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Trying not to be part of the problem since 1972 Newest audiobook release: https://www.audible.com/pd/A-Distant-Fae-Audiobook/B0DV83RTWL?qid=1742150509&sr=1-1&ref_pageloadid=gzQwuPeOhtqPuU9j&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=6WTAZVW6JVXM

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Unusual red rocks in Australia are rewriting the rules on exceptional fossil sites Highly detailed fossils are typically found in shale or other fine-grained sedimentary rocks. These ones? They’re made of iron.

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13.10.2025 15:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Astronomers Discover a Suspiciously Hard-to-See Object That Just Might Be Evidence of Dark Matter The object was detected by observing how its gravity distorts light behind it.

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12.10.2025 14:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Coney Island’s Last Surviving Classic Haunted Ride Brooklyn was once the epicenter of a haunted ride arms race. Today, only Spook-a-Rama remains.

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10.10.2025 17:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Beautiful scientific drawings that changed how we understand the brain Long before brain scans and neural networks, two scientists used chemistry and ink to uncover what the brain actually looks like. In the late 1800s, Italian scientist Camillo Golgi developed…

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09.10.2025 20:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Rogue planet is gobbling up 6.6 billion tons of dust per second The cosmic oddities experience their own growth spurts.

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08.10.2025 14:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New Life-Giving Molecules Found in 17-Year-Old Data From Saturn’s Moon Enceladus The findings strengthen the case for this icy moon’s habitability.

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07.10.2025 14:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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World's Largest Wheelbarrow Though Guinness took away its record, Romedenne’s 1998 wheelbarrow remains the biggest of them all.

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06.10.2025 16:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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12,000-year-old rock art marked ancient water sources in Arabia’s desert The large, naturalistic engravings are a striking symbol for survival in the desert.

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05.10.2025 17:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cleveland bakery to represent US in ‘Bread Olympics’ in France For the first time since 2017 the US will be represented in the event, by Brian Evans of On the Rise Artisanal Breads

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04.10.2025 15:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Philadelphia cheesemonger becomes first American to win first place in world cheese competition A Philadelphia woman won a gold medal at what's known as the Cheesemonger Olympics in France.

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03.10.2025 12:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Rare fossil reveals ancient leeches weren’t bloodsuckers A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and that their earliest ancestors may have feasted not on blood, but on smaller m...

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02.10.2025 15:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Forgotten Weather Station Where Polar Bears Now Stare Out From Broken Windows Probably the most interesting polar bear photos you've ever seen.

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01.10.2025 15:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The ancestors of ostriches and emus were long-distance fliers – here’s how we worked this out A 56 million-year-old fossil bone helps explain how this (mostly) flightless family of birds spread to so many different continents.

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30.09.2025 15:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Marble Caves of Chile Chico Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

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29.09.2025 16:02 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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2025 Small World in Motion Competition View the winning entries from the 2025 Small World in Motion Competition

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27.09.2025 16:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dive Into the Most Breathtaking Ocean Photos of the Year The winners of the 2025 Ocean Photographer of the Year competition captured the ocean and its wildlife like you’ve never seen before.

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26.09.2025 13:44 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The thousand-year story of how the fork crossed Europe, and onto your plate today From scandal to staple: how the fork travelled from Byzantium to Lithuania, helped by Queen Bona Sforza and centuries of changing table manners.

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25.09.2025 13:29 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Something Extremely Strange Is Happening at the Event Horizon of This Supermassive Black Hole New observations of M87*, the first black hole ever imaged, revealed that the supermassive blackhole has experienced several magnetic flips in the last decade.

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24.09.2025 15:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Searchers discover ‘ghost ship’ that sank in Lake Michigan almost 140 years ago Searchers have been trying to find the F.J. King since the 1970s.

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23.09.2025 15:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Minnesota composer finds insects make bee-autiful music When a scientist friend suggested Doug Harbin listen in on the noises of bees and butterflies for inspiration, the Moorhead composer couldn’t resist.

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22.09.2025 14:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How Prehistoric Humans Survived a Supervolcano So Big We Probably Should Have Gone Extinct A massive eruption 74,000 years ago shook the planet, and archaeologists are using volcanic glass to figure out how humans made it through.

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21.09.2025 13:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Scientists Infuse Cement With Bacteria to Create Living Energy Device The proof-of-concept material could one day be used to make more sustainable buildings.

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20.09.2025 14:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Salt can turn frozen water into a weak power source Experiments reveal that when slabs of salty ice are strained, electricity is generated, though practical uses are still a long way off.

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18.09.2025 14:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Scientists shoot lasers into brain cells to uncover how illusions work Supported by the Allen Institute's OpenScope program, the findings could help us better understand neuropsychiatric disorders like schizophrenia and reshape our understanding of vision

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17.09.2025 15:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The man and the mushroom kayak: can a boat made from mycellim change the future/ Sam Shoemaker’s record-setting voyage shows the promise – and limits – of fungi as a plastic alternative

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16.09.2025 14:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tallest sunflower – as high as a three-storey house – topples decade-old record After 10 years, the world has a new tallest sunflower, grown by competitive gardener Alex Babich and his family in Indiana USA

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15.09.2025 14:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
After 10 years of black hole science, Stephen Hawking is proven right Researchers have spent 10 years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes, and now the science is precise enough to test one of Stephen Hawking's key idea...

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13.09.2025 18:37 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Watch: Ice skater breaks Guinness World Record for jumping rope - UPI.com A champion ice skater from Hungary took her jump rope out onto the ice and broke a Guinness World Record for most skips in one minute with her skates on.

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12.09.2025 15:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mars rock contains "clearest sign" yet of potential past life on Red Planet "We're kind of one step closer to answering one of humanity's most profound questions ... are we truly alone in the universe?"

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Please don't shoot anyone today. Or ever. Seriously. Please.

11.09.2025 17:30 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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