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US Lets 141 Trillion Calories Of Food Go To Waste Each Year
from npr.org: The sheer volume of food wasted in the U.S. each year should cause us some shame, given how many people are hungry both in our own backyard and abroad. Now the U.S. Department of Agriculture has provided us with a way to understand our flagrant annual waste in terms of calories, too. It’s…
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NASA Kepler Telescope Discovers 715 New Planets
from smh.com.au: NASA has announced a torrent of new planet discoveries, hailing a “bonanza” of 715 worlds now known outside the solar system thanks to the Kepler space telescope’s planet-hunting mission. A new method for verifying potential planets led to the volume of new discoveries from Kepler, which aims to help humans search for other…
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Wi-fi Computer Virus Goes ‘Airborne’ Like Common Cold
from RT.com: Researchers in Britain have shown for the first time how a computer virus can spread through Wi-Fi “as efficiently as the common cold spreads between humans.” The ‘Chameleon’ Wi-Fi AP-AP virus infiltrates dense networks and spreads at an alarming rate. Chameleon was designed by a team of researchers from the University of Liverpool,…
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World’s largest bitcoin broker goes offline
from NHK World: The website of a major Bitcoin exchange in Tokyo say they have halted all dealings as a security measure. The announcement came after the exchange went offline on Tuesday. MtGox was considered one of the world’s largest Bitcoin exchanges, boasting more than 1.1 million accounts in and outside Japan. Company officials suspended…
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NYC Marks 21st Anniversary of ’93 World Trade Center Bombing
from foxnews.com: The two terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, eight years apart, converged Tuesday in the form of a piece of granite — part of a memorial to those who died in 1993 that was itself destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001. The jagged fragment was displayed during a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary…
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Burial Tomb of Princess Diana’s Ancestor Uncovered
from irishexaminer.com: A graveyard restoration project in Cork has uncovered the ancient burial tomb of a direct ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales. The unmarked mausoleum in Corkbeg graveyard in Whitegate in East Cork was found to contain the remains of Princess Diana’s maternal great-great-grandfather, Baron Edmond Roche. During the restoration process, volunteers discovered plaques…
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Michelle’s New Rules for Schools Ads: Coke, No. Diet Coke? Yes!
from nydailynews.com: Even the scoreboards in high school gyms will have to advertise only healthy foods under new rules announced Tuesday by the Obama administration. Promotion of sugary drinks and junk foods around campuses during the school day will be phased out under the rules, intended to ensure that such marketing is brought in line…
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NASA’s IRIS Spacecraft Captures Its Biggest Solar Flare
from frenchtribune.com: NASA’s ‘Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph’ (IRIS) spacecraft has captured an amazing video of the mid-level solar flare on January 28, which is its biggest since it launched into orbit last summer. The spacecraft is trained to travel through a region of the sun in order to understand how solar materials move and gather…
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Bible Saves Ohio Bus Driver From Two Bullets
from youtube.com/newsyhub: An Ohio bus driver survived a violent attack Monday thanks to what some are calling divine intervention.
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Hundreds of Foods in US Contain ‘ADA’ Plastics Chemical
from reuters.com: Nearly 500 foods found on grocery store shelves in the United States, including many foods labeled as “healthy,” contain a potentially hazardous industrial plastics chemical, according to a report issued Thursday by a health research and advocacy group. Azodicarbonamide, also known as ADA, was found as an ingredient in breads, bagels, tortillas, hamburger…
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Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Goes Dark in Blow to Virtual Currency
from ndtv.com: Mt. Gox, once the world’s biggest bitcoin exchange, abruptly stopped trading on Tuesday and its chief executive said the business was at “a turning point,” sparking concerns about the future of the unregulated virtual currency.
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Israel Police, Protesters Clash at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque
from dailystar.com.lb: Israeli police clashed with stone-throwing Palestinians Tuesday in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound of Jerusalem’s Old City, ahead of a parliamentary debate on Jewish access to the site, holy to both faiths.
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U.S. Air Force Reveals ‘Neighborhood Watch’ Spy Satellite Program
from reuters.com: The United States plans to launch a pair of satellites to keep tabs on spacecraft from other countries orbiting 22,300 miles above the planet, as well as to track space debris, the head of Air Force Space Command said. The previously classified Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) will supplement ground-based radars and…
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NASA to Send Robotic Doctor to Space
from RT.com: NASA is developing a humanoid robot to perform medical procedures, including surgery, at the International Space Station and even en route to Mars. The robot, which is named ‘Robonaut 2,’ is now undergoing further development and tests at Houston Methodist Research Institute. Dr. Zsolt Garami, an instructor at the institute, told Computerworld that…