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Europa or Frying Pan?

This image was tweeted out by the NASA Europa Mission account the other day: One of these images is of Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon, and the other eight are frying pans. Can you pick Europa out? Hint: frying pans tend not to have impact craters. Update: The photos of the

Q&A: Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified

People in communities thousands of miles apart have described the same strange experience after eating a mysterious mushroom: vivid visions of tiny humans moving through and interacting with the physical world around them. Known as Lilliputian hallucinations—a reference to the

What’s next for Fauci?

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare The Big Story What’s next for Fauci? The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted on party lines to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress. © Natasha Kaiser The vote came after

Pacific ministers to debate China missile statement

SUVA, Fiji, Aug 7 - Pacific Island foreign ministers are expected to debate on Friday whether to issue a joint statement on China's July missile launch, with New Zealand pushing for a response but acknowledging divisions could prevent agreement, New Zealand's foreign minister

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I played Elden Ring wrong for two years

I started Elden Ring on launch day in 2022. It was my first FromSoft game and turns out, I didn't know what I was getting into. Here's how I let a bunch of assumptions and anxieties drive me to play Elden Ring wrong and bad for two years and over 200 hours. No, I still haven't

AI age demands a new political system

“Dig the Well before you are thirsty,” says an old Chinese proverb. The world has debated China’s rise through the lens of ideology. Some believe it is communism that transformed China into the world’s second largest economy, while others think it is capitalism disguised under

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