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Complaints to Surrey’s ethics commissioner may be halted until next mayor, council elected
The ability of Surrey’s ethics commissioner to investigate complaints about the conduct of mayor and council could be put on pause until after the next municipal election. A motion set to come to council Monday proposes that “the Commissioner must suspend the processing of a complaint received regarding a Council Member under this Bylaw, including…
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Extremely harsh volcanic lake shows how life might have existed on Mars
A few specialist microbes survive conditions analogous to those of Mars’ early history, reports a new publication in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Science—and this may be thanks to a broad range of adaptations. The hydrothermal crater lake of the Poás volcano in Costa Rica is one of the most hostile habitats on the planet.Read…
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Highest resolution view of the heart of a blazar achieved
An international team, including several researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, has mapped the active galaxy OJ 287 with an angular resolution of 12 microarcseconds in the radio range. This is currently the highest resolution that can be achieved with astronomical observations. This was made possible by the technique of…
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Putin’s Ukraine aggression is a ‘red meat’ distraction for ‘dissatisfied’ Russian public, congressman says
Rep. Jake Auchincloss told Fox News it’s important to understand Russia’s internal politics play a role in Putin’s plans to invade Ukraine.Read original article here.Written by: Tyler Olson
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‘The View’ Hosts Slam Backlash To President Biden’s Plans To Appoint First Black Female Supreme Court Justice: “All Politics Is Identity Politics”
“This country is not race neutral.”Read original article here.Written by: mliss1578
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Marvel Drops Major Clues on the War Between Avengers, X-Men and Eternals
✖More details on the Marvel Comics event between the Avengers, X-Men, and Eternals have been released. “Judgment Day” is the title of the event that’s debuting in Summer 2022, though until now there hasn’t been much information on the cause of the war between the three popular franchises. The Avengers, X-Men, and Eternals are all…
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These were the 5 worst performing cryptos over the past week amid the bitcoin bear market
With more than 17,000 cryptocurrencies in existence and counting, there are more than triple the number of crypto coins than there are US stocks.Read original article here.
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Nonfungible Tidbits: This week in bitcoin, cryptocurrency and NFTs – CNET
Our inaugural outing of this news roundup, looking back on the week of Jan. 24.Read original article here.Written by: Julian Dossett
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101-year-old tennis player serving up aces in Mountain View
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (KRON) – They say age is just a number — Mountain View’s Lloyd Lettis is proof of that. “I don’t feel any different,” said Lloyd. “I think my dad’s gonna keep going for another 5 or 10 years. He never looks at himself as being old,” said Bill Lettis, Lloyd’s son. Big…
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Unistellar’s Plans for Science and Astronomy in 2022
Unistellar’s eVscope has proven its ability to do serious astronomy, with more to come in 2022. There’s a revolution underway in how amateur astronomers contribute to modern astronomy. Smartscopes—telescopes controlled remotely via tablets or smartphones—are making there way into the modern amateur telescope market and out into the field. These have the ability to not…