagan religion, including ice cream. Alex C. Snelson, 33, is serving two to six years in state prison for possession of a stolen car after…
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U.S. Government to Study Bitcoin as Possible Terrorist Threat
from techspot.com: The US Department of Defense is investigating whether Bitcoin and other virtual currencies are a potential terrorist threat, according to an IBTimes report. The Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO), a division within DOD that identifies and develops counter terrorism abilities and investigates irregular warfare and evolving threats, has listed Bitcoin among its…
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Coca-Cola to Remove Controversial Drinks Ingredient
from bbc.co.uk: Coca-Cola plans to remove a controversial ingredient from some of its US drinks brands by the end of this year, following an online petition. Brominated vegetable oil, or BVO, is found in Coca-Cola fruit and sports drinks such as Fanta and Powerade. According to medical researchers at the Mayo Clinic, excessive consumption of…
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The Pizza Connection: Fighting The Mafia Through Food
from npr.org: In recent years, the effort to bring the Mafia under control in Sicily has spilled over into the world of food. Today a movement of small organic agricultural cooperatives has sprung up across the island to farm land once confiscated by the Mafia and bring these goods to a global market. Libera Terra…
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Florida Rabble-Rouser Seeks to Open Civic Meeting with Satanic Prayer
from scpr.org: A Florida rabble-rouser wants the city of Deerfield Beach to allow him to say a satanist prayer at the beginning of a council meeting. Of course, Chaz Stevens’ request comes after the Supreme Court ruled that sectarian prayer before a government meeting does not necessarily violate the Constitution’s Establishment Clause. Stevens has a…