Weekly Roundup: The Best of Pop Culture X Science

Here’s our round up of interesting stories from around the world this week. Enjoy.

Awkward…

Somehow a 10 year-old Finnish boy managed to give some security tips to Instagram’s best engineers. So much so that the company subsequently awarded him £7000.

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Bitcoin Founder Conspiracy

Last week an Australian man by the name of Craig Wright claimed to be the original founder of BitCoin. He has since retracted that claim, leaving a bit-coin vacuum.

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Exercise

News that just ten minutes of intense exercise can replace all the health benefits of an hour of medicore exercise comes as no surprise. Enjoy those ten minutes.

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Medical Negligence

If we were to integrate medical errors into biggest causes of death in the US, it would be listed number three.

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Get Lucky

You can touch, feel and even own your very own Pharell Williams now. He can be bought for a cool £160.

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Forget Occupy Wall Street

The latest science says that first-class causes major irritation and anger amongst economy class plane passengers.

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“I should like to draw a line from the ‘E’ in Acre to the last ‘K’ in Kirkuk.”

Over 100 years on, the Sykes-Picot agreement still haunts the troubled area and has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths.

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