2019-03-01
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Little Girl Encounters Curbside Robot, Assures It, ‘You Are Loved’
April 1, 2017Despite the uncertainty surrounding the coming revolution in artificial intelligence, there are those of us that prefer not to see the rise of the robots as the advance of an army of tyrannical exterminators or job-stealing drones, but rather a... continued
New Studies add Evidence to the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis
March 31, 2017Two new studies have added new evidence to the theory that a major airburst from a meteor or comet occurred over North America, ushering in a 1,400-year cooling period called the Younger Dryas that occurred between the Pleistocene and the... continued
ExxonMobil to Trump: Don’t Abandon Paris Climate Accord
March 30, 2017As President Trump moved to unwind Obama-era regulations designed to bring the US into compliance with the Paris Climate Accord, ExxonMobil, long a climate change denier, urged him not to abandon the climate accord. The company sent a letter to Trump's... continued
WMO Report Announces 2016 as the Warmest Year on Record, with Weather Extremes Continuing into 2017
March 25, 2017The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released its "Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2016", an annual detailed analysis of the state of the world's climate. The WMO remarked that "The year 2016 made history, with a... continued
‘They Have No Plan.’ Governments Unprepared for Contact Says UFO Expert Nick Pope
March 24, 2017When asked as to what the government's contingency for handling a first-contact scenario with extraterrestrials, UFO investigator Nick Pope had a simple answer: "There’s no plan." "There’s no contingency plan as far as I’m aware," Pope elaborated, during an interview... continued
Trump’s Budget will leave the U.S. Out in the Cold when it comes to Jobs in the Growing Renewable Energy Sector
March 23, 2017Around the world, the renewable energy sector has become a major growth industry: according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), employment in this sector rose by 5 percent in 2015, accounting for 8.1 million jobs around the world. The... continued
New Study Shows that our Oceans are Heating Up 13% Faster than Estimated
March 22, 2017A new study that improves upon pre-2005 ocean temperature estimates has found that the world's oceans have been heating up thirteen percent faster than previously estimated, and that rate is increasing as time goes by. This new revelation is important,... continued
The Human Brain may be One Hundred Times More Powerful than Previously Believed
March 21, 2017As humans, we tend to take the most powerful supercomputer in the world for granted: it has a roughly 38-petaflop processing capacity and 2.5 petabytes of memory (or 2.5 million gigabytes), yet only runs on a mere 12 watts of... continued
“They did not appear to be of earthly origin”: Did a Space Shuttle Astronaut View a Film of Recovered Alien Bodies?
March 18, 2017Former NASA Spacecraft Operator (SCO) Clark C. McClelland has published a revelatory article on his Stargate Chronicles website, regarding a conversation he had with the late lieutenant colonel Ellison Onizuka, Mission Specialist on the Space Shuttle Challenger's ill-fated STS-51-L mission.... continued
Southern Humpback Whales are Gathering in Unusually Large Groups
March 17, 2017Humpback whales in the southern hemisphere have been exhibiting odd behavior over the past few years: typically a solitary species that only temporarily gathers in pods of up to a dozen individuals, groups of up to 200 whales have been... continued