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Internet Censorship Bills Wouldn’t Help Catch Sex Traffickers

In the most illuminating part of last week’s House subcommittee hearing on the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA, H.R. 1865), Tennessee Bureau of Investigation special agent Russ Winkler explained how he uses online

December 6, 2017
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Air pollution harm to unborn babies may be global health catastrophe, warn doctors

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New UK research links toxic air to low birth weight that can cause lifelong damage to health, raising fears that millions of babies worldwide are being harmed

December 6, 2017
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Category: Environment

Humanity’s Next Great Debate: What Rights Should Conscious AI Have?

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As AI evolve and become more human, we may find ourselves asking increasingly complex questions.

December 5, 2017
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Category: Philosophy

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WaPo’s One-Sided Cheerleading for Coup and Intervention in Venezuela

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The only voices allowed in the Washington Post on the subject of Venezuela over the past year have been those calling for the overthrow or sanction of its government. A review of 15 opinion pieces featured in the Post shows voices even remotely

December 5, 2017
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Rippling Graphene Sheets May Be the Key to Clean, Unlimited Energy

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Physicists at the University of Arkansas have invented a nano-scale power generator that could potentially use the movement of graphene to produce clean, unlimited energy. Called a Vibration Energy Harvester, this development provides evidence for the

December 4, 2017
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Flynn Plea Shows Collusion With... Israel?

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Michael Flynn's guilty plea to lying to the FBI falls short on Russia "collusion" but points to the Trump administration acting on Israel's behalf, says author and journalist Max Blumenthal.