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good afternoon Fade to Black breaking

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news for this Wednesday April 5th

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2023 this is all of the news that you

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need I'm Jimmy Church

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on this day in history

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1994 Kurt Cobain dies by Suicide his

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body was discovered inside his home in

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Seattle Washington three days later by

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Gary Smith an electrician who was

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installing a security system in the

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house

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on this day in 1994 fader fact

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the first transaction on the internet

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check this out genocide

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the first transaction on the internet

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was of weed

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that's right the Mary Jane pot marijuana

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it was recorded in the 1970s and the

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sale of the bag of stash was negotiated

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between Stanford and MIT students

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there you go there's your fader fact

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the breaking news

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ingredients for Life discovered in the

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Perseus molecular cloud in Space 1

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000 light years from Earth a soup of

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molecules in a distant star forming

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Cloud contains compounds that are

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considered the essential building blocks

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for life all of this was announced

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earlier today these molecules can

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contribute to the construction of amino

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acids which themselves form the basis of

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genetic material and are believed to

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have been essential in the development

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of the first

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microorganisms right here on planet

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Earth the team discovered the presence

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of molecular hydrogen

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hydroxyl water carbon dioxide and

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ammonia as well as several carbon-based

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molecules the Prebiotic molecules were

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found in a star cluster within the

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Perseus molecular cloud called

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ic348 the stars in the cluster are

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estimated to be very young between two

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and three million years old for

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comparison our middle-aged sun is around

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4.6 billion years old this is big big

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breaking news I've been following this

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story now for a couple of weeks here's

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the latest updates

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British billionaire Sir Richard

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Branson's rocket company virgin orbit

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has now filed for bankruptcy in the

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United States after failing to secure

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new investment the satellite launch

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company halted operations weeks ago but

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it hoped to find a buyer for the

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business the company based down the

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street from my studio announced last

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week that it would cut 85 percent of its

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750 strong Workforce earlier this year

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virgin orbit and its rocket failed to

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launch and complete its first ever

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satellite launch from the United Kingdom

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soil yeah well it got the plane got off

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the ground

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the rocket didn't make orbit

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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter has been

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flying on Mars for nearly two years now

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I can't believe it has been two years

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and it's still breaking records it was

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only supposed to fly for like a week

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it's two years later and this latest

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record run

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was on its 49th flight Ingenuity flew

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faster and higher than it had ever had

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before on its most recent red planet

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sortie which occurred three days ago on

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Sunday April 2nd the four pound Chopper

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reached a top speed of 14.5 miles per

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hour and an altitude of 52.5 feet the

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previous records were 13.4 miles per

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hour and 46 feet and it just keeps on

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the world's first Fleet of autonomous

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commuter buses okay this is where I

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repeat the headline are you ready

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the world's first Fleet of autonomous

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commuter buses what could go wrong is

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slated to go into service next month in

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Scotland this follows at least one

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successful just one

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this follows at least one successful

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trial run in January alongside Financial

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backing Boost from the uh UK government

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on May 15th Stagecoach itself driving

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Vehicles will begin operations along a

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14-mile route that includes edinburgh's

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historic fourth Road suspension bridge

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according to the BBC a total of five

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single Decker Vehicles will be in

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service carrying roughly 10 000

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I can guarantee

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there's going to be a follow-up news

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story in May

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Chia Chia Pets right Chia Pets remember

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Chia Pets

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did you have a Chia Pet I never did I

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wanted to get one

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I never got a Chia Pet but chia seeds

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are in the news and it's not what you

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think it involves Alan Turing chia seeds

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sprouted in trays and have

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experimentally confirmed a mathematical

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model proposed by computer scientists

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and polymath Alan Turing and he did all

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of this decades ago the model describes

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how patterns might emerge in desert

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vegetation leopard spots and zebra

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stripes and you remember all of that

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well check this out these and other

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blotchy and stripy features in nature

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are examples of what touring called uh

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patterns because they're called touring

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patterns because he named all of this

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back in 1952 Turing presented equations

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for how simple interactions between

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competing factors can lead to

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surprisingly complex surface patterns in

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the case of arid regions the competition

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for moisture among plants would drive

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the intricate distribution of vegetation

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right makes sense actually in research

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presented at the American physical

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society meeting Brendan the Aquino who

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studied Fenton's lab during the summer

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of 2022 described an experiment that

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seems to confirm that turing's model

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truly underlies patterns in vegetation

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the team grew chia seeds in in even

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layers and trays and then adjusted the

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available moisture in essence the

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researchers were experimentally tweaking

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the factors that appear in the turing's

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equations sure enough patterns

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resembling those seen in natural

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environments emerge the patterns also

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strongly resembled computer simulations

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of the touring model

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that is nuts

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all right I'm Gonna Leave You with this

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NPR today sharply criticized Twitter

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after the social media platform in an

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apparent violation of its own policies

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labeled the radio broadcaster as a quote

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State Affiliated media organization akin

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to foreign propaganda Outlets like

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Russia's RT and Sputnik in a statement

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NPR CEO John Lansing called the decision

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to lump NPR in with other outlets that

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Twitter identifies as being under

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government control as unacceptable well

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he went darker than that NPR receives

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funding from public institutions some of

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them but the vast majority comes from

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sources such as corporate sponsorships

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and NPR membership fees that you know

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what I'm gonna I'm gonna admit it right

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now I pay those fees I I do I do I do

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once a month Twitter's label for

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state-affiliated media first rolled out

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back in 2020 the company's decision on

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labeling an account as state-affiliated

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media hinged on whether quote the state

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through Financial Resources Director

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but Twitter's policies at the time

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explicitly Exempted MPR as an example of

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publicly funded broadcasting and also

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said that they had their own editorial

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Independence well right now right before

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few minutes ago Twitter has reversed its

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position and has removed the label they

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placed on NPR meanwhile other outlets

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similar to NPR such as the BBC which has

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also exempt from State Affiliated media

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labeling under Twitter's policies remain

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wow there you go there's all the Fade to

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Black breaking news you need for this

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Wednesday April 5th 2023 Fade to Black

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breaking news is produced by Renee

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Newman I'm Jimmy Church go back Lee

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