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 CONTRIBUTOR: . Undergarments are an
essential part of today’s society. They can be readily purchased from
departmental stores, come in all shapes and sizes, and serve a variety of
functions. In the ancient world, however, the situation was very different.
Loincloths: Underwear or Outerwear? To begin with, undergarments were not
exactly a...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . Ometepe is an island
located on Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua. The name of this island comes from the
indigenous Nahuatl language. Ome means as ‘two’, whilst tepetl means ‘peaks /
hills / mountains’. Hence, Ometepe may be translated as ‘the place of two
hills’. The first Nahuatl-speaking inhabitants of Ometepe...
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CONTRIBUTOR:
. Perhaps unsurprisingly, adult websites like Pornhub have a ton of traffic
data from the people that occasionally frequent their website. In an insights
post on their website this week, the Pornhub team collated their data and make
some interesting findings, suggesting that what mobile platform you’re on
defines what you’re into...
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CONTRIBUTOR:
. Last edited on Aug. 4, 2015 Anomaly Found on Comet 67P: European Space
Agency published this 3D figure of a strange object on the surface of Comet 67P.
The object is at center, measuring 5 meters high. All the red lines go to
biological structures. Even if it were a...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . ZME Science Stretch
above is one of the most interesting maps of the Roman Empire ever made, all
carted in detail using modern computational techniques. It shows what the great
empire used to look like during its period of maximum expansion under the reign
of Septimius Severus, about 211 CE....
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . ZME Science A group
of NGOs has filled a lawsuit in federal court against a ridiculously
controversial law which makes it illegal for any citizen to take samples or
photograph open lands in public or private property. As such, a person who isn't
acting under governmental approval - say a...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . CT scanners are
being used on the plaster casts of the Mount Vesuvius victims from Pompeii.
Preliminary results show that, in general, they had great teeth and were in
remarkably good health before the volcanic eruption. This new discovery goes
against the commonly held belief that Romans were often hedonists...
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CONTRIBUTOR:
. Researchers for the Security Intelligence Response Team at Akamai on
Tuesday issued a high-risk threat advisory for XOR DDoS proliferation. The XOR
DDoS Trojan is used to hijack Linux servers to build a botnet for distributed
denial-of-service attacks with SYN and DNS floods, researchers tracking the
malware said. The massive...
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CONTRIBUTOR:
. Motorola has had a pretty stellar reputation when it comes to rolling out
software updates to its devices quickly, and we’re hoping that won’t be changing
for this round of Android Marshmallow updates. Earlier today, Motorola detailed
in a blog post exactly which devices are going to be updated to...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . This is an updated
version of a post I wrote about an article by George Whitesides that exhorted
chemists to move beyond the molecule. It was provoked in part by several recent
discussions I have had about how chemists can have a broader impact on other
disciplines as well as...
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