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Somaliland boasts 528 miles beach and great relics, yet isn't booming

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Somaliland has been self-declared independent since 1991 but it is still not recognised internationally The Foreign and Commonwealth Office advises against all travel to Somalia, including Somaliland Somaliland tourism organisations insist their country is perfectly safe and actively promote tours The country boasts untouched beaches and ancient artifacts are a great lure Women on the beach must respect Islamic tradition and alcohol is banned

By Michael Gadd for MailOnline

Published: 04:45 EST, 11 March 2015 | Updated: 09:10 EST, 11 March 2015

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With mile upon mile of untouched golden beaches, corals reefs ripe for divers, ancient artifacts and a population desperate to impress. Somaliland is a country with plenty to offer tourists and it is actively encouraging visitors.

But unfortunately, the much-desired tourists are not flocking to the east African outpost, neighbouring Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia.

For starters, the country doesn't exist at all according to the international community, which recognises it only as part of Somalia, the troubled nation where piracy is rife and terrorist organisation Al-Shabaab is based.

Locals walk along some of the 528 miles of beachfront in Somaliland that the country is keen to promote

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Masterclass Introduces Local High School Students to Particle Physics

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UC Riversides Department of Physics and Astronomy offers the interactive exercise for the eighth year in a row

By Iqbal Pittalwala on March 11, 2015

The International Particle Physics Masterclass is an interactive exercise in which high school students analyze specific particle physics data. Photo credit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. On March 10 and 11, approximately 35 students from San Jacinto High School and Valencia High School visited the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Riverside to participate in the International Particle Physics Masterclass, an annual program of the European Particle Physics Outreach Group. The Masterclass is an interactive exercise in which high school students analyze specific particle physics data.

The visiting students attended a series of special lectures and participated in exercises on March 10. They took part in a videoconference with CERN (the particle physics laboratory on the border of Switzerland and France) and high schools in Brazil, France, Belgium and Hungary on March 11.

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Total Solar Eclipse: University of Surrey astronomy expert provides fascinating insight

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A star-gazing expert from the University of Surrey has spoken about next Friday's (March 20) total solar eclipse which will plunge Surrey and north-east Hampshire into darkness.

Astro-physics professor Mark Gieles has talked about the science and history behind the natural phenomenon.

He has worked as a research fellow at the European Southern Observatory in Chile and as a support astronomer on the Very Large Telescope at Cerro Paranal in the Atacama desert.

Prof Gieles explained how because of a "freak coincidence" the sun and moon occupy the same sized space in our sky.

The celestial anomaly is a result of the sun's diameter being 40x bigger than the moon, but the grey planet being situated 40x closer to the earth than our burning star.

When the moon covers the sun on its orbital path, that's when eclipses occur.

"If the moon was 10 times larger then we would have an eclipse every month," said Prof Gieles.

Eclipses still occur regularly but can be either full or partial depending on the orbiting moon's position from earth.

Its orbit is also tilted at five degrees in relation to earth so the moon's shadow will normally pass under or over.

The last total eclipse viewable from Great Britain happened in 1999 and before that in 1927!

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Film ponders future of humans in a world run on artificial intelligence

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This image released by Columbia Pictures shows Dev Patel in a scene from "Chappie." (AP Photo/Columbia Pictures, Stephanie Blomkamp)

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The funeral scene played like something out of science fiction.

The bodies, once new and clean and unmarked by the passage of time, were laid out on the temple altar, adorned with tags denoting their family lineage. A Buddhist priest prayed over the bodies as loved ones looked on.

The dead weren't children or relatives, but to the elderly mourners assembled for the mass funeral earlier this year in the Kofuku-ji temple near Chiba, Japan, the 19 bodies being blessed were family. The "dead" were once Aibo (the Japanese word for "companion") robot dogs created by Sony that are wildly popular in Japan. The dogs are especially beloved among the country's seniors, who make up 25 percent of Japan's population.

It's a tableau for how attached society has and will continue to be intertwined with objects built with artificial intelligence a theme that's been sci-fi fodder for decades, from Jules Verne to Ridley Scotts Blade Runner to this years new release, Chappie, the story of a lovable robot that essentially becomes human in a world that debates the consequences of his existence.

To author and filmmaker James Barrat, the fact that robot dogs are laid to rest is a sign of society's problematic and increasingly personal relationship with artificial intelligence.

As humans, we anthropomorphize things, and thats incredibly dangerous when dealing with artificial intelligence, Barrat said. We think that because they can talk to us, they have all the machinery we do behind our eyes. They never will. And we have to be wary of our own desire to make them just like us.

As more artificial intelligence works its way into everyday life from Google to Siri problems with the technology have raised concerns about the future of human control over artificial intelligence. In January, technology moguls and leaders like Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk attended the Future of Life Institutes A.I. conference with a plea to change A.I. research priorities to include safety measures as the technology develops and potentially overtakes human comprehension.

Barrat hopes more sci-fi films will spark a serious conversation about the risks of A.I.

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Interstellar Marines E.A. – Realistic | Solo Assault on Starcrown Aerospace [1/4] – Video

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