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A redditor in front of some trees (image). by reddit user JackTR314: LOLOLOL This is at the Sequoia National Park, at Muir Grove. look how small that human is! I sometimes forget there are other, bigger, living creatures on earth. cool
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Patient receives first ever synthetic organ transplant. by LF Press: The day may be coming when there are no waiting lists for organ donation. Surgeons at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm performed the first transplant of a synthetic organ, which was a windpipe made using the patient’s stem cells and a artificial scaffold. “This … Read more
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See through Bubble tents. by Yahoo News: BubbleTrees are anything but average tents. These prefabricated, globe-shaped tents are transparent so you can’t get much closer to nature unless you sleep outside. The tents, which are currently only available in Europe, come decked out with portable sofas, beds, and more. Some models even have wood floors. … Read more
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Colony, a documentary about honeybees. by Good.is: Carter Gunn and Ross McDonnell’s feature documentary Colony explores the crisis of bees through people, whose struggles come to serve as a metaphor for those of bees. The story centers on the Seppis, a religious family in California struggling to keep its hives in a collapsing economy, and also … Read more
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Japanese researchers hold robot marathon. by New Scientist: Japanese researchers are about to fire the starting pistol tomorrow on one of the oddest events in the sporting calendar: the robot marathon. Five robots have been entered into the race in which they must complete 422 laps around a 100-metre indoor track in Osaka to finish … Read more
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Computer named Watson beats out human contestants on Jeopardy. by New York Times: For I.B.M., the showdown was not merely a well-publicized stunt and a $1 million prize, but proof that the company has taken a big step toward a world in which intelligent machines will understand and respond to humans, and perhaps inevitably, replace … Read more
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Human ancestor couldn’t climb much better than modern humans, study says. by National Geographic: An unprecedented fossil foot bone appears to confirm that Australopithecus afarensis—the early human ancestors made famous by the “Lucy” skeleton—walked like modern humans, a new study says. Unearthed at a known A. afarensis fossil trove in Hadar, Ethiopia, the 3.2-million-year-old fossil is a metatarsal, … Read more
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Everything is a Remix Part Two: Hollywood Everything you need to know about movies in 9:48, hehehe
