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- Mysterious Planet-Size Object Spotted Near Mercury http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mysterious-planet-sized-object-spotted-near-mercury-154443870.html 3 comments
- Illegal gold mining causing record mercury levels in Peruvian Rainforest - And they say BTC mining is damaging to our climate… https://www.cbsnews.com/news/illegal-mining-gold-mercury-pollution/#app 102 comments cryptocurrency
- Freshwater fish can recover from mercury pollution in just a few years https://www.newscientist.com/article/2301462-freshwater-fish-can-recover-from-mercury-pollution-in-just-a-few-years/ 4 comments environment
- Freddie Mercury NFTs to Raise Funds for an AIDS Charity https://cryptopotato.com/freddie-mercury-nfts-to-raise-funds-for-an-aids-charity/ 12 comments cryptocurrency
- SDL (very reluctantly) moving from mercurial to github https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/sdl-moving-to-github/28700/5 144 comments linux
- Dangerous levels of mercury found in shark fin sold in Hong Kong https://hongkongfp.com/2020/07/29/poisoning-the-public-dangerous-levels-of-mercury-found-in-shark-fin-sold-in-hong-kong 62 comments worldnews
- Mercurial's Journey to and Reflections on Python 3 https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2020/01/13/mercurial%27s-journey-to-and-reflections-on-python-3/ 3 comments rust
- David Luiz, the constant enigma – how the mercurial defensive talent defines Unai Emery's Arsenal https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/david-luiz-constant-enigma-how-mercurial-defensive-talent-defines-unai-emerys-arsenal 38 comments soccer
- JEP 357: Migrate from Mercurial to Git https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/357 26 comments java
- For five hours and 29 minutes Mercury will be visible crossing the sun on November 11, 2019. It will be one of 14 such transits in the 21st century – the last one occurred in 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jan/06/five-best-astronomical-events-2019 18 comments space
- Prodded by Coal Industry, the EPA Decides Mercury Is Fine, Just Fine. Remind Them: It’s Not. https://blog.ucsusa.org/julie-mcnamara/epas-brazen-mercury-rule-proposal 9 comments politics
- Klay Thompson "Growing Up" Mercury News commercial https://streamable.com/w46nc 16 comments nba
- Despite boiling temperatures, Mercury manages to maintain stable glaciers. According to new research, the glaciers, which are up to 160 feet (50 m) thick and 50 million years old, formed when free-floating water ice from comet and asteroid impacts settled in deep craters on the planet's night side. http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/01/exploring-glaciers-on-mercury-a-planet-plagued-by-boiling-temperatures 9 comments science
- Scientists clean mercury contaminated water, by absorbing mercury onto a platinum plate with high capacity and low chance of recontaminating water, and can thus be used for longer periods of time, until eventual disposal for platinum/mercury recovery - forming alloy for decontamination is new https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07300-z 4 comments science
- Trump administration to make it easier for factories to emit mercury https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/epa-trump-us-government-mercury-hazardous-pollutants-human-health-a8563571.html 20 comments politics
- In rollback of mercury rule, Trump could revamp how government values human health https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/energy-environment/2018/10/01/rollback-mercury-rule-trump-could-revamp-how-government-values-human-health/?__twitter_impression=true 3 comments politics
- Mercury in the water: 40% of Europe’s lakes and rivers contaminated https://www.euractiv.com/section/health-consumers/news/les-eaux-europeennes-restent-largement-polluees-par-le-mercure/ 8 comments europe
- NASA Releases First-Ever Global Topographic Model Of Mercury http://m.ndtv.com/world-news/nasa-releases-first-ever-global-topographic-model-of-mercury-1404054?pfrom=home-world 5 comments worldnews
- Miners Successfully use Household Borax instead of Toxic Mercury in Gold Recovery Process. http://www.911metallurgist.com/blog/mercury-free-gravity-borax-method-gbm 30 comments science
- SCOTUS rules Obama administration unlawfully failed to consider costs when deciding to regulate mercury pollution from Power plants http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/30/us/supreme-court-blocks-obamas-limits-on-power-plants.html 10 comments politics
- Whale & dolphin meat sold by Yahoo! Japan 'exceeds safe mercury limits' - Samples tested by Environmental Investigation Agency contained mercury levels up to 47 times higher than recommended safe level http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/09/whale-dolphin-meat-yahoo-japan-exceeds-safe-mercury-limits 883 comments worldnews
- This New Vulnerability: Mercurial Command Injection (CVE-2014-9462) - Blog http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2015/3/17/this-new-vulnerability-mercurial-command-injection-cve-2014-9462.html 9 comments netsec
- Russia signs the Minamato convention on Mercury http://www.mercuryconvention.org/News/2014Treatyevent/tabid/4126/Default.aspx 7 comments russia
- Global May of Ganymede - The largest moon in the solar system is bigger than Mercury, has a magnetic field, and possibly a subsurface ocean http://www.astrobio.net/images/galleryimages_images/gallery_image_11431.jpg 24 comments space
- Relativity behind mercury's liquidity http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2013/06/why-mercury-liquid-relativity-evidence 10 comments science
- Unusual Hollows Discovered on Planet Mercury http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1203/mercuryhollows_messenger_960.jpg 5 comments space
- Water on Mercury http://news.discovery.com/space/mercury-not-too-hot-for-water-ice-at-its-poles-120322.html 6 comments science
- Freddie Mercury 65th birthday Google Doodle http://www.google.co.nz/ 31 comments web_design
- Has anyone seen Google's awesome tribute to Queen? Happy birthday Freddie Mercury! http://www.google.com 11 comments reddit.com
- Make love, not flamewars (a response to "Why is Mercurial easier to use than Git?") http://bitquabit.com/post/make-love-not-flamewars/ 85 comments programming
- NASA probe returns first-ever orbiter photo of Mercury http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=nasa-probe-returns-first-ever-orbit-2011-03-29 3 comments science
- Finally! NASA Prepares to Orbit Mercury http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/15mar_messenger/ 4 comments space
- "A new study on white ibis breeding has discovered that mercury pollution is resulting in males of the species mating with each other." So... are humans ingesting too much mercury too? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/03/birds-are-becoming-gay-fr_n_791541.html 4 comments politics
- Today I learned that the mercury in fish is put there by humans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mercury_in_fish#sources 5 comments reddit.com
- NASA's Messenger spacecraft, orbiting Mercury, has sent back some surprising findings http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/messengermercury/ 6 comments space
- This Just in: Mercury More Exciting Than Mars (pic) http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/messengermercury/ 25 comments science
- FDA Stuns Scientists again, Declares Mercury in Fish to be Safe for Infants, Children, Expectant Mothers! http://waronyou.com/2008/12/fda-stuns-scientists-again-declares-mercury-in-fish-to-be-safe-for-infants-children-expectant-mothers/ 27 comments reddit.com
- Hey honey. I've got a great money making idea. Let's heat up some mercury and use it to extract gold from computer parts, and let's do it indoors http://www.durantdemocrat.com/articles/2008/04/01/news/doc47f14876d8777987127925.txt 2 comments reddit.com
- If the Face on Mars proves there were ancient humans there, this image proves there were ancient copyright lawyers on Mercury http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/sciencephotos/image.php?gallery_id=2&image_id=127 4 comments science
- Messenger spacecraft will pass within 124 miles of Mercury's surface at 12 noon EST today http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/13/ar2008011302368.html?hpid=moreheadlines 34 comments science
