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NASA Finds Fresh Ice on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
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- NASA Finds Fresh Ice on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
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- 2:24
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- 6 years ago
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- PASADENA, CALIFORNIA — Scientists have found evidence that increases the chances of alien life being found on Saturn’s sixth-largest moon, an icy ball called Enceladus.
NASA scientists used data from the Cassini space probe to see what new information they could find about Enceladus. They went digging through detailed infrared images and say they’ve now found strong evidence of areas of fresh ice in the moon’s Northern hemisphere. Fresh ice drastically increases the odds of finding alien life on any planet.
This fresh ice is thought to have originated in the moon’s interior, and scientists think there must be some kind of mechanism by which the fresh ice could have emerged to cover patches of the moon’s ancient ice surface.
SOURCES: JPL NASA, Futurism, Space.com
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7748
https://futurism.com/nasa-evidence-fresh-ice-saturn-moon-enceladus
https://www.space.com/saturn-moon-encel...
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- Arctic Sea Ice at Second-Lowest Level on Record
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- 6:56
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- 6 years ago
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- BOULDER, COLORADO — This summer's Arctic sea ice shrank to its second-lowest ever extent in the 42-year satellite record, the National Snow and Ice Data Center said in a press release on Monday, Sept. 21.
On Sept. 15, 2020, Arctic sea ice appeared to reach its annual minimum extent of 3.74 million square kilometers, or 1.44 million square miles, according to the NSIDC’s sea ice index data.
Sea ice helps cool the planet. According to the NSIDC, 80 percent of the sunlight that strikes sea ice is reflected back into space. As sea ice melts, it exposes darker surface waters, which absorb 90 percent of the sunlight.
In a press release on the NSIDC’s website, director Mark Serreze said the melting ice was caused in part by 100-degree Fahrenheit heat waves in Siberia that occurred in June and massive wildfires in the Western United States.
Serreze told CNN that if the current trajectory continues, there will eventually be no Arctic sea...
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- Giant Sail Ship Will Carry up to 7,000 Cars
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- 1:51
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- 6 years ago
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- STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — The Oceanbird is a proposed cargo yacht that would be able to carry 7,000 cars. Its designers say that it will use its giant, wing-like sails for general propulsion, saving up to 90 percent in greenhouse gas emissions.
The Oceanbird’s sails are like telescoping wings that can extend up to 80 meters high.
The vessel is 200 meters from stem to stern and 40 meters from starboard to port side.
Swedish shipbuilding company Wallenius Marine announced that it will work with Swedish government organizations to build this giant sail ship.
The shipbuilder says Oceanbird can make a transatlantic crossing in around 12 days, which is only slightly longer than the time taken by today's fossil-fuel powered cargo ships.
When the wing sails are extended to their full height of 80 meters, the ship will have a height above waterline of 105 meters, making it the tallest ship ever built.
Thanks to their telesco...
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- China Building a ‘COVID-Ready’ City
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- 2:02
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- 6 years ago
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- XIONG-AN, HEBEI PROVINCE, CHINA — The good thing about the coronavirus cloud is that it has inspired a new city in China that will be much more beautiful and natural than the dense tower-block cities of today.
China said it will build a “COVID-ready” new neighborhood in Xiong-an, near Beijing, as a template for the rest of the huge new city.
Xiong-an occupies a massive 2,000 square kilometers, or 772 square miles, making it almost as big as London and New York combined.
The Xiong-an area has been designated as an urban innovation zone by China’s government.
According to Vicente Guallart, whose Spanish company Guallart Architects designed the new neighborhood, his team had to create the design during lockdown, having to work from their homes, physically cut off from each other and the world.
That’s why they decided to create a blueprint for a city that will be Covid-ready, enabling people to live in comfort dur...
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- ‘Fortress Taiwan’: China Escalates Incursions as Top U.S. Official Visits Taipei
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- 13:32
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- 6 years ago
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- TAIPEI, TAIWAN — Two Chinese aircraft flew into Taiwanese air space on Wednesday, Sept. 16. The incursion came in advance of Thursday’s visit to Taiwan by Undersecretary of State Keith Krach, the highest-ranking U.S. cabinet member to visit Taiwan since 1979.
Two Shaanxi Y-8 anti-submarine aircraft briefly entered Taiwan’s air defense identification zone early on Wednesday, the defense ministry said on Thursday. Taiwan deployed fighter jets and issued radio warnings to ward off the Chinese planes.
Also on Wednesday, a Chinese warship sailed just 24 nautical miles from Taiwan’s east coast before it disappeared early Thursday morning, Taiwan’s Central News Agency reported.
Undersecretary of State Keith Krach is expected to discuss weapons sales during his time in Taiwan. According to reports in the New York Times and Reuters, the Trump administration is pushing the sale of seven major weapons systems, including cruise missiles Taiwan could...
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- Potential Signs of Alien Life Found on Venus
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- 8:02
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- 6 years ago
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- CARDIFF, WALES — In an experiment made from “pure curiosity,” scientists from Cardiff University, the University of Manchester and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology scanned the clouds of Venus and detected phosphine — a gas that could be a sign of life. The findings were published in the journal Nature Astronomy.
To make their discovery, the scientists used the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii. They were shocked when they found hints of phosphine in Venus’ spectrum. The team later confirmed the detection using the more sensitive ALMA observatory in Chile.
In a statement Jane Greaves, the lead researcher on the phosphine discovery from Cardiff University, said: “This was an experiment made out of pure curiosity.”
“I thought we’d just be able to rule out extreme scenarios, like the clouds being stuffed full of organisms. When we got the first hints of phosphine in Venus’ spectrum, it was a shock!”
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- Tragedy When Gravel Truck Rolls Over on Crowd
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- 1:19
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- 6 years ago
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- SHANGCHENG COUNTY, HENAN PROVINCE, CHINA — A village in China was left grief-stricken after eight people died in a freak accident.
A garlic-transporting truck had overturned on the nearby winding mountain road, attracting villagers who wanted to pick up the tonnes of fresh garlic that had spilled out of the truck.
But a few hours later, just as the roadside garlic-gathering operation was reaching its peak, a terrible statistical anomaly occurred when another truck overturned at exactly the same spot where the garlic truck had overturned.
The accident was first reported on the official Weibo account of the Rong Media Center of the Shangcheng County of Xinyang City.
The report states that the first truck rolled over on Tuesday, September 15, at around 11 a.m. The second truck rolled over at 4:25 p.m., around four-and-a-half hours later.
SOURCES: WEIBO @商城外宣, CCTV, China Youth Daily
https://m.weibo.cn/u/504...
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- ‘Reverse Karen’ Rants About Mask Rules in Store
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- 2:13
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- 6 years ago
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- CALGARY, CANADA — In a video that has gone viral, a Canadian woman went “super cringe crazy” in a store in Calgary when store workers told her to put a mask on.
A manager at the Fabricland store confirmed to the Calgary Herald the incident happened in the store on Sunday, Oct. 13, but declined to comment further.
SOURCES: Global News, Calgary Herald
https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/video-of-anti-mask-woman-in-calgary-fabric-store-goes-viral
https://globalnews.ca/news/7336843/coronavirus-calgary-fabricland-anti-mask-rant/
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- Shoplifting Granny Forced to Wear Humiliating Sign
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- 2:25
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- 6 years ago
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- FOSHAN CITY, GUANGDONG PROVINCE, CHINA — A video from China shows a grandmother sitting outside a supermarket, with a sign that says “I’m a thief” hung around her neck. But this story gets even more bizarre than that.
The thieving grandmother made the news in China when she was caught stealing meat for the third time from the same shop.
She didn’t become famous for stealing though, but rather for the highly controversial way in which she was punished.
Video footage shot by a passer-by shows the woman sitting in front of the shop with a sign that shows the Chinese symbols for “Thief, stole for the third time.”
The incident also highlights a morality issue in Communist China where old people are often given large grocery allowances by their well-off children, but some choose to steal anyway.
SOURCES: Guangdong Radio and Television Station, Weibo
https://weibo.com/1660797932/JjoB0pt4V?type=comment
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- Giant Spinning Waterspout Towers Over City
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- 0:51
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- 6 years ago
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- LIAONING, DALIAN PROVINCE, CHINA — This giant waterspout recently scared and delighted the people of Liaoning in China’s Dalian province. In China, people call a waterspout long-juan-fong.
Roughly translated, this means “dragon sucks water.”
Videos of this rare phenomenon were shared on social media, and compilation videos soon went viral.
Actually, “long-juan-fong” is also the Chinese word for tornado, and it literally means “dragon rolling wind”, but we prefer saying “dragon sucking water”, because it really does look like a giant dragon sucking water out of the ocean.
This specific waterspout was spotted on September 11. As you can see, it was quite a sight to behold.
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- Neighbors Catch Falling Toddler With Duvet
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- 1:21
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- 6 years ago
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- JI’AN, JIANGXI PROVINCE, CHINA — In a video that has gone viral, a girl plunges from a third-floor apartment window but is luckily caught in a duvet by a quick-thinking group of neighbors.
SOURCE: SHANDONG RADIO AND TELEVISION VIA WEIBO @都市现场
https://weibo.com/tv/show/1034:4548269855146031?from=old_pc_videoshow
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- This ‘Living Coffin’ Composts Your Body
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- 3:10
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- 6 years ago
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- DELFT, THE NETHERLANDS — A start-up founded by a researcher from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands called the Loop has developed a living coffin made from a special fungus, the university said in a press release.
Dubbed the “Living Cocoon,” the coffin is made of mycelium and helps the body to decompose more efficiently. It also removes toxic substances such as the metal and varnish from coffins and synthetic fibers.
Mycelium is a fungus-like bacterial colony that lives underground in the complex root structure of trees, plants and fungi.
Mycelium is grown into the shape of the coffin and then dried. When exposed to water after burial it begins to grow again.
According to a report on DuthNews.nl, the company has already “grown” 10 coffins, and these are already on offer in the coffin collections of two Dutch funeral companies.
SOURCES: TU Delft, Dutch News, Dezeen
https://www.tudelft.nl/en/...
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- Powerful 'Hogwarts' Illusion Appears Over Chinese City
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- 1:52
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- JINAN, SHANDONG PROVINCE, CHINA — This is the moment a very strange apparition appeared in the clouds above the city of Jinan in China. There is in reality no building standing where this strange illusion is appearing.
It appears to be a fake video, but it is actually very real.
It looks as if Harry Potter's Hogwarts University has magically drifted over China, ready to accept applications from Chinese students.
SOURCES: The Paper, Weibo
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_9129974
https://m.weibo.cn/search?containerid=100103type%3D1%26q%3D%E6%B5%8E%E5%8D%97%E6%B5%B7%E5%B8%82%E8%9C%83%E6%A5%BC
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- What Is La Nina? Animated Explainer
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- 2:49
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND — The U.S. Climate Prediction Center said on Thursday, September 11 that the weather pattern known as La Nina had officially formed.
La Nina — which means “little girl” in Spanish — is a complex ocean-atmosphere phenomenon that occurs every few years in the Pacific Ocean. La Nina brings dry, warm weather to the Southwestern U.S. It brings cool, wet weather to an area reaching from the Pacific Northwest and southeastern Alaska to the Northern Plains and central Canada.
Under normal conditions, winds in the Pacific Ocean push warm water from the west coast of South America toward Indonesia. As the warm water moves westward, cold water rises.
When La Nina occurs, winds in the Pacific grow much stronger. They push even more warm water toward Indonesia, causing more cold water to rise near the west coast of South America.
This could worsen the drought in the Southwestern U.S. this winter, while bringing a c...
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- Chinese Ambassador Caught 'Liking' Porn Clip on Twitter
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- 1:04
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- 6 years ago
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- LONDON — The Chinese ambassador to the UK has been humiliated after his official Twitter account “liked” pornographic content.
The clip is about 10 seconds long and shows a woman performing an act on a man by using her feet.
Not surprisingly, the clip has now been removed from the diplomat’s Twitter feed.
But the Chinese Embassy in the UK denied that the ambassador, the 64-year-old Liu Xiaoming, had actually viewed and “liked” the video footage.
The embassy said that the ambassador’s official Twitter account had been hacked.
Embassy officials branded the incident as a vicious attack made by “some anti-China elements.” They went on to say that the incident was “despicable.”
CNN reported on September 10 that the account also appeared to “like” at least one other post which was critical of the ruling Chinese Communist Party. It is not clear how long the apparent "likes" remained activ...
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- Roller Coaster Glitch Leaves Riders Dangling in Mid-Air
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- 1:10
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- 6 years ago
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- WUXI, JIANGSU PROVINCE, CHINA — Imagine getting on a roller coaster for a fun ride, but you end up hanging upside down, clinging for your life -- for more than an hour.
This was the rare horror bestowed upon 20 unlucky visitors to a fun park called Wuxi Sunac Park in Wuxi, China.
This roller coaster broke down and got stuck right at the highest point of the rail. As you can see, the riders were left dangling at a very awkward angle ... and they must have had a hard time trying to stay comfortable while hanging like that in the heat of a hot summer day.
According to Global Times, witnesses said the unfortunate riders were left dangling there for more than an hour -- on a day when temperatures reached 30 degrees Celsius in Wuxi.
According to news reports, the incident happened just after noon on September 5.
The park later said that all 20 riders were rescued without any casualties. Park workers closed the park during the...
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- Hunt for Cell Phone Signal Led to Oil Spill Disaster
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- 3:42
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- 6 years ago
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- POINTE D’ESNY, MAURITIUS — An investigation into Mauritius’ worst oil spill has found that the bulk carrier MK Wakashio ran aground after the ship changed course to pick up a cell phone signal for a birthday celebration, according to a statement released by the Panama Maritime Authority on Monday, September 7.
The Japanese-owned, Panamanian-flagged vessel collided with coral reef in July and broke apart in mid-August, spilling 1,000 tonnes of oil. The vessel ran aground on a coral reef at Pointe d’Esny, which lies near a marine park and is listed under the Ramsar convention on wetlands of international importance.
The Panama Maritime Authority confirmed revelations first reported by local newspaper L’Express that the Wakashio made a course change to get within five miles of Mauritius to pick up a cell phone signal for a crew member’s birthday celebration.
The investigation also found that the chart displayed on the Wakashio’s Electro...
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- Giant Rocket Booster Nearly Hits School
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- 1:59
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- 6 years ago
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- GAOYAO TOWNSHIP, SHAANXI PROVINCE, CHINA — You are looking at a massive rocket booster falling from the edge of space.
It is only seconds away from hitting the ground at high speed ... close to a school in China.
When the rocket impacted a hillside, it exploded and released a cloud of orange smoke.
It is assumed that the orange smoke contained the highly toxic chemicals that are placed in boosters to create the controlled explosions that power huge rockets.
Other footage shows the orange cloud as seen from a nearby schoolyard, illustrating just how deadly this incident could have been.
Children’s voices can be heard shouting excitedly on the schoolyard video.
Footage of the impact site shows a large crater that dwarfs the people who are standing inside it.
The huge crater is surrounded by shards of metal -- presumably the remains of the giant rocket booster.
The booster was pa...
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- How Russia’s COVID-19 Vaccine Works: Animation Explainer
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- 7:58
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- MOSCOW — Russia on August 11 became the first country in the world to approve a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Now the first batch of the vaccine is ready for public distribution, TASS Russian News Agency reports, citing Russia’s health ministry.
Russia’s coronavirus vaccine, dubbed Sputnik V in homage the world’s first satellite placed in orbit by the Soviet Union, uses modified adenoviruses, viruses that cause the common cold, to trigger an immune response and prime the immune system to respond to SARS-CoV-2.
SOURCES: Radio Free Europe, TASS Russian News Agency, The Lancet, Reuters, Gamaleya National Center, BBC News
https://www.rferl.org/a/ministry-says-first-batch-of-russian-covid-19-vaccine-released-for-distribution/30827265.html
https://tass.ru/obschestvo/9394703
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30402-1/fulltext
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lance...
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- ‘Gender Reveal’ Idiots Burn Yet Another Mountain Range
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- 1:55
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- YUCAIPA, CALIFORNIA — Yet another bunch of morons have yet again burned down a mountain range because they couldn’t just open their mouths to tell their friends what gender their next baby is going to be.
Nope, these geniuses had to transmit this basic information by using a pyrotechnic device that shoots out either blue or pink smoke.
These explosive devices are sold in stores and cost around US$100.
The problem with these devices is that they also shoot out sparks that can easily cause wildfires.
Now, imagine how smart you have to be to detonate one of these devices in the extremely dry shrublands of California in the middle of a heat wave.
Super smart, right?
California fire officials say it’s exactly this rare type of genius that caused the massive El Dorado wildfire that is currently still burning out of control near Yucaipa in San Bernardino County.
The officials say the fire was c...
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- Woman Banned From Flying After Walking on Wing
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- 2:06
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- 6 years ago
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- BORYSPIL AIRPORT, UKRAINE ― This woman did something so crazy that it got her banned from flying ever again.
She literally opened a large jetliner’s emergency door and walked around on its wing.
The woman later said she felt ‘too hot’ while in the cabin, so she decided to "hang out" for a while on the airplane’s wing.
However, as we’ll explain later, one witness’ statement makes her excuse sound ridiculous.
The airplane belongs to Ukraine International Airlines, or UIA. The incident happened at Ukraine’s Boryspil Airport.
According to UK website The Sun, the incident happened just after the plane landed in Kiev, Ukraine, after departing from Turkey.
Witnesses were shocked when they saw the woman open the Boeing 737’s emergency door and walk out onto the wing.
It was reported that the mother of two said she felt too hot after the plane landed after taking off from the Turkish r...
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- India Outflanks China in the Himalayas
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- 9:33
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- 6 years ago
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- NEW DELHI — The Chinese military said Indian forces had “illegally trespassed” the disputed border and on Monday, September 7, fired warning shots at a Chinese patrol, according to reports by the Associated Press and India’s Times Now News.
Thousands of Indian troops occupied strategic vantage points last week in a stealth night-time operation near the south bank of the glacial Pangong Lake, Bloomberg reports. The action was taken when India saw Chinese forces moving into the area and outflanked them.
On Sunday, September 6, Indian media outlets reported that Indian fighter jets were carrying out sorties every few hours to monitor Chinese activities near the disputed border.
According to the Eurasian Times, India had already deployed MiG-29s, Su-30MKIs and Apache attack helicopters to the area after China stationed additional jets, bombers and attack helicopters at four Chinese bases near the disputed border.
The relationship ...
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- Snake Pulled From Russian Woman’s Stomach, or Was It?
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- 3:04
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- 6 years ago
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- LEVASHI, DAGESTAN, RUSSIA ― If this video is fake, it’s a very good fake. A shocking viral video shows a team of doctors removing a long snake from the stomach of a female patient. The incident supposedly happened in the Dagestan region of Russia.
According to the video maker, the reptile must have slithered into the woman’s stomach through her mouth while she was sleeping outdoors.
The unidentified woman felt unwell and after doctors inspected her, she was immediately rushed to the hospital and put under general anesthesia.
In the video, we can see the woman’s face, a nurse, and a doctor’s hands as they remove the snake after inserting a tube down her throat.
A man can be heard saying from off camera in Russian: “Let’s see, what is this.”
We are then treated to the spectacle of a 1.2 meter snake being pulled out of the patient’s stomach.
The female nurse is visibly shocked and we can hear o...
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- ‘Superboy’ Gets His Muscles From Rare Disorder
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- 2:39
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- 6 years ago
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- BIEN HOA, VIETNAM ― This 10-year-old boy has been as muscular as an adult bodybuilder since he was a toddler.
Nguyen Hoang Nam hails from Vietnam and has become a bit of a celebrity after photos of his unusually muscular body went viral on social media.
Hoang Nam's parents say their son's body has always been much more muscular than other children his age.
However, he didn’t get these muscles from dieting or extreme muscle training. They are the result of a rare genetic muscle condition.
His godmother, Kim Uyen, told local media outlet Sao Star that doctors already noticed on the day Hoang Nam was born that his muscles were strangely over-developed.
When Hoang Nam was 6 years old, his muscles started to develop even more. Fearing that the condition could impact his health, his parents took him to the Children's Hospital in Ho Chi Minh city.
After undergoing several tests, the doctor said that Hoang Nam ha...
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- Underwater Bubble Net Could Stop Hurricanes
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- 6:12
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- 6 years ago
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- BORRE, NORWAY — Norwegian scientists have come up with a bizarre plan that would use existing technology to slow hurricanes or prevent them from forming altogether by using underwater bubbles.
Norwegian firm OceanTherm has proposed stretching a “bubble net” between two ships or moors and submerged 300 feet below the ocean’s surface. The bubble net is a perforated pipe that would use compressed air to pump cold water from the depths.
Hurricanes form when surface water temperatures reach 80 degrees Fahrenheit, or 26.5 degrees Celsius. These warm waters evaporate into warm humid air that is the source of energy for hurricanes.
According to OceanTherm, cooling water from the bubble net would starve hurricanes of their energy source, stopping them from making landfall or at least preventing them from developing into stronger storms.
A bubble net could potentially be placed across a stretch of ocean that forms a natural choke point ...
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- NASA’s Lucy Mission: ‘Time Capsules’ From Our Solar System
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- 6:17
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- GREENBELT, MARYLAND — NASA plans to launch the first spacecraft ever to study Jupiter’s Trojan clusters, a group of asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun. NASA engineers recently got the greenlight to assemble and test the spacecraft, the space agency announced in a press release on August 28.
Because Jupiter’s Trojans are believed to be the remnants of what formed the planets, scientists hope they will yield clues about the formation of our Solar System. In its press release NASA called them “time capsules from the birth of our Solar System.”
Jupiter’s Trojans only reflect four or five percent of the light that hits them, which means dark carbon compounds may exist on their surfaces. If so, it would indicate that organic compounds, the building blocks for life, were common throughout the early Solar System.
SOURCE: NASA
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/lucy-milestone-kdp-d/
https://www.nasa.gov/fea...
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- Genius Cat Drinks Water Like a Human in Viral Video
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- 1:17
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- TIKTOK ― Does your water dispenser at home run out of water very quickly?
New evidence suggests that your cat might be responsible.
This beautiful ginger cat is not just a pretty face, it’s also very smart, a veritable genius of the cat world. As you can see, its owner managed to record it as it did something amazing, using its paw to open a tap and drink from it.
That’s downright amazing!
This video was originally recorded by a TikTok user named @tamayu_ and it was then re-uploaded to Twitter by a user named @dittameliaa on August 28.
The video clearly shows the adorable ginger rearing on its hind legs and drinking water like a boss.
The cat can be seen using its right paw to steady itself against the dispenser, while reaching with its left paw to activate the dispenser’s cool-water tap.
As can be expected, this adorable cat video went viral and got over 37.4 million views on one TikTok accou...
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- Girl, 3, Saved After Floating out to Deep Sea on Unicorn
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- ANTIRRIO, GREECE ― The unicorn will take you far away! To the deep, lonely ocean!
That’s pretty much what happened to this 3-year-old little girl.
She was found floating alone on an inflatable unicorn-shaped toy, terrifyingly far from the coast of Greece on Monday, August 24.
According to the New York Times, the girl had climbed onto the inflatable toy only moments before it was pushed out to sea by a powerful gust of wind. The wind pushed the toy so fast that it caught her parents and onlookers completely by surprise.
Her father and others desperately tried to catch up with the speeding unicorn, but were horrified to see the inflatable toy being pushed off-shore at an alarming speed.
Some of the people on the beach even grabbed a dinghy and tried to row out to the girl, but were caught in the strong current.
Fortunately, the captain of a passing ferryboat spotted the little girl drifting away from the co...
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- Exploding Star Triggered Mass Extinction
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- 9:18
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS — Scientists from the University of Illinois propose that a supernova approximately 65 light-years from Earth likely triggered the Late Devonian Extinction, one of the five great mass extinction events in our planet’s history.
According to a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the authors propose that cosmic rays from the supernova could have bombarded the Earth for up to 100,000 years.
The study’s researchers found radioactive isotopes that could have been created in the supernova and plant spores deposited in rocks from the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary that appeared to have been damaged by ultraviolet radiation.
The authors hypothesize that cosmic rays from the supernova could have continuously depleted the ozone layer and caused harmful radiation to damage life on Earth, leading to the mass extinction.
The Devonian Period lasted from 419 million to 359 million years a...
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- Teachers Cheat on Exams With Painted Nails, Get Busted
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- 2:27
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- MORELIA, MEXICO ― As reported by La Noticia and El Popular, as many as 35 women who are aspiring to become teachers in Mexico’s Michoacan state have been caught trying to cheat in a devious new way.
These aspiring teachers had painted their nails with special patterns that symbolize the answers of the exams.
So, how on earth did these student teachers know what the questions and the answers would be, and how did they get all that information on their nails?
The answer to the first question is that, either some corrupt official sold the answers to somebody, or somebody stole the answers physically or by hacking into a data system. Each of the cheating teachers then paid between 15,000 to 25,000 pesos, or US$686 to US$1,144, per cheat sheet.
The cheating teachers then copied the answers onto their fingernails. To do this, they painted their nails with a specific pattern of different-colored dots that showed them which dots to mark o...
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- Man Throws Tantrum After Crush Rejects Special Bouquet
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- 1:47
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- SHENZHEN, CHINA — What would a man need to publicly proclaim his love to his crush?
Neat clothes. Check.
Courage. Check.
And last but not least, a banana bouquet.
Hmmmm, but why a banana bouquet?
This video shows a young man loudly proclaiming his love to the woman he has secretly liked for a long time. The incident allegedly happened in China last week and the video went viral on social media after being posted on Douyin, China's fake TikTok.
The young man is seen loudly shouting his love at the woman, after finding her drinking coffee with a male friend in the atrium of a shopping center.
The young man then offers her a bouquet. But it’s not a bouquet of flowers, or a bouquet of money. It’s a bouquet of bananas which he claims he made by himself.
He then kneels before the woman.
“I brought you a very special gift, and I want to confess before everyone that I have lik...
- Title
- Hair Bleach Overheats on Woman’s Head, Releasing Steam
- Runtime
- 2:02
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- BOURNEMOUTH, ENGLAND — Scientists have long been warning us about the dangers of hair dyes and bleaches. Apparently, putting a cocktail of chemicals on your hair is not good for your hair, and it can also cause serious problems for the rest of your body.
The danger lurking in these chemicals was proven again when a UK woman’s hair became painfully hot and started to release steam after she applied bleaching agent.
After giving birth and spending weeks in hospital with her baby undergoing intensive care, Hollie Murray, a 25-year-old from Bournemouth, decided she wanted to change her hair color from black to blue.
She had spent the last 12 years dyeing her hair black, so she felt confident she could change it to blue by herself.
Also, the cost of a professional hair bleaching is a whopping £200 ($267), so she went ahead and did it the DIY way.
But before she could dye her hair blue, she had to bleach her hair blonde, so that...
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- Man Cuts Off Ears to Look More Like a Skull
- Runtime
- 2:33
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- FINSTERWALDE, GERMANY — Most people would call him off his head, but Mr Skull Face thinks cutting off his own ears is just the touch his head needed.
Meet Sandro, a 39-year-old German who is also known as Mr Skull Face. As The Sun website reports, Sandro is a tattoo enthusiast who has made 17 extreme modifications to his body, paying a total of £6000 ($7966) to look like, well, this …
Sandro’s latest investment in his looks was to cut his ears off. Why?? one might scream in disbelief. Well, to make his head look more like a skull, because that’s just the way our dear Sandro thinks.
He’s been doing this kind of thing for 13 years now, and he insists that the changes have given him confidence.
Sandro says that his interest in “body modification” started in 2007, when he saw someone on TV who had spikes implanted in his head.
Since then he has implanted bits and bobs in his forehead, his forearm and the back ...
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- This Flying Taxi Will Take to the Skies in 2024
- Runtime
- 5:36
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- BRISTOL, ENGLAND — British aerospace manufacturer Vertical Aerospace has released designs for a vectored-thrust flying taxi that could start commercial flights as early as 2024, if everything goes according to plan.
The VA-1X would be the world’s first certified winged all-electric vertical take-off and landing, or eVTOL, aircraft. According to Vertical Aerospace, the VA-1X will be 30 times quieter than a conventional helicopter and use less energy and power. This is because the aircraft is powered by lithium-ion batteries and features a distributed propulsion system, the company says.
Vertical Aerospace unveiled the design on Wednesday, August 26. The company says the VA-1X will be able to fly up to around 100 miles at speeds of 150 miles per hour. It could make the 47-mile commute from Brighton to London in 30 minutes, or half the time of a train commute.
The cabin of the VA-1X will accommodate up to four passengers and the aircraft would be...
- Title
- Dog Eats Mom’s Stash of Cash
- Runtime
- 1:24
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- ISLE OF MAN — A few months ago we reported the story of a dog that destroyed its master’s passport.
This time, we bring you Peggy, a miniature poodle from the Isle of Man that ate her owner’s savings.
As reported by the Mirror, Peggy the poodle chewed up her owner Jocelyn Horne’s savings — a full £100.
Jocelyn used to store her money in a pot beside her bed. She was saving the money for a rainy day and had collected around £100 when her dog struck.
The little pooch somehow managed to reach the pot and proceeded to eat all the bills inside.
Jocelyn only realized what had happened when she came home after work.
The 35-year-old thought her partner, Allan, was pranking her when he told her about it — while laughing!
But when she saw a shredded £20 note on the floor, she realized it wasn’t a prank.
The next morning Jocelyn found more confirmation of what had happened to t...
- Title
- Woman Finds Brother’s Skeleton in Her House, or Did She?
- Runtime
- 3:14
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- KASUGAI, JAPAN — This story will make you shudder and wonder…
As reported by SoraNews24, a Japanese woman found a human skeleton in her house while she was cleaning. Bizarrely, she suspects that the skeleton is that of her brother, who disappeared 5 years ago.
So ... how on earth did this happen?
Until several years ago, a man called Sumio Suenaga lived in the house in question, which is located in Kasugai City in Japan. Sumio lived in this house with his slightly younger brother and sister.
In 2015, Sumio, who was 66 years old at the time, disappeared into thin air.
Amazingly, his siblings did not think much of his disappearance. His brother waited until the next year before he reported Sumio’s disappearance to the police.
Five years passed. But then Sumio’s younger sister, who is now 69 years old, decided it’s time to start using Sumio’s room again. So, she started to clean his room.
- Title
- Alive! Dog Survives 5 Weeks Buried Under Landslide
- Runtime
- 1:57
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- CANGBAOTIAN, CHINA — A dog in China survived a 37-day nightmare when it was found alive after being buried under a landslide for more than 5 weeks.
The dog had been chained up inside its master’s house when a landslide buried the building.
Xinhua News Agency and the New China TV YouTube channel reported that residents in Cangbaotian village, Guizhou province were evacuated on July 8, just before most of the buildings in the village were buried by landslides.
After the landslide, residents were not allowed to return to the area until their village was deemed safe by authorities.
In early August, the dog’s master returned to the ruins of his house and was shocked to hear the sound of barking coming from under the mud.
The sound turned out to be from a dog belonging to a man called Chen Yongen.
The dog had been left chained up at the property, so it could not run away when the landslide happened.
- Title
- Wife Dives Into Floodwater to Save Hubby’s Gundam Toys
- Runtime
- 1:57
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- CHONGQING, CHINA — If your partner is willing to risk his or her life to save something that is valuable to you, such as an expensive Gundam toy collection, hug them and never let go!
Netizens heaped praise on a Chinese woman who bravely jumped into floodwater to save her hubby’s Mobile Suit Gundam collection, as severe flooding was hitting the city of Chongqing.
A video posted on Weibo shows the woman holding boxes of the expensive toys as she floats on a rubber boat.
The video has already received more than 29,000 likes.
When the floodwater hit the couple’s building, they had to escape quickly. As the husband could not swim, he sadly gave up on ever seeing his beloved toys again.
According to Nextshark, his wife also likes manga and anime creations such as Gundam, and she told her husband that she would swim out and save his collection.
The wife then put on a life jacket and swam across the Yangtze r...
- Title
- Covid Medic Dumps ‘Buckets of Sweat’ From Hazmat Suit
- Runtime
- 1:31
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- A viral video from China shows a Coronavirus-fighting medic emptying a “bucket of sweat” from her hazmat suit.
News outlet Weibo says the video was recorded on Saturday, August 8, when a female medic was taking a break in Urumqi, the capital of China’s Xinjiang province.
The video sparked a lot of interest because the city of Urumqi was battling an outbreak of the Coronavirus that had infected more than 500 people in the city since mid-July.
In the video we can see the medic sitting on a chair. She then takes off her plastic shoe covers before pulling up the trouser legs of her hazmat suit, which is when we can see a lot of sweat falling out of her suit and covering the floor.
Temperatures reached 29 degrees Celsius on that day in Urumqi, so the heat inside those hazmat suits must have been incredibly discomforting.
The video quickly went viral on all social media platforms in China, serving as a reminder of the ha...
- Title
- Crack In Airliner Window Gives Passenger ‘Mini Heart Attack’
- Runtime
- 1:55
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Do you have aerophobia, aka a fear of flying?
After seeing this viral TikTok video, you’ll probably be even more committed to NOT travel by plane ever again.
A passenger on this plane woke up from sleep and realized that his window’s casing was cracked.
Karl Haddad was on an Air Canada flight from Lebanon, bound for Montreal.
He explained to Buzzfeed that he was very tired and fell asleep immediately after takeoff. When he woke up he noticed to his horror that the window casing he was leaning against, had cracked.
Karl said he touched the area gently to see if it was a big crack, and then he had a “mini heart attack for about 10 minutes”.
He uploaded his video of the incident to his TikTok account, and the video has so far been watched 2.5 million times.
A cabin-crew member came and asked him if he was all right.
Karl told her “yes, but the window is cracked”. She then as...
- Title
- China and the U.S. Are Getting Closer to War Over Taiwan
- Runtime
- 7:51
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- TAIPEI, TAIWAN — The U.S. and China have conducted numerous exercises in the Pacific over the past few weeks, stoking fears of a looming confrontation over Taiwan.
Over the last three weeks, China has announced four separate military exercises in the Bohai Gulf, the East Sea, the Yellow Sea and the South China Sea, the South China Morning Post reported on Monday.
The People’s Liberation Army also held major exercises near Taiwan in mid-August “to safeguard national sovereignty.” Taiwan took the unusual step of announcing its surface-to-air missiles had tracked approaching Chinese fighters as U.S. Health Secretary Alex Azar visited the country earlier this month.
On Tuesday, August 25, Beijing accused the U.S. of sending a U-2 spy plane to “trespass” on live-fire exercises being conducted by China in the Yellow Sea that same day, according to the state-run Global Times.
On August 15, Washington sailed the USS Mustin destroy...
- Title
- ‘Jurassic Park Experiment’: GMO Mosquitoes Released in Florida
- Runtime
- 4:55
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- FLORIDA KEYS — Health experts plan to release 750 million genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys to reduce local populations of disease-carrying mosquitoes, according to local news reports.
CNN reports that the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District currently budgets more than $1 million a year to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquito. The invasive species can spread deadly diseases like Dengue fever and the Zika virus.
Biotech company Oxitec designed the modified pests, called OX5034, to produce female offspring that die in the larval stage. In lab testing, just 3 percent of female offspring survived to adulthood, and these were too feeble to reproduce.
Only female mosquitoes bite humans and thus transmit deadly diseases, the BBC reports.
For the Florida Keys program, Oxitec genetically engineered male Aedes aegypti to carry a lethal gene that should prevent their female offspring from producing an essential protein, thus ...
- Title
- Turkey-Greece Crisis Could Erupt Into War
- Runtime
- 3:31
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- ATHENS, GREECE — France on Tuesday, August 25 dispatched Rafale fighter jets to Cyprus as tensions between Turkey and Greece continue to rise over claims to oil and gas in the Eastern Mediterannean.
The Cyprus Mail reports that France is taking part in a naval exercise with Greece, Cyprus and Italy that will be conducted west of Cyprus from August 26 to August 28.
The three Rafales joined three Greek F-16s at Paphos’ Andreas Papandreou air base in Cyprus. French frigate La Fayette is also taking part in the exercises.
Turkey’s Oruc Reis research vessel is currently looking for oil and gas deposits in disputed waters east of Cyprus, accompanied by Turkish naval vessels. According to the BBC, Ankara announced on Monday that the mission would be extended to August 27.
Meanwhile, the Greek general staff on Tuesday published photos and video footage on Twitter of a Greek-American naval exercise near Cyprus on Monday. The exercise inv...
- Title
- Microplastic Pollution Helps Spread Diseases
- Runtime
- 8:16
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- EXETER, ENGLAND — A new study by the University of Exeter and the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, says critical questions remain about microplastics and possible threats to food production and safety.
Microplastics are plastic particles less than 5 millimetres in diameter. They can be created when larger plastic products break down, such as plastic bottles, clothing fibers, and cigarette filters. They are also intentionally added to some cosmetics and personal hygiene products.
Human and animal pathogens, such as bacteria, can colonize microplastics, forming slimy buildups called biofilms, the study asserts, citing previous research.
In a press release on the new research from the University of Exeter, the authors cited a study which found high concentrations of antibiotic-resistant bacteria on microplastics — 100 times to 5,000 times higher than in surrounding seawater.
Microplastics can transport these...
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- Massive Sinkhole Swallows 21 Cars in China
- Runtime
- 1:38
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- YIBIN, CHINA — A parking lot has been captured on nearby CCTV suddenly caving in during the early morning of August 19, taking 21 cars with it.
The footage was captured from a nearby mall's surveillance.
Beijing News reports that 15 vehicles were lifted from the sinkhole with no casualties reported.
Sichuan province — which the Yangtze River runs through — has been left vulnerable after torrential rain has caused widespread flooding, Beijing News reports that as the sinkhole collapsed, a large amount of water gushed from within.
Per the report, a survey by an on-site team declares the main structure is currently in a safe state, however, the water source and electricity to the surrounding area have been cut-off.
SOURCE: Baijiahao
https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1675494490391714120&wfr=spider&for=pc
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- Kim Says Dogs Are a ‘Decadent Luxury’ and Should Be Eaten
- Runtime
- 1:58
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- PYONGYANG — The Hermit Kingdom is never out of the limelight for long and this time it's because Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un has declared dogs “decadent” and “bourgeois.”
Kim Jong-Un has barked the order for all North Korean citizens to hand over their pet dogs so they can be butchered for food.
In July, the young dictator proclaimed that owning a pet is now against the law, denouncing having a dog at home as “a tainted trend of bourgeois ideology,” in other words, a symbol of capitalist “decadence.”
South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper reports that although pet ownership was long frowned upon in North Korea, the state had seemed to relent since the late 1990s when the rich of Pyongyang started owning pets as symbols of superiority.
Speaking to the South Korean newspaper a source said that Kim's foot soldiers identified households with pet dogs and are forcing them to give them up or forcefully seizing them.
- Title
- France vs Turkey: Macron Sends Navy to Eastern Mediterranean
- Runtime
- 7:55
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- PARIS — France is boosting its presence in the Eastern Mediterranean to support Greece in its standoff with Turkey, adding two Rafale fighter jets, the frigate La Fayette and the Tonnerre amphibious assault helicopter carrier to its forces in the area.
The French Ministry of the Armed Forces announced the decision on Thursday, August 13, according to a report in Le Monde.
The move comes after Turkey announced on Tuesday, August 11 that it had dispatched the Oruc Reis seismic exploration ship, accompanied by warships, to disputed waters in the region.
Turkey says the Oruc Reis will search for hydrocarbons in an area comprising two-thirds of Greece’s exclusive economic zone until August 23, according to an article in the state-run Anadolu news agency.
Turkey’s claims in the Eastern Mediterranean overlap with the exclusive economic zones of Greece and Cyprus in waters mostly dotted with Greek islands.
The contested ar...
- Title
- Wuhan Holds Packed Post-COVID Pool Party
- Runtime
- 3:13
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- WUHAN, CHINA — The city of Wuhan is now known globally and for all the wrong reasons, and after a disturbing video surfaced online of a packed pool party, they're not exactly helping their case.
SOURCES: Dahepiao,
https://www.dahepiao.com/news1/yanchu/2018071339782.html
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- Swiss Town Covered in Swiss Chocolate After Factory Fault
- Runtime
- 1:14
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- OLTEN, SWITZERLAND — If a news story ever came close to Homer's daydream, this is it, after a Swiss town was left lightly coated in chocolate after a malfunction at a Lindt factory.
SOURCES: Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/chocolate-snow-lindt-factory-switzerland-ventilation-system-a9675611.html
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- NK Asylum Seeker Abused by Woman in London Over Bins!
- Runtime
- 4:49
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- LONDON — A racist woman in England has been filmed throwing a bin over a North Korean asylum seeker, yelling, 'you're not from this country!'
SOURCES: Facebook, Daily Mail
https://www.facebook.com/people/%EA%B3%A0%EB%AA%85%EC%84%9C/100012961787927?tn-str=*F&hc_location=group_dialog
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