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The line between life and death has never been clear—and modern technology blurs it further
The post How To Tell If You’re Dead appeared first on Nautilus.
ABC management have held an all-staff meeting today to remind staff that the Coalition didn’t in fact win the last two elections and thus the Anthony Albanese led Labor party is in Government. ”We thought that the Coalition were the... Read More ›
Five redemptive days at the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, France
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Big drugmakers are abusing the drug patent process to generate extra revenue at the cost of patients, according to a new report.
The nearly 5,000 soldiers in Los Angeles detained one man, briefly. Was that worth $134 million and a constitutional crisis?
The post Troops Deployed to LA Have Done Precisely One Thing, Pentagon Says appeared first on The Intercept.
States are competing to attract artificial intelligence-powering data centers, at the expense of consumers’ electricity bills.
A large pot sits in plain sight. There’s a frog in it.
Every day, Leader announces his plans to boil the frog. His campaign slogan was “BOIL THAT FROG.”
He has already made at least one run on the stove.
A man stirs the pot with a large stick. “It’s a metaphor,” he says.
The frog is sweating.
The frog is informed that this is due to a natural variation in temperature.
“He’s clearly boiling the frog,” say the other frogs.
All books about frogs have vanished from the library.
You ask the man with the stick about the purpose of the pot. “It’s a melting pot,” he says. “What are you melting?” you say. The man keeps stirring.
You ask about the frog. The man says something about the price of eggs.
A panel on TV debates the ethics of boiling the frog. The panel is composed of twelve herons and no frogs.
The Amphibian Conservation Organization is stripped of government grants. All funding is redirected to the new Department of Frog-Boiling.
The frog treads water. He’s reassured that the water is unfluoridated.
As Netanyahu drags the U.S. toward war with Iran, a rare bipartisan chorus in Congress is saying: not this time. Voters are even louder.
The post Israel’s War with Iran Isn’t America’s Fight—And Voters Know It appeared first on MintPress News.
Nigel Farage's band of newly-elected councillors are already starting to struggle, reports Josiah Mortimer
Behavioral models often take as a starting point a standard economic model and reinterpret the model as a description how the person thinks and feels. Next, an (often compelling) case is made that many of the assumptions are unrealistic because humans cannot perform the difficult mental tasks embodied in the formalism. The mistake or bias […]
“The leaders of the Group of 7 nations—Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States—now will have to confront the fallout from another war in the Middle East: increased instability, surging oil prices and the possibility that Iran will respond with new terror attacks around the world.”
— New York Times
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In preparation for this year’s summit, we, the G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, had an extremely chill, productive, and in no way tense meeting a couple of weeks ago in Banff, Alberta, and we just want to reassure the global community that, no matter what you may have heard, everything is great. Smooth sailing. Couldn’t be better.
- by Aeon Video
Brought to life with playful animation, nothing is off limits in this intimate chat among friends about living with boobs
- A film by Subarna Dash and Vidushi Gupta
My world was dark and scary. But beautiful things crept in, and threats of hell just couldn’t compete
- by Liz Boltz Ranfeld
- by Ben Chu