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Get one year of Norton 360 and identity protection for $25
Get one year of Norton 360 and identity protection for $25
TL;DR: As of August 20, you can get one year of Norton 360 Standard on
2023-08-20 17:47
Why Do We Tilt Our Heads When Being Photographed?
Why Do We Tilt Our Heads When Being Photographed?
It's called head canting, and the psychology of it goes beyond looking good for the 'gram.
2023-06-27 01:24
Supreme Court ruling brings bitterness for borrowers counting on student loan forgiveness
Supreme Court ruling brings bitterness for borrowers counting on student loan forgiveness
For borrowers around the country, the Supreme Court ruling that struck down President Joe Biden's student loan cancellation plan has brought bitterness and frustration
2023-07-01 06:23
JetBlue Workers Say Pro-Merger Comments Aren’t Theirs
JetBlue Workers Say Pro-Merger Comments Aren’t Theirs
JetBlue Airways Corp. orchestrated a campaign to flood the government with thousands of online comments in favor of
2023-05-09 21:53
Big Joe Debuts New AMR Features & Capabilities at Automate 2023
Big Joe Debuts New AMR Features & Capabilities at Automate 2023
DETROIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2023--
2023-05-22 22:51
How to watch every 'Fast and Furious' movie online — including 'Fast X'
How to watch every 'Fast and Furious' movie online — including 'Fast X'
UPDATE: Sep. 11, 2023, 5:00 a.m. EDT This article has been updated with the latest
2023-09-11 17:16
The Earth’s axis is shifting because of water
The Earth’s axis is shifting because of water
We’re discovering new things about the Earth all the time – just like scientists recently found water is slowly leaking down there from the surface, and people only just realising that there’s a massive ocean hidden under the Earth’s crust. Now, experts have found that the Earth’s axis appears to be shifting for a reason no-one saw coming. Essentially, the Earth’s tilt is changing over time. A few years ago, scientists put this down to global warming and the melting of the polar ice caps. However, experts have published new research which suggests that groundwater extraction is also playing a bigger factor than previously thought. The Earth’s poles can move with the melting of ice sheets. However, the depletion of groundwater caused by irrigation can also force the same thing to happen. While things are moving at a slow rate, with the North Pole moving gradually in the direction of the UK, the phenomenon does have the capacity to change the Earth’s seasons over time in theory. The most concerning thing, though, is what the new study published in Geophysical Research Letters suggests about the way we’re consuming Earth’s natural resources – especially when it comes to salty water being used on dehydrated land. Ki-Weon Seo of National University is co-lead on the study. She said in a statement: "Earth's rotational pole actually changes a lot. Our study shows that among climate-related causes, the redistribution of groundwater actually has the largest impact on the drift of the rotational pole." It comes after scientists recently discovered water is slowly leaking down there from the surface. The liquid is dripping down descending tectonic plates, before eventually reaching the core after a 2,900 kilometre journey. And while the process is slow, it has over billions of years formed a new surface between the molten metal of the outer core and the outer mantle of the Earth. Sign up for our free Indy100 weekly newsletter How to join the indy100's free WhatsApp channel Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings
2023-11-22 23:49
Latch Announces New Head of Sales and Expands Integrations for Streamlined Property Management at NAA Apartmentalize 2023
Latch Announces New Head of Sales and Expands Integrations for Streamlined Property Management at NAA Apartmentalize 2023
NEW YORK & ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 7, 2023--
2023-06-07 20:20
Odyssey Logistics Names Maneet Singh as Chief Information Officer
Odyssey Logistics Names Maneet Singh as Chief Information Officer
DANBURY, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 10, 2023--
2023-07-10 19:49
No one has been able to handle more than 45 minutes alone in this room
No one has been able to handle more than 45 minutes alone in this room
We all crave a bit of peace and quiet every now and then; just some time to be alone with our thoughts. But silence isn’t as golden as we’ve been led to believe, according to the people who’ve been to the quietest place on Earth. You might expect this to be in a remote part of some great desert whereas, in actual fact, it’s located in a research lab in Minnesota. Inside the anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories, it is so silent you can hear your own blood flowing and bones moving. Sign up for our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Made of 3.3ft-thick fibreglass acoustic wedges and double walls of insulated steel and thick concrete, the room absorbs 99.99 per cent of sound. The conditions within its Fort Knox-style walls are so intense that the longest amount of time anyone’s been able to endure in there is 45 minutes. “We challenge people to sit in the chamber in the dark,” the lab’s founder Steven Orfield told Hearing Aid Know. “When it’s quiet, ears will adapt. The quieter the room, the more things you hear. You’ll hear your heart beating, sometimes you can hear your lungs, hear your stomach gurgling loudly. “In the anechoic chamber, you become the sound." What he means by this is that, with the absence of external noise, your ears are forced to adapt to unimaginable silence and start to focus inwards on your own mind and bodily functions. Furthermore, after as little as 30 minutes subjects begin to hallucinate. Orfield explained that it is also impossible to stay in the room for more than half an hour without sitting down because a person’s orientation is largely grounded in the sounds they make when moving. "How you orient yourself is through sounds you hear when you walk," he told the Daily Mail. In the anechoic chamber, you don't have any cues. "You take away the perceptual cues that allow you to balance and manoeuvre. If you're in there for half an hour, you have to be in a chair." The Quietest Place on Earth: Orfield Laboratories youtu.be For anyone who reckons they could top that 45-minute record, it is possible to experience the chamber for yourself. The Laboratories offer a tour, named “The Anechoic Experience”, which enables participants to take on the challenge, provided they’re willing to fork out a cool $600 (around £470) per hour for the privilege. The Orfield website states: “We have witnessed many seeming miracles, some of which have explanations and some of which remain mysteries, as a result of time spent in our anechoic chamber. “We remain curious about the nature of the chamber's impact on all people, its therapeutic properties, and how it can influence human perception. While anechoic chambers are traditionally used to study products, ours is becoming also about the people. “The Anechoic Experience is designed to be an opportunity to personally inquire about the chamber's therapeutic and spiritual effects.” We reckon we might be better off just lying in bed with the duvet over our heads next time we want a moment's peace. Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.
2023-06-19 21:49
Pokimane's savage response to fan's body-shaming comment: 'This is my life'
Pokimane's savage response to fan's body-shaming comment: 'This is my life'
A fan called Pokimane 'chubby' during a Iive stream, eliciting a fiery response from the seasoned streamer
2023-07-30 15:46
Best laptops for students: MacBooks, the new Microsoft Surface, and more top our list
Best laptops for students: MacBooks, the new Microsoft Surface, and more top our list
Best deals on laptops for students this week If you’re a student, your laptop is
2023-07-29 17:45