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Turn a 45-minute drive into a 10-minute flight. The safe, convenient Air Taxi is designed to let you make the most of your commute. Its sleek cabin offers a comfortable space for you to relax. Or work. Or socialize. All while saving your most precious resource: time

I have often wondered why we don’t have tilt-rotor vehicles. They would seem to have all of the advantages of a helicopter and none of the disadvantages.

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The structure of ultra-white beetle scales could hold the key to making bright-white sustainable paint using recycled plastic waste, scientists at the University of Sheffield have discovered.

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Scientists say they’ve found artifacts in Idaho that indicate people were living there around 16,000 years ago, providing new evidence that the first Americans arrived here by following the Pacific Coast.

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Nuclear scientists and engineers have not been idle over the last decade in designing new small nuclear reactors that can’t melt down, and that will be essential to address our environmental and industrial needs in the coming decades.

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A new study, published in Psychiatry Research, has concluded that psychiatric diagnoses are scientifically worthless as tools to identify discrete mental health disorders.

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The successor to silicon may be upon us.

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That’s a nicer chain than any job I ever had.

Seriously, when I worked at Dewey Ballantine after college, my office was ten times nicer than my apartment — the furniture was more comfortable, people came in every day to clean, the caterer came around twice a day with the snack trolley, the library had interesting books I could read on the firm’s dime, the cafeteria had nice food that I didn’t have to cook — every way an improvement.

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US Magistrate Judge Virginia Demarchi, of the Northern District of California, has ruled that unlocking a device such as an iPhone is “inherently testimonial.” She said it amounted to forcing incriminating testimony from an individual.

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I’m good with that.

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We have the technology.

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And it will never belong to a union. Win-win.

Hurry up with the ones that replace teachers, please.

UPDATE: What Percentage Of U.S. Workers Are Union Members?

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

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Figure ten to fifteen years before it finds its way to your dentist.

Just sayin’.

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Take a guess.

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If I had to watch a graphene film I wouldn’t be biting either.

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Prediction:

1. Nobody gets fired.
2. Nobody goes to jail.
3. DemLegHump Media will whine about it forever.

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Well, that was easy…

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Japan is robotizing not only manufacturing but also the service sector.

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The FBI and IRS raided the home of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) Chief President Gary Jones Wednesday and discovered wads of cash.

As many as 12 agents enacted a “knock and announce” protocol as they raided Jones’s Detroit home, according to the Detroit Free Press. Authorities also raided the former UAW chief’s California home, Dennis Williams, the UAW Michigan conference center, and several other UAW spots in Wisconsin and Missouri.

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How about that GREAT government provided health care! Oh, wait….

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Well. There it is.

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

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I am tempted to say ‘women and minorities hardest hit’, but I refrain.

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Scott Adams explains it all to you.

You can skip the first 14 minutes, which deals with politics. Or you can watch it – your call.

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This is a big week for the Minnesota media. They are now permitting their consumers to catch up with the news delivered last month by the Daily Mail. That is, Ilhan Omar has separated from the husband she just got around to marrying last year (i.e., Ahmed Hirsi) and taken up with a married man (i.e., Tim Mynett) who works for her as a consultant. The Daily Mail even tracked down the expensive apartment into which Omar has moved and tracked down Ahmed Hirsi in Minneapolis for a “no comment.” The Minnesota media haven’t gotten there yet, but they have opened the door to the subject.

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Or you could get the Knots 3D app for your phone (although I don’t think the phone will actually tie the knot for you).

The water knot is the start for a lot of necktie knots.

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A research team from India’s IIT (Institute of Technology) Madras has officially developed the world’s first iron-ion battery, which promises a low-cost stable alternative to the existing mainstream lithium-ion battery.

Asok’s alma mater.

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‘Bio-concrete’ is infused with limestone-producing bacteria in capsule form, along with calcium lactate. The bacteria that Jonkers used, either Bacillus pseudofirmus or Sporosarcina pasteurii, thrive in alkaline conditions and are found naturally in highly alkaline lakes near volcanoes. Being mixed with concrete and distributed evenly throughout it, they can lay there in a dormant state for up to 200 years; only when the concrete cracks, air and moisture awaken the bacteria which use the calcium lactate as a food source and start to produce limestone, sealing off the cracks in 3 weeks’ time. The technology, currently able to seal cracks of any length but only up to 0.8 mm wide, was a finalist for the European Inventor Award 2015, an initiative of the European Patent Office (EPO).

We have the technology.

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Is there anything a YouTube video can’t do?

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The U.S. ought to move it’s capital to Wichita. Warren Buffet could take over the Treasury and we’d all breathe easier.

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An interesting notion.

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National developers are behind the proliferation of luxury apartments near college campuses, and they’re driving low-income students farther away.

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That Elon — just burnin’ it up.

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It’s amazing how many ’emergency’ taxes become effectively permanent.

In the U.S., the Federal government in 1898 established an excise tax on long-distance telephone calls to help pay for the Spanish-American War.

Since 2006, after litigation, the tax is no longer collected … because the way telephone services are billed no longer falls within the definition in the statute. It remains, however, on the books.

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In their study, the researchers teleported the quantum state of one photon (light particle) to another distant one. Previously, only two-level states (“qubits”) had been transmitted, i.e., information with values “0” or “1”. However, the scientists succeeded in teleporting a three-level state, a so-called “qutrit”. In quantum physics, unlike in classical computer science, “0” and “1” are not an ‘either/or’ – both simultaneously, or anything in between, is also possible. The Austrian-Chinese team has now demonstrated this in practice with a third possibility “2”.

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While some researchers theorise that nuclear fusion is just around the corner, we have yet to see a reactor that can successfully recreate the power of the sun for any useful length of time. However, a physicist at the US Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has developed a mathematical technique that simplifies the design of complex magnetic coils within the twisty machines that house fusion reactions.

Using this new technique, these machines, referred to as stellarators, could be made significantly cheaper, which would potentially bring nuclear fusion within closer reach.

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Which just might have saved the owner’s life. Just sayin’.

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“While I appreciate his allyship, I think someone that is actually a part of the queer community, that understands the day-to-day struggles, would be a better representative than an ally,” Girl said of Schiff. “I want people to know that there are more progressive people on the ballot.”

Further testing the theory that Democrat voters will elect anything to Congress.

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That Elon, just burnin’ it down….

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An illegal immigrant mother whose nursing claims were disputed by a medical examination has been slapped with multiple felony charges for using another person’s social security number.

Maria Domingo-Garcia was federally indicted on Tuesday for knowingly using another individual’s social security number, according to court documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The ruling, handed down in the Northern Division of the Southern District of Mississippi, will result in her being placed in the custody of U.S. Marshals as she awaits federal trial.

News of the indictments come after Domingo-Garcia made national headlines for claiming she was a nursing mother unable to breastfeed her baby because Immigration and Customs Enforcement placed her in detention.

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Galaxy (and its partner, If) was one of my go-to magazines for SF when I was growing up. I look forward to many happy hours reliving the halcyon days of my youth.

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Guess it didn’t work.

(Hey, when all you’ve got is a zombie knife, every problem looks like a zombie….)

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If they would video his suicide, then we could all watch.

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The food company is using a patented technique to turn the white pulp that covers cocoa beans into a powder that naturally contains sugar. This fall in Japan, Nestle will start selling KitKat bars with 70% dark chocolate under the new recipe, which doesn’t include any added sugar, the Vevey, Switzerland-based firm said. Until now, the pulp has never been used as a sweetener for chocolate, and usually it’s mostly thrown out.

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Recently, a Chinese startup named Qihan Biotech raised $20 million to develop replacement organs for humans. The smallish deal would hardly have rated a headline, except for the fact that the Hangzhou-based gene-editing company is aiming to grow those organs in pigs and other animals. If successful, such transplants could well transform medicine. And, thanks to a unique confluence of need, money, timing and culture, China is poised to lead the way in developing them.

It will be interesting watching the people who want cheap transplantable organs go up against the animal rights crowd.

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As a cucumber plant grows, it sprouts tightly coiled tendrils that seek out supports in order to pull the plant upward. This ensures the plant receives as much sunlight exposure as possible. Now, researchers at MIT have found a way to imitate this coiling-and-pulling mechanism to produce contracting fibers that could be used as artificial muscles for robots, prosthetic limbs, or other mechanical and biomedical applications.

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Enquiring minds want to know.

The rest of us … not so much.

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It’s a salad dressing! It’s a foot ointment!

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I’ve always felt that if foreigners had anything to say they would say it in Latin.

And if they had anything important to say they would say it in Greek.

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Virtually every single one of Hillary Clinton’s emails were sent, potentially secretly, to a cryptically named Gmail address, according to a new Senate report.

The finding, which has not been previously reported, means that Clinton’s emails, including classified ones and ones which were later deleted, likely existed on Google’s U.S.-based servers. The FBI said in the report that it knew this — and of the suspicious explanation for it — but did not alert other intelligence agencies or the public, according to the report.