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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine researchers: It’s time to study the health impacts of TikTok (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/29/2021 - 16:47Congress is facing a December time crunch. Here’s what to expect. (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/29/2021 - 06:34Twitter verified a fake account in the Norwegian government, but it’s not Twitter’s fault (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 11/24/2021 - 06:39High-speed internet could be coming to Antarctica
Despite its central role in Antarctic research, the McMurdo Station is lacking something most scientists working at 21st-century laboratories take for granted: high-speed internet. McMurdo sits on the only continent that doesn’t have a high-speed fiber optic cable connection to the rest of the world. In early 2021, the National Science Foundation began seriously exploring the possibility of building a fiber optic cable that would travel along the seafloor from Antarctica to neighboring New Zealand or Australia.