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Shanghai teens launch sex education game
A sex education game, created by seven high school students in Shanghai to help teach youths about handling sexual situations, has gone viral. In the game, players guide characters to make choices, such as whether a girl should sleep at a boy’s home. If they choose the wrong answer, the player will be guided to a page with sex education lessons taught by students. The game, SelfReliance, was released on the online game platform Steam, earlier this month.
Aussie rodent’s extinction tied to climate change
The Australian government said climate change is to blame for the recent extinction of a brown rat. The demise of Bramble Cay melomys, a small brown rat that lived on a tiny coral island on the Great Barrier Reef, was blamed on dramatic habitat loss due to rising sea levels. Critics said it’s a sign that Australia and the world need to do more to combat climate change.
NASA looks for jokers to become astronauts
Astronauts have traditionally been serious, sensible types with the “right stuff” who can be trusted to fly and operate extremely expensive equipment. But any mission to Mars will need a joker or class clown figure to be successful, according to NASA research. A sense of humor will be vital for any team to keep morale high on a two-year trip to Mars which could happen in the 2030s, The Daily Mail reported. The joker role will be tested in NASA’s group mission simulations at Johnson Space
Center in Houston, Texas.
Disposable plastic bags and tableware that are not biodegradable will be phased out by 2020 in Hainan province, its ecology department said on Thursday. Under the government’s plan, Hainan will refine the regulations by the end of this year. Administrative and law enforcement bodies will step up supervision while ensuring that
A decommissioned Boeing 737400 has been turned into a library at the Aircraft Maintenance Technology Vocational and Technical Anatolian High
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