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ExtremeTech
MIT researchers have shown, for the first time ever, that memories are stored in specific brain cells. By triggering a small cluster of neurons, the researchers were able to force the subject to ...
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Chinese electronics workers win 20% pay rise after three week strike
A three week strike involving 5,000 workers at an electronics company in Shenzhen, China, has ended after the bosses agreed to a 20% hike in pay. The strike started on the 31st October after the ...
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End the N.S.A. Dragnet, Now
WASHINGTON - THE framers of the Constitution declared that government officials had no power to seize the records of individual Americans without evidence of wrongdoing, and they embedded this ...
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Ed Snowden Destroys President Obama In One Surprising Poll
Michael Lotfi is a Persian, American political commentator and adviser living in Nashville, Tennessee where he works as the associate director for the Tenth Amendment Center. Lotfi founded ...
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I set up Parasite Street to balance the benefits debate
Yes, the show focuses on relatively minor parts of the benefits system (benefit fraud) whilst ignoring other, more widespread phenomena (in-work poverty). But the show has started a national ...
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Speak Truth to Power
If you knew Coretta Scott King's role in the fight for civil rights and social justice, it might not surprise you that some of the speakers at her memorial service-including close friends and allies
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Homeless And Unemployed, Each Day Is About Waiting
Congress is still wrestling with whether to extend long-term unemployment benefits. But what happens to people who have already lost those benefits, and have been living without any kind of income ...
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Watch This Insanely Slippery Non-Stick Coating Get Every Last Bit Out Of Bottles
Consumers expend a remarkable amount of energy (and muscle) interacting with household goods. We're constantly shaking bottles of mustard or salad dressing, praying the condiments will eventually ...
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Shame on Ohio and Governor Kasich for abolishing minor political parties!
Up until November 6, 2013, Ohio had four "minor" political parties: Green, Libertarian, Socialist, and Constitution. The Legislature just passed SB193 which immediately abolishes these parties and ...
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An Update On American Empire: "America Unhinged"
Updating the status of U.S. Empire by reviewing the latest article by John Mearsheimer, America Unhinged. Too often the reality of U.S. Empire is kept a secret in the United States, never discussed
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Pope Francis rips capitalism and trickle-down economics to shreds in new policy
By Travis GettysTuesday, November 26, 2013 11:48 EST In case there was any doubt left, Pope Francis made it clear that he shares little in common with U.S. conservatives. The pontiff released his ...
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The Hidden Truth About Peanuts: From Food Allergies to Farm Practices
A peanut butter and jelly sandwich hasn't always been a loaded weapon on a lunchroom table.
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Gen-Y's pain is real: Paycheques tell the tale
Young adults are not to blame for their financial frustrations. Their problem is an economy that has put them on track to be worse off than their parents. So much for the theorizing about them being
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Our chance to end poverty
Over a quarter of the European population could face poverty by 2025. But concerned citizens are demanding research into Unconditional Basic Income: our chance to completely eradicate poverty. We ...
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Promise of free dental work draws thousands in Connecticut
Reuters/Lucy Nicholson A free dental clinic held annually in Connecticut is expected to attract thousands of people who lack the proper health insurance coverage for everything from routine checkups
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NASA worried by unusually big iceberg six times the size of Manhattan (PHOTO,
Dubbed "B31," the iceberg could pose some significant problems for ships if it continues to melt or break apart in the Southern Ocean. At 255 square miles (660 sq. km) and 500 meters thick, B31 is ...
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Burma, S.Africa...Britain? Intl press freedom team dispatched to UK for first
An 'unprecedented' international mission is to enter the UK in January amid increasing concern over the country's press freedom laws. The global community is becoming unsettled by the idea of a ...
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Ian Ash shared a link.
If you witnessed war crimes, what would you do? More coming soon... http://iam.bradleymanning.org | #iambradleymanning
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Why Suicide Has Become an Epidemic--and What We Can Do to Help
WHEN THOMAS Joiner was 25 years old, his father-whose name was also Thomas Joiner and who could do anything-disappeared from the family's home. At the time, Joiner was a graduate student at the ...
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Welcome To Twin Oaks Community
Twin Oaks is an intentional community in rural central Virginia, made up of around 90 adult members and 15 children. Since the community's beginning in 1967, our way of life has reflected our values
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Human Nature and the Moral Economy
Eric Michael Johnson has a Master's degree in Evolutionary Anthropology focusing on great ape behavioral ecology. He is currently a doctoral student in the history of science at University of ...
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THE SCARIEST JOBS CHART EVER
The U.S. economy added 204,000 jobs in October, which was much stronger than the 120,000 expected. The September number was revised up to 163,000 from an earlier estimate of 148,000. The labor force
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DOCUMERICA: Images of America in Crisis in the 1970s
As the 1960s came to an end, the rapid development of the American postwar decades began to take a noticeable toll on the environment, and the public called for action. In November 1971, the newly ...
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Helping Cities find the Yin and Yang in Transit Expansion and Gentrification |
Helping Cities find the Yin and Yang in Transit Expansion and Gentrification Photo credit Most would agree that cities are better off with access to a robust transportation network. Linkages to ...