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Tests of 250 bottles from 11 bottled water brands revealed microplastics in 93 percent of the samples, with an average of 325 particles per 34 fluid ounces (1 liter) of water. These findings, discovered by scientists at the State University of New York in Fredonia, sound alarming. However, the report was ...
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One expert even voiced his skepticism by comparing the relationship between the U.S. and North Korea to a recurring scene of frustration in "Peanuts" cartoons. "Historically, every time Charlie Brown runs for the football, Lucy pulls it away," Thomas Karako, director of the Missile Defense Project at the ...
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With the unanimous adoption of a resolution on the mandate extension until 15 March 2019, the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is charged with performing such tasks as protecting civilians, creating the conditions conducive to the delivery of humanitarian assistance, monitoring and investigating ...
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What creates jobs is entrepreneurship. We need to believe in our own entrepreneurs. There is no difference between the entrepreneurs who started Google and the entrepreneur who started Ushahidi. They probably went to school together. So we have extraordinary young people with entrepreneurial ...
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Sir Lenny Henry has criticised cuts in school drama teaching as a scandal as it means children are not being properly prepared for the outside world. The comedian and actor has launched a new National Theatre initiative to encourage better drama and theatre-making in primary schools. Henry, who ...
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Rebel fighters, who have vowed not to surrender, have been pulling out of some towns in the face of the advance. "We have withdrawn to Ain Terma," Mahmoud, 23, a fighter with the Failaq al-Rahman rebel faction in Hammouriyeh told Reuters by telephone, referring to another nearby town.
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Stephen Hawking has earned a place in humanity's collective memory as a brilliant astrophysicist, an inspiring science communicator, and a role model for disabled and able-bodied individuals alike. The Smithsonian Channel will air one of Hawking's last documentary appearances on March 25, at 8 ...
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That study, which involves multiple independent research groups, compared Scott with his twin brother Mark (also a NASA astronaut) and looked for changes caused while Scott spent a year aboard the International Space Station, a mission that ended in March 2016. Among the dimensions surveyed ...
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Around 41,000 years ago, a young woman died in a cold cave, high up in Siberia's Altai Mountains. Scientists uncovered one of her pinky bones in 2008. From it, they extracted her DNA. And from that, they deduced that she belonged to a previously unknown group of ancient hominin, whom they called ...
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While gender gaps in average math performance are now close to zero in developed countries, women are still strongly underrepresented among math high performers (1). This gender gap contributes to the underrepresentation of women in math and science in higher education and to their subsequent ...
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Usability improvements in GCC 8
By David Malcolm March 15, 2018 March 15, 2018. -1 +1 (No Ratings Yet). Loading... I work at Red Hat on GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection. My main focus for the last year has been on making GCC easier to use, so I thought I'd write about some of the C and C++ improvements I've made that are in ...
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Street art and graffiti in Ghent
People sometimes say you can recognise a vibrant city by its street art. Ghent is a hip and free-thinking cultural city where everyone is welcome and free to do their thing. Werregarenstraatje in Ghent is a public canvas for young street artists.
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