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Large fleet of Chinese fishing vessels encroaches on South American waters at Galapagos Islands

Last year Chinese fishing vessels sailed to the edge of the Galapagos Islands’ territorial waters. This summer, the Associated Press and Spanish language broadcaster Univision documented the scale of Chinese fishing off the coast of South America.

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Can AI Help Prevent Natural Disasters?

Advanced analytics and other AI-driven tools and technologies have been transforming the way organizations function by harnessing valuable information from the largest datasets and providing important insights. With the continued growth of cognitive technologies and increasingly widespread adoption by many industries, what will the future of advanced analytics and AI adoption look like?

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New Zealand City’s ‘Official Wizard’ Was Taken Off Its Payroll Because Magic Is Dead

A New Zealand city seems to have left itself vulnerable to a revenge hex.

The city council of Christchurch announced that it will stop paying its official wizard $16,000 ($10,400 USD) a year in December, New Zealand news site Stuff reported.

Ian Brackenbury Channell (aka the Wizard) has been serving as the city’s appointed necromancer since the olden days of 1998. Over the past few decades he has made a total of $368,000 (roughly $258,825 USD) “to provide acts of wizardry and other wizard-like-services — as part of promotional work for the city of Christchurch.”

The production of molecular positronium

Circa 2007


When intense positron bursts are implanted into a thin film of porous silica, di-positronium (Ps2) is created on the internal pore surfaces, providing experimental proof of the existence of the molecule. Using a more intense positron source, it may be possible to form a Bose–Einstein condensate of Psf2 molecules, which would be of significant fundamental interest and a milestone on the path to produce an annihilation gamma-ray laser.

Scientists Say We Need to Rethink How We Dispose of Satellites

The term, “casualty risk” doesn’t literally mean humans will be smashed by falling satellites, but there is an increasing risk of satellite collisions, which could hinder or even spell disaster for future orbital missions. And, satellites de-orbited without control could pose a danger to property or the well-being of some on the surface.

In other words, it’s time to rethink the way we dispose of satellites.

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What goes up, must come down.

Or at least, for satellites, it should.

A team of researchers completed an analysis studying the way satellites re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere and burn up, including cases where parts of them survive to impact the planet, and found that the “casualty risk” exceeds a critical threshold, according to a study recently shared on a pre-print server.