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It's 13:24 and it's still chilly and cold with alternating periods of sunshine and clouds. 🌥️ ☁️

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”...

File pic: Helen Keller with

Europe took the lead in re-decentralizing the Net this year, with home-grown smashes like @MastodonProject, @matrixdotorg and @Framasoft’s PeerTube. But by passing the Copyright Directive, the EU’s politicians threatened that revolution. eff.org/deeplinks/2019/12/dodg

Scientists have discovered a 300-million-year-old lizard in Canada that proves the first instance of animal in a bombshell scientific revelation.

express.co.uk/news/world/12206

@elif Maybe you're looking at the 'federated timeline' and not at the 'local timeline'. The federated timeline shows posts from other instances, which are not moderated by the admins of QOTO.

THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS
Make one false move online and strangers could ruin your life.

popularmechanics.com/culture/w

“There’s no delete button online,” she says. “Just when you think you’re doing better, something can pop up and trigger your emotions. It is truly like PTSD. It isn’t something you just move on from.”

While production methods are improving, large scale, environmentally sound synthesis of graphene is not yet in full swing. According to the Flagship, a European project dedicated to graphene, several products should be commercially available in another 10 or 15 years. Much remains to be seen.

daily.jstor.org/will-graphene-

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A team of researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder, the Colorado School of Public Health and the University of Pennsylvania has found evidence that suggests higher CO2 levels in the future may adversely impact the cognitive abilities of students in classrooms.
phys.org/news/2019-12-higher-c

@design_RG > "repressing human migration"
Let me fix that for you: "curbing illegal immigration that also threatens security and stability of the country".
Many South Asian countries are known to be hotbeds of internationally recognized terror groups.

Nobody is against legal immigration. Plenty of expats live and work in India.

The Stone-Age birch pitch ‘chewing gum’ yielded enough information to determine the source’s sex, what she had last eaten and the germs in her mouth. It also told them she probably had dark hair, dark skin and blue eyes.

m.hindustantimes.com/more-life

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