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As Resistance Grows, Trump's Deportation Plans Unravel

Cost, impossible logistics, political opposition, and community resistance could spell the end of the president-elect's anti-immigrant scheme

December 30, 2016
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Category: Justice

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NYT on Iraq and Russia: Newspaper of Record or Journalistic Home to Intelligence Sources and Warmakers

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On May 17 of this year, PBS Frontline broadcast a program titled, “The Secret History of Isis,” which it described as “the inside story of the radicals who became the leaders of ISIS."

December 30, 2016
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Category: Media

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11 Reasons for Hope

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I always like to end the year with hope. This time last year, I wrote that 2015 had been such a banner year for us at 350.org that it seemed like we were “getting close to a sort of climate-action tipping point.”

December 30, 2016
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Category: Environment

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Biotech Breakthrough: Engineers Made a New Material That Can Be Programmed

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Researchers have created a 3D bulk material from silk fibroin that can be programmed to activate specific tasks when exposed to conditions like temperature or infrared light. The material could be used to create everything from hormone-emitting orthopedics to surgical pins that change color when they near their mechanical limits.

December 28, 2016
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Category: Science

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Technology

Researchers Develop Nanodiscs That Can Wipe Out Tumors

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New research is being conducted to develop nanotechnology that teaches your immune system to destroy tumor cells, giving hope to the 14.5 million Americans with a history of cancer. This research will need a very long time until it is available for treatment but recent advancements is cancer treatment are leaving a lot to get excited over.

December 29, 2016
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Category: Science

Apple Opens Up: Read the Company’s First Paper on Artificial Intelligence

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Apple researchers have released their first AI paper focusing on computer vision technology titled “Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training.” The paper describes how their program can identify and understand digital images by training computer vision algorithms to recognize synthetic images.