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2022-11-20

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The leap second's time is up world votes to stop pausing clocks

  • Or we could even decouple our sense of time from the Sun entirely to create a single world time zone in which different countries see the Sun overhead at different times of day or night. It could be a solution, she says. **Science already doesn't use local times; we talk in UTC.

Elizabeth Holmes Is Sentenced to More Than 11 Years for Theranos Fraud

  • Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the failed blood-testing start-up Theranos, was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison on Friday for defrauding investors about her company's technology and business dealings
  • Theranos's deceptions were exposed by The Wall Street Journal in 2015, and a government inspection shut down the company's lab soon after. Theranos dissolved in 2018, the year Ms. Holmes and her business partner, Ramesh Balwani, were indicted on fraud charges

The truffle industry is a big scam. Not just truffle oil, everything

  • You probably already know that truffle-flavored oil is not made from truffles. It is a cheap oil with added synthetic truffle flavor
  • Synthetic garbage sold as a luxury gourmet item gives customers the idea that truffles have an intense gas-like aroma

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