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Scientists Figure Out Why Labrador Retrievers Can Never Eat Enough
Veterinary scientists seem to have unraveled a mystery about why certain dogs simply can’t ever get enough to eat. In research out this week, they found evidence that a common mutation in Labrador retrievers causes them to experience greater hunger than usual while also reducing their metabolic rate, both of which make the dogs predisposed…
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Crypto’s 2023 Water Use Could Cool 249 Billion Volkswagen Beetles
Cryptocurrency is a weird, bad bubble that’s largely already popped, but some folks just refuse to give up and cash out. Instead, they’re hawking cryptocurrency perfumes to appeal to women, presumably because they asked exactly zero women what they’d want from crypto. It’s interesting, though, that a major crypto firm would market itself using liquids.…
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Future Wars Will Probably Be Fought in Space
There’s a bunch of shit in space, and we keep putting more shit up there. Space is more accessible than ever before, and the U.S., China, and Russia are all hurtling toward potential space war and mutually-assured satellite destruction. It won’t be happening out among the stars, though; it’s likely to be waged in low…
