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Human drivers should NOT be liable if self-driving tech causes a crash

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The arrival of self-driving cars on our roads has come a step closer following new recommendations for legal reforms, making manufacturers and software developers – rather than human drivers – liable if a vehicle crashes.

The Law Commission today published a report calling for a new ‘Automated Vehicles Act’, which will regulate vehicles that can drive themselves and make clear who could face prosecution if a self-driving car drives dangerously or causes an accident. 

This would create a new legal

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The Anti-vaccine Right Literally Brought Human Sacrifice to America

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In the early phases of the pandemic, as the coronavirus spread in the United States and doctors and pharmacists and supermarket clerks continued to work and risk infection, some commentators made reference—metaphorical reference, fast and loose and over the top—to ritual human sacrifice. The immediate panicky focus on resuming business as usual in order to keep the stock market from crashing was the equivalent of “those who offered human sacrifices to Moloch,” according to the writer Kitanya Harrison.

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Surgeons successfully transplant two PIG KIDNEYS into a brain dead human

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Surgeons have successfully transplanted two pig kidneys into a brain dead human, marking another ‘significant step’ in the decades-long quest to use animal organs for life-saving transplants. 

Jim Parsons, 57, from Huntsville, Alabama, was brain dead – and therefore declared officially deceased – in September after suffering a traumatic head injury while dirt bike racing.

With his family’s blessing, researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham performed the pioneering transplant on him just four days later. 

Mr Parsons’ own

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European Court of Human Rights set to rule on long-running ‘gay cake’ saga

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WHAT DOES THE ECHR RULING MEAN?  

The European court is a ‘subsidiary’ to national systems, not an alternative, meaning that national courts should determine human rights cases first.

This means that if an application is brought to the European court in Strasbourg, it should ‘have the benefit of the views of the national courts’, ECHR rules say.

The rule is intended to give national authorities, primarily the courts, the opportunity to ‘prevent or put right the alleged violations of the

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Forensic expert slams the UK’s failure to set up a human ‘body farm’

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A forensic expert has condemned the UK’s failure to establish its first ever human ‘body farm’ where people donate their corpses for forensic research.  

John Cassella, a professor of forensic science at Institute of Technology in Sligo, Ireland, is a passionate advocate for body farms, officially known as ‘human taphonomy facilities’.

Body farms are outdoor laboratories where scientific research is carried out on human bodies donated by their owners prior to death.

How exactly the bodies affect surrounding vegetation as

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Human body odour triggers aggression in women, study finds 

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Sniffing a chemical in human body odour – commonly known as BO – triggers aggression in women but blocks aggression in men, a new study shows.  

Researchers in Israel looked at the effects the chemical compound, called hexadecanal (HEX), has on the human brain. 

Unlike many of the compounds in body odour, HEX has no discernible smell to humans but it can likely be sensed by all mammals.   

The researchers found HEX decreases connectivity in parts of the brain that

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Wie Human Design Ihre Produktivität und Entscheidungsfindung bestimmt | Experteneinblick

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Reflektoren sollten ihren Individualismus verstehen und schärfen. Ihre Energie kann jedoch so unberechenbar sein, dass sie mehr als alle anderen Energiearten wieder ins Gleichgewicht kommen müssen. Laut Human Design sollten Reflektoren etwa 28 Tage – etwa die Länge eines Mondzyklus – warten, bevor sie wichtige Entscheidungen treffen. “So lange brauchen sie, um sich wirklich auszugleichen”, sagt Zoe. “Andere Zeitrahmen sind ihnen einfach zu kurz.”

Wenn sie ihr Design leben, sollten Reflektoren überrascht und begeistert sein von der Besonderheit ihres Lebens

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Laundrie family lawyer DENIES ‘hogwash’ speculation that Brian’s parents planted human remains

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The lawyer representing Brian Laundrie’s parents denied that they planted the evidence found in a Florida nature reserve yesterday after weeks of fruitless searches, calling any such suggestion ‘hogwash’. 

Chris and Roberta Laundrie joined law enforcement yesterday for the first time together at the Carlton Reserve in Florida, where they believed their fugitive son had been hiding for weeks after the strangled body of his fiancée, Gabby Petito, was found in Wyoming.

Within a few hours of the search, authorities

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Creating a better human experience at work starts with trust

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What if managers and leaders at companies focused on a new goal: to elevate the human experience?

This paradigm shift is something Amelia Dunlop, chief experience officer at Deloitte Digital, advocates for. She and her team have worked hard to measure the amount of humanity in the workplace—a measurement that often depends on how much trust exists between workers and leaders.

Dunlop’s team focused on four signals of trust that leaders can track: capability, reliability, humanity, and transparency. Using these

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Fossils and ancient DNA paint a vibrant picture of human origins

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In The Descent of Man, published in 1871, Charles Darwin hypothesized that our ancestors came from Africa. He pointed out that among all animals, the African apes — gorillas and chimpanzees — were the most similar to humans. But he had little fossil evidence. The few known human fossils had been found in Europe, and those that trickled in over the next 50 years came from Europe and from Asia.

Had Darwin picked the wrong continent?

Finally, in 1924,

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