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The following articles by various authors are of significant interest. They cover many important topics including current events, historical documentation, commentaries, subjects in law, natural rights, and more. Take the time to educate yourself and form your own opinions. You will find it to be time well spent.

Scientists use sound to apparently defy gravity!

SOMERSET, England (PNN) - July 17, 2019 - Scientists have made levitation a reality using a rather unexpected tool - sound. An Anglo-Amerikan research team experimented with sound-based levitation and succeeded in suspending small bits of plastic in mid-air. Their results will contribute to the field of soft robotics, which uses similar plastic materials to create flexible robots.

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More than 10,000 quakes have struck Kalifornia and Nevada in the last 7 days!

LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia (PNN) - July 11, 2019 - The ground is constantly shaking in southern Kalifornia right now, and this has many concerned that another large earthquake may be coming. According to Cal Tech’s earthquake map, there have been 10,053 earthquakes in Kalifornia and Nevada over the past 7 days. Southern California is being hit by yet another new earthquake every few mo

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Could virtual actors put humans out of business?

LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia (PNN) - July 8, 2019 - When you’re watching a modern blockbuster such as The Avengers, it’s hard to escape the feeling that what you’re seeing is almost entirely computer-generated imagery, from the effects to the sets to fantastical creatures. But if there’s one thing you can rely on to be 100% real, it’s the actors. We might have virtual pop stars li

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Commentary: The perks of being a psychopath!

By Dr. John Glynn

July 7, 2019 - How does one go about identifying a psychopath? It’s not easy, but researchers have made a lot of headway in answering this very question.

It is common knowledge that men are more likely to have psychopathic tendencies than women. For example, one study on a prison population found 31% of men met the criteria, compared to o

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Humans wearing teledildonic suits can now have sex with each other over the Internet!

BRUSSELS, Belgium (PNN) - July 5, 2019 - The next generation of artificially intelligent cybernetic companions will bring about a Westworld-style future where some people will actively choose robotic partners over real humans.

Engineers, experts, scientists and philosophers gathered at the Free University of Brussels this week to discuss how we get from here to there, and how we shou

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DIY gun turret takes down mini-drones!

MONTPELIER, Vermont (PNN) - June 20, 2019 - A technology-enthusiast has invented a Nerf gun turret that can automatically track and shoot down small drones. The ingenious contraption uses the Lidar capabilities of a Kinect v2 sensor, and a milled steel two-axis gimbal, all controlled by software based on the OpenCV AI library, which is geared towards realtime computer vision.

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Scientists now believe black holes could be portals to other galaxies!

DARTMOUTH, Massachusetts (PNN) - June 7, 2019 - In Christopher Nolan’s epic 2014 science fiction film Interstellar, a rogue splinter group of scientists constituting the collapsed remnants of NASA hatch a plan to save Earth from environmental collapse by searching for potentially habitable planets in a distant galaxy. They get there by traveling through a wormhole and using the