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Article of the day for May 12, 2016

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Article of the day is British contribution to the Manhattan Project. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

Watch Hyperloop One's First Real-World Test

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Watch Hyperloop One's First Real-World Test

The Very Real Difference Between A Chinese-Made Bearing And A German-Made One

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The Very Real Difference Between A Chinese-Made Bearing And A German-Made One

The Very Real Difference Between A Chinese-Made Bearing And A German-Made One

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The Very Real Difference Between A Chinese-Made Bearing And A German-Made One The first bearing tested is Chinese and the second is a (much more expensive) German model. Both are weapons-grade but one just can't seem to hold up. May 11, 2016 at 06:35PM

Watch Hyperloop One's First Real-World Test

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Watch Hyperloop One's First Real-World Test Hyperloop One is one of the companies attempting to take the hyperloop from Elon Musk's imagination to real-world application. On Wednesday, the company held the first live test of its version of the ultra-fast transportation system.

Article of the day for May 12, 2016

The Article of the day for May 12, 2016 is British contribution to the Manhattan Project . British scientists were crucial to the success of the Manhattan Project, which developed the first atomic bombs during World War II. After Rudolf Peierls and Otto Frisch at the University of Birmingham calculated that a small sphere of pure uranium-235 could explode with the power of thousands of tons of dynamite, their memorandum led to Britain's own atomic bomb project. This project shared research with the US, but was eventually subsumed by the Manhattan Project under the 1943 Quebec Agreement. A British mission led by the Australian physicist Mark Oliphant assisted in the development of electromagnetic separation processes for enriching uranium; Wallace Akers led a similar mission assisting with gaseous diffusion. James Chadwick (pictured) was the head of a distinguished team of British scientists working on bomb design at the Los Alamos Laboratory that included Niels Bohr, Peierls, Fris...

kosher: Word of the day for May 12, 2016

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Word of the day is kosher : (Judaism) Fit for use or consumption, in accordance with Jewish law (especially relating to food). (figuratively, by extension) In accordance with standards or usual practice. Yom Ha'atzmaut, the national day of Israel, falls on this day in 2016.

kosher: Word of the day for May 12, 2016

kosher , adj : (Judaism) Fit for use or consumption, in accordance with Jewish law (especially relating to food). (figuratively, by extension) In accordance with standards or usual practice. Yom Ha'atzmaut, the national day of Israel, falls on this day in 2016.

Picture of the day for May 12, 2016

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Picture of the day on May 12, 2016: Dome of the chapter house, Cathedral of Seville, Seville, Spain. The construction of the chapter house was started by Hernán Ruiz II but finished by Asensio de Maeda in 1592. The decoration of the dome is work of the prestigious painter Murillo and dates from 1667. The 8 circular oil paintings show 8 saints from Seville (San Hermenegildo, San Fernando, San Leandro, San Isidoro, San Laureano, Santa Justa, Santa Rufina and San Pio), whereas the bigger rectangular picture in the center depicts the Immaculate Conception.

Picture of the day for May 12, 2016

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Dome of the chapter house, Cathedral of Seville, Seville, Spain. The construction of the chapter house was started by Hernán Ruiz II but finished by Asensio de Maeda in 1592. The decoration of the dome is work of the prestigious painter Murillo and dates from 1667. The 8 circular oil paintings show 8 saints from Seville (San Hermenegildo, San Fernando, San Leandro, San Isidoro, San Laureano, Santa Justa, Santa Rufina and San Pio), whereas the bigger rectangular picture in the center depicts the Immaculate Conception..

Google to ban payday loan advertisements

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Google to ban payday loan advertisements

Google to ban payday loan advertisements

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Google to ban payday loan advertisements Google announced Wednesday that it will ban all payday loan ads from its site, bowing to concerns by advocates who say the lending practice exploits the poor and vulnerable by offering them immediate cash that must be paid back under sky-high interest rates.

Google Fiber is the most audacious part of the whole Alphabet

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Google Fiber is the most audacious part of the whole Alphabet

Google Fiber is the most audacious part of the whole Alphabet

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Google Fiber is the most audacious part of the whole Alphabet Forget self-driving cars and drones. Five years later, where is Google's broadband business going?