Thank you for taking the time to illustrate how far from "news" that was.
I eventually played the video and towards the end of it I began to get an idea what Dropbox is: a cross-platform shared drive (like X-drive was for Windows?) hosted by a 3rd party.
Useful if you don't have Samba or NFS and VPN.
They're not getting my music collection!

Interestingly, it's not a "gold" debt, AFAIK. And none of it has been paid yet. It hasn't been borrowed by the EU yet. It (cash) hasn't been asked for yet.
Anyway, as I was saying: it's a Euro debt, not a gold debt. Ireland should take it all now, convert it all to dollars then cash it back when pressure on some other Euro state pushes the Euro down again ;-)

I have a theory that if you supply enough cash, then everyone - corrupt or not - is happy and can get on with things.
Take Ireland, for example...

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The important word is "measure" not "observer". Your sample sentence could be:

Furthermore, we define the things we measure, not nature. We might not be measuring the most useful things yet.
We know that matter isn't made up of particles but we measure it that way because we know how to do that...

If we keep on collecting information like that, do we not run a risk of creating a black hole or something?

I believe this to be true and am sure someone somewhere has measured it (changing it in the process ;-)
What I mean is that I suspect that if we know that someone understands a subject, our default behaviour is to believe without really trying to understand. This is a useful trait (otherwise we'd all be wasting our time trying to understand the same things) - provided that the source is trustworthy.
An untrustworthy source of information is often known as a "confidence trickster". Etc.

Should this not have been more like:

?

I think the question (which I didn't raise, by the way) maybe should be which rights, rather than whose.
Everyone has rights - this is why we have lawyers ;-)
In fact, I left my comment open to several interpretations; you selected one interpretation but grandparent also contains all counter-arguments [smiles smugly].

I think the main priority of the public is food, usually. After that comes "rights" and things like that.

“Streptomyces produce a golden colony of bacteria, and if it was floating on a batch of beer, it must have look pretty impressive to ancient people who revered gold,” Nelson theorizes.

Title of the article is "'Zombie ants' controlled by parasitic fungus for 48m years". Of course, the news is that we have just discovered it isn't new :-)
Here's a medical one

I woulda left out the "[,]" in "he did it[,] because it" because "because" is a conjunction.