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This is how many people smoking still kills every year
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More than half of smoking-related deaths took place in China, India, Russia and the U.S Smoking kills more than one in 10 people worldwide. A major new study in the medical journal Lancet found that, in 2015, 11.5% of global deaths (approximately 6.4 million people) were attributable to smoking worldwide, of which 52.2% took place in four countries: China, India, Russia and the U.S. The study used over 2,818 pieces of research identified through several sources, including the Global Health Data Exchange, World Health Organization, and International Smoking Statistics Database. Smoking has claimed more than 5 million lives every year since 1990, and i…
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WWIII? - US fires 50+ missiles at Syrian military base near Homs in response to ’Assad’s chem attack’The US has launched 50 to 60 Tomahawk missiles against the Syrian military base near Homs after President Donald Trump ordered the strikes in response for the chemical attack in Idlib, blaming the incident on President Bashar Assad.World News
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thesassylorax: kittensceilidh: ornithologia: forest-kitten: sizvideos: Watch it in video Follow us on Tumblr SWEET BBY I LOVE CROWS SO MUCH CROW it understood there was water in there…and exactly how to get the water out….it just couldn’t do it alone…hot damn they are fucking smart This crow would have grown up in that area, watching people with bottles. It would have observed them opening the cap, and the water flowing out. Crows are incredibly intelligent, and this further proves the fact that it connected that without that lid water would be available. via ScitechPress.org
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sciencesourceimages: What Does A Black Hole Look Like? Astronomers are on a quest to find out by Sarah Kaplan / Washington Post By its very nature, the black hole at the heart of our galaxy is impossible to spot. Its overwhelming gravity allows nothing to escape, not even light. Massive enough to send shivers through space-time itself, yet perfectly invisible, it lurks in the darkness like a monster from a child’s nightmare, felt but unseen. It is the stuff of physicists’ wildest dreams. “Black holes are basically the most mysterious objects in the cosmos,” said Shep Doeleman, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Even Albert Einstein al…
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archatlas: Estancia y Ficus in Escazú The program could not be simpler for this residence by Cañas Arquitectos. It’s a place where one can enjoy the view and spend afternoons and part of the evening with friends and family. The view of Costa Rica’s San Jose city with the central volcanic mountain range is spectacular, the Escazú mountains with it’s Pico Blanco or White Peak , so close that you feel that you can touch them with your hands. Follow the Source Link for images sources and more information. Via
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neurosciencestuff: How to Make a Motor Neuron A team of scientists has uncovered details of the cellular mechanisms that control the direct programming of stem cells into motor neurons. The scientists analyzed changes that occur in the cells over the course of the reprogramming process. They discovered a dynamic, multi-step process in which multiple independent changes eventually converge to change the stem cells into motor neurons. “There is a lot of interest in generating motor neurons to study basic developmental processes as well as human diseases like ALS and spinal muscular atrophy,” said Shaun Mahony, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular bi…
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viralthings: We asked the waiter to take a photo of us at dinner via Humor
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archatlas: Wohnhaus Köln Hahnwald in Cologne The two-story residence by German studio Corneille Uedingslohmann Architekten was built in 2016 and conceptually designed as an exclusive private domicile with architectural finesse. Heart of the home is the exceptional swimming pool and adjoining spa located on the upper floor. Follow the Source Link for images sources and more information. Via
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alithographica: Science Fact Friday - Tapetum lucidum! So why don’t all vertebrates have this adaptation? It’s an advantage to animals that are active in the dark - cats, dogs, owls, raccoons, crocodiles, and so on - but it makes everything slightly blurry. Many daytime vertebrates (including humans and most other primates) do not have one and instead have better day vision. via ScitechPress.org
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How do you stop fake news? In Germany, with a law.
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Adam Berry/Getty Images By Anthony Faiola and Stephanie Kirchner April 5 at 4:55 PM BERLIN — Germany officially unveiled a landmark social-media bill Wednesday that could quickly turn this nation into a test case in the effort to combat the spread of fake news and hate speech in the West. The highly anticipated draft bill is also highly contentious, with critics denouncing it as a curb on free speech. If passed, as now appears likely, the measure would compel large outlets such as Facebook and Twitter to rapidly remove fake news that incites hate, as well as other “criminal” content, or face fines as high as 50 million euros ($53 million). Chancellor …
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Two former students of a Seventh-day Adventist boarding school in West Virginia have decided to come forward, the Washington Post reports, filing civil lawsuits over years of horrific physical and emotional abuse. Their allegations are shocking, but in the light of similar scandals in the Catholic Church and Jehovah’s Witnesses, few observers should be surprised that heinous acts can be carried out in supposedly-“sacred” spaces. Former Students Describe Horrors Of Miracle Meadows Christian In Lawsuit In their new lawsuit, the two men, now adults, say a corrosive culture of “silence and secrecy” allowed physical and sexual child abuse to continue unchecked for yea…
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Looking to watch live TV without a cable bill? YouTube TV is now available for $35 per month. Unlike the free YouTube you know so well, populated by cat videos, how-tos and myriad independent channels and shows, YouTube TV is a direct competitor to cable TV -- and you'll have to pay for it. In return you get live local TV channels like ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC as well as cable stalwarts like ESPN, the Disney Channel, Fox News and Bravo. (Disclosure: CBS is the parent company of CNET and Showtime.) One catch? It's only available in five US metropolitan areas for now: Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and the San Francisco Bay Area. YouTube says more citie…
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How Prince Harry Is Continuing Princess Diana’s Legacy in the Fight Against Landmines: ‘He’s Compassionate Like His Mother’
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Prince Harry was praised for the impact he made with his stirring speech on Tuesday about the fight against landmines. His late mother Princess Diana put the issue on the map for many people across the world when she walked in a minefield in Angola and, later, visited another area plagued by the weapons in Bosnia. Ken Rutherford, who traveled to Bosnia with Princess Diana in August 1997 alongside his friend Jerry White for their Landmine Survivors Network, met with Harry at the reception. “Right now the world’s lacking leadership on landmines,” Rutherford tells PEOPLE. “Prince Harry’s stepping into the void and following his mother’s footsteps at the right …
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Pontiff acknowledges some Catholic priests and nuns ‘succumbed to hatred and violence’ by taking part in 1994 killings Pope Francis with the Rwandan president, Paul Kagame, and his wife, Jeannette Nyiramongi, during an audience at the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. Pope Francis has asked for forgiveness for the Catholic church’s role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which 800,000 people were slaughtered in 100 days of violence. The “sins and failings of the church and its members” had “disfigured the face” of Catholicism, he said. Speaking after meeting the Rwandan president, Paul Kagame, the Vatican acknowledged that some Catholic priests and…
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