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Dakota Excess Pipeline? Standing Rock Protectors Strip-Searched, Jailed for Days on Minor Charges

We discuss the crackdown on the resistance to the Dakota Access pipeline with Winona LaDuke, a Native American activist and executive director of the group Honor the Earth who lives and

October 17, 2016
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Justice

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A Paralyzed Man Just Regained the Sense of Touch, Thanks to a Brain Implant

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Researchers have developed a set of brain implants that allowed a paralyzed man to feel sensations through a robot arm. Copeland could correctly identify 84 percent of the time which individual prosthetic finger was being touched while blindfolded.

October 14, 2016
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Science

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Scientists Have Finally Created a Blueprint for Treating HIV

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The new study is the first to demonstrate post-treatment immune control in SIV-infected primates that weren't previously vaccinated. While human trials are far off, the research brings us one step closer to curing HIV, a disease plaguing more than 36.7 million people worldwide.

October 14, 2016
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Science

China Has Overtaken the U.S. In AI Research

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The United States' current levels of R&D spending on AI are one-half to one-quarter of the levels that would be best for economic growth. Lagging behind in AI research could put the U.S. at a disadvantage if other countries get the opportunity to dictate how the technology is used.

October 14, 2016
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Science

Global sea levels are rising fast, so where does that leave the cities most at risk?

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The severe risk of climate change and rising sea levels on urban areas has not been addressed in the UN’s proposed New Urban Agenda, so flood-risk cities will have to learn

October 14, 2016
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Environment

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Gulf of Tonkin 2.0? US Using Unconfirmed Attack on Navy Ship to Quietly Start War With Iran & Russia

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It appears the US has effected another Gulf of Tonkin, acting militarily on unfounded claims, to embroil itself in a proxy war with Iran and Russia in Yemen.

October 13, 2016
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

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ACLU & HRW Call to Decriminalize Drug Use & Possession After Documenting Arrests Every 25 Seconds

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A new report on the devastating harm of policies that criminalize the personal use and possession of drugs finds that in 2015 police booked more people for small-time marijuana charges than for

October 14, 2016
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Is Trump's Rise a Result of America Declaring War on Institutions That Make Democracy Possible?

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In his new book, scholar Henry Giroux examines "America at War with Itself." From poisoned water in Flint and other cities to the police deaths of African Americans to hatemongering on

October 14, 2016
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

The White Helmets: As Syria Death Toll Mounts, Meet the Rescue Workers Saving Thousands of Lives

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In Syria, renewed bombing has reportedly killed more than 150 people this week in rebel-controlled Aleppo. On Wednesday, at least 15 people died after airstrikes hit East Aleppo’s biggest market. Meanwhile, the

October 13, 2016
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Journalist James Risen: CIA Torture Methods Caused Long-Term Psychological Harm to Former Prisoners

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A New York Times investigation has found at least half of the 39 detainees who went through the CIA’s so-called enhanced interrogation program have since shown psychiatric problems—some have been diagnosed with

October 13, 2016
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