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Japanese chefs will teach British prisoners the art of cooking.
15 prisoners will learn how to cook meals for a chain of Asian restaurants. Under the guidance of Japanese professionals, they have already prepared 450 servings of curried chicken.
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May 30, 2023
Police officers in India have been urged to lose weight or quit.
Police department officials in the Indian state of Assam have been asked to get the body in shape in the coming months. Otherwise, law enforcement officers risk losing their jobs.
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May 30, 2023
The Paris Mint presented a series of coins for the upcoming Olympics.
All coins feature the mascot of the 2024 Games, Frij. A total of 11 silver coins were issued - nine with a denomination of €10 and two with a denomination of €50.
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May 30, 2023
Elon Musk's biography is coming soon.
Biography of Elon Musk from the world's most famous biographer Walter Isaacson will go on sale September 12. Isaacson is the best biographer in the world, his books are sold in millions of copies. For example, he wrote about Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci and Einstein.
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May 29, 2023
Scientists may have found an antidote for the world's most poisonous mushroom.
A group of researchers from China and Australia have found an antidote for the most poisonous fungus in the world - white grebe. It turned out to be indocyanine green - a medical dye. According to global statistics, the pale grebe accounts for about 90% of deaths associated with mushroom poisoning.
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May 29, 2023
Sharks started using scientists as cleaner fish.
Whale sharks off the coast of Western Australia perceive scientists who collect samples from their skins for research as cleaner fish. Predators near humans slow down and allow them to swim closer. Scientists use plastic knives to scrape copepods from the body of sharks. Approximately this is what sticky fish do. But unlike them, people get to the corners of the mouth of predators and hard-to-reach fins. Probably, it is because of this that whale sharks are supportive of scientists and calmly make contact.
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May 29, 2023
In Japan, smile tutors are gaining popularity.
After a three-year mask regime because of the coronavirus, people have found that they have forgotten how to smile. Wearing masks has become the norm, and people have fewer opportunities and reasons to show a smile. The consequences of this problem are combated with the help of smile trainers. Training begins with a warm-up of facial muscles to relieve tension. After that, participants practice smiling in front of mirrors, following the instructions of the mentor. And the course itself costs a fabulous 80,000 yen - about 47,000 rubles.
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May 29, 2023
Elon Musk showed updated versions of Tesla Bot androids.
According to the billionaire, in the coming years, cars will fade into the background - as soon as people realize the importance of cyborgs, they will become the main line of Tesla's profit.
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May 29, 2023
Nuclear power has allowed Finland to reduce electricity prices by 75%.
Nuclear power has allowed Finland to reduce electricity prices by 75%. In April, Olkiluoto 3 was opened - the first nuclear power plant in Europe in 16 years. She instantly closed a significant share of the population's needs for energy, as a result of which prices went down.
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May 29, 2023
Apple announced new features.
They are designed for people with disabilities, but there is one feature that everyone will like. We are talking about "Personal Voice" - a specially created AI "clones" your voice in just 15 minutes of training. Apple itself offers to use it for people who are at risk of losing their voice, but anyone can activate the function.
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May 29, 2023
Lego released a giant Batcave set based on the 1992 Batman Returns movie.
The set includes 3891 pieces, including figures of Batman, Bruce Wayne, Alfred, Catwoman, Penguin, and a Batmobile with jumping machine guns. Sales start on June 8, the price per set is $430.
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May 29, 2023
Psilocybin mushrooms restored color vision to colorblind people.
A day after use, the results corresponded to normal color vision. They remained above the threshold level for four months, after which the man stopped observing. Scientists explain that this happens because such drugs act on all parts of visual perception - from the optical apparatus of the eye to the cortical centers - and can produce a variety of visual effects.
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May 27, 2023
The brain of dogs has increased over the past 150 years.
Swedish biologists have studied the skulls of 159 breeds of dogs and wolves. They found that modern breeds that have evolved over the past 150 years have larger skulls compared to body size. Probably the domestication of dogs thousands of years ago initially shrank some of their brains, but modern breeding has caused some cognitive growth over the last century and a half.
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May 27, 2023
American scientists set a record by living 74 days in a capsule under water.
Joseph Dituri lives at the Jules Undersea Lodge in Key Largo. The capsule is located at a depth of about 10 meters below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean and has an area of only 10 square meters. However, in the suite, the professor has a work area, a kitchen, a bathroom, a bedroom, and even a small "pool" that acts as an entrance and exit. He uses the microwave for cooking.
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May 27, 2023
An 11-year-old girl with autism and an IQ higher than Einstein's is about to get her master's degree.
Doctors drew attention to the girl's talents and sent her to a school for gifted children. Here it was confirmed that her IQ is 162 points - more than that of Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking. The girl graduated from elementary school at the age of five, and a year later - middle and high school. In the future, she dreams of becoming a NASA astronaut and exploring Mars.
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May 27, 2023
Scientists used pomegranates to clear wastewater of drugs.
Researchers at Stockholm University have developed porous crystals from pomegranate extract. They capture and decompose drug residues found in wastewater.
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May 27, 2023
Plastic pollution can be reduced by 80% by 2040.
Experts believe that this will bring trillions of dollars in benefits to countries. The first step to reduce waste is to eliminate excess packaging. Other measures include increasing the recycling and reuse of products, as well as replacing plastic materials with more environmentally friendly ones. The organization believes that these changes will allow the year to cut the annual volume of plastic waste to 40 million tons by 2020. If action is not taken, the world will generate 227 million tons of waste annually.
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May 27, 2023
Here is a vacation!
Japanese companies have given employees leave to play the latest The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Usually they give up to 10 days of paid rest, and such a promotion is called the Zelda Vacation so that employees can play and not be distracted by anything.
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May 25, 2023
"Meat from a test tube" and ecology.
ACBM, better known to the masses as "test-tube meat", is positioned as an environmentally friendly replacement for classic meat. Moreover, it is environmentally friendly - in recent years it has been promoted not so much as ridding animals of suffering, as ridding the planet of CO2 emissions associated with animal husbandry. Scientists from California decided to check how true this statement is. The study showed that the production of one kilogram of meat from a test tube is accompanied by CO2 emissions 25 times more than 1 kilogram of meat from farmers.
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May 25, 2023
Communication with babies helps shape the structure of the brain.
The scientists recorded the speeches of 87 children about 6 months old and 76 children about 30 months old. In total, they collected about 6,208 hours of data. The team then used MRI to measure the amount of myelin in the brain. It turned out that more of the substance was formed in children aged 30 months, with whom adults talked more.
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May 25, 2023