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What We Need -- and Don’t Need -- From Government in the Robot Age | Michael R. Bloomberg
Michael R. Bloomberg. Photo from chicagoideas.com/years/2012/speakersMichael R. Bloomberg on how to think about wages, health insurance, and education in the wake of technological advances. June 22, ...
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Facebook makes everything worse | Mickey Z.
CC0 Public Domain Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 18, 2017 Here’s how “awareness” works in 2017: Something happens. We post about. Until something else happens. We revel in the likes, shares, or ...
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Researchers make breakthrough discovery in fight against bowel cancer | Nature Communications
May 31, 2017 (MedicalXpress) -- New research led by Queen's University Belfast has discovered how a genomic approach to understanding bowel (colorectal) cancer could improve the prognosis and ...
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Study shows snakes, thought to be solitary eaters, coordinate hunts | Vladimir Dinets
A new UT study by Vladimir Dinets shows that some snakes coordinate their hunts to increase their chances of success. He studied the Cuban boa, pictured. Credit: Vladimir Dinets May 23, 2017 ...
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Stars as random number generators could test foundations of physics | Lisa Zyga
By ESA/Hubble, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8788068 May 16, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Stars, quasars, and other celestial objects generate photons in a random way, and now ...
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Attention Activists: Education is not “brainwashing” | Mickey Z.
Image from "24 Bart Chalkboards For The 24th Anniversary Of ‘The Simpsons,’" Huffington Post. huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/17/bart-chalkboards_n_4459600.html Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 12, ...
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How Should We Then Live? | John Michael Greer
John Michael GreerMarch 8, 2017 (Archdruid Report) -- The philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, which we’ve been discussing for several weeks now, isn’t usually approached from the angle by which I’ve ...
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What Tony Robbins taught me about activism | Mickey Z.
By Randy Stewart (http://www.flickr.com/photos/stewtopia/3948482669/) , via Wikimedia Commons Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 2, 2017 Only recently did I finally marshal the courage to begin ...
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The Magic Lantern Show | John Michael Greer
Carl G. Jung.March 1, 2017 (Archdruid Report) -- The philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, which we’ve been discussing for the last three weeks, was enormously influential in European intellectual ...
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Scientists reveal new super-fast form of computer that 'grows as it computes' | PhysOrg
DNA double helix. Credit: public domain March 1, 2017 (PhysOrg) -- Researchers from The University of Manchester have shown it is possible to build a new super-fast form of computer that "grows as ...
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A Muddle of Mind and Matter | John Michael Greer
Feb. 22, 2017 (Archdruid Report) -- The philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, which we’ve been discussing for the last two weeks, has a feature that reliably irritates most people when they encounter ...
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