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Today, it is the only visible part of the now defunct station. The rest is buried in snow. The Third Soviet Antarctic Expedition arrived at this remote location on 14 December 1958. Reaching the pole of inaccessibility was an express objective of the Third Soviet Antarctic Expedition. The worlds loneliest statue: Lenins bust at the Pole of Inaccessibility Station in 2008. In reality, it was another opportunity for America and Russia to outdo each other in the Cold War....

On Monday,Facebook launched Messenger Kids, a version of Messenger for young children. Here are my running thoughts: Facebook for kids? Its also designed to be compliant with the Childrens Online Privacy and Protection Act, orCOPPA. So theres that checkmark. Handing our kids over to the Zuck-machine feels, at the very least, unsettling. Also, its designed for kids ages six to 12. Thats way too young for a messaging app … right?...

I dont trust investing, a friend said once. I asked her why. Isnt it kind of like playing the lottery? Investing is intimidating enough for people as it is. Toss in something as unpredictable as cryptocurrency, and people give up on it altogether. It reinforces the notion that investing is like buying a bunch of scratch-offs. But leave me out of it. The thing about cryptocurrency, Mindel says, is that we dont understand it....

Youve got problems, Ive got advice. This advice isnt sugar-coatedin fact, its sugar-free, and may even be a little bitter. Welcome to Tough Love. This week we have a son whos starting to resent visiting his boring family. I simply want to give you the tools you’re gonna wanna enrich your damn lives. If for whatever reason you dont like my advice, feel free tofile a formal complaint here. Now then, lets get on with it....

Many past fatalities may, however, have been avoidable. Heres the safety info you should be up on in case you go down. There is no consistent way to avoid a plane crash, and no methods that guarantee survival. That said, most accidentsare notlike that. Sit in the Back of the Plane Location, location, location. Hereswhat they found: Seats in the rear third of the aircraft had a 32% fatality rate....

How to teach kids to spot fake news? First: Teach everyone to spot fake news. That means asking: Whatelsewould have to be true for this to be true? The second question, says Rogow, is who benefits if this is true? Who benefits if there really were a pedophile ring in a pizza parlor in Washington? But, you say, isnt therealnews these days totally incredible? Thats when you start educating your kids on reporting 101....

A loaf of bread cost 200 billion marks. A weeks pension would not buy even a cup of coffee. The mark was freefalling and its value decreasing by the minute. Restaurants stopped printing menus because by the time the food arrived the price had gone up. One guy drank the first cup of coffee at 5,000 marks. The second cup cost him 9,000 marks. The stories from those days were horrifying and amusing at the same time....

Like most kids who are five, Jia Jiangs son Brian hears no often. Or at least thats what his dad is training him to do. Jiang is known as the rejection guy. Jiang has some ideas. In upper middle-class families, our goal is to make our kids feel good, he says. We want them to feel happy. That is important, but what Ive found I need to do is expand their comfort level....

Right after reinventingexisting public services with private apps, hacking death may be the ultimate dream of SiliconValleys elite. So Zuckerbergs prediction may actually be easier than ridding his platform of Russian bots. People throughout history have tried, but the garbage body always gets in the way. So some really profound thing has to happen if were going to [change that]. For instance, eradicating smallpox cost just$300 million in less than 10 years....

Photo credit:Gzzz/Wikimedia Kupari was once a hugely popular holiday resort. Over the next two decades five more hotels containing over 2,000 beds were built for officers and their families. Altogether, Kuparis hotels could accommodate up to 4,500 guests. Then, the Croatian War of Independence broke out in 1991. That summer, the Yugoslav Peoples Army moved into Dubrovnik and began bombarding the historic city. The biggest hotel, Kupari, was devoured in flames....

His body had now shrunk to only 33 pounds, or about 15 kg. But curiously, it hadnt decomposed. All the bodies had undergone spontaneous mummification a short time after they were buried. Their skins have turned yellow-brown and look like tanned leather. The brain is one-third of its volume. Inan articlepublished in 1906, writer F. Savorgnan de Brazza discusses several hypothesis regarding the cause of the mummification. TheHypha tombicina, Brazza wrote, is very eager for moisture....

The human papillomavirus can cause cervical cancer, but it takes years to do so. This can happen even if you were vaccinated against HPV. I had the vaccine, but have had abnormal paps more than once. (The first time wasfive years ago. Thevirus can lie dormant in your bodyfor up to sixteen years before revealing any abnormal cells or symptoms. Moreover, HPV can persist and recur,according to Clinical Advisor. Your cervical cancer screening may include a Pap test, an HPV test, or both....

I cant remember a Christmas dinner without a lasagna on the table. That meal, the last big holiday meal for many families, deserves better.Lasagna is averytouchy subject. People like it their way, and will fight to the death for it. Im not going to sit here and lecture you on the worth of making a lasagna bolognese. Add the onion and cook until translucent, then add the garlic and cook until fragrant....