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Hunter Biden is not the only Child of the Crust who has been well-placed in no-show jobs.

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A team of hydrologists, engineers, and social scientists is hoping to strengthen the water security of Lima and other Peruvian cities through analysis of a 1,400-year-old nature-based system developed by pre-Inca mountain communities. The technique uses a canal system that diverts water from streams to small ponds or spreads it over rocky hillslopes that act as natural sponges. This slows the flow of water down the mountains, preserving it into the dry season.

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While the video doesn’t give a ton of exact details on how it works, we know that it doesn’t capture heat to harvest energy, but rather uses thermoelectric technology to cool drinks quickly. They also have said that it doesn’t use any harmful chemicals or traditional refrigerants like Freon.

If this actually works I can see it as a great time-saver.

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Been waiting for this one.

Babylon Bee.

Colin Kaepernick sent his workout video to Iran after learning they may have recently opened up a position but has yet to receive a phone call.

UPDATE: Former CIA Spook Says Babylon Bee’s Satirical Take On Democrats’ Reaction To Soleimani’s Death Is Duping People

UPDATE: Triggered: CNN Reporter Has the Major Sads That People Like, Share Babylon Bee Articles

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If you don’t know what an Eruv is, go look it up.

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If you’ve ever eaten Irish cooking, you’ll know why. (There’s a reason you see a lot of Irish bars and no Irish restaurants.)

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After a U.S. airstrike in Iraq killed Iran’s top military commander, members of a coalition of Iraq-based, Kurdish Iranian militias say they are ready to go to war against Tehran.

“We accept the U.S. military as a liberation army. In the event of war, we will return to our country and fight with our people against dictatorship,” Hirsch Yousefi, 20, said of the Islamist regime in Iran

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that trash cans had ‘generations’.

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Beans. Lots and lots of beans.

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That’s what happens when Democrats run your state.

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How can mathematics learning in primary school be facilitated? A recent study conducted by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, had shown that our everyday knowledge strongly influences our ability to solve problems, sometimes leading us into making errors. This is why UNIGE, in collaboration with four research teams in France, has now developed an intervention to promote the learning of maths in school. Named ACE-ArithmEcole, the programme is designed to help schoolchildren surpass their intuition and informal knowledge, and rely instead on the use of arithmetic principles.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

Of course, you have to put up with Bernie Sanders.

Just sayin’….

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Ripping New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as “apathetic” amid a spate of anti-Semitic attacks, Curtis Sliwa’s Guardian Angels is starting patrols in Brooklyn on Sunday, according to NBC News.

“These attacks are taking place, and the cops have not been proactive at all,” Sliwa, who founded his private, unarmed crime-prevention group in 1979, told NBC News. “It comes from City Hall and the mayor. He’s been just apathetic.

“We’re a visual deterrence in our red berets and our red satin jackets,” Sliwa told NBC News. “Nobody’s going to commit an attack when we’re around.

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Two Democratic senators have been banned from visiting the Phillippines by its president, Rodrigo Duterte, for their support of a prominent critic.

Duterte also has warned any Americans who want to enter the Philippines will be required to get a visa if the United States refuses entry to those involved in the jailing of Philippines Senator Leila de Lima, who has harshly criticized Duterte’s bloody drug crackdowns.

The only reason I can think of for an American to go to the Philippines is by being assigned there by the military.

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Research led by MIT earlier this year found strobe lights and a low pitched buzz can be used to recreate brain waves lost in the disease, which in turn remove plaque and improve cognitive function in mice engineered to display Alzheimer’s-like behaviour.

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The failure of sustained attempts to develop fusion power since the 1950s has left the undertaking tainted by claims it is a fool’s errand. But this has not put off investors from backing scientists working on quite different approaches at two private laboratories in Oxfordshire: Tokamak Energy and First Light Fusion.

Both have set the ambitious goal of delivering a working reactor ready for commercialisation by 2030, 10 years earlier than the nearby UK Atomic Energy Authority which runs the state-funded fusion programme.

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The means is a type of business called a ghost kitchen. These are food establishments, usually fast-casual, that make meals that can be purchased exclusively with a delivery app like Seamless, Grubhub, DoorDash or Uber Eats. Ghost kitchens can house extensions of existing restaurants or new brands.

But customers cannot order takeout, and they cannot eat in a restaurant attached to the kitchen.

The moneymaking part is in the bundling: Several ghost kitchens can exist within the same physical kitchen, sharing ingredients and equipment and cooking staff used to supply multiple restaurant brands. (In practice, this means that a customer can order Indian food, burgers or falafel, all from different restaurants, but the food is all coming from the same address.)

The  advantage huge urban areas like New York has, and the reason why a lot of people like living in places like New York (even with all of its disadvantages) is that it is a HUBE market that can support even the tiniest slivers of a niche interest — no matter how bizarre your wants and tastes may be, there are probably enough similar people in NYC to support a business catering to people like you.

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Something we’ve all been waiting for.

Except maybe dentists.

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Facing his first serious challenge from within his party in more than a decade, Netanyahu said in a video, “The same way I got Trump to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the U.S. recognition of Israeli sovereignty in the Golan Heights and the American statement that the settlements doesn’t contradict international law… I am going to bring U.S. recognition in our sovereignty in the Jordan Valley and in all the settlements – this is the next stage – and only I can get this,”

I’m not sure that Trump could do that unilaterally.

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Trump has noticed the difference. He’s shrinking the size of the National Security Council staff by encouraging “detailees” — employees of the CIA, the Defense Department, the State Department, or other agencies who are temporarily assigned to the White House — to leave the National Security Council and return to their home departments.

On issues that have both economic and national security components — say, China trade, or Iran’s oil — the National Economic Council is increasingly taking the lead, even though it is a much smaller operation.

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A new filing in an Arkansas lawsuit against Hunter Biden claims that the former Vice President’s son “is the subject of more than one (1) criminal investigation involving fraud, money laundering and a counterfeiting scheme.”

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He may think that lets him off the hook but he’s wrong.

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The other one was just so fifteen minutes ago.

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Works for me.

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Some of these I knew, some I didn’t. Let’s spread the knowledge around.

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Sniffle season is here, but so is a potential solution—and we don’t mean chicken soup. Researchers at Stanford University and the University of California San Francisco have identified a specific protein inside human cells that, when disabled, can stop some of the peskiest viruses in their tracks. The researchers hope that their results, published this week in Nature, may pave the way for a new era in the fight against rhinoviruses (collectively known as “the common cold”) and more serious enteroviruses like polio and those that cause brain inflammation or encephalitis.

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Me want.

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The move would mark a final blow to two taxes that were originally passed in the Affordable Care Act to help fund the law’s coverage expansion, but that have been repeatedly delayed and criticized by lawmakers in both parties.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

For an alternative, try Castile soap. This can still be purchased from hippies over the Internet.

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New techniques for “densifying” wood can turn the ubiquitous substance into a super-material suitable for constructing buildings and body armor.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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Apparently it did not go well.

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Gee, from all of the people wanting to get in, you’d never think that America was the Worst Country In The World, as Democrats keep saying.

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They can start with the people who are leaving shit and needles on the street.

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When not confined to a container, liquids will splatter, dribble, and ooze. They shape-shift into their surroundings as puddles and streams, largely beyond human control.

Lauren Zarzar is trying to make more obedient liquids. Zarzar, a materials scientist at Pennsylvania State University, designs liquids that she can tame—fluids that move or change shape on command. That could mean a tube of water that retains its shape inside a second fluid, or a droplet that separates into two different oils when triggered by light. At their most ambitious, these liquids could even become electronic circuit components. Researchers have already made all-liquid wires and antennas.

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NuScale’s reactor won’t need massive cooling towers or sprawling emergency zones. It can be built in a factory and shipped to any location, no matter how remote. Extensive simulations suggest it can handle almost any emergency without a meltdown. One reason is that it barely uses any nuclear fuel, at least compared with existing reactors. It’s also a fraction of the size of its predecessors.

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There are many ways to desalinate water, but one of the most effective is membrane desalination. In this method, water is pushed through a thin membrane with tiny holes. The water flows through the pores, but the salt ions can’t, leaving only fresh water on the other side.

In his latest research, Barati Farimani explores the potential of a new type of membrane, called a metal-organic framework (MOF). “These membranes consist of both the metal center and organic compound,” Barati Farimani says. The organic compound and metal connect in a pentagonal pattern, leaving a hole in the center that serves as a pore. “If you look at them, they are like a honeycomb,” Barati Farimani adds.

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I guess there’s some hope for the old place after all.

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Just leave your Blue State attitudes behind, please.

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There’s a lot of ground between puttering around with your face strapped to a snorkel and managing the dangers, equipment, certification and expenses of scuba diving. Surface-supplied diving systems fill some of this space by strapping you to a breathing hose that plunges deeper than a snorkel but without some of the complications of scuba. Typically these systems rely on some form of compressed air, but a new prototype from Austria uses a more sustainable air supply: you. The ExoLung translates the diver’s swimming motions into air movement, keeping breathing air flowing so long as the diver keeps swimming.

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Hey, when you need it, you need it badly.

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Richard Gooding had one of the most famous whisky collections in history. In fact, before passing away in 2014, he spent years at distilleries in Scotland and at auctions building his 3,900 bottle collection, including some of the rarest bottles in the world.

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Two American favorites.

With thanks to Debbie Witt, a kindred soul.

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As Commodore Research managing director Jeffrey Landsberg writes, US farm income in 2019 is on pace for the highest income seen in six Years. This, Landsberg continues, “is very significant as US farmers are not faring nearly as poorly as many pundits and media outlets continue to state. As a result, US farmers collectively have not been in any real uproar and are not jeopardizing Trump’s re-election chances.”

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Not that you’d know it from the Drive-By Media.

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In terms of biological ageing, the body seems to shift gears three times during our lifespans, new research suggests – with 34 years, 60 years and 78 years the key thresholds.

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Drawing on technology developed for nuclear-powered submarines, the small modular reactors or SMRs could be located at individual plants to generate the large amounts of electricity needed to secure the hydrogen used in the process, according to Chief Executive Officer Warren East.

Synthetics and biofuels are likely to become the mainstay of aviation in coming decades, East said, providing liquid propellants for the next generation of aero-engines before the advent of all-electric alternatives. Reactors that could power the hydrogen extraction are small enough to be transported by truck and would occupy a building one-10th the size of a nuclear power station.