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Scientists decipher colour of 'super cute' bristly dinosaur, Psittacosaurus

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Scientists decipher colour of 'super cute' bristly dinosaur, Psittacosaurus

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Scientists guided by small structures preserved in fossilized skin have deciphered the colour and camouflage pattern of a little dinosaur with a parrot-like beak and bristles on its tail that roamed thick forests in China about 120 million years ago.

Psittacosaurus was mainly brown but with a paler underside of the tail and belly, a pattern called countershading that may have helped the 1.5-metre-long bipedal plant-eater go unnoticed by hungry predators, the scientists said on Thursday.

It also had a heavily pigmented face and hind legs that were striped on the inside and reticulated and spotted on the outside. The colour pattern suggested Psittacosaurus lived in a forest environment with diffuse light from a dense canopy of trees, the researchers said.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/psittacosaurus-colour-dinosaur-1.3763237

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Edward Snowden Wishes to be Pardoned By Obama

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Edward Snowden Wishes to be Pardoned By Obama

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Edward Snowden is an American computer professional, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee and former contractor for the US government who copied and leaked classified information from the National Security System (NSA) in 2013 without prior authorization.

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Mercury Prize: David Bowie tipped for posthumous win

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Mercury Prize: David Bowie tipped for posthumous win

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David Bowie is the clear frontrunner to win this year's Mercury Prize, with one bookmaker making him 4/7 favourite.

Bowie, who died in January, will become the first person to receive the £25,000 prize posthumously if his Blackstar album is crowned the winner later.

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By Mark Savage
BBC Music reporter

David Bowie is the clear frontrunner to win this year's Mercury Prize, with one bookmaker making him 4/7 favourite.

Bowie, who died in January, will become the first person to receive the £25,000 prize posthumously if his Blackstar album is crowned the winner later.

Other nominees include Laura Mvula, The 1975, Kano and Bat For Lashes.

Radiohead have also been shortlisted for their album A Moon Shaped Pool, having been nominated on four previous occasions.

However, the band have yet to win the award - which recognises the best British or Irish album of the past year.

Actor Michael C Hall will perform a tribute to David Bowie at Thursday's ceremony at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith, London.

He will sing Blackstar's Lazarus, which opens with the lyric: "Look up here, I'm in heaven."

The star of Dexter and Six Feet Under will soon be seen in London in the lead role in Bowie's musical - also called Lazarus - which premiered shortly before his death.

While the Mercury Prize tends to favour debut albums, this year's list only features one - Channel The Spirits by London jazz trio The Comet Is Coming.

William Hill make Anohni - who won the Mercury Prize as Antony and the Johnsons in 2005 - second favourite at 7/1. Grime artist Skepta is third favourite at 8/1 for his album Konnichiwa.

However, bookmakers have a poor track record at predicting the Mercury Prize. Of the recent winners, only Alt-J's An Awesome Wave in 2012 was anywhere near a front-runner.

The full list of nominees is:

Anohni - Hopelessness

Bat For Lashes - The Bride

David Bowie - Blackstar

Jamie Woon - Making Time

Kano - Made In The Manor

Laura Mvula - The Dreaming Room

Michael Kiwanuka - Love and Hate

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

Savages - Adore Life

Skepta - Konnichiwa

The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep...

The Comet Is Coming - Channel The Spirits

The shortlist was chosen by a panel of judges including former winner Jarvis Cocker, Radio 1's Annie Mac, pop producer Naughty Boy and singer Jessie Ware.

Notable omissions from the list include Adele's 25 and Coldplay's A Head Full Of Dreams, which were the two biggest-selling albums released during the eligibility period: 26 September 2015 to 29 July 2016.

Thursday night's ceremony will be televised on BBC Four, hosted by Lauren Laverne. Half of the albums will be eliminated as the show commences, leaving six "finalists" to compete for the prize.

The winner will be announced shortly before 22:00 BST.

You can follow the build-up to the ceremony, with red carpet interviews and backstage gossip, on BBC Music News LIVE from 16:00 BST.

Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

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Mercury Prize: David Bowie tipped for posthumous win

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By Mark Savage BBC Music reporter David Bowie is the clear frontrunner to win this year's Mercury Prize, with one bookmaker making him 4/7 favourite. Bowie, who died in January, will become the first person to receive the £25,000 prize posthumously if his Blackstar album is crowned the winner later.

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Five months ago, her son Michael died at age 14 after a seizure caused him to go into cardiac arrest and suffer anoxic brain injury, which occurs when there is a lack of oxygen in the brain.

Michael, who had a severe form of autism, also had a history of epilepsy. About 20% to 30% of children with autism spectrum disorder develop epilepsy by the time they reach adulthood, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

"Regardless of their abilities, regardless of their illnesses, unless it is diagnosed and expected, you really just don't think your child is going to pass away before you," Bolen said.

Michael Bolen,14, died from seizure complications in April.

As Bolen stood in a cold hospital room with her husband, in complete shock at their loss, she heard a doctor ask whether Michael's organs would be donated -- and then she had an idea.

"I said, 'Well, what about his brain?' And [the doctors] said, 'Excuse me?'

And I said, 'Well, you know, epilepsy is the way that he died, but autism is the way he lived.' "

Bolen and her family donated Michael's brain to a national program called Autism BrainNet, a network of research institutions that facilitates the study of autism using the brain tissue of deceased patients who had the developmental disorder.

Michael's family hopes that his brain may help scientists gain crucial insights into autism spectrum disorder, which Michael lived with and that affects about one in 68 children in the United States.

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World's oldest man, Yisrael Kristal, 113, to hold bar mitzvah

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World's oldest man, Yisrael Kristal, 113, to hold bar mitzvah

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The worlds oldest man to have his bar mitzvah a century late after it was interrupted by world war one.

Yisrael Kristal, who lives in Israel, will celebrate the Jewish coming-of-age ceremony with family and friends in a synagogue in Haifa, his daughter said.

Shulamit Kuperstoch said it would be a "corrective experience".

Mr Kristal was born in Poland in 1903 and survived being in the Auschwitz death camp during World War Two.

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Guggenheim Museum's 18 carat gold toilet that is fully functional has been opened to public. Italian artist and sculptor Maurizio Cattelan created the fully functional 18-carat gold lavatory, which he has titled America. The lavatory replaced one of the Guggenheim's porcelain toilets in a one-person, unisex restroom.

Visitors who pay museum admission will be able to use it as they wish.

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Guggenheim Museum's 18-karat gold toilet to open to public

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Visitors to New York City's Guggenheim Museum are being invited to spend a penny in a solid gold toilet.

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A black teenager has been shot dead by police in the US state of Ohio after allegedly pulling an air gun from his waistband while being arrested.

Officers were responding to a report of an armed robbery in Columbus when they spotted three male suspects matching the descriptions given by the victim.

Two then ran off and were followed by police to an alley.

There, police say, Tyree King, 13, pulled out the gun and was shot multiple times by an officer.

Police later established that the boy had actually been carrying a BB gun - a type of sporting air gun that is designed to shoot pellets - with an attached laser sight.

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Ohio officer kills robbery suspect, 13, who had BB gun

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Ohio officer kills robbery suspect, 13, who had BB gun

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A police officer shot and killed a 13-year-old robbery suspect after the boy pulled a BB gun from his waistband in Columbus, Ohio, police said.

The boy, Tyree King, died at a hospital after an officer shot him several times Wednesday evening outside a house in east-central Columbus, police said.
She said the BB gun that the boy, Tyree King, allegedly had "looks practically identical" to the type of handgun that Columbus police carry,

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Guggenheim Museum's 18-carat gold toilet to open to public

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Guggenheim Museum's 18-carat gold toilet to open to public

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Members of the public are being invited to spend a penny in a solid gold toilet at New York City's Guggenheim Museum.

Italian artist and sculptor Maurizio Cattelan created the fully functional 18-carat gold lavatory, which he has titled America.

The, ahem, interactive exhibit has been installed in one of the Guggenheim's public bathrooms