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Full of Muslims, of course. What could go wrong?

(Ever try to behead somebody wearing a spacesuit? It’s a challenge.)

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Everything bad is good for you.

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It’s more of a pavise than a proper shield, but useful nevertheless.

Growler Chill.

Anti-Steam ‘Ove’ Gloves.

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Find out how much your Congresscritter is spending.

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The invasive Brazilian peppertree contains a substance that keeps drug-resistant bacteria from producing their deadly toxins.

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All we had to do was ask.

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The Canadian Border Security Agency says Quebec is now the flashpoint for “asylum seekers” or double refugees who first entered the U.S. as refugees and are now fleeing there and trying to sneak into Canada over fears that President Donald Trump will have them deported.

Well, Trudeau said they’re welcome. Not a problem, right?

The “refugees” are deliberately crossing illegally so they can bypass the Safe Third Country Agreement, which is supposed to prevent people seeking asylum from choosing more than one “safe” destination when the flee their country of origin. The U.S. and Canada are both considered safe under this international legislation. But, paradoxically, the act only applies at legal border crossings; so double refugees are crossing illegally in order avoid their official refugee status from being questioned.

Lawbreakers break the law. It’s what they do. Canada is welcome to all the U.S. lawbreakers they can stand.

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HAH!

So much for scientific ‘consensus’.

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Professor Winfried Hensinger is head of a team that has published an open-access paper in the Science Advances journal. He is quoted as saying: “For many years, people said that it was completely impossible to construct an actual quantum computer. With our work we have not only shown that it can be done but now we are delivering a nuts-and-bolts construction plan to build an actual large-scale machine.”

The design involves multiple trapped ion-based scalable quantum computing modules with an architecture based on long-wavelength radiation quantum gates. Hensinger’s team say modules could be built using silicon microfabrication techniques that are within reach of current technology. A high-threshold surface error correction code can be implemented in the architecture to execute fault-tolerant operations.

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Shapes on the surface of this lens are smaller than the wavelength of light involved: a thousandth of a millimetre.

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The advantage, Prof Capasso said, is that these “metalenses” avoid shortfalls – called aberrations – that are inherent in traditional glass optics.

Bacon Grill.

Zojirushi travel mug.  I have one of their bread machines, and it rocks.

Tazer Pulse.

All-In-One Solar Powered Generator Briefcase.

Bi?m butter sprayer.

Electric Racklette Party Grill.

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Touted as “all chicken, no crust,” the base is made of 100% chicken fillet and then topped with “100% mozzarella cheese” and “sauce made from California tomatoes.”

Further toppings on offer include ham, pineapple and KFC sauce.

Is this a great country, or what?

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Let’s hope this ‘scientist’ isn’t one of the guys massaging the Global Warming data.

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Welcome to the future.

Tabletop Moonshine Still.

HUDWAY Glass Head-Up Navigation Display.

CouchCoaster.

Granite Mortar & Pestle.

Justin Case Lightweight Kayak.

Book Holder Floor Stand.

Nostalgia Breakfast Station.

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We have the technology.

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Quit whining, start running.

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Stop and think about that for a moment. Let it sink in. A neural computing system designed to translate content from one human language into another developed its own internal language to make the task more efficient. Without being instructed to. In a matter of weeks.

Ultimate Adventure Vehicle.

The Beard Bib.

Thermobest Gloves.

Bacon Toaster.

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Hint: Everybody saves money

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Trump is in the process of peeling away on of the core Democrat coalition groups. The man is an artist.

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Yeah, you laugh now, but mark my words….

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The excellent thing about architectural easter eggs, be they tongue-in-cheek, carved out of spite, or simply placed as a fun treat awaiting an observant eye, is that they endure in the landscape around us, becoming a sneaky and often confusing part of history. Here are five hidden carvings that dot historic structures with a bit of human nature.

Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

Here’s a similar feature from Trumbull College at Yale:

Zera Kitchen Food Composter. This is really clever.

Pop-Up Hot Dog and Bun Toaster. This is less so, but still clever.

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How about that Global Warming, eh? Rising sea levels nipping at your toes yet?

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Orbit Lawn Watering Soaker Irrigator.

Magnasonic Cleaner.

LED Candles with Timer and Remote. Add a mini-microwave and I’m in.

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I guess that’s why they keep taking ’em out — they want it for themselves.

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Donald Trump will be sworn in as president in seven days. Here’s who the president-elect has named to his cabinet so far.

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The Beam family is an unmatched dynasty in the Kentucky bourbon industry. It’s said that you can’t make a decent bourbon without a member of the Beam family behind the still.

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Starting from a highly-accurate computer model, the researchers 3D printed diatomic cubes to represent the material’s sponge-like structure and then subjected them to compression tests. The shape here is incredibly important; the cube itself looks like a magenta sponge. Its porous nature means that there’s more surface area, and more surface area means higher strengths at lower weights.

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Much like Democrats with social media.

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And about time, too.

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Hentoff was less likely to be called a liberal later in life. That’s partly because his brand of free-speech absolutism was growing less common on the left, and it’s partly because of his heterodoxy on abortion. (Hentoff was pro-life, arguing against abortion on the same grounds that he argued against capital punishment and war. Or, at least, against some wars—he eventually rended his seamless garment to support interventions in Rwanda and Iraq.) But you couldn’t really cast him as a man of the right either: Besides his intense distrust for the police agencies that conservatives tend to revere, he was a longtime democratic socialist who held onto a lot of his leftist economic ideas in old age. It’s not even quite right to call him an ACLU liberal, because he kept butting heads with the ACLU. (The nation’s most prominent civil libertarian organization wasn’t always civil libertarian enough for him.) Best to think of him as his own man, with at least a couple of views to offend pretty much anyone.

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Five years ago, I stood before several thousand mostly native Japanese speakers and addressed them in English. From now on, I told them, Rakuten – Japan’s largest online marketplace, of which I am the chief executive officer – would conduct all of its business, from official meetings to internal e-mail, in English. I still remember the shocked expressions on the listeners’ faces.

The Telesteps Ladder.

Roof Snow De-Icing Cables. It’s that time of year.

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Hint: It involved hockey sticks.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Good fences makes good neighbors. I’m sure I heard that somewhere.

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About 30 miles from Tallahassee, at an archaeological site known as Page-Ladson, archaeologists dove down about 30 feet deep into a sinkhole at the bottom of the Aucilla River in Florida. And it paid off. There they found bones and tools that showed the area may have been where early occupiers of what came to be known as America hunted mastodon about 14,550 years ago. That’s right, a Florida man once roamed the land with Mastodon.

The site is a rare pre-Clovis site, which means they were a people that pre-date the Clovis people (a prehistoric Native American culture). In the sinkhole, the archaeologists found a slaughtered mastodon–including one which those first Floridian colonizers may have killed, as well as a stone knife fragment.

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For their study, the researchers ignored the viruses’ RNA and DNA, which could be key areas to target, but because they change from virus to virus and also mutate, it’s very difficult to target them successfully.

Instead, the researchers focused on glycoproteins, which sit on the outside of all viruses and attach to cells in the body, allowing the viruses to do their dirty work by infecting cells and making us sick. Using that knowledge, the researchers created a macromolecule, which is basically one giant molecule made of smaller subunits. This macromolecule has key factors that are crucial in fighting viruses. First, it’s able to attract viruses towards itself using electrostatic charges. Once the virus is close, the macromolecule attaches to the virus and makes the virus unable to attach to healthy cells. Then it neutralizes the virus’ acidity levels, which makes it less able to replicate.

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Best. News. Ever.

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The idea is to involve students, engineers and anyone from the community who has ideas and wants to work on the next generation of smart appliances.

“Our view is that speed of innovation is really a competitive advantage now, not secrecy,” said Kevin Nolan, vice president of technology at Louisville-based GE Appliances.

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Everything bad is good for you.

Millenium Falcon multi-tool. I am not making this up.

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In a scientific triumph that will change the way the world fights a terrifying killer, an experimental Ebola vaccine tested on humans in the waning days of the West African epidemic has been shown to provide 100 percent protection against the lethal disease.

The vaccine has not yet been approved by any regulatory authority, but it is considered so effective that an emergency stockpile of 300,000 doses has already been created for use should an outbreak flare up again.

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Inquiring minds want to know. Nosy Parkers really want to.