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From the article: “It’s not the first cell, it’s not the first microbe, it’s not the first anything, really,” said Greg Fournier, an evolutionary biologist at the Massachusetts Ins…

You might avoid common pitfalls by reading "Eight Signs A Claimed P≠NP Proof Is Wrong": https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=458 .

Some of them can, if they are in good physical condition. There's a reason why there haven't been any females who swam across until now.

From the article: 'On Vancouver Island—about 10 times closer to the mainland—the genetic diversity of any future grizzly population shouldn’t be a problem. As we’ve seen, “there’ll…

By that definition, horses that were introduced to North America by humans in 16th century are not invasive because they existed in North America 10,000 years ago.

Watch the video - this roundabout's islands are designed to be driven over by semis and trailers. (Hopefully the drivers of those vehicles know that).

Reminder to turn off f.lux or "night light" or "night shift". My score was at 98th percentile, and dropped to 75th after I remembered I had a blue light filter on.

Wikipedia thinks its the same language: "The original name SEQUEL, which is widely regarded as a pun on QUEL, the query language of Ingres,[14] was later changed to SQL (dropping t…

They aren't exactly passing the collection plate around. It's much more transactional: "So you had to have a special kind of paste before you went to go practice your Yogic Flying,…

I assume you never heard of Roman Protasevich before the plane incident? Navalny on the other hand has done many notable things and was in the news all the time before his death. H…

This sounds very similar to the books manually curated using Ilya Frank's Reading Method: http://english.franklang.ru/index.php/ilya-frank-s-reading-m...

"For instance, in Guyana (South America) it's ⱯI, and in Australia, IⱯ" That's a joke, right?

If this is real, what about this discovery that made it happen now? Is it a case that some technology is now available that unlocked this? Or is this trying something and seeing if…

https://archive.is/NGDoZ

20 hours??? Your comment makes it sound like you think it's a small amount? I get that it's over 35 years, but still!

Free downtown bus service stopped in 2012 (after being free for 40+ years).

The text says "kotlety" which are basically meatballs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutlet#Cuisines_of_Russia,_Ukr... . But I don't understand what I'm looking at either. Maybe it…

Resubmit with "Show HN" in the title? Then it will be visible in https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew and https://news.ycombinator.co.m/show

The large teeth may have been useful to hit vital organs on large prey that used to be common but now extinct. No large prey - no sabre teeth needed.

Wikipedia has a few convincing hypothesis. One is that sabre teeth are important for biting deep and reaching vital organs on large prey. After the megafauna went extinct, so did s…

This is amazing. I think it is trained on well-known works. Opening of the Raven, translated to English->Emoji->English: Once upon a night of despair, while I was thinking, weak an…

Until fairly recently clickbait didn't exist in English too. Once the concept got a catchy English name it spread to other languages.