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WTF Is Going On With Harry & Meghan? | Betches

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If you’ve been anywhere near the internet over the last couple weeks, you’ve probably heard about some drama going on with the British Royal Family. Harry and Meghan are doing their thing, and then Queen Elizabeth did another thing, but there’s a lot to process when it comes to the reality of what’s happening. Especially if the only time you usually pay attention to the royals is when there’s a wedding, you might be confused about what’s actually happening right now. While I don’t expect most of you to learn…

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If You Dont Find A Way To Release Your Emotions, They Will Quietly Control Your Life

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Brianna Wiest Updated January 25, 2020 By Daria Shevtsova Overthinking how you feel is not healing how you feel. Analyzing the past, tracing traumas to their roots, figuring out who deserves blame, recognizing the circumstances that brought you to where you are today… all of that is great for understanding your problem, but it doesn’t solve the problem. If you feel as though you’re always stuck in negative feeling cycles and nothing can bring you relief, it’s probably because you’re not letting your feelings out in a real way. You’re…

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People Share The Creepiest Unexplainable Things That Have Ever Happened To Them (30 Stories)

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posted this call for people’s best stories of times they experienced a “glitch in the matrix,” or a moment when reality just didn’t check out, and reading the thread is a journey down a rabbit hole. My friend Sarah was in a nightclub, drunk off her face, when she got an overwhelming urge to tell a total stranger that her leg hurts (edit: it didn’t). All a bit strange, she ignores it but it doesn’t stop so she walks up to this guy and says, ‘I know this is crazy…

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Scientists Predict Wuhan’s Outbreak Will Get Much Worse

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As more data on the new coronavirus circulating in China emerges, it’s becoming clear that whatever the country is experiencing now—dozens of deaths, hundreds of people hospitalized, cities of millions quarantined—is just the tip of the outbreak. On Friday, a team of researchers based in the UK and US up to 729. Using case data scraped from official reports, a team led by Jonathan Read at Lancaster University plotted a temporal map of the coronavirus’s spread, starting on January 1, when local authorities closed the meat-and-animal market where the virus…

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Madonna ‘deeply sorry’ for cancelling London show

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“I am deeply sorry that I have to cancel my concert scheduled for Monday 27 January in London,” she said. “Under doctors’ guidance I have been told to rest for a few days. “As you all know I have injuries that have plagued me since the beginning of the tour but I must always listen to my body and put my health first. “The last thing I want to do is disappoint my fans or compromise the integrity of my show. So I will keep going until I cannot.” ‘How…

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Wales a haven for wildlife – but for how long?

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Five creatures special to Wales 1) Blind cave spider (Porrhomma rosenhaueri) Image copyright National Museum Wales Image caption The ghost slug sucks up earthworms If spiders lurking in caves sound creepy, then how about the flesh-eating ghost slug? Unknown to science, the mysterious worm-eater was discovered by a Cardiff gardener in 2007. It has no eyes and lives underground and, unlike most slugs, it is carnivorous. It kills earthworms at night with powerful, blade-like teeth, sucking them in like spaghetti. Although similar species exist in eastern Europe, the Welsh example…

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London Cops Will Use Facial Recognition to Hunt Suspects

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There will soon be a new bobby on the beat in London: artificial intelligence. London’s Metropolitan Police Big Brother Watch in the UK. She says activists in Hong Kong, Russia, or South America may find it more difficult to push back against expanded use of facial recognition as a result. Carlo says facial recognition is already being used in dubious ways in the UK, for example to monitor the Notting Hill Carnival, a major event in British Black culture. “We talk about mission creep, but the mission is already well…

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An AI Epidemiologist Sent the First Warnings of the Wuhan Virus

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On January 9, the World Health Organization notified the public of a flu-like outbreak in China: a cluster of pneumonia cases had been reported in Wuhan, possibly from vendors’ exposure to live animals at the Huanan Seafood Market. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had gotten the word out a few days earlier, on January 6. But a Canadian health monitoring platform had beaten them both to the punch, sending word of the outbreak to its customers on December 31. Related Stories Snakes?! The Slippery Truth of a…

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Andrew McCarthy: Trump impeachment trial should let him justify why he wanted Bidens investigated

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When you get to court, though, you are horrified to learn that the judge is excluding your defense. The prosecutors peremptorily assert that it’s all a big lie. The judge doesn’t want to hear your constitutional claims about the rights to present a defense and call witnesses; your motion to subpoena evidence is denied. Then, at the trial, not only do the prosecutors establish that you planned to take millions from the bank; they tell the jury there was not a shred of evidence that you had any legitimate collateral…

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