You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. The White House briefing has often been contentious, long-winded and stuffed with hot air — emitted by both spinning political flaks and grandstanding reporters. It was all a bit of a game. Presidents sent press secretaries to take heat so they didn’t have to. Reporters knew…… MORE
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World’s deepest octopus, complete with Dumbo ears, captured on film 4 miles below the surface
The deepest known sighting of an octopus has been captured on film, more than a mile deeper than the previous reliable sighting. The observations of the creature, captured at almost 4.3 miles down in the Indian Ocean using lander machines — autonomous camera systems that are released from a ship and sink to the bottom…… MORE
The Dalai Lama blames George Floyd’s death on racism during virtual talk on compassion
The Dalai Lama has deplored the death of George Floyd in Minnesota and blamed discrimination and racism for it. The exiled Tibetan leader gave a virtual teaching about compassion to his followers during a webcast Friday morning from his home in India’s Dharamsala. “We see in the news channels, the media about discrimination on the…… MORE
Coronavirus pandemic: Updates from around the world
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Cannabis was used for religious rites at a biblical site in Israel, study finds
If there were any more fun facts to learn about cannabis, its ritualistic use at a biblical site in Israel can now be added to the list. In 1963, two limestone altars were found at the entrance to the “Holy of Holies” of a Judahite shrine at Beersheba Valley, in Israel’s Tel Arad, an archaeological…… MORE
Antarctic ice sheets capable of much faster melting than we thought
Antarctic ice sheets retreated at speeds of up to 50 meters (164 feet) a day at the end of the last Ice Age — about ten times quicker than the fastest retreating sheets of today — researchers have found. Studying patterns of wave-like ridges on the Antarctic seafloor, scientists from the Scott Polar Research Institute…… MORE
Shooting at a business meeting in France kills three
Three people were killed and one injured in western France on Wednesday after a man open fire during a business meeting, national police told CNN. Police said the motive is unclear but there is a professional link between the shooter — who is also injured — and the company in Saint-Varent, France, where the incident…… MORE
Duuuuude? Scientists studied 100 billion tweets to find out why we stretch our words
When we speak, we routinely stretch our words to convey emotion or to strengthen their meaning. Excitement: “Yessssssss!” Fear: “Noooooo!” Confusion: “Whaaaattt?” We’ve probably been doing this since humans began to speak, but such informal language has rarely left a written record. It’s only since the rise of social media that we have had an…… MORE
Mysterious fast radio bursts helped detect missing matter in the universe, study says
Mysterious fast radio bursts have been used to unlock another strange aspect of the universe: the case of the “missing matter.” Here’s how: Fast radio bursts, called FRBs, are powerful millisecond bursts of radio waves that have been known to occur in distant galaxies and travel across the universe to reach Earth. Astronomers have yet…… MORE
Scientists didn’t detect a parallel universe in Antarctica. But they are learning more about mysterious, ghostly neutrinos
Even though we can’t see them, we live our lives surrounded by neutrinos. These tiny, high-energy cosmic particles are often referred to as “ghostly” because they are extremely volatile, or vaporous, particles that can pass through any kind of matter without changing. Neutrinos have almost no mass and can travel through the most extreme environments,…… MORE
