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EFF to Close Friday in Solidarity with National Shutdown

The Electronic Frontier Foundation stands with the people of Minneapolis and with all of the communities impacted by the ongoing campaign of ICE and CBP violence. EFF will be closed Friday, Jan. 30 as part of the national shutdown in opposition to ICE and CBP and the brutality

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Spurious Correlations

For his Spurious Correlations project , Tyler Vigen compares data sets that are the very definition of “correlation is not causation”. For instance, the number of Walmart stores worldwide correlates very strongly with the current distance between the Earth & Saturn. Or Google

What Sets Off Bomb Cyclones

This storm category includes some nor’easters, which seem likely to grow even more chaotic in coming decades The post What Sets Off Bomb Cyclones appeared first on Nautilus .

Mandy Patinkin Joins ‘God of War’ Series as Odin

Mandy Patinkin is the latest to join Amazon Prime Video’s series adaptation of “God of War.” He will play Odin, “the most powerful Aesir god.” Per the character description: “Odin, the All-Father, is not physically imposing or particularly god-like: but looks can be deceiving.