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Your 60-Hour Work Week is Not a Badge of Honour | Jeff Archibald
Your 60-hour work week is not a badge of honour. It is a problem. There is a sense of pride over being able to state that we worked an exorbitant amount of hours this week, last week, or last month
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Psychologists: Internet Trolls Are Narcissistic, Psychopathic, and Sadistic -
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Chris Mooney reports at Slate that research conducted by Erin Buckels of the University of Manitoba confirmed that people who engage in internet trolling are ...
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Get Homecooked Takeout Food Delivered Straight From Your Neighbor's Kitchen
Bar Segal, Daniel Kaplansky, and Zifeng Wei are childhood friends living in a small apartment in East London. They work together, eat together, and even sleep together (because money is tight and ...
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California police use taser on deaf man trying to communicate with them via sign
By Scott KaufmanSunday, February 16, 2014 14:21 EST Four police officers in Hawthorne, California used a taser on a man who was attempting to tell them that he was deaf via sign language. The ...
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How One Billionaire's Idea To Give Rich People More Votes Is Already In The
"You don't get to vote unless you pay a dollar of taxes," he said. "But what I really think is, it should be like a corporation. You pay a million dollars in taxes, you get a million votes. How's ...
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Study: Almost Half of Public School Students Are Now Low-Income
In America, what you earn depends largely on your success in school. Unfortunately, your success in school depends largely on what your parents earn. It's an intergenerational Catch 22 that's at the
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'Facebook Fraud' - Users Forced to Pay Up or Disappear from the Newsfeed
Remember when you used to define what you saw in your Facebook newsfeed by 'liking' a page or adding a friend? Over recent months users have noticed that their newsfeed was no longer their own. In ...
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This Giant Robot Directs Traffic In The Congo
In this day and age, it's not unusual to have cameras recording cars at an intersection. It is unusual that the cameras are "hidden" inside a giant, larger-than-life robotic policeman. To control ...
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Tom Perkins' big idea: The rich should get more votes
Tom Perkins suggested Thursday that only taxpayers should have the right to vote -- and that wealthy Americans who pay more in taxes should get more votes. The venture capitalist offered the ...
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America's Spies Want Edward Snowden Dead
Edward Snowden has made some dangerous enemies. As the American intelligence community struggles to contain the public damage done by the former National Security Agency contractor's revelations of
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Civic Consumption Puts the "We" in the Sharing Economy
Civic Consumption is "the leveraging of shared buying power for dynamic social change to strengthen communities and reward enterprises doing the greatest good."
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MOOCs and the Democratization of Online Education
As presently structured, MOOCs are unable to provide the transformative education democracy requires. Participation-rich environments are needed to foster people's abilities to think and take ...
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Hamburg sets out to become a car-free city in 20 years
Hamburg sets out to become a car-free city in 20 years Hamburg City Council has disclosed ambitious plans to divert most cars away from its main thoroughfares in twenty years. In order to do so ...
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Poverty Is Literally Making People Sick Because They Can't Afford Food
Income inequality is making us sick. Well, it's not making all of us sick. Only the poorest of us. That's what a new paper in Health Affairs by Hilary Seligman, Ann Bolger, David Guzman, Andrea ...
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Daily Kos
http://www.nytimes.com/... When Historians in 2100 look back at the events of the early 2000's they will conclude that the most profound and far-reaching characteristic of the political gridlock in
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BREAKING: Water-Poisoning Freedom Industries Files for Bankruptcy!
Hold on to your hats, people - Freedom Industries, the company that poisoned 300,000 West Virginians with a chemical leak is now immune against any civil complaints or judgements that may be brought
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Daily Kos
Last week, there was a massive toxic spill in West Virginia leading to undrinkable water for hundreds of thousands of West Virginans and pictures of the disgustingly polluted water like the one ...
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Angry Residents Protest Mayor's Decision To Crackdown On Homelessness With
A group of fired-up activists in Portland, Ore., who were tired of seeing homeless people being mistreated staged the kind of protest that will be difficult for the mayor to ignore. An estimated ...
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Chelsea Manning Awarded Sam Adams Integrity Prize For 2014
The Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) have voted overwhelmingly to present the 2014 Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence to Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning. A ...
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Globalization vs. Growth
The April 10 New York Times devoted half its op-ed space to an elaborate attempt to demonstrate the benefits of globalization, with charts showing that "more globalized" nations do better than "les...
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Christie and Koch in Cahoots? It's Time to Subpoena the Committee for Our
Greg Palast: Far more insidious than Chris Christie playing traffic warden is the story of his secret meetings with a gaggle of billionaires - and the legality of campaign spending by a suspicious ...
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Court Victory Gives Blogger Same Speech Protections As Traditional Press -
cold fjord writes "Reuters reports, 'A blogger is entitled to the same free speech protections as a traditional journalist and cannot be liable for defamation unless she acted negligently, a federal
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When And Where Will Atrocities Occur? This Algorithm Knows
No one can be everywhere at once. That includes human rights groups and government monitors, which grapple with scarce resources to start. A new algorithm developed for USAID and the nonprofit group
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Half Of All Jobs Will Be Automated By 2034
Almost half of all jobs could be automated by computers within two decades and "no government is prepared" for the tsunami of social change that will follow, according to the Economist. The ...
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Coming to an office near you
INNOVATION, the elixir of progress, has always cost people their jobs. In the Industrial Revolution artisan weavers were swept aside by the mechanical loom. Over the past 30 years the digital ...