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Free Internet

Take Back the Internet: Wins & Victories

Surveillance, censorship, and tracking run rampant online. By supporting and using Tor, you help to take back the internet. Cambridge Analytica. Twitter accidentally selling your phone numbers, meant only for 2FA, to advertisers. The U.S. border patrols stac…

bubmagNovember 21, 2019

Plastic Pollution

New ‘Spelfie’ App Takes Photos of You from Space

Space selfies are now a thing. A free app called Spelfie lets users snap photos of themselves from very high above, courtesy of cameras aboard Airbus Earth-observation satellites . Those cameras aren't powerful enough to capture your grinning face, of cou…

bubmagNovember 21, 2019

Water Scarcity

Global Mining Water & Wastewater Treatment Market Report 2019-2023: Focus on Growth Opportunities for Sustainable Solutions

DUBLIN, Nov. 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Growth Opportunities for Sustainable Solutions in the Global Mining Water and Wastewater Treatment Market, Forecast to 2023" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. Market Overview The global mi…

bubmagNovember 21, 2019

VR

Pornhub will sell a special lifetime membership for Black Friday

Die-hard Pornhub fans now have something to look forward to this holiday season. The adult streaming service announced on Thursday that it is offering a limited time "LifePlan" which is a lifetime membership for a one-time fee of $299. The catch is that it's…

bubmagNovember 21, 2019

Food Industry

UPDATED: Essex Tech teacher, accused of sexual assault, out on bail – The Salem News

DANVERS An Essex Tech teacher will remain free on $5,000 bail following his arraignment Thursday morning on charges that he sexually assaulted a student. Robert Vandenbulcke, 62, of 1 Commonwealth Ave., Salisbury, will be fitted with a GPS bracelet, a Sale…

bubmagNovember 21, 2019

Drones

Why do new psychotherapies work, and then stop?

On Slate Star Codex, psychiatrist Scott Alexander offers a "book review of "All Therapy Books", which is a jumping-off point for asking how it is that psychotherapy is periodically rocked by new therapies that seem to perform incredibly well, but whose confir…

bubmagNovember 21, 2019

Drones

The DJI Mavic Mini Blew Me Away

The tiniest drones are the worst ones, I always thought. It was nearly 10 years ago that I tried to fly my first quadcopter: the Estes Proto X (no relation). The thing was so light and unstable that, as soon as it was airborne, it caught a gust of wind…

bubmagNovember 21, 2019

Air Pollution

‘Maybe It Will Destroy Everything’: Pakistan’s Melting Glaciers Cause Alarm

For generations, farmers in the Harchi Valley in Pakistan's highlands enjoyed a close relationship with their glacier that snakes between two mountain peaks. It watered their fields, orchards and grazing lands. Following local tradition, it has a name Ultar …

bubmagNovember 21, 2019

Panda

Endangered red panda escapes zoo in south-east France

Image copyrightEPAImage caption The red panda, similar to this one at Zagreb zoo, has been described as an "outstanding climber" Authorities are searching for a red panda that escaped from a zoo in south-eastern France. Staff at St-Martin-la-Plaine zoo n…

bubmagNovember 21, 2019

Holocaust

This institute holds Jewish memories saved from destruction during the Holocaust — What’s in the Basement?

bubmagNovember 21, 2019

Take Back the Internet: Wins & Victories

New ‘Spelfie’ App Takes Photos of You from Space

Global Mining Water & Wastewater Treatment Market Report 2019-2023: Focus on Growth Opportunities for Sustainable Solutions

Pornhub will sell a special lifetime membership for Black Friday

UPDATED: Essex Tech teacher, accused of sexual assault, out on bail – The Salem News

Why do new psychotherapies work, and then stop?

The DJI Mavic Mini Blew Me Away

‘Maybe It Will Destroy Everything’: Pakistan’s Melting Glaciers Cause Alarm

Endangered red panda escapes zoo in south-east France

This institute holds Jewish memories saved from destruction during the Holocaust — What’s in the Basement?

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