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Human Ancestor ‘Little Foot’ Lived 3.7 Million Years Ago | TIME :  "New research indicates that a mysterious skeleton dubbed “Little Foot” lived around the same time as human ancestor Lucy’s species, suggesting a diverse landscape of pre-humans in Africa during the same period."

Little Britain returns: David Walliams and Stephen Hawking team up for Comic Relief special - News - TV & Radio - The Independent :  "His life has been turned into an Oscar-winning film, and now Stephen Hawking is set to make his own debut on the small screen. The theoretical physicist will feature in a Little Britain Comic Relief special alongside David Walliams, who will reprise his role as the bumbling Lou."

Copy data from other devices in Android 5.0 Lollipop setup - CNET :  "The copy data feature will allow you to copy all or some of your apps to a new device, without the hassle of finding each app yourself."

FCC Likely to Delay Net-Neutrality Rules Until Next Year - WSJ :  "Under the emerging plan, Internet providers’ retail operations—where consumers pay for Web access—would be regulated more lightly than the back end, in which broadband providers serve as the conduit for websites to distribute content.  The FCC would classify the back-end service as a common carrier, like the old landline telephone network, giving the agency the ability to police any deals between content companies and broadband providers."

The FCC Plays Russian Roulette with Network Neutrality :  "The partition the FCC has in mind would leave the retail Internet as an unregulated Internet service but would regulate as a “telecommunications service” the wholesale transactions between Internet service providers and content companies such as Google, Amazon, and Netflix."

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Suspected Russian “Sandworm” cyber spies targeted NATO, Ukraine | Ars Technica :  "The Sandworm Team, named because its members include references from Frank Herbert's Dune series in their code, also used a previously unknown software flaw, or 0day vulnerability, to compromise some targets. Using the security hole, the Sandworm group could execute their attacks on systems running up-to-date versions of Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows RT. Microsoft plans to release a patch for the flaw during its regular updates on Tuesday."

Obama: I want the FCC to ban paid Internet fast lanes | Ars Technica :  "“My appointee, [FCC Chairman] Tom Wheeler, knows my position,” Obama said. “Now that he’s there, I can’t just call him up and tell him exactly what to do. But what I’ve been clear about, what the White House has been clear about, is that we expect whatever final rules to emerge to make sure that we’re not creating two or three or four tiers of Internet.”"

The Real “Knick” - The New Yorker :  "I climbed stair after stair, knocked on door after door, met drunk after drunk, filthy mother after filthy mother and met dying baby after dying baby. … There was no dodging the hopelessness of it all. It was an appalling summer, too, with an average of fifteen hundred babies dying each week in the city; lean, miserable, wailing little souls carried off wholesale by dysentery."

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Top Spider-Man Unlimited tips and tricks | Android Central :  "Want to get ahead on the Spider-Man Unlimited leaderboards and fill out your roster with Spidey's coolest costumes? Our latest tips and tricks guide will teach you the best ways to spend your time and energy while thwarting the plans of the Sinister Six."

In Real Life, Internet Trolls Are Machiavellian, Sadists, and Psychopaths | Big Think | IdeaFeed :  "Of the three, sadism was the personality trait most strongly correlated with trolling, suggesting that nasty Internet comments are a manifestation of everyday sadistic personality traits. Meanwhile, respondents who enjoyed chatting and debating in online forums were not given to sadism in their offline lives. "

10 Psychological Experiments That Went Horribly Wrong :  "Psychology as we know it is a relatively young science, but since its inception it has helped us to gain a greater understanding of ourselves and our interactions with the world. Many psychological experiments have been valid and ethical, allowing researchers to make new treatments and therapies available, and giving other insights into our motivations and actions. Sadly, others have ended up backfiring horribly — ruining lives and shaming the profession. Here are ten psychological experiments that spiraled out of control." Related articles 10 Psychological Experiments That Went Terribly Wrong Top 10 Psychological Experiments That Went Horribly Wrong. Psychological Experiments Went Wrong , Ruined Men Details. 10 Psychological Experiments That Went Horribly Wrong Denial is a psychological defense mechanism Best Online Psychology Degree Programs by Value

English: Portrait of John Napier (1550-1617), the inventor of logarithms; dated 1616; presented to the University of Edinburgh by his great granddaughter Margaret, who became Baroness Napier in 1686. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Celebrating a misunderstood math miracle: Logarithms turn 400 - O Say Can You See? :  "The logarithm is 400 this year. Glen Van Brummelen , a fellow in the Dibner Library of History of Science and Technology , explains how logarithms came to be and why they're considered miraculous ." Related articles The Divine Mathematician and His Image-Bearers Meet the Numbers Lady - Rebecca Klemm

English: Pangea animation (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Map Showing Where Today's Countries Would Be Located on Pangea | Open Culture :  "The supercontinent of Pangea formed some 270 million years ago , during the Early Permian Period, and then began to break up 70 million years later, eventually yielding the continents we inhabit today" ...ero. Related articles Map Showing Where Today's Countries Would Be Located on Pangea Visiting Pangea How Earth avoided global warming, last time around Pangea Redrawn With Today's Political Boundaries How Earth avoided global warming, last time around What Pangea Looks Like Mapped With Modern Political Borders The biggest mass extinction and Pangea integration Pangea's history Supercontinent: how the world is moving together

Phone unlocking bill clears US House, next step is president's signature | PCWorld :  "“It took 19 months of activism and advocacy, but we’re finally very close to consumers regaining the right to unlock the phones they’ve legally bought,” said Sina Khanifar, who organized an online petition that kicked off the push to have the Library of Congress decision overturned. The petition attracted more than 114,000 signatures on the White House’s “We The People” site. In its response to the petition, the Obama administration called for the legalization of cell phone unlocking."

Victor high frequency electric apparatus. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry (1910) | The Public Domain Review :  "Monell claims that his high frequency currents of electricity could treat a variety of ailments, including acne, lesions, insomnia, abnormal blood pressure , depression, and hysteria. Although not explicitly delved into in this volume, the treatment of this latter condition in women was frequently achieved at this time through the use of an early form of the vibrator (to save the physician from the manual effort), through bringing the patient to “hysterical paroxysm” (in other words, an orgasm). " Related articles Female Hysteria?! Vibrators en wat nog... Ja, dis histeries snaaks! A night at the vibrator museum Hysteria leads to Electric Vibrator The Surprise Cure for Anxiety and Depression They Did WHAT??!!! Have Two Paroxysms And Call Me in the Morning