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H5N1 bird flu is spreading to mammals, killing huge numbers.
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MeFi post - 3 weeks ago

Can you collect meteorite dust in your backyard? How?
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Ask MeFi post - Last year

A strange glimpse from an alternate, better universe. [more]
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MeFi comment - Two years ago

Well, poop is and always has been considered waste. Have signs with pictures of poop on them and people will get the idea. Include the phrase "hazardous waste" in several prominent languages. [more]
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MeFi comment - Five years ago

Do you want a pet tardigrade? They're basically tiny Pokemon.
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

Remind me again, why are dinosaurs awesome?
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Ask MeFi post - Over five years ago

Ted Chiang interview
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

Mikhail Lesin was bludgeoned to death.
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

I like this. [more]
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Music comment - Over five years ago

I got his book "I Want To Thank My Brain For Remembering Me" when I was young. It's about his experiences after surviving a stroke. I'm glad he survived that stroke and lived the long life that he did. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

I have a feeling that the next Republican president to meet basic standards of decency will develop an undeserved reputation for greatness by simple virtue of the comparison to the ones elected in 2000 and 2016. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

How to stop an autocracy
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

Here's a comparison of escalators and elevators: There are about 33,000 escalators operating in the U.S. – far fewer than the number of elevators. But injuries occur more frequently on escalators, about 15 times more frequently than elevators… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

"It's almost like the oceans are getting ready for a heart attack."
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

Now I'm curious about the comparison between the accident rates of stairs and escalators. You can trip and get hurt on stairs, but when riding an escalator you just stand there, which is presumably safer. The danger of escalators comes from… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

The Trump roundup
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

Where to get tape of Nixon aides plotting murder?
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Ask MeFi post - Over five years ago

...They weren't there to start with and George Washington warned allowing them to form would eventually destroy the system of checks and balances... posted by saulgoodman at 5:39 PM on February 9 [1 favorite +] [!] I learned something new… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Bannon now on National Sec. Council; professionals demoted to make room
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

I logged onto Metafilter to make a post about this, and was happy to see that I didn't have to. Hans Rosling was a good man who did good, important work. . [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

I bought a domain. Now I'm getting scam phone calls. How do I stop them?
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Ask MeFi post - Over five years ago

From Russia, with love.
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

House GOP votes to gut independent ethics office
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

This is important. Thank you for sharing it. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Having gone through the process of acquiring a history degree in the last 6 years, I've come to feel pretty concerned about this phenomenon. Particularly, I'm worried that leaders in the field don't realize how grassroots, in a sense, this… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Can you mail a copy of a book to an author & ask them to sign it?
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Ask MeFi post - Over five years ago

I really do not understand the storyline of Prometheus, but perhaps that's because I haven't seen it since it came out. I mean, doesn't it basically come down to Weyland wanting to live forever, and then for some reason the Engineers want to… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

The book "sneaky uses for everyday things" seems like a good guide to making traps and contraptions from household items. I admit I haven't actually read this book, but I've been meaning to get it and your question just reminded me of it. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Over five years ago

What are some cool things to do with a 3D "printer pen"?
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Ask MeFi post - Over five years ago

I should note that basically all life on Earth will be destroyed in ONE billion years, as the sun is already very gradually heating up. The oceans will boil away in one billion years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future Things… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Any research on why high-population-density areas are more liberal?
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Ask MeFi post - Over five years ago

What activities can students do with astronomy apart from stargazing?
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Ask MeFi post - Over five years ago

What should I do with a presumably fraudulent thumb drive?
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Ask MeFi post - Over five years ago

The SNP warned during the campaign that if - as has happened - the UK overall votes to leave the EU but Scots vote to remain, Scotland would be taken out of the EU "against its will" and this could be the trigger for another independence… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Anticholinergics linked to dementia
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

This is an excellent post. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

How do I avoid the troll picks in the Hugo nominees?
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Ask MeFi post - Over five years ago

Best of all is when you play them all at once. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Yes, of course read a lot and vote for what you like. But I don't want to waste time with garbage deliberately put on the list just to screw with people. I've already crossed out everything published by castalia house, "vox day" and… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Over five years ago

I'd like to see video of the actual guy playing the ocarina, and some details on how he set up his system to be controlled by the ocarina's notes. But I don't see that anywhere. Am I just missing something obvious? The only information I can find… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Man, biology is so frickin' weird and awesome On top of the siphonophores being "multi-organism organisms" as described in the OP, they're also, like all other life-forms except bacteria and certain other germs, endosymbiotic with… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

If 60-90 days use of claritin/allegra/zyrtec is included then I'm already way fucked. posted by sbutler at 8:44 AM on April 25 [+] [!] None of those drugs are anticholinergics. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Allegra isn't on here either, but my zyrtec is a 'maybe' ;( posted by Reasonably Everything Happens at 8:49 AM on April 25 [+] [!] Hey, good link. I was thinking about going and getting a list of anticholinergics. Thanks! It's… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

The alchemists of Wall Street are at it again.
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

This seems like a great idea, but there really should have a better interface than just a Search function. robocopisbleeding, you mentioned looking by subject. How do you do that? [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Interesting side note: I just read that Mikhail's son Anton apparently used some of the millions of dollars Mikhail misappropriated through the Russian government to finance four major Hollywood films starring Brad Pitt, Arnold Schwarzenegger,… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Another basic vulnerability found in Linux
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

Notice nobody's trying to make a robot cat. posted by Naberius at 11:32 AM on March 1 [+] [!] Ahem. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Good post, Wordshore. I've been expecting a Republican victory this year because of lukewarm support for Hillary Clinton on the Democrats' side and rabid opposition to her on the Republican side. As the "cautious about assumptions"… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

It's not the best source, but there's a Wikibook said to be by somebody named Faraaz Damji (Frazzydee) that says "Cladding also ensures that outside light does not get into the cable and interfer with the light transmitted." https://en… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Over five years ago

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