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Vomit worth $250K discovered inside whale's colon

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Explore More It’s what’s inside that counts. A lump of vomit that may be worth over $250,000 was found inside a beached sperm whale after it appeared on Nogales Beach in La Palma, Canary Islands, last month. The whale died after the nearly 20-pound chunk of the substance, known as ambergris, caused chronic obstructive inflammation in the animal’s colon, according to experts at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Read More...

Who was Bilhah in the Bible?

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Bilhah was the female servant of Rachel. When Rachel married Jacob, Bilhah was given as a wedding gift to Rachel by her father Laban (Genesis 29:28–29). Bilhah became the mother of two of Jacob’s twelve sons. In the early days of her marriage, Rachel was unable to conceive a child, so she sent Bilhah to Jacob as a concubine: “Then she [Rachel] said, ‘Here is Bilhah, my servant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her’” (Genesis 30:3). Read More...

Alan Turing: The experiment that shaped artificial intelligence

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Marvin Minsky, one of the fathers of AI, wrote in 1995: "I do hope that someone will volunteer to violate this proscription so that Mr Loebner will indeed revoke his stupid prize, save himself some money, and spare us the horror of this obnoxious and unproductive annual publicity campaign." ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7o67CZ5qopV%2Bjsri%2Fjq2cnKCepLmws9hmaHFsZ2qDdYI%3D