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NASA’s jack-o’-lanterns are next level

sudshr47 November 1, 2017

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Watching the annual NASA Jet Propulsion Lab pumpkin-carving contest is a great way to feel insecure in your own skills. 

The scientists pulled out all the stops and created science-inspired masterpieces out of the seasonal gourd. The video above shows the seventh annual contest in action. Other notable entries were posted on social media. 

There was a Mars Curiosity rover pumpkin, a War of the Worlds fighting machine, and a take on the InSight spacecraft.

Happy Halloween! 🎃 Le concours de citrouilles de JPL a fait fort à nouveau cette année! Europa Clipper et Mars rovers à l’honneur! pic.twitter.com/QIzNhbszTA

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I feel like I know these computer-generated celebrities already

sudshr47 October 31, 2017

 If there’s one thing this Earth of ours is short on, it’s celebrities. I mean, if there were enough, why would they keep making them? We need the help of our computer friends. Luckily they are obliging. An AI that in its existence has only known the faces of celebs (how I envy it!) was tasked with making up new ones by the dozen. The results are… well, you should see for… Read More

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Scott Pruitt just destroyed one of the EPA’s core safeguards, and we may never get it back

sudshr47 October 31, 2017

In an unprecedented move, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt just issued a directive that would prohibit individuals from serving on the agency’s independent scientific advisory boards if they also receive research grant…

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Donald Trump Environmental Protection Agency Global Warming Science

Scott Pruitt just destroyed one of the EPA’s core safeguards, and we may never get it back

sudshr47 October 31, 2017

In an unprecedented move, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt just issued a directive that would prohibit individuals from serving on the agency’s independent scientific advisory boards if they also receive research grant…

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Earth to overshoot global warming targets, U.N. warns in blunt report

sudshr47 October 31, 2017

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Nations around the world still aren’t doing nearly enough to limit greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, a new report warns.

While progress is being made, a new United Nations report says that collectively countries aren’t on track to contain global warming to the level set by leaders in the Paris Climate Agreement. We are currently on course to see between 3 and 3.2 degrees Celsius, or about 5.8 degrees Fahrenheit, of warming by the year 2100. 

To put this another way, countries have only committed to about one-third of the emissions reductions needed to meet the Paris Agreement’s temperature target, the report found.  Read more…

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Earth is seeing an unprecedented surge in carbon dioxide levels, with disturbing implications

October 30, 2017

Although many countries are making progress in slowing their emissions of carbon dioxide, a global warming pollutant, the amount of the gas in the air surged at a record pace in 2016, a new report found. 
The amount of carbon dioxide in the air …

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