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The First 3D Printed House Is On The Market, And It Still Costs $300,000

If you are thinking you might buy a Creality 3-D printer to save money making stuff at home, a new MLS listing may make you change your mind. It is the first 3D-printed home to get a government permit in the United States and is on sale for a whopping $299,999. The house $213 per square foot, and you are so far from Manhattan you might as well live in Scranton, but whether it sells right away or...

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The First 3D Printed House Is On The Market, And It Still Costs $300,000

If you are thinking you might buy a Creality 3-D printer to save money making stuff at home, a new MLS listing may make you change your mind. It is the first 3D-printed home to get a government permit in the United States and is on sale for a whopping $299,999. The house $213 per square foot, and you are so far from Manhattan you might as well live in Scranton, but whether it sells right away or...

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Twitter Was Telling The World About COVID-19 When China Was Still Suppressing Information

In January of 2020 we began to write about "coronavirus 2019" due to concern regarding increased cases of pneumonia during a mild flu season, while the Chinese dictatorship was denying there was any problem at all. Just over a week later a key whistleblower in Wuhan, Li Wenliang, turned up dead after being arrested and held prisoner for a month by the communist government for...

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To Have Great Science Literacy, We Must Have Greater Digital Literacy – An Experiment Shows How

The anti-vaccine and anti-GMO movements are products of the digital age. While there were always vaccine deniers, they were a tiny religious fringe until the 2000s, when it took England and the coasts of the U.S. by storm. Similarly, odd beliefs about food always existed but they were relegated to obscure stores. Social media changed all that. Facebook and Twitter became hotbeds of...

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5G Update: Belief In Harm Is Still Belief In Magic

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, Berkeley psychologist Joel Moskowitz, and other anti-science conspiracy theorists use the language of science against it to advance their beliefs that we're all being harmed by the modern world.So when they see a scientific statement like "very low risk" of harm from any cell phone service, including 5G, they have a ready...

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Robot Cockroaches Are All We Need To Make 2020 Just Peachy

Robot Cockroaches Are All We Need To Make 2020 Just Peachy

2020 started out being a weird and devastating way to end the decade yet we naively thought those Australian wildfires were as bad as it could get.Now people outside that country barely remember they happened. Because then we got coronavirus. Luckily, we dodged the murder hornets but then went right to race wars. New York, the city, county, and state, has had the worst of both COVID-19(1) and the...

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