The Daily Populous

Friday October 20th, 2017 morning edition

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As of 3:05 p.m. local time on Thursday, a counter on the landing page of the game showed users had given Xi a total of more than a billion "claps.".

Xi's speech on Wednesday touched on many issues, including a new era of "socialism with Chinese characteristics" and the progress of his highly-publicized anti-graft campaign.

The president also addressed the topic of economic reform in the world's second-largest economy — which some believe might not necessarily be carried out anytime soon.

Tencent, which also runs messaging service WeChat, was one of several Chinese tech companies fined by authorities in China last month for failing to adhere to internet regulations.

The Shenzhen-headquartered company was fined the "maximum" amount, regulators said. »

A Catfishing With a Happy Ending

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Emma Perrier was deceived by an older man on the internet—a hoax that turned into an unbelievable love story.

Charming Ronnie attempted a little French, but when Emma wrote to him in Italian, she was surprised that he didn’t speak it.

He admitted using photographs of a random male model from Google that he had stolen. »

How the Photography Industry Exposed the Atomic Bomb

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By United States Army (Jones, Manhattan: The Army and the Bomb, p. 479) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Amazingly, once Kodak began to investigate the problem, they discovered that the fallout from the Trinity Test had reached at least as far east as Indiana.

This revelation came to light after Kodak found that the corn husks they used to pack their products (which were grown in Indiana) tested positive for iodine-131 - a radioactive isotope. »

New Mexico will restore evolution to science standards - KFDA - NewsChannel 10 / Amarillo News, Weather, Sports

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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico's proposed school science standards are being revised after a public outcry against the deletion or omission of references to global warming, evolution and the age of the Earth.

Public Education Secretary Christopher Ruszkowski announced Tuesday several changes to the final version of the state standards that incorporate suggestions from the public.

The Public Education Department says final standards will restore references to the 4.6 billion-year age of the Earth, the rise in global temperatures over the past century and the process of evolution due to genetic variation. »

Pet Dogs Produce More Facial Expressions When Humans Are Looking At Them

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We now know that humans have 27 distinct facial expressions, while chimpanzees can produce 13, horses can produce 17, and dogs can produce 16 (not bad, dogs).

But until now, there was simply no evidence that dogs routinely make their own facial expressions in response to humans.

“We now know dogs make more facial expressions when the human is paying attention. »