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Get Ready for More Auroras: The Enormous Sunspot Cluster Is Back
It’s back! After unleashing the strongest geomagnetic storm in more than 20 years, the notorious sunspot cluster AR3664 is once again visible and still spewing copious amounts of radiation into space. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center recorded a solar flare erupting from the southeast limb of the Sun on…
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Communists Oppose Naming A French Street For Steve Jobs, Suggest Ada Lovelace Instead
France has a surprisingly large number of streets named after Americans. There are streets named for Thomas Edison, George Gershwin and Ben Franklin. But recent plans to name a street after Steve Jobs has encountered some resistance. Specifically, resistance from French Communists.
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This Vending Machine Dispenses Fresh Bread
Never again will I underestimate the importance the French people place on their baguettes. This machine, for example, sold 4,500 warm, fresh baguettes in July alone.
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Emirates’ iLingual App Half Solves The Language Barrier
There are a few different iPhone apps out there designed to make inter-language communication an easier proposition, but none of them are quite like the Emirates iLingual app. Combining either French, German or Arabic with those stupid mouth replacement gimmicks you see on late-night TV infomercials, the app lets you “speak” another language through the…