Новости за 12.02.2020

Smiling and other facial expressions aren't displays of feelings that transcend cultures but turn out to be full of hidden meaning

Super easy to use, unobtrusive and lightweight, comfortable, and super-versatile, Biolite’s recently announced HeadLamp 200 is the perfect headlamp for just about everybody.

Food tastes satisfying thanks to the amino acid glutamate, which stimulates the umami taste. Sam Wong explains how to boost it in your recipes

Are we ready for real-life love potions? Book Love is the Drug explains how pills may affect everything from falling deeper in love to breaking up

When a bizarre fossil appeared for sale in Europe, it looked so odd it had to be fake. But a high-tech investigation introduced us to Halzkaraptor escullei – part velociraptor, part penguin

Concerns about adversaries hacking democracy abound, but it’s sheer incompetence we should really be worried about, writes Annalee Newitz

Wondering how to increase your credit score? The first step to making an improvement might be simple awareness.

Just 10 percent of users on the platform are responsible for 80 percent of tweets. Yet, one reader argues, Twitter exerts outsize power and influence on our public discourse.

The United States and Kenya recently announced that they would begin negotiations on a bilateral trade agreement. If successful, the United States would forge its first bilateral trade accord with a Sub-Saharan African country; for Kenya, it would also be the first of its kind with an advanced...

UNPLAYABLE COURT CONDITIONS POSTPONE SEASON OPENING MATCHES FOR UM TENNIS TEAMS

Athens, Tenn.- The first regular-season poll for men's tennis was released by the NAIA on Wednesday. Tennessee Wesleyan held serve in the poll, maintaining the No. 11 ranking they had in the preseason poll in this new edition of the Coaches' Top 25 Poll. 

Nvidia’s GeForce Now game streaming service only came out of beta last week, and it’s already lost some major games. This week, Activision Blizzard pulled its entire catalog, including Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Overwatch, from the monthly subscription service.

I know a consolation prize like a pennant winning championship ring is not what you want to see, but I'm going to show you it anyway.

Featured here is a closer look at the Dodgers 2018 National League Championship ring, and it's currently on auction through Goldin Auctions (link here). At the time of this posting it is at $1,600, with 10 days to go.

I like that it makes notes of the Dodgers slogan that season -- "LA Determined" -- and celebrates winning two consecutive pennants.

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Czech authorities probe potential massive privacy issue in popular program.

OPEC slashed on Wednesday its global oil demand growth forecast for 2020, expecting the coronavirus outbreak to weigh heavily on fuel demand in the world’s oil demand growth driver, China. In its closely watched Monthly Oil Market Report published on Wednesday, OPEC slashed its oil demand growth estimate by 230,000 bpd from last month’s assessment and now sees global oil demand growth at just below 1 million bpd this year—at 990,000 bpd. The coronavirus outbreak which is crippling oil demand amid... Читать дальше...

Irish-based aircraft leasing company, Avolon, and its peers stand to benefit from the coronavirus outbreak, as airlines shore up cash by refinancing their planes, the company has said.

Researchers say corbomycin could be a ‘promising clinical candidate’ along with a family of other antibiotics called glycopeptides.

No one else knows what's best for you, so pave your own path.

A guide to Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington’s series and everything that it has spawned so far.

Leicester City news - Foxes fans aren't all feeling confident ahead of Friday night's meeting with Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux.

'I think these families have been through enough'

I am getting older. My memory is getting worse. I drive down streets that I don’t know anymore. The child I used to be is long gone and so are the places that held those memories. The touchstones of my life are getting harder to remember. I feel like at times I’m making up a city that I don’t know, like an imaginary…

Just 10 percent of users on the platform are responsible for 80 percent of tweets. Yet, one reader argues, Twitter exerts outsize power and influence on our public discourse.

It'll be funny, of course, if we start sending ourselves digital greetings and WhatsApp forwards.

The New Hampshire results with 91% counted are: Sanders 26% Buttigieg 24% Klobuchar 20% Warren 9% Biden 8% New Hampshire, like Iowa, is not a representative state. It is 94% White and the Democrats there tend to be more liberal than the rest of the country. So no one was expecting Biden to win or […]