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Submitted at 11-21-2024, 02:34 AM by Mordant | |
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Maps of recent fires across the region resemble California in August, with hundreds of red dots. | |
Submitted at 11-20-2024, 07:28 PM by sleeppoor | |
In the Second Trump Era, don't expect reality to be realistic. | |
Submitted at 11-20-2024, 07:10 PM by sleeppoor | |
The arrests were the first time in the investigation that federal police mentioned a plot to kill Lula and Geraldo Alckmin, his vice president, and stage a coup to stop him from returning to power. | |
Submitted at 11-20-2024, 06:52 PM by sleeppoor | |
McMahon, who is a co-chair of Trump's transition team, led the Small Business Administration during Trump's first term. | |
Submitted at 11-20-2024, 02:23 PM by Orochi | |
The controversial White House move to send Kyiv land mines comes as Russia’s advances in eastern Ukraine threaten to overwhelm front-line defenses. | |
Submitted at 11-20-2024, 05:09 AM by sleeppoor | |
Submitted at 11-20-2024, 05:06 AM by sleeppoor | |
With Trump’s election, Silicon Valley has successfully rebranded military contracting as a proud national duty for the industry. | |
Submitted at 11-20-2024, 05:02 AM by sleeppoor | |
The deal, which is expected to close in early 2025, underscores private-equity firms' increasing interest in franchise operators.
Last year, PE firm Roark Capital agreed to buy Subway, Jersey Mike's bigger rival, in a deal valued at up to $9.55 billion. | |
Submitted at 11-20-2024, 04:25 AM by Nibbles | |
It’s so fun how the Biden administration is using its lame duck months to skyrocket hostilities between nuclear superpowers and we don’t even know who’s really making these decisions because the president’s brain is cottage cheese. | |
Submitted at 11-20-2024, 04:10 AM by sleeppoor | |
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday that Russia's new nuclear weapons doctrine means Ukraine's use of Western rockets "can prompt a nuclear response." | |
Submitted at 11-19-2024, 04:50 PM by sleeppoor | |
New research reveals that one of the Aztecs’ most chilling artefacts, clay death whistles, which resemble a human skull and produce a scream-like sound, not only frightened listeners in ancient times, but also had a profound effect on the human brain’s ability to increase states of alarm and fear.
The new study, published this month in the journal Communications Psychology, investigated the effect of these sounds on modern listeners, finding their ability to elicit negative emotional responses and increased neural activity in the auditory cortex.
For the first time, scientists investigated the effects of these disturbing whistles on the brains of modern European volunteers, conducting two separate experiments with different participant samples.
Aztec death whistles usually skull-shaped were designed to produce a high-pitched, penetrating sound similar to a scream, resulting from the collision of different air currents. Numerous examples have been found in graves dated between 1250 and 1521 CE.
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Submitted at 11-19-2024, 12:08 AM by Wreckard | |
Dated to between 39,800 and 54,600 years ago, the compilation of fossils comes from a time and place with no known Homo sapiens presence, which “suggest[s] that collecting activities and the associated abstract thinking were present in Neanderthals before the arrival of modern humans.” | |
Submitted at 11-18-2024, 11:24 PM by Nibbles | |
Adam Iza grew up a world away from the Bel-Air mansion he inhabited before his arrest in September.
As his lawyer Josef Sadat tells it, Iza was poor during his childhood in Iraq, borrowing a computer from his uncle before coming to the U.S. as a teenager and building a lucrative cryptocurrency trading platform.
But as Iza grew rich, Sadat said, he attracted “the worst type of blood-sucking characters that Southern California has to offer.”
According to federal prosecutors, that includes multiple Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies, who were allegedly hired to carry out Iza’s criminal bidding.
At least six deputies have been relieved of duty in connection with the case, according to court filings and Sheriff’s Department sources — three more than previously reported. The sources requested anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation. | |
Submitted at 11-18-2024, 03:29 PM by NickNoheart | |
Sources previously told NBC News that undocumented Chinese nationals of military age will be among the first groups targeted for deportation by the incoming Trump administration. | |
Submitted at 11-18-2024, 12:36 AM by Mordant | |
Submitted at 11-17-2024, 04:48 AM by Wreckard | |
Jon Sperling secretly spread a non-native species across the Northeast. “It’s insane what this guy was doing,” a biologist said. | |
Submitted at 11-17-2024, 02:19 AM by sleeppoor | |
Muslim leaders backed Donald Trump to protest against the Biden administration's support for Israel's war on Gaza and attacks on Lebanon. His choices are staunch supporters of their foe. | |
Submitted at 11-17-2024, 01:38 AM by Mordant | |
Flight 2494 was preparing for departure to Indianapolis when "a bullet apparently struck the right side of the aircraft under the flight deck", a Southwest spokesperson told the BBC's US partner, CBS News. | |
Submitted at 11-16-2024, 09:43 PM by Nibbles | |
A crucial adaptation that allowed this growth was a unique respiratory system, supported by air sacs, which lightened their skeletal structures. | |
Submitted at 11-16-2024, 07:46 PM by Nibbles | |

Maps of recent fires across the region resemble California in August, with hundreds of red dots.
In the Second Trump Era, don't expect reality to be realistic.
The arrests were the first time in the investigation that federal police mentioned a plot to kill Lula and Geraldo Alckmin, his vice president, and stage a coup to stop him from returning to power.
McMahon, who is a co-chair of Trump's transition team, led the Small Business Administration during Trump's first term.
The controversial White House move to send Kyiv land mines comes as Russia’s advances in eastern Ukraine threaten to overwhelm front-line defenses.
With Trump’s election, Silicon Valley has successfully rebranded military contracting as a proud national duty for the industry.
The deal, which is expected to close in early 2025, underscores private-equity firms' increasing interest in franchise operators.
Last year, PE firm Roark Capital agreed to buy Subway, Jersey Mike's bigger rival, in a deal valued at up to $9.55 billion.
It’s so fun how the Biden administration is using its lame duck months to skyrocket hostilities between nuclear superpowers and we don’t even know who’s really making these decisions because the president’s brain is cottage cheese.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday that Russia's new nuclear weapons doctrine means Ukraine's use of Western rockets "can prompt a nuclear response."
New research reveals that one of the Aztecs’ most chilling artefacts, clay death whistles, which resemble a human skull and produce a scream-like sound, not only frightened listeners in ancient times, but also had a profound effect on the human brain’s ability to increase states of alarm and fear.
The new study, published this month in the journal Communications Psychology, investigated the effect of these sounds on modern listeners, finding their ability to elicit negative emotional responses and increased neural activity in the auditory cortex.
For the first time, scientists investigated the effects of these disturbing whistles on the brains of modern European volunteers, conducting two separate experiments with different participant samples.
Aztec death whistles usually skull-shaped were designed to produce a high-pitched, penetrating sound similar to a scream, resulting from the collision of different air currents. Numerous examples have been found in graves dated between 1250 and 1521 CE.
Dated to between 39,800 and 54,600 years ago, the compilation of fossils comes from a time and place with no known Homo sapiens presence, which “suggest[s] that collecting activities and the associated abstract thinking were present in Neanderthals before the arrival of modern humans.”
Adam Iza grew up a world away from the Bel-Air mansion he inhabited before his arrest in September.
As his lawyer Josef Sadat tells it, Iza was poor during his childhood in Iraq, borrowing a computer from his uncle before coming to the U.S. as a teenager and building a lucrative cryptocurrency trading platform.
But as Iza grew rich, Sadat said, he attracted “the worst type of blood-sucking characters that Southern California has to offer.”
According to federal prosecutors, that includes multiple Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies, who were allegedly hired to carry out Iza’s criminal bidding.
At least six deputies have been relieved of duty in connection with the case, according to court filings and Sheriff’s Department sources — three more than previously reported. The sources requested anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation.
Sources previously told NBC News that undocumented Chinese nationals of military age will be among the first groups targeted for deportation by the incoming Trump administration.
Jon Sperling secretly spread a non-native species across the Northeast. “It’s insane what this guy was doing,” a biologist said.
Muslim leaders backed Donald Trump to protest against the Biden administration's support for Israel's war on Gaza and attacks on Lebanon. His choices are staunch supporters of their foe.
Flight 2494 was preparing for departure to Indianapolis when "a bullet apparently struck the right side of the aircraft under the flight deck", a Southwest spokesperson told the BBC's US partner, CBS News.
A crucial adaptation that allowed this growth was a unique respiratory system, supported by air sacs, which lightened their skeletal structures.