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Japan 🇯🇵 has the highest share of centenarians relative to population

Desperate times call for desperate measures. And sometimes, when survival is at stake, that means human flesh is on the menu. ⁠ ⁠ According to William Seabrook, a journalist who nibbled on cooked human flesh during his travels to West Africa in the 1920s, “It was not like any other meat I had ever tasted. It was so nearly like good, fully developed veal that I think no person with a palate of ordinary, normal sensitiveness could distinguish it from veal.”⁠ ⁠ Here’s a look at some cannibals who knew that taste intimately. Link in bio.

We can now reach the Landsberg limit in a solar cell. https://t.co/grkAyZ8uNZ

Infrastructure projects in India are delayed 50% of the time, and one in four are over budget. The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has decided that technology is the solution to these never-ending and notorious bottlenecks. https://t.co/3RSVl2p14S https://t.co/MMS21l60HO

A U.S.-based start-up, Cemvita Factory, backed by investors like Mistubishi and United Airlines, promises to produce clean "gold" hydrogen at less than US$1/kg through an interesting technique. https://t.co/CRpgk39WKW https://t.co/XW7kqg3H4S

Elon Musk-backed, Takachar, uses novel device in rural communities to tap into, an otherwise lost, billion-dollar global market. https://t.co/z3RdVFPx39

The new theory questions conventional theories, including those predicting the Moon evolved within a debris disc around Earth. https://t.co/2FKfPYE4pG

The researchers brilliantly demonstrated, for the very first time, how to chemically transform an abundant, plant-based starting material into EBC-46. https://t.co/M9HXIIkD7e

In 1871, lawyer Clement Vallandigham was defending a client accused of murder. In demonstrating how the victim might have accidentally shot himself, he accidentally shot himself. He died. His client was acquitted.

Will Filippo Ganna be able to break the record with this bike? https://t.co/Rgny6LWPR3

The company's test demonstrated the viability of catapulting satellite components into the sky. https://t.co/4lMTfyw46I

Some scientists believe the universe is shaped like a Pringle (a hyperbolic paraboloid). (Image: Glane23; CC BY-SA.) https://t.co/AK79ah6lG9

Aspect, Clauser, and Zeilinger won the prize for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science. https://t.co/RqBrDYLyhg

Sweden's Svantee Pääbo won the Prize for his contribution to sequencing the Neanderthal genome. https://t.co/OWVhDlWu3S https://t.co/LMMKmU9oIP

My college major.