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Man sues after Pokemon card worth $60K vanishes from shipping depot


https://nypost.com/2020/01/08/man-sues-after-pokemon-card-worth-60k-vanishes-from-shipping-depot/

A man shelled out $60,000 for a “priceless, rare” piece of pop culture history — a single Pokemon card — and is now suing because it vanished from a Queens shipping depot, according to court papers obtained by The Post.
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We postulated that body temperature has decreased over time.
In the US, the normal, oral temperature of adults is, on average, lower than the canonical 37°C established in the 19th century. we determined that mean body temperature in men and women, after adjusting for age, height, weight and, in some models date and time of day, has decreased monotonically by 0.03°C per birth decade.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/01/is-u-s-average-body-temperature-decreasing.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+marginalrevolution/feed+(Marginal+Revolution)

See:

We're Getting Cooler: Historical Decline In "Normal" Human Body Temperature
https://forums.forteana.org/index.p...cline-in-normal-human-body-temperature.66805/
 
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Lights From Marijuana Farm Create ‘Purple Haze’ In The Sky

SNOWFLAKE, Ariz. (CBS Local) — Lights from a medical marijuana farm filled the sky over Snowflake, Arizona, with a bright purple glow on a recent foggy morning.

Cara Smith was on her way to work at Copperstate Farms, the largest medical marijuana wholesaler in the state, on Friday morning when she noticed the strange phenomenon. She took a picture of the scene about 6:30 a.m.

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https://detroit.cbslocal.com/2020/01/15/lights-from-marijuana-farm-create-purple-sky/

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Owner of chicken mauled to death by a dog is awarded large payout because the bird was a trained actor and had appeared in a German TV movie

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-awarded-large-payout-bird-trained-actor.html

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She claimed to have ploughed hundreds of euros into 10 hours of training for the chicken only to watch her investment vanish when the animal was killed in a farm in Weeze, Germany, later that year.
 
Why are Chinese fishermen finding so many 'submarine spies'?

At first it seems like a quirky, what-are-the-chances-of-that headline: "China rewards fishers who netted foreign spy devices."

But behind that headline in Chinese state media, there is a different - and more intriguing - story.

Firstly, this wasn't two or three fishermen receiving awards. It was 11 - one woman, the rest men - who found seven devices in total.
Secondly, this wasn't the first time fishermen from Jiangsu had found "spy drones". In 2018, some 18 were rewarded for finding nine devices. There was also a ceremony a year earlier.
And thirdly, the rewards were huge - up to 500,000 yuan ($72,000; £55,000) - around 17 times the average disposable income in China.

So where do the "submarine spies" come from? What do they do? Why are they valuable?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51130644
 
The morning coffee hadn't kicked in when I read:

A New Facility Is Set to Produce Oxygen From Moon Dust at an Unprecedented Scale

... at which my still semi-conscious mind demanded, "An unprecedented scale? Of what? .... Hoaxing? Cost? ..."

The juxtaposition of "new facility is set to produce" and "oxygen from moon dust" refers to two different things at two different times: (a) an imminent experimental run here on earth using simulated lunar dust and (b) a very handy capability if and when we try living where moon dust abounds.

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-new-facility-has-opened-to-make-breathable-air-out-of-moon-dust
 
Here's another mind-bender at face value ...

Nothingness Has Friction, And The Fastest Spinning Object Ever Made Could Measure It

The opening sentence didn't do much to explain WTF this was about ...

Scientists have created the fastest spinning object ever made, taking them a big step closer to being able to measure the mysterious quantum forces at play inside 'nothingness'.

And yes - sardonic allusion to a certain Shakespeare title immediately sprang to mind ...

FULL STORY: https://www.sciencealert.com/nothin...stest-spinning-object-ever-made-to-measure-it
 
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