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BBC Boycott Loomed For Sir Steve McQueen After N-Word Scandal

Forbes.com 

Small Axe and 12 Years A Slave director Sir Steve McQueen has revealed that after the highly charged controversy surrounding BBC correspondent Fiona Lamdin’s use of the n-word the director strongly considered boycotting the public service broadcaster.

How 2 former Navy SEALs built robot subs for ocean exploration

Therobotreport.com 

Welcome to Episode 26 of The Robot Report Podcast, which brings conversations with robotics innovators straight to you. Join us each week for discussions with leading roboticists, innovative robotics companies, and other key members of the robotics community. You can subscribe to The Robot Report Podcast on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, SoundCloud, Spotify and more. Please subscribe…

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Ever-Glory News? Why EVK Stock Is Skyrocketing 154% Today

InvestorPlace 

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Ever-Glory (EVK) stock is surging higher on Thursday with heavy trading despite a lack of news from the Chinese fashion company.

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Lufthansa Cargo DB Schenker team up for first sustainable fuel flight

Economictimes.indiatimes.com 

“This first CO2-neutral freight flight was made possible by a cooperation between DB Schenker and Lufthansa Cargo. The logistics service provider and the air freight company transported goods from Siemens Healthineers AG, among others, on this flight,” said a statement.

Common Misconceptions About Doomsday Asteroids

Real Clear Science 

Corey S. Powell, Astronomy

It kept going through the pandemic. It kept going through an overwhelming election season. It kept going in the face of bad news about wildfires and good news about lunar exploration. Through it all, tabloid newspapers and clickbait websites kept hyping stories about "killer asteroids" headed our way — and people kept reading, clicking, and worrying.

Why We're Finally Closing In on a Universal Flu Vaccine

Real Clear Science 

Maddie Bender, Vice

Flu season rolls around each year like clockwork, bringing with it the reminders to get your flu shot (consider this your reminder.) Every other vaccine requires a finite dosage and confers long-term immunity—it’s only the flu shot that must be taken annually.

Reversal of Biological Clock Restores Vision in Old Mice

Real Clear Science 

Heidi Ledford, Nature News

Researchers have restored vision in old mice and in mice with damaged retinal nerves by resetting some of the thousands of chemical marks that accumulate on DNA as cells age. The work, published on 2 December in Nature1, suggests a new approach to reversing age-related decline, by reprogramming some cells to a ‘younger’ state in which they are...

Are We "Scientific Fascists"?

Real Clear Science 

Jerry Coyne, Why Evolution Is True

This article from Medium floated into my ambit, with a title was guaranteed to lure me like a mayfly lures a trout.  The author, Roderick Graham, is an associate professor of sociology and criminal justice at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and has his own eponymous website.

Musings on Fusion and the Interstellar Ramjet

Real Clear Science 

Paul Gilster, Centauri Dreams

Proton-proton fusion produces 99 percent of the Sun’s energy, in a process that begins with two hydrogen nuclei and ends with one helium nucleus, releasing energy along the way. We’d love to exploit the fusion process to create energy for our own directed uses, which is what Robert Bussard was thinking about with his interstellar ramjet when he published the idea in 1960.

A Brief History of Booze in Low Earth Orbit

Real Clear Science 

Daniel Oberhaus, Supercluster

On a chilly morning in early November last year, a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket blasted off from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

The Suicide Holiday Myth, Now With COVID

Real Clear Science 

Steven Novella, Sci-Based Med

You may have heard that the suicide rate increases during the winter months due to seasonal affective disorder (the winter blues) or that it specifically increases during the holiday season. People are quick to invent explanations for this correlation, most commonly that the holidays exacerbate social isolation, loneliness, and economic or other struggles. No such explanations are necessary, however, because the correlation between suicide and holidays is a complete myth. Читать дальше...

'Magic Number' That Shapes the Universe

Real Clear Science 

Natalie Wolchover, Quanta

As fundamental constants go, the speed of light, c, enjoys all the fame, yet c’s numerical value says nothing about nature; it differs depending on whether it’s measured in meters per second or miles per hour. The fine-structure constant, by contrast, has no dimensions or units.


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