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Elizabeth Holmes Discusses Theranos at WSJDLive 2015

Elizabeth Holmes Discusses Theranos at WSJDLive 2015 Elizabeth Holmes Discusses Theranos at WSJDLive 2015 At the WSJDLive 2015 conference, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes discusses her company's proprietary technologies, the FDA's inspection of its facilities, and the assertion that her company was too quick to market its products.
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Electromagnetic Fields and Cancer - National Cancer Institute

Electromagnetic Fields and Cancer - National Cancer Institute
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Inside the Plan to Print All of Wikipedia and Send It to the Moon - Motherboard

Inside the Plan to Print All of Wikipedia and Send It to the Moon - Motherboard : The laser used to engrave the disk is able to print 300,000 dots per inch (DPI). To put this in perspective, most printers you’d find in your home or office max out at around 4800 DPI. According to Spivak, the patented printing technique will only take about a month to engrave the entirety of Wikipedia on the disk. “We have the only capability in the world today to write this much data, this precisely, in such a small form factor,” Spivak told me on the phone. In order to maximize space, Spivak and his colleagues are reformatting Wikipedia articles to cut bloat like white space and metadata. Moreover, the Arch Mission Foundation is developing an algorithm that will arrange the Wikipedia articles in such a way that they will be hyperlinked across the disk. In other words, if one article references another article, a reader will be able to locate that article on the disk using an algorithmic organizatio...
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Death of a Biohacker - The New York Times

Death of a Biohacker - The New York Times ‘Shame and Emotional Distress’ The stunt in Austin set off a mutiny. Tristan Roberts and the others who had been working as contractors for Ascendance in the lead-up to the October and February injections met in Jacksonville, Fla. There, they confronted Mr. Traywick for exaggerating Ascendance’s accomplishments and for not paying them what he had promised. They were also frustrated to discover that he had invited several film crews to Jacksonville to witness Mr. Roberts take another round of experimental H.I.V. therapy. But Mr. Roberts knew the compound wasn’t ready, and wouldn’t inject it. A confrontation unfolded between the collaborators,  some of which was caught by a camera crew from Vice . Mr. Traywick seized the key to the Jacksonville laboratory and had the locks changed. Most of the team left Florida dispirited. Mr. Roberts said that he would not work with Aaron again after that. Mr. Traywick told a journalist at Gizmodo, Kri...
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Home - Quora

Home - Quora : Lego — We exist to torture your feet. Vine — RIP. Facebook — We totally won’t sell your data. Coke — Same great taste. Same insanely high amount of sugar. Pepsi — For when there’s no Coke. Apple — Windows laptops might be cheaper and more powerful, but we look better! Fiji — Water for snobby rich people. Samsung — Our phones are fire. Amazon — Never leave your house again! Reddit — You’re not the only one with that fetish. Best Buy — Come look at things here and then buy them on Amazon. Wikipedia — For when you’re too lazy to do actual research. Target — So you don’t have to go to Walmart. Netflix — Spend more time searching than watching. Blockbuster — Fuck you, Netflix. YouTube — Slogan will display after ad (1 min 27 secs remaining). Nike — Just buy it. Starbucks — Get your daily dose of basic white girl! Google — Just try using any other search engine. Bing — Use us to search for Google. Instagram — Show off your photo editing ...
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France’s Canal partners w/ Apple to offer Apple TV 4K as alternative to cable box | 9to5Mac

France’s Canal partners w/ Apple to offer Apple TV 4K as alternative to cable box | 9to5Mac : Vivendi’s Canal Group made the announcement today, touting that customers will be able to choose the Apple TV 4K as their set-top box of choice starting on May 17th. Users will rent the device for right around�€6 ($7) per month.
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Mac Rumors: Apple Mac iOS Rumors and News You Care About

Mac Rumors: Apple Mac iOS Rumors and News You Care About : A group of students from the University of California, Berkeley and Georgetown University published a research paper this month, stating that they could embed commands into music recordings or spoken text. When played near an Amazon Echo or Apple iPhone, a person would just hear the song or someone speaking, while Siri and Alexa "might hear an instruction to add something to your shopping list." Or, more dangerous, unlock doors, wire money from your bank, and purchase items online.
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The Hiring Manager's Guide to Hiring the Right Person - Business Guides - The New York Times

The Hiring Manager's Guide to Hiring the Right Person - Business Guides - The New York Times : WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL WOULD YOU BE? AND WHY? This may strike you as silly, but the answer can tell you a lot, particularly when candidates explain why they chose a certain animal. If you want to test it before you use it in a job interview, try it out at your next dinner party.Ask enough people this question, and you’re likely to hear some surprising answers, and gain valuable insights that will tell you whether they’re right for the job. The chief executive who often asks this question, for example, says that if she’s hiring somebody for sales, she likes to hear a predator as the answer, like a lion. If somebody is going to be working in teams all the time, a social animal may be the right answer. The “why?” part of the answer will also tell you a lot about their level of self-awareness. WHAT QUALITIES OF YOUR PARENTS DO YOU LIKE THE MOST? We’re all influenced by our parents, often m...
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BBC - Capital - How your workplace is killing you

BBC - Capital - How your workplace is killing you : An Uber software engineer making a six-figure income killed himself in 2016, with his family blaming workplace stress. A 21-year-old Merrill Lynch intern collapsed and died in London after working 72 hours straight. When Arcelormittal closed a steel plant that it had taken over, a 56-year old employee died of a heart attack three weeks later. His family said it was the shock. And the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work has reported that over half of the 550 million working days lost annually from absenteeism “are stress related”.� In 2015, an analysis of almost 300 studies found that harmful workplace practices were as bad for mortality, and as likely to lead to a physician-diagnosed illness, as second-hand smoke, a known – and regulated – carcinogen. Harmful workplace practices include things like long working hours, work-family conflict, economic insecurity arising from job losses and not having regular or predictable wo...
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Why You Should Avoid Dividend Growth Investing (Or Not) | Seeking Alpha

Why You Should Avoid Dividend Growth Investing (Or Not) | Seeking Alpha : Investors who invest in ETFs try to mimic the market's total return. They avoid buying individual stocks, and they buy the cheapest index funds available. They will tell you that you cannot beat the markets in the long term. You may beat the market once or even twice, but statistically the chances of beating the markets for many consecutive years are slim to none. Therefore, it makes much more sense to not even try, avoid the loss of potential return and buy index funds that mimic the S&P 500 (SPY).
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Diary of a Dividend Diva: Skimming Off the Choicest Payouts

Diary of a Dividend Diva: Skimming Off the Choicest Payouts : 1. A yield in the "sweet spot." A too-high yield indicates stock-specific risk, while a too-low yield requires too much trading for one to accumulate a decent amount of income. For my partnership, the goal is 8% dividend income -- so I target stocks yielding around 4%, assuming I will "turn" my capital twice during the quarter. A 4% yield is high enough to be meaningful (any individual dividend is around 1%), but still low enough that yield does not indicate excessive risk. 2. Reasonable trading volume. You need to get in and get out relatively quickly, so you need some liquidity in the stock. Certainly you do not want to move the price with your trading. I tend to just use highly liquid large-cap stocks for which my trading will be irrelevant. 3. I focus on sectors that are not owned "for the dividend." Certain groups, such as utilities, are owned by income investors. As a result, they trad...
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How to make friends with a Swiss person - SWI swissinfo.ch

How to make friends with a Swiss person - SWI swissinfo.ch : Whether you're in Switzerland for business or pleasure, the guide has a wide range of pointers that could come in handy. It explains the 'challenges' of getting close to a Swiss person, and offers some advice on getting over the most commonly-encountered hurdles.�
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Would professional sports totally collapse in a world without beer?

Would professional sports totally collapse in a world without beer? : Daniel Waldron asks: Would professional sports in America collapse without beer (sales, ads, sponsors)? I shudder to think about the precipitating incident that would result in a beer ban across pro sports. Concession-stand suds have been a contributing factor in countless stadium fights and at least one full-fledged riot, but I’d wager it’s more likely that ISIS will get an NFL team than that leagues will decide to halt beer sales and partnerships. Realism is not the name of the game for the Sports Authority. However, if we can get real for just a brief moment, there’s too much beer money tied up in big-time sports for things to change; Mr. Met could get a DUI in the bullpen cart and we’d all just look the other way. Consider that Anheuser-Busch InBev struck a $1.4 billion deal with the NFL more than two years ago to make Bud Light the league’s official beer sponsor through 2022. The company also pays MLB an est...
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Will A Rise In Pro-Trump Athletes Put An End to ‘Stick to Sports’?

Will A Rise In Pro-Trump Athletes Put An End to ‘Stick to Sports’? : a match against Mexican boxer Francisco Vargas this month, U.S. boxer Rod Salka donned shorts reading “America 1st” which had a brick wall design, obviously referencing President Trump’s desire to build a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. This is one of the few instances we’ve seen of an athlete who’s clearly in support of Trump openly expressing his views. Since the “Stick the Sports” movement is greatly made up of Trump supporters, could a rise in pro-Trump athletes mean an end to the “Stick to Sports” narrative?
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Avviso - Wikipedia

Avviso - Wikipedia : Avvisi (Italian:�[avˈviːzo]; plural: avvisi) were hand-written newsletters used to convey political, military, and economic news quickly and efficiently throughout Europe, and more specifically Italy, during the early modern era (1500-1700). In the beginning avvisi were very similar to letters written from one dignitary to another, but diverged from such letters in the sixteenth century with more standardized practices. Avvisi can be divided into two categories: 'public' avvisi and 'secret' avvisi, though each copy was often written by the same person.[1] In Italian, the word avviso translates to notice, warning, advice, or announcement.
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Models of collaborative tagging - Wikipedia

Models of collaborative tagging - Wikipedia : For most tagging systems the total number of tags in the collective vocabulary is much less than the total number of objects being tagged. Given this multiplicity of tags to documents, a question remains: how effective are the tags at isolating any single document? Naively, if we specify a single tag in this system we would uniquely identify lots of documents – thus the answer to our question is "not very well!". However this method carries a faulty assumption; not every document is equal. Some documents are more popular and important than others, and this importance is conveyed by the number bookmarks per document. Thus, we can reformulate the above question to be: how well does the mapping of tags to documents retain about the distribution of the documents? Information theory provides a natural framework to understand the amount of shared information between two random variables. The conditional entropy measures the amount of en...
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Tabloid (newspaper format) - Wikipedia

Tabloid (newspaper format) - Wikipedia : The word "tabloid" comes from the name given by the London-based pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Co. to the compressed tablets they marketed as "Tabloid" pills in the late 1880s.[1] The connotation of tabloid was soon applied to other small compressed items. A 1902 item in London's Westminster Gazette noted, "The proprietor intends to give in tabloid form all the news printed by other journals." Thus "tabloid journalism" in 1901 originally meant a paper that condensed stories into a simplified, easily absorbed format. The term preceded the 1918 reference to smaller sheet newspapers that contained the condensed stories.[2]
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Tabloid (newspaper format) - Wikipedia

Tabloid (newspaper format) - Wikipedia : The word "tabloid" comes from the name given by the London-based pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Co. to the compressed tablets they marketed as "Tabloid" pills in the late 1880s.[1] The connotation of tabloid was soon applied to other small compressed items. A 1902 item in London's Westminster Gazette noted, "The proprietor intends to give in tabloid form all the news printed by other journals." Thus "tabloid journalism" in 1901 originally meant a paper that condensed stories into a simplified, easily absorbed format. The term preceded the 1918 reference to smaller sheet newspapers that contained the condensed stories.[2]
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Toward a synthesis of cognitive biases

Toward a synthesis of cognitive biases : A single coherent framework is proposed to synthesize long-standing research on 8 seemingly unrelated cognitive decision-making biases. During the past 6 decades, hundreds of empirical studies have resulted in a variety of rules of thumb that specify how humans systematically deviate from what is normatively expected from their decisions. Several complementary generative mechanisms have been proposed to explain those cognitive biases. Here it is suggested that (at least) 8 of these empirically detected decision-making biases can be produced by simply assuming noisy deviations in the memory-based information processes that convert objective evidence (observations) into subjective estimates (decisions). An integrative framework is presented to show how similar noise-based mechanisms can lead to conservatism, the Bayesian likelihood bias, illusory correlations, biased self– other placement, subadditivity, exaggerated expectation, the confidence bia...
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Evolution of what?

Evolution of what Structures of evolving populations are traditionally derived from traits of its members. An alternative approach uses network metrics to define groups that evolve jointly. This supposes that selection acts not only on who members are (i.e., traits) but also on to whom they are connected (i.e., interdependent relationships). This paper presents a method to meaningfully quantify differences in evolutionary forces over multiple levels of population taxonomies and tests almost 1,000 multilevel partitions of 8 empirical networked populations evolving over time. It shows that multilevel network metrics as selection criteria identifies stronger evolutionary natural selection than trait based population taxonomies.
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The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information

The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information : We estimated��the world’s technological capacity to store, communicate, and compute information, tracking 60 analog and digital technologies during the period from 1986 to 2007. In 2007, humankind was able to store 2.9 � 1020 optimally compressed bytes, communicate almost 2 � 1021 bytes, and carry out 6.4 � 1018 instructions per second on general-purpose computers. General-purpose computing capacity grew at an annual rate of 58%. The world’s capacity for bidirectional telecommunication grew at 28% per year, closely followed by the increase in globally stored information (23%). Humankind’s capacity for unidirectional information diffusion through broadcasting channels has experienced comparatively modest annual growth (6%). Telecommunication has been dominated by digital technologies since 1990 (99.9% in digital format in 2007), and the majority of our technological memory has been in digital format sinc...
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Norway Stops Making Withdrawals From Its $1 Trillion Wealth Fund - Bloomberg

Norway Stops Making Withdrawals From Its $1 Trillion Wealth Fund - Bloomberg : In its budget for this year, released in October, the government anticipated the price of Brent crude would average $55 per barrel this year, far below the current level of $73. Unemployment in Norway has also subsided quickly from a peak in 2016. It’s now below 4 percent again, boosting tax revenue and damping the need to spend. The government will release its revised budget for this year on May 15. The wealth fund’s chief executive officer, Yngve Slyngstad, last week flagged that the withdrawals were coming to an end. With a recovery in oil prices and rising petroleum income for the government, it’s “obviously possible” that 2018 could be the first year since 2015 to yield a net deposit of cash into the fund, he said.
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Free baseball: Athletics draw huge crowd in free game against White Sox

Free baseball: Athletics draw huge crowd in free game against White Sox : OAKLAND — If you give it away, they will come — at least a fair number of them. The Oakland Athletics’ experiment with free admission was mostly a success Tuesday night�as they beat the Chicago White Sox, 10-2, in front of a sizable crowd that fell short of a full house. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of their first game in Oakland – and as a way to attract disaffected fans – the A's did not charge for admission or parking and were�rewarded with their biggest crowd of the season at 46,028, some 2,000 shy of capacity for baseball at the Oakland Coliseum. The lower and second bowls of the stadium were packed and the top deck and outfield seating were mostly full. However, the top of the structure known as Mt. Davis, which was built for football and increases capacity to more than 56,000, was not needed and sat empty. The club had received some 70,000 RSVPs and, with standing room, could have we...
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Fifa set to meet over $25bn offer to launch two tournaments - BBC Sport

Fifa set to meet over $25bn offer to launch two tournaments - BBC Sport : Fifa is looking to answer the questions raised by pointing, for example, to a reduction of playing days for the Club World Cup and working with the confederations on the Nations League plan. The number of fixtures and time at tournaments is also something they feel has been considered. Under the new format for the Club World Cup, 31 games would be played over a total of 18 days. Fifa ultimately feels the proposals are for the benefit of the game as a whole - the job now is convince those whom it will impact within the sport.
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Grand Challenge for Healthy Longevity - National Academy of Medicine | National Academy of Medicine

Grand Challenge for Healthy Longevity - National Academy of Medicine | National Academy of Medicine : By 2050, this percentage is projected to more than double, reaching 1.6 billion. The global population of the “oldest old” – people aged 80 and older – is expected to more than triple between 2015 and 2050, growing from 126 million to 447 million. At the current pace, population aging is poised to impose a significant strain on economies, health systems, and social structures worldwide. But it doesn’t have to.� We can envision, just on the horizon, an explosion of potential new medicines, treatments, technologies, and preventive and social strategies that could help transform the way we age and ensure better health, function, and productivity during a period of extended longevity. Now is the time to support the next breakthroughs in healthy longevity, so that all of us can benefit from the tremendous opportunities they have to offer. �
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Alibaba Profits Hit $10 Billion as Entertainment Losses Grow – Variety

Alibaba Profits Hit $10 Billion as Entertainment Losses Grow – Variety : “During the past year, we doubled down on technology development, cloud computing, logistics, digital entertainment, and local services so that we are in a position to capture consumption growth in China and other emerging markets,” CEO Daniel Zhang said in a statement that accompanied the financial data.
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event BIOPHILIC LEADERSHIP SUMMIT APRIL 8-11 | SERENBE

BIOPHILIC LEADERSHIP SUMMIT APRIL 8-11 | SERENBE Meet with national leaders and industry experts to hear their expertise, form new partnerships and discuss future directions in the field of biophilic urbanism and design. Experience wellbeing, farm-to-table food, interactive workshops, musical performances, and educational keynotes and discussions in the pastoral setting of  Serenbe . From our pre-conference welcome to our closing educational tour, the Summit provides endless opportunities to network with fellow attendees and share new ideas.
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Judge TS Ellis doubts Mueller indictment on Manafort: 'Come on, man!' - Business Insider Deutschland

Judge TS Ellis doubts Mueller indictment on Manafort: 'Come on, man!' - Business Insider Deutschland : But Ellis apparently wasn't buying it, reportedly characterizing the special counsel's office's argument as: "We said this was what the investigation was about, but we are not bound by it, and we were lying." "Come on, man!" Ellis said.
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Drinking baking soda could be an inexpensive, safe way to combat autoimmune disease -- ScienceDaily

Drinking baking soda could be an inexpensive, safe way to combat autoimmune disease -- ScienceDaily : Mesothelial cells line body cavities, like the one that contains our digestive tract, and they also cover the exterior of our organs to quite literally keep them from rubbing together. About a decade ago, it was found that these cells also provide another level of protection. They have little fingers, called microvilli, that sense the environment, and warn the organs they cover that there is an invader and an immune response is needed.
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Drinking baking soda could be an inexpensive, safe way to combat autoimmune disease -- ScienceDaily

Drinking baking soda could be an inexpensive, safe way to combat autoimmune disease -- ScienceDaily : Mesothelial cells line body cavities, like the one that contains our digestive tract, and they also cover the exterior of our organs to quite literally keep them from rubbing together. About a decade ago, it was found that these cells also provide another level of protection. They have little fingers, called microvilli, that sense the environment, and warn the organs they cover that there is an invader and an immune response is needed.
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Lonely and non-empathetic people more likely to make unethical shopping decisions: Consumers who are lonely and not empathetic are not motivated to make moral choices at the store -- ScienceDaily

Lonely and non-empathetic people more likely to make unethical shopping decisions: Consumers who are lonely and not empathetic are not motivated to make moral choices at the store -- ScienceDaily : Lonely and non-empathetic people more likely to make unethical shopping decisions Consumers who are lonely and not empathetic are not motivated to make moral choices at the store
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How your baby's hearing develops | BabyInfo

How your baby's hearing develops | BabyInfo : 0-2 months old - High pitched noises are particularly noticeable for your baby as their ears tend to be more sensitive to these types of noises as a result of being in the womb and hearing only deeper, muffled sounds. � 3-4 months old - your baby will be more responsive to identifiable sounds such as your voice, nursery tunes, and other household noises such as the vacuum cleaner! � 5-6 months old - your baby will have a more developed sense of where noises come from, they will look at you when they hear your voice and can usually identify their own name at this stage too. Try calling their name when they aren’t looking at you, or speaking about them, and watch as they turn to look at you.
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5 Tips For Using A Baby Swing To Calm Your Baby - Care.com

5 Tips For Using A Baby Swing To Calm Your Baby - Care.com : "More" isn't always better. You can find dozens of different types of swings on the market -- ones that have back-and-forth or side-to-side movements (or both), colorful mobiles and more. According to McGinn, most of these features don't make a difference to your baby, but she specifically says that parents should avoid ones with light projectors and added entertainment that can overstimulate your little one. The one feature she does recommend? A white-noise sound that will help soothe your baby.
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Review: Living with Vitra’s Pacific Chair, Jony Ive’s choice for Apple Park | 9to5Mac

Review: Living with Vitra’s Pacific Chair, Jony Ive’s choice for Apple Park | 9to5Mac : Unfortunately, this is one situation where form comes at the cost of function. The aluminum armrests are fixed, and can also be quite cold and hard when used for extended periods of time. In chilly January weather, I found that they wicked heat from my body, even with a long sleeve shirt on. Vitra offers a version with a more comfortable leather pad, but it compromises the armrest’s clean lines.
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mmm Africa splitting is just the beginning, Earth's undergoing massive changes

Africa splitting is just the beginning, Earth's undergoing massive changes : It's a small indication of a drift that moves just a few centimetres each year. Tiny, but one that suggests in 10 million years the east African plate of Somali will be isolated by ocean, and in 50 million years Africa's bulk will have pushed into Europe. Roughly 300 to 180 million years ago, all of the continental plates were piled together in what was called Pangaea. Current predictions see all of the continents will squish together again in about 250 million years.
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