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Sanders Showed Values Matter, But Democrats Continue to Focus on Tactics and Gimmicks

The Democrats have just unveiled their new slogan: "A Better Deal: Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Wages." It looks like they were trying to do a rift on Roosevelt’s New Deal

July 26, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

Two New Studies Look Into “Planet-Hacking” Proposals for Slowing Climate Change

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Climate scientists have just published two new studies outlining ways that we could use geoengineering to alter the climate. However, both come with extreme risks and do not address the core of the climate problem: carbon dioxide emissions.

July 25, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Science

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Climate Change

Watch: What Counts as Science?

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Is there a way to define science and separate it from other things?

July 25, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Science

Type: Video

Death of 10 Migrants in San Antonio Spotlights Humanitarian Crisis Unfolding on U.S.-Mexico Border

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Ten immigrants have died and 29 remain hospitalized in San Antonio, Texas, where dozens of undocumented immigrants were discovered packed in the back of a sweltering tractor-trailer. The youngest victims were just

July 25, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Justice

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The Rebellions That Changed U.S. History: Looking Back at the 1967 Newark & Detroit Uprisings

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Fifty years ago this month, rebellions broke out in the cities of Newark and Detroit. It all began in Newark on July 12, 1967, when two white police officers detained and

July 25, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Justice

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Activism

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Russ Baker Talks Russiagate, the Media, and Much More

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In this extensive interview on The Ripple Effect Podcast, host Ricky Varandas and WhoWhatWhy founder, editor-in-chief and investigative journalist Russ Baker discuss a wide range of pressing topics

July 25, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

Type: Video

We fear death, but what if dying isn't as bad as we think?

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Research comparing perceptions of death with accounts of those imminently facing it suggest that maybe we shouldn’t worry so much about our own end.

July 25, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Science

Google enters race for nuclear fusion technology

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The tech giant and a leading US fusion company develop a new computer algorithm that significantly speeds up progress towards clean, limitless energy.

July 25, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Science

8 Lessons U.S. Progressives Can Learn From the U.K. Labour Party

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As of mid-July, Labour is 8 percentage points ahead of the Conservatives. Here’s how they did it.

July 25, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

How the Food and Drug Companies Ensure that We Get Sick and They Make Money

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Another reason for single-payer health care: The documentary What the Health shows how the lives and health of human beings are considered insignificant, and in many ways threatened, by the pursuit of profits in the meat and dairy and drug industries.

July 24, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

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