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Guardians of the Galaxy will have around a $100 million opening weekend and...
Guardians of the Galaxy is soaring at the Friday box office for a possible $95 million-plus North American debut, far more than expected and marking another sizeable victory for Marvel Studios as it...
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Being Lucky Summarized
Being lucky can be summarized as 1. Be observant (so you can spot opportunities)2. Be relaxed. Anxiety makes you miss observing things3. Go out of your way to meet new people and try new things4....
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China will make massive City of Los Angeles scale coal bases to consolidate...
China has announced the closure of more than 1,700 small, inefficient mines in the next year, while planning up to 70 new coal-fired plants, most of them at large coal bases like Ta Shan. In the...
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Have we medicated away some autistic geniuses like Paul Dirac ?
Gregory Benford describes [at Centauri Dreams] an evening he had with Paul Dirac, Stephen Hawking and Martin Rees. It is very interesting and discusses the great scientists attitude to science fiction...
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Hamas planned a big invasion and bombing and kidnapping terror attack via...
The Hamas tunnels were part of one elaborate attack scheme.According to captured Hamas documents, on Rosh Hashanah of this year (starting September 24), up to 200 Hamas gunmen were to pour out of each...
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Who wants to go to the Rejuvenation Biotech conference on behalf of...
My schedule is messing up where I can only go to the 014 Rejuvenation Biotech conference at the Santa Clara Hyatt Regency on Thursday Aug 21 and Friday Aug 22. I will be able to go Saturday. It is all...
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Reconciling China's labor shortages with the jobless automated future
For a long time, analysts and economists believed 8 per cent economic growth in China was necessary to create enough jobs to maintain social stability in the country. But China has fallen short of that...
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Trailer for Christopher Nolan's Interstellar
A group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.The movie will released...
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NASA validation of Cannae version of EMDrive produced power in the null test...
NASA's tests have a big problem - the control version that was to produce no thrust did produce thrustThe NASA report on the Cannae drive wasn't much help either, since it only delved into the...
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Shawyers 2014 presentations for propellentless but not reactionless EMDrive...
High Q (stored energy per energy loss per cycle) of the cavity produces more stored energy, use up stored for kinetic energy Now Shawyer is saying that an interesting 2nd generation device will be...
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Automatic word filters and Open August thread
Nextbigfuture has added in a list of banned words. All swear words and vulgar words. So none of the four letter words.Also, some insult words have been banned to keep the liberal and conservative...
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IMF says China yuan is 5 to 10% undervalued
The International Monetary Fund says the Chinese yuan remains moderately undervalued by 5% to 10%, given the large current-account surplus and economic fundamentals. China's yuan has rebounded from an...
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Inequality in Asia and policies to reduce inequality
China has higher levels of income inequality than the United States.Inequality would be reduced with policies that increase access to education, healthcare and better access to finance. Other policies...
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Carnival of Space 365
Carnival of Space 365 is up at Aartscope. This is 7 years of the Carnival of Space.Universe Today - NASA announced the winners of a high stakes science instrument competition to fly aboard the Mars...
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Self Driving car news roundup
1. BBC News - The UK government has announced that driverless cars will be allowed on public roads from January next year. It also invited cities to compete to host one of three trials of the tech,...
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China could begin making an equivalent of triple Salyut space station in 2018
The first of three experimental modules for China's planned space station is expected to be launched in 2018, with the other two set for launch in 2020 and 2022, a leading scientist said. The modules...
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Bigelow Aerospace is hiring and targeting Inflatable Space Station Alpha to...
Bigelow Aerospace has hired former NASA astronauts Kenneth Ham and George Zamka to form the cornerstone of the private astronaut corps the North Las Vegas, Nevada, company will need to maintain and...
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 220
1 .James Conca at Forbes - Science Is Not DemocraticSince the 1980s. the distrust of scientists in the United States has become a growing ideology used for political purposes. It is extremely dangerous...
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Self driving cars as horizontal elevators to spread downtown living...
Brad Templeton discusses how low speed self driving cars like the recent Google self driving pods could bring ten minute access to downtown areas by an additional 1 to 2 miles.When you have skyscraper...
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Update on Sky City and mini Sky City skyscrapers
The South China Morning Post mentioned the stalled Broad Group 202 story Sky City project. Chairman Zhang Yue said the firm did not use bank credit to fund its development, but he did not rule out...
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