The Daily Populous

Sunday July 30th, 2017 night edition

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CBC News easily found this online streaming site offering free access to new Game of Thrones shows.

According to TorrentFreak, a news site that covers piracy issues, HBO is targeting people suspected of illegally downloading Game of Thrones by sending notices to their internet provider.

Last year, HBO sent a similar message to pirates and raised the ire of many Canadian Thrones fans.

"It's just not viable for me to spend 150 bucks for HBO," says Josh Randell, who lives in Corner Brook, N.L.

Despite the warning letters, Randell continues to pirate Game of Thrones, and so do many other people across the globe.

It told CBC News that while it continues to look at other options, for now Game of Thrones remains only available to traditional TV subscribers.

"We strongly discourage piracy, which hurts content creators, and encourage all Game of Thrones fans to subscribe to HBO Canada," said spokesperson Scott Henderson in an email to CBC News. »

Philippines mayor accused by Duterte of drugs trade links shot dead

Authored by bbc.com
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption President Duterte's war on drugs has reportedly left more than 7,000 people dead in a year.

A Philippine mayor accused by President Rodrigo Duterte of having links with the illegal drugs trade has been shot dead in a police raid.

More than 7,000 people are said to have been killed since Mr Duterte launched a war on the drugs trade in July 2016. »

Unpaid internships damage long-term graduate pay prospects

Authored by theguardian.com
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Almost every graduate taking an unpaid internship can expect to be worse off three years later than if they had gone straight into work.

Interns who were privately schooled or had parents in professional occupations also found themselves worse off, albeit by not as much.

Those from more disadvantaged backgrounds were more than £4,000 worse off than their counterparts who went straight into work. »

Controversial New Theory Suggests Life Wasn't a Fluke of Biology—It Was Physics

Authored by wired.com
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England said this restructuring effect, which he calls dissipation-driven adaptation, fosters the growth of complex structures, including living things.

Jeremy England, an associate professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, thinks he has found the physical mechanism underlying the origin of life.

Living things have gone on to do a lot more than England and Horowitz’s chemical reaction network does, he noted. »

Structural and Functional Substitution of Deleted Primary Sensory Neurons by New Growth from Intrinsic Spinal Cord Nerve Cells: An Alternative Concept in Reconstruction of Spinal Cord Circuits

Authored by journal.frontiersin.org

Peripheral nerve grafts had been implanted into the spinal cord to reconnect to the peripheral nerves for motor and sensory function.

For spinal cord sections, the spinal cord tissue was embedded in paraffin wax and cut in 25 µm transverse sections using a microtome.

Carlstedt T. Dorsal root innervation of spinal cord neurons after dorsal root implantation into the spinal cord of adult rats. »