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Space War Coming

from The Washington Post War in space is becoming a real threat By David Ignatius Among the memorabilia in Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein’s office is a fragment of the Wright brothers’ first airplane. But the most intriguing items may be two small plastic satellites on sticks that can be maneuvered to simulate a dogfight […]

Save The Banana!

from WIRED Humans Made the Banana Perfect—But Soon, It’ll Be Gone by Rob Dunn GETTY IMAGES ON A PLATE, a single banana seems whimsical—yellow and sweet, contained in its own easy-to-open peel. It is a charming breakfast luxury as silly as it is delicious and ever-present. Yet when you eat a banana the flavor on your […]

Crystallizing Time

from NATURE The quest to crystallize time Bizarre forms of matter called time crystals were supposed to be physically impossible. Now they’re not. by Elizabeth Gibney Nik Spencer/Nature Christopher Monroe spends his life poking at atoms with light. He arranges them into rings and chains and then massages them with lasers to explore their properties and […]

Capturer La Boeuf

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MasterChef Junior

from The Other Cape We’ll Have What She’s Having Posted by Heather Atwood MasterChef Junior contestant Lila DeLuca in her Rockport kitchen. (Photograph by Jonathan Kozowyk) Late last spring, Lila DeLuca, a braided 10-year-old Rockporter, quietly slipped off to Los Angeles. She reported to her elementary school that she would be accompanying her father, Scott, on an […]

Money Macks

Buy This Dude’s Book – “The Pilgrim’s Ladder”

from KRCR Climber reveals survival tale after 2,000 ft. fall from mountain By: Kelli Saam PARADISE, Calif. – A mountain climber from Butte County survived two days in the snow after falling about 2,000 feet from a mountain summit in Colorado. Doctors in Colorado told his family it’s a fall no one would be expected to […]

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See, honey, I told you orgasms are better for you than yoga.

from The Daily Mail Want a promotion? Have daily orgasms! Study reveals regular sex makes you more productive, better at your job, and more likely to move up the ladder By MIA DE GRAAF A study documented the mood of 159 married employees for two weeks. They found men and women were far more productive and […]

Life Keeps Getting Older

from Science News Oldest microfossils suggest life thrived on Earth about 4 billion years ago Ancient microbes were spewed from deep-sea hydrothermal vents, study claims BY MEGHAN ROSEN SIGNS OF LIFE  In rocks left over from ancient hydrothermal vents, these microscopic tubes of hematite, an ore of iron, may be remnants of early microbes. / […]