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Deep Neural Network Learns How to ‘Paint’ Like Van Gogh and Other Famous...
Back in June, Google released a series of rather trippy computer-generated images created by its image recognition neural network. The images — dubbed “the dreams of machines” by a number of media...
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For the First Time In Recorded History, There Are 3 Category 4 Hurricanes In...
If you were thinking about taking a sailing trip in the Pacific any time soon, you might want to hold off for a bit. That’s because over the weekend, three separate Category 4 hurricanes (wind speed:...
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Obama Rails Against Climate Change In Alaska After Allowing Shell to Resume...
On Monday morning (Aug. 31), President Barack Obama kicked off a 3-day conference in Alaska by delivering a strong and at times ominous speech about the dangers of climate change. “The time to heed...
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New Study Estimates That 9 out of Every 10 Seabirds Have Plastic In Their Gut
Every year, roughly 9 million tons of plastic ends up in the world’s oceans. It would be bad enough if that plastic was just polluting the water, but unfortunately, a lot of it ends up getting eaten...
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China Just Forced A Financial Journalist to “Confess” to Causing Stock Market...
The past few months have been tough for the Chinese government. In June, a retail bubble in the Chinese stock market popped, causing the market to take a major plunge despite government efforts to...
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Study: Kids from Poor Families Have Smaller Brains Than Kids from Rich Families
It’s no secret that there is often a connection between wealth and intellectual ability. There are many reasons for this: poorer families have less money to invest in their children’s education, poor...
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How Telling People About Your Goals Makes You Less Likely to Accomplish Them
When you set yourself a new goal, it might seem like a good idea to tell others about it. But if you really want to accomplish that goal, your best bet is to keep it to yourself. To most people, that...
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Lost Generation: 13 Million Children Driven Out of School By War In Middle...
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” With violent conflicts embroiling much of the Middle East and Africa, the powerful words of Nelson Mandela ring...
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Money Bowl: $250 Million Worth of College Football Clashes In UT-Notre Dame Game
Tonight, at 7:30pm eastern time, the Texas Longhorns and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish will duke it out in front of 80,000+ raucous college football fans. Both programs have a long and storied...
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Revolutionary New HIV Prevention Pill Proves 100% Effective In Latest Trials
Every day, roughly 5,600 people around the world are infected with the HIV virus — that’s a rate of more than 230 new cases per hour. While researchers are still working towards a cure, a new drug...
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Scientists Prepare to Reanimate 30,000-Year-Old Virus Found Frozen In...
Earlier this week, a team of French researchers announced plans to wake up an ancient virus that has been lying dormant in Siberia’s frozen wastelands for the last 30,000 years. The virus, known as...
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Elon Musk: The Fastest Way to Make Mars Livable for Humans Is to Nuke It (Video)
During an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Wednesday night, SpaceX founder Elon Musk made a comment that raised a lot of eyebrows. Musk, a longtime advocate of Mars colonization, told...
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Ben Carson Denies Climate Change, California Governor Sends Him the Evidence...
There is no denying that Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson — a neurosurgeon who was the first person to successfully separate conjoined twins joined at the head — is a man of science....
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Child Mortality Has Been Cut By More Than Half Since 1990
Over the past 25 years, organizations like the United Nations, Unicef and the World Health Organization have been working tirelessly to improve health conditions for children around the world. Their...
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Intelligence Officials: Our Reports Were Manipulated to Make ISIS Look Weaker
Have government officials been sugarcoating intel reports about the fight against ISIS and other terrorist groups in the Middle East? That’s the claim being made by dozens of intelligence analysts...
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The Egyptian Billionaire Who Offered to Buy An Island for Refugees Just Found...
Earlier this month, Egyptian TV mogul and billionaire Naguib Sawiris announced plans to buy an island in the Mediterranean to provide a new home for some of the hundreds of thousands of refugees...
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Brazil’s Supreme Court Bans Corporate Contributions to Political Campaigns...
In a landmark decision on Thursday, the Supreme Court of Brazil banned all corporate contributions to political campaigns and parties. The decision comes on the heels of a multibillion-dollar...
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The U.S. Spent $500 Million Training Just ‘Four or Five’ Anti-ISIS Syrian...
Last September, President Barack Obama outlined a strategy to, “degrade and destroy” the terrorist group known as ISIS. Part of that plan included training moderate Syrian rebels (like those from the...
View ArticleVideo: This Scale Model of the Solar System Stretches 7 Miles Across the Desert
Space is big. REALLY big. And our solar system is no exception. If you don’t include Pluto (which was demoted from planet status a few years back), one would have to travel approximately 2.8 billion...
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Why Shutting Down the Government Over Planned Parenthood Is A Terrible Idea...
For the second time in two years, the U.S. government is on the brink of a shutdown over budget disputes. If Congress can’t agree on a deal by the end of this month, the federal government will be...
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