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The Great Klondike Gold Rush Part 1

68 miners arrived at the docks of Seattle on board the steamship Portland in 1897, and their cargo was one ton of gold. It didn't take long for word to sprea...

youtube.com/watch?v=VFrKos_xZL

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'Remarkable' decline in fertility rates. Half of all countries now have rates below the replacement level. The global fertility rate has halved since 1950. - bbc.com/news/health-46118103

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The novel, about an exterminator on a work trip to a nameless dystopian country, has overtones of Kafka, Stephen King and J.G. Ballard.

It's grim, it's gross and it's unputdownable.
n.pr/2yXAx2D

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Feeding a population of 9 billion in 2050 will require much more food than previously calculated, as people on average become taller and heavier. An average adult in 2014 was 14% heavier, about 1.3% taller and needed 6.1% more energy than in 1975. | geminiresearchnews.com/2018/11

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Umberto Eco: Ur-Fascism is still around us, sometimes in plainclothes.

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Sunset somewhere in the rift valley, a beautiful day, a good time.

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Obama Volunteer Arrested For Vandalizing NYC Synagogue 

Obama Volunteer Arrested For Vandalizing NYC Synagogue With Anti-Semitic Statements, Police Say

The New York City Police Department arrested a Democratic activist on Friday night for allegedly vandalizing a synagogue in New York City with vile anti-Semitic messages.

dailywire.com/news/37946/obama

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If it ever gets to the point where the power elite have devices (tags) ensuring their protection from AI systems, I just want to remind them that any system can be hacked to only target said devices. Food for thought.

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The Seafloor Is Dissolving Because of Climate Change - “Our study confirms that humans are now a geological force capable of impacting the Earth’s system, like a super-volcano or a meteoritic impact,” - motherboard.vice.com/en_us/art

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