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Astronomers discover new dwarf planet and possible super-Earth in our Solar System
from extremetech.com: For the longest time, the Solar System was known to have nine planets. Eventually, Pluto got downgraded to a dwarf planet due to the discovery of various other celestial bodies found in the Solar System that were of similar size. Now, astronomers have discovered another dwarf planet — dubbed 2012 VP113 and just…
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Series of Large Earthquakes Shake Yellowstone Park and Surrounding Areas
from intellihub.com: A 4.8 earthquake hit the northern part of Yellowstone National Park early Sunday, after a smaller series of shocks occurred throughout the region. This past week has seen a great deal of intense seismic activity worldwide, with hundreds of shocks felt in both California and Chile. The University of Utah Seismograph Stations reported…
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France Finance Minister in Soup Over ‘Disgusting’ China Food Remark
from reuters.com: France’s trade minister had to eat humble pie on Friday after she was caught on film saying that food served at a state dinner for China’s President Xi Jinping was “disgusting”. President Francois Hollande and Xi were all smiles at the dinner Wednesday at the Elysee presidential palace. But Foreign Trade Minister Nicole…
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X Marks the Spot: Powerful Flare Erupts on the Sun
from nbcnews.com: It’s fitting that a powerful solar flare created a bright X-shaped pattern in this extreme ultraviolet view of the sun’s disk, captured Saturday by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. The blast rates as an X-class flare, which puts it in the most serious category of solar flares. Saturday’s outburst comes after a series of…
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Mana to Heaven: Offerings to the Gods in Roman Britain
from blog.prehistoricshamanism.com: It was in 2010 that a metal detectorist, who opted to remain anonymous, heard the tell-tale bleep notifying him of metal below his feet. He was part of a club detecting over land near Selby in Yorkshire. Digging gently down, and hoping to find a Roman coin, the metal detectorist was astonished when…
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Tori Amos Confronts Satan in New Single ‘Trouble’s Lament’
from rollingstone.com: Tori Amos dwells in dark lyrical territory on the haunting track “Trouble’s Lament,” the first single she has released from her forthcoming LP, Unrepentant Geraldines. The song finds Amos focusing her attention on the Prince of Darkness: “Satan knows how danger makes you feel,” she sings, showcasing her vocal range over eerie pianos,…
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How 3D Printing Will Create On-Demand Swarms Of Disposable Drones
from gizmodo.com: New advances in 3D printing are making it not only possible but also viable to manufacture cheap, print-on-demand, disposable drones designed simply to soar off over the horizon and never come back. Some British engineers did just that, and this is only the beginning. The team hails from the Advanced Manufacturing Research Center…
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BP More Than Doubles Estimate of Lake Michigan Oil Spill
from chicagotribune.com: BP today more than doubled its maximum estimate of how much crude oil spilled into Lake Michigan earlier this week from its Whiting refinery in Northwest Indiana. In a statement, the company said a malfunction in a new distillation unit forced up to 39 barrels or 1,638 gallons of oil into the lake…
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Access to Affordable, Healthy Food in Canada’s North Nears Crisis
from america.aljazeera.com: Here are grocery prices in some remote communities in Canada’s north: $10 for a carton of milk, $28 for a cabbage, $65 for a chicken. Leesee Papatsie, a resident of Iqaluit, the capital city of the vast northern territory of Nunavut, has seen it all — and documented some of the more budget-busting…
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Pat Robertson: Gay Rights Movement is Satan’s Doing
from salon.com: Televangelist and former GOP presidential candidate Pat Robertson was in fine form on Wednesday, explaining to viewers of his long-running TV show, “The 700 Club,” why Jesus would have never baked a cake for a same-sex wedding and how Satan is to blame for the gay rights movement.
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Dirigible Drones Will Watch the World From 13 Miles Up
from wired.com: With UAVs crowding navigable airspace and plans underway to put giant mega-satellites into orbit, it was just a matter of time before a drone-satellite hybrid was developed to fit between the two spaces. StratoBus, a new project out of France, is conceptualized to do just that. Designed to be about the length of a…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode187 – Judging Judges, Cocaine Condoms, Sanction Spills
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode187 – Judging Judges, Cocaine Condoms, Sanction Spills Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Lord Justice Fulford ‘Campaigned to Support PIE Paedophile Group’ Judges Presiding Over Phone…
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Legacy of NASA’s Moon Trees Documented in Exhibition
from austinchronicle.com: All the way around our planet’s natural satellite and into this familiar Earth: There are more than 50 moon trees still alive in this country, and Erica Botkin is determined to document them all. Moon trees: trees grown from seeds taken into orbit around the moon during NASA’s Apollo 14 mission in 1971.…
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Video Game Producers: Satan Thwarted Their Kickstarter Project!
from betabeat.com: When a fledgeling Christian video game company called Phoenix Interactive Studios wanted to bring the sacred stories of The Old Testament into our homes, they turned to Kickstarter for help. When that Kickstarter managed to raise less than ten percent of its $100,000 goal, who did they blame? The powers of Hell, of course.…
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BP Spills Unknown Amount of Tar Sands Into Lake Michigan
from blacklistednews.com: Oil giant BP has caused yet another oil spill in a crucial water way this week, following an increase in tar sands refining at its Indiana plant on the shores of Lake Michigan. BP notified the federal government’s National Response Center around 5 p.m. Monday that its Whiting Refinery was leaking oil into the…