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15 Dec 2019

Greece Pushes Electronic Money

Welcome back to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

* NIST (the National Institute of Stands and Technology) Publishes New FAQ on Its Refusal to Release Key Building 7 World Trade Center Data

* Greeks Set to Face Heavy Fines If They Don’t Spend 30% of Their Income Electronically

* Two Pigs Engineered With Monkey Cells Born, Died In China

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14 Jun 2013

Top 10 New Species

Scientists around the world discover about 18,000 new species every year. Each new organism has not only to be found, but also studied, compared, identified and organized — that’s taxonomy, the science of classifying living things and exploring the evolutionary relationships between them. Hank Green from the SciShow reports.

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14 Jan 2013

The Dippy Do Dah Club

Besides the Little Rascals, Hal Roach also produced a series of comedies called The Dippy Do Dah Club, featuring an all-animal cast. PETA might object to the inclusion of a mock cock fight, but this 1923 episode, The Knockout, is quite hilarious,  with ducks, chickens and dogs all attending the big fight, and monkeys masquerading as the press. Some things never change!

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17 Sep 2012

Drunken Pigs Living High Life

In a breaking news from the world of science, the SciShow’s Hank Green updates us on:

  • The development of a new vaccine for dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease that afflicts millions living in tropical nations.
  • The discovery of a previously unknown monkey species living in the remote jungles of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • And a lab experiment where some lucky pigs got to swill down booze in the name of science.

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