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Small asteroid or comet 'visits' from beyond the solar system | Rob Weryk
A/2017 U1 is most likely of interstellar origin. Approaching from above, it was closest to the Sun on Sept. 9. Traveling at 27 miles per second (44 kilometers per second), the comet is headed away ...
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Donald Trump And The Coming Fall Of The American Empire | Jeremy Scahill
Illustration: Elise Swain for The Intercept Famed historian Alfred McCoy interviewed by The Intercept's Jeremy Scahill July 22, 2017 (The Intercept) -- Even as President Donald Trump faces ...
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The low-key passing of Manuel Noriega | Mickey Z.
Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno was a Panamanian politician and military officer, and longtime CIA agent. He was military dictator of Panama from 1983 to 1989, when he was removed from power by the ...
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Study shows snakes, thought to be solitary eaters, coordinate hunts | Vladimir Dinets
A new UT study by Vladimir Dinets shows that some snakes coordinate their hunts to increase their chances of success. He studied the Cuban boa, pictured. Credit: Vladimir Dinets May 23, 2017 ...
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Possible signs of life found ten kilometers below seafloor | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Credit: Oliver Plümper, Utrecht University April 11, 2017 (Phys.org) -- An international team of researchers has found possible evidence of life ten kilometers below the sea floor in the Mariana ...
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Ant agricultural revolution began 30 million years ago in dry, desert-like climate | Proceedings of the Royal Society
From: domyownpestcontrol.comApril 11, 2017 (Phys.Org) -- Millions of years before humans discovered agriculture, vast farming systems were thriving beneath the surface of the Earth. The subterranean ...
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Temperate earth-sized worlds found in extraordinarily rich planetary system | PhysOrg
This artist's impression shows the view from the surface of one of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. At least seven planets orbit this ultra cool dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth and they ...
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US is no longer a full democracy, EIU warns | Nyshka Chandran
Jan. 25, 2017 (CNBC) -- The United States has been demoted from a full democracy to a flawed democracy for the first time, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Every year, the firm's ...
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The Unique Human Capacity for War | Michael Brenner
Trench warfare during World War I. One characteristic that sets humans apart from other animals is the capability to organize sustained warfare against members of their own species, a troubling fact ...
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The Myth of the Anthropocene | John Michael Greer
"Welcome to the Anthropocene" YouTube Oct. 5, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- To explore the messy future that modern industrial society is making for itself, it’s necessary now and again to stray into ...
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War to the Horizon... It's the American Way | Tom Engelhardt
U.S. soldiers, members of the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, take in the view of the horizon at a check point near Daab Pass in Shinkay district, Afghanistan, Feb. 25, 2012. ...
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