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Across All Fields, International Collaborations Is How Science Gets Done

A new study reports that more scientists from all over the world are collaborating to further our understanding of science than ever before. From 1990 to 2015, the number of scientific papers the had multiple authors from more than one country doubled.

February 23, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Science

Classic Who: How a Plan for a Nuclear-Free World Was Sabotaged

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On February 10, 2017, WhoWhatWhy ran a story that we called “Barack Obama Once Had a Dream.” We thought the title was appropriate. The story focused on Obama’s campaign speech of 2007, and we said “His words are those of somebody who was

February 23, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

‘Any of the Journalists Present Could Have Been Arrested’

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As residents were evicted from the Oceti Sakowin Camp where they had gathered to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline, filmmaker and journalist Reed Lindsay posted this update on the continued assault on the First Amendment faced by independent

February 24, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Media

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Trump Didn’t ‘Revoke’ Protections for Trans Students–Because He Can’t

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If you’re concerned that someone has authoritarian tendencies, the worst thing you can do is treat them like they have the power to rewrite the law. Yet that’s what many media outlets did in reporting on Donald Trump’s withdrawal of the Obama

February 24, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Media

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We Have to Keep Fighting: Water Protectors Vow Continued Resistance to #DAPL as Main Camp Is Evicted

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In North Dakota, the main resistance camp set up by Lakota water protectors fighting the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline has been largely vacated after protesters were ordered to leave the camp

February 23, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Justice

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Days After Pruitt Becomes EPA Head, Newly Released Emails Show His Ties to Koch Bros. & Energy Firms

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Thousands of pages of newly released emails reveal how EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt closely collaborated with oil, coal and gas companies backed by the Koch brothers to roll back environmental

February 23, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Environment

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Corruption

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Big Pharma Quietly Enlists Leading Professors to Justify $1,000-Per-Day Drugs

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As it readies for battle with President Trump over drug prices, the pharmaceutical industry is deploying economists and health care experts from the nation’s top universities. In scholarly articles, blogs and conferences, they lend their prestige to the lobbying

February 23, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

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Media, White House Fight over Control of “Exactly What People Think”

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On Wednesday’s episode of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski made a comment that is currently making its rounds on conservative-leaning news outlets and news aggregation sites like Drudge Report.

February 23, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Media

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More than 500 Leaders Call for Doubling Strength of America’s Best Regional Climate and Clean Air Program

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546 health professionals, businesses, academics, elected officials, conservation, consumer and environmental groups and community leaders from nine states in the Northeast called on their Governors to strengthen the nation’s best regional climate and clean

February 22, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Environment

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Air and Water Quality

NASA Just Found A Solar System With 7 Earth-Like Planets

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Astronomers just announced a breaking discovery that has a monumental impact on life beyond Earth: A planetary system with a number of Earth-sized planets that could host liquid water and, thus, life.

February 22, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Science

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