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It’s nice if you can afford to do that.

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The U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM) understands this problem and has been working on a solution for the past few years. Now the USARIEM is finally engineering a new product: a device that heats your forearms to increase blood circulation to your fingertips, all without gloves.

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Dominos has started the construction on a 59,000 square foot facility in Texas that will be the source of creating pizza dough for hundreds of regional stores, and there’s one major issue: the new high-tech supply chain center will be completely automated.

The new facility, located at 900 Igloo Road in Katy, Texas, will produce enough pizza dough for 300 stores across the region. The production of the dough will be entirely completed by robots and artificial intelligence systems for maximum productivity.

Space is insufficient to record the number of government regulations thereby avoided, and I can’t count high enough to figure the resultant monetary savings.

The new facility will only create 85 jobs, as opposed to if there weren’t any robots, it would have created hundreds of jobs for the local community.

Thank you, minimum wage.

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A sane judge. How did that happen?

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I certainly hope so.

UPDATE: Mexico to Block Hundreds of Honduran Migrants From US  Say what you will about Trump, this wouldn’t have happened under a Democrat.

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We appear to be getting (finally) actual practical applications of graphene.

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‘Living concrete’ which can heal its own cracks and even ‘give birth’ to new bricks, has been developed by scientists.

The new material is a mixture of sand and bacteria, which can act as both a structural, load bearing substance, but can also carry out biological functions, like reproduction.

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But that trick never works….

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Metal parts are used in all kinds of high-performance and safety-critical applications in transportation, mining, construction and power-generation equipment such as turbine engines. Most are made using one of a small number of classical manufacturing processes that haven’t changed much in decades.

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The idea of robotic blacksmithing is to extend the blacksmith’s art with new digital capabilities. Parts are shaped by repeatedly and incrementally forming a piece of metal which is precisely positioned into a press. This powered press or hammer system will interchange tools depending on the shape needed.

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Former Trump administration National Security Adviser Michael Flynn filed court papers Tuesday to withdraw his guilty plea, saying federal prosecutors had acted in “bad faith” and broken their end of the bargain when they sought prison time for him.

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A number of years back, there was a great deal of excitement about using viruses to target cancer. A number of viruses explode the cells that they’ve infected in order to spread to new ones. Engineering those viruses so that they could only grow in cancer cells would seem to provide a way of selectively killing these cells. And some preliminary tests were promising, showing massive tumors nearly disappearing.

But the results were inconsistent, and there were complications. The immune system would respond to the virus, limiting our ability to use it more than once. And some of the tumor killing seemed to be the result of the immune system, rather than the virus.

Now, some researchers have focused on the immune response, inducing it at the site of the tumor. And they do so by a remarkably simple method: injecting the tumor with the flu vaccine. As a bonus, the mice it was tested on were successfully immunized, too.

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he 500-mile forest is only a short distance from the populous Egyptian city of Ismailia, inhabited by 400,000 people who produce millions of tons of sewage and sewage water every year.

Routed a dozen miles to the Serapium site, the sewage water arrives in massive microorganism-populated underground vats where oxygen is fed in to accelerate the bacterial purification process. A system of pipes then deposits the wastewater throughout the forest.

Since human wastewater is still rich in nitrogen and phosphorus even after being treated, it is effectively a MiracleGro formula provided free of charge by Ismailia’s citizens

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While Iran call the accusation “illogical”, the US assessment is based on satellites picking up two missile launches in the area directly before the crash, while they say there were also missile fragments found at the crash site. An unverified video has also emerged which purports to show a missile hitting the plane.

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Train all your life to live like a homeless person. What an achievement.

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Israel announced it has developed a new laser weapon designed to stop rockets, anti-tank guided missiles and other threats, The Jerusalem Post is reporting.

New laser technology “makes the security apparatus more lethal, more powerful and more advanced,” Defense Minister Naftali Bennett said.

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And the fun continues.

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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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