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Library Of The Apocalypse

from The Sun Second Arctic ‘Doomsday Vault’ will allow the world’s precious books to survive Armageddon Huge archive of digitised documents will be buried deep in an old mine buried within the permafrost of Svalbard in Norway by Jasper Hamill AP /Like the Seed Vault, the Doomsday Library is buried in the permafrost It is hoped […]

PriestHub

from America Magazine Confessions of a Porn-Addicted Priest John Smith “Forgive me. I have sinned.” I’ve always counted it a privilege to hear these words, to offer forgiveness. But for years, it was tainted with self-recrimination: You’re a hypocrite. Indeed, who was I to forgive or offer counsel, when I struggled with sin that I […]

Declare Independence

Russians Hacking American Farmers Sorta

from VICE Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware JASON KOEBLER A dive into the thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking. To avoid the draconian locks that John Deere puts on the tractors they buy, farmers throughout America’s heartland have started hacking their equipment with firmware that’s cracked in Eastern […]

Chuck Barris Gone

from CNN Chuck Barris, TV game show creator and host, dies at 87 By Madison Park (CNN)Chuck Barris, best known as host of the TV series “The Gong Show” and creator of “The Dating Game” and “The Newlywed Game,” died Tuesday. As host of “The Gong Show,” Barris introduced amateur performers to three celebrity judges, […]

Poopipedia

from Gizmodo What Your Poop Is Trying to Tell You by Andrew Tarantola What the hell is that? Seriously, did that just come out of you or did it crawl up the pipe? If you’ve just exorcised a poo that looks nothing like what you’ve eaten recently, it could be a sign of a serious illness. […]

The Alexandria Quartet

from Literary Hub THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA ONE OF THE GREAT CENTERS OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE, EVER By James Crawford In 1960, four novels by the well-known English writer Lawrence Durrell were brought together in one volume and published as The Alexandria Quartet. Described by its author as “an investigation of modern love,” it was […]

Moonbase 2037

from The Independent Thousands of people could live in space colonies orbiting the Earth in 20 years, expert claims Space colonists might live longer and eventually grow taller than humans left behind on Earth, Jerry Stone tells The Independent ahead of British Science Festival lecture by Ian Johnston The colonies would float in space as individual galactic ‘islands’ Rick […]

Gravity Re-done

from New Scientist Rules of attraction: Why it’s time to rethink how gravity works Fresh suspicions have reopened the case against dark matter, forcing a fundamental rethink of the familiar force that keeps our feet on the ground By Mark Anderson Julien Pacaud GRAVITY is supposed to be reliable. It’s the familiar force that keeps our […]

Livin’ The Dream