A fun drum cover

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I was killing some time earlier watching drum covers on YouTube. This one left me grinning from ear to ear, so I thought I'd share it. Besides, some of you people really need a mood changer...

Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals large amounts of water ice on Mars

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New HiRISE Images Show 3D Structure of Martian Ice Sheets New images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal never-before-observed details about Martian ice sheets, including that some begin just a few feet below Mars’...

Evidence Against Young Earth Creationism

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Source: RationalWiki article - Evidence against a recent creation Page intro: The evidence against a recent creation is overwhelming. There is perhaps no greater attack on science than Young Earth creationism (YEC). This article collects evidences that place a lower limit on the age of the...

‘Game of Thrones’ Won’t Return Until 2019

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What a let down. In what is probably unsurprising but no doubt disappointing news for “Game of Thrones” fans, HBO confirmed Thursday that the show won’t return for its eighth and final season until 2019. Read Article

The long wait for fusion power may be coming to an end

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From the article: One of the brightest hopes for controlled nuclear fusion, the giant ITER reactor at Cadarache in southeastern France, is now on track to achieve nuclear fusion operation in the mid- to late-2040s, says Dr. William Madia, a former director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory who...

Evolutionary Genetics - Copy number variation and the secret of life - with Aoife McLysaght

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From the description: Evolution is powered by variation: the differences in DNA sequences. One hugely important form of difference is copy number variation, where genes are duplicated or deleted from one generation to the next. In this Ri event, Aoife McLysaght from University of Dublin...