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Nov 3, 2018

In a Land of Quakes, Engineering a Future for a Church Made of Mud

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High in the Andes Mountains, conservators are testing traditional methods for strengthening adobe buildings.

The bell tower of the church of Santiago Apóstol in Kuño Tambo, Peru. Built by the Spanish in 1681, it has been weakened by earthquakes, but traditional techniques are helping with its restoration. Credit Credit Angela Ponce for The New York Times.

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Nov 3, 2018

Pitt Rivers museum hires Syrian refugees as tour guides

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Oxford University forges intercultural understanding with objects from ethnographic and science collections.

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Nov 3, 2018

Ray Kurzweil — The Age of Intelligent Machines

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Nov 3, 2018

The Sub of the Future Is a Drone Mothership Inspired by a Sperm Whale

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The SMX-31 could be the first of a new generation of submarines.

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Nov 3, 2018

Ray Kurzweil Featured on The News in 1989

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Nov 3, 2018

How Did People Wake Up Before Alarm Clocks?

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Without alarm clocks, most of us would oversleep every day. So, how did humans wake up before they were invented?

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Nov 3, 2018

Friends to the end? Social cues cause fish to delay survival tactic

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Have some patience until someone takes the lead, and let’s sing some hakuna matata in the mean time.


Getting into trouble after succumbing to peer pressure isn’t just a human experience.

New research co-led by Brock University shows that a particular species of tropical, air-breathing fish that can survive for weeks on land will delay escaping from if it thinks one of its peers is nearby.

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Nov 3, 2018

Social Bandwidth – Jason Silva

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Nov 2, 2018

New Amazon Day shipping option lets you pick the day you get deliveries

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The online retailer creates a program to offer more shipping choices and predictability.

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  • Ben Fox Rubin

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Nov 2, 2018

Mass dig of 60,000 skeletons from 230-year-old cemetery set to expose London’s secrets

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A mammoth dig is underway that is expected to unearth 60,000 skeletons from a 230-year-old cemetery in London.

The bones of 1,200 people have so far been exhumed from the burial ground near Euston Station to make way for the new high-speed railway between the capital and Birmingham.

Recently released photos of the major dig show archaeologists clearing thick clay from coffins and brushing dirt from remains.

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