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• Someone spoofed my number

  By Shaun on December 14, 2020 • ( 4 )

  Calls with spoofed numbers can and do come from all over the world and account for a significant and growing proportion of nuisance calls. That’s why Ofcom is working with the international regulators – as well as the telecoms industry… Read More ›

• The Caviar Story: blasted from the moon to space to the iPhone

  By Shaun on December 14, 2020 • ( 2 )

  Did you know you can BUY a meteorite?! You can literally see the improvement in every video Marques makes. This is one his best yet.

• You were taken for fools and you took the rest of us with you

  By Shaun on December 14, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Powerful stuff from James who has predicted this debarkle every step of the way.

• Women Are Colder Than Men

  By Shaun on December 14, 2020 • ( 16 )

  The biggest factor in the different perceptions of temperature between men and women is that women are, in fact, just warmer to begin with. A study done by the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1992 looked at core… Read More ›

• Wealthy MP urged to pay up for his family’s slave trade past

  By Shaun on December 13, 2020 • ( 0 )

  A wealthy Tory MP is facing demands to pay reparations for his family’s part in the Caribbean slave trade after the Observer revealed that he now controls the plantation where his ancestors created the first slave-worked sugar plantation in the… Read More ›

• Newsdrop

  By Shaun on December 13, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Newsdrop is about making news quick to read by discarding irrelevant bits of information. Basic information can even be read straight off the news feed. Tapping on summaries expands them into optimized articles. These articles are deliberately structured to efficiently… Read More ›

• McGST Podcast Episode 38 (What is music to different people? With Tom Munch)

  By Shaun on December 12, 2020 • ( 1 )

  Myself and Tom discuss a whole host of music-related topics including the following- What do people seek in new music? What is new music that you instantly liked and why? Was it the situation in which you heard it or… Read More ›

• The “Social Mask”

  By Shaun on December 12, 2020 • ( 0 )

  The cheek thermometer on the Social Mask provides real-time readouts for all to see, allowing others to steer clear if the wearer has a fever. The biosensors can also monitor the presence of germs and other pollutants in the air…. Read More ›

• Why do I wake up at the same time every night?

  By Shaun on December 12, 2020 • ( 0 )

  “Nobody sleeps through the night,” he says. “This goes back to our caveman days where one would wake up, scan the environment, make sure there are no tigers, and then go back to sleep.” But while waking up in the… Read More ›

• The Social Life of Forests

  By Shaun on December 12, 2020 • ( 1 )

  As a child, Suzanne Simard often roamed Canada’s old-growth forests with her siblings, building forts from fallen branches, foraging mushrooms and huckleberries and occasionally eating handfuls of dirt (she liked the taste). Her grandfather and uncles, meanwhile, worked nearby as… Read More ›

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