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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �...
by Chitown Kev
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on Tue Dec 12, 2023 at 08:59 PM PST
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Tonight at 2:50 am the sun will cross the equator (visually from earth) and autumn will officially begin. Fall is my favourite season and I just gave you a hint of my favourite holiday. But before ...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Sep 22, 2023 at 09:59 PM PDT
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▮More and more, archaeological evidence directs a big re-think of women's roles in the ancient world The role of women in emerging civilization needs rethinking, the authors of a new paper say. Dental Analysis Reveals Startling Truth About Copper Age ‘Ivory Man’ of Iberia and must be understood in a larger context of honored female interment. In the...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Jul 29, 2023 at 10:20 AM PDT
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UPDATE: Comments are now complete. Sorry for the delay. Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment...
by gizmo59
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on Sun Jun 04, 2023 at 07:07 PM PDT
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Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by another Kossack that deserves wider recognition,...
by gizmo59
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on Thu Mar 16, 2023 at 07:00 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest,��Saturday Science with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, Rise ...
by Rise above the swamp
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on Sat Dec 10, 2022 at 08:59 PM PST
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Whether they believe their God sent them or that their DNA is superior to the rest of us, the new supremacists who own the GOP represent a threat to American democracy. They’ve tried to conquer America three times in the past: will they do it this...
by thomhartmann
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on Tue Nov 29, 2022 at 07:56 AM PST
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An entire genome is made from scratch to support a new genetic code; the result is a living organism Every living organism on Earth uses pretty much the same genetic code. CCC means proline, GTA means valine, and so on for every possible triplet (codon) of DNA. All of us Earthly organisms read them the same way. If you put a gene from a tomato, a...
by skralyx
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on Sat Nov 05, 2022 at 10:26 PM PDT
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After 23 years of serving time for a crime he said he didn't commit, Adnan Syed, the man whose legal case made international headlines because of the hit podcast Serial, is finally free. According to the Baltimore Sun, Baltimore prosecutors dropped...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Tue Oct 11, 2022 at 06:15 PM PDT
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A woman is suing the city of San Francisco after her rape kit was used to arrest her for an unrelated crime. Identified as Jane Doe, the sexual assault victim filed a lawsuit Monday, hoping to hold the city accountable for using her rape kit five years...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Wed Sep 14, 2022 at 10:53 AM PDT
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There’s an obvious gap in all the onslaught of anti-abortion legislation taking off in the red states. It’s all on women. Even though men’s actions are the literally other half of forming a pregnancy, the main responsibility and legal fallout is aimed...
by KKwriter
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on Sun Jun 26, 2022 at 11:12 AM PDT
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Regular readers will remember that back in late January Casa Brillig� welcomed a new pup to the pack . Back then he was a wee 19lbs and 11 weeks old. Just under five months have passed and this ...
by brillig
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on Mon Jun 13, 2022 at 07:00 PM PDT
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So hey, it's World Malaria Day , created by WHO, which seemingly would like to see something done about malaria; as well as Malaria Awareness Day , created by GW Bush which is a bit of pious twaddle ...
by enhydra lutris
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on Mon Apr 25, 2022 at 06:06 AM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Interceptor7, Magnifico, annetteboardman, jck, and Besame. Alumni editors include (but...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Feb 18, 2022 at 09:29 PM PST
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Calls for the San Francisco Police Department to immediately review its DNA collection practices and policies have ensued after the city's top prosecutor accused the department of using a database with the DNA of rape and sexual assault victims to...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Tue Feb 15, 2022 at 03:58 PM PST
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Science has confirmed what many in the Indigenous community already knew: Ernie LaPointe, a writer and Vietnam veteran, is the great-grandson—and closest living descendant—of legendary Lakota Sioux Chief Sitting Bull. "To my knowledge, there’s never...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Fri Oct 29, 2021 at 12:39 PM PDT
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QAnon conspiracy theories are going beyond race, the election, and COVID-19. After falling into QAnon-promoted DNA conspiracy theories, authorities say a man identified as Matthew Taylor Coleman confessed to murdering his two young children in Mexico....
by Aysha Qamar
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on Thu Aug 12, 2021 at 11:25 AM PDT
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For brief descriptions of and links to recent posts, click here. For an inverse-chronological list with links to all posts after January 23, 2017, click here. For a subject-matter index to posts before that date, click here. Our nation’s response to...
by dratler
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on Mon Jul 26, 2021 at 03:16 PM PDT
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I’m not worried about the Delta variant the way I’m worried about the Omega variant.
“Omega” is the name I’ve given to the variant of coronavirus that may well evolve if we don’t stop ...
by Liberal Thinking
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on Sun Jul 25, 2021 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Somewhere between 'Um, ewww' and 'That's f'ing cool'- horizontal transfer of DNA between life forms. Writing for Quanta, Christie Wilcox delves into the introduction of DNA from one living thing to another by ‘horizontal transfer’: It isn’t surprising, then, that herrings and smelts, two groups of fish that commonly roam the northernmost reaches of...
by ian douglas rushlau
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on Sun Jun 13, 2021 at 12:59 PM PDT
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