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Greta Thunberg Reflects On Living Through Multiple Crises In A ‘Post-truth Society’ Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg Reflects On Living Through Multiple Crises In A ‘Post-truth Society’

Since her first sit-in outside the Swedish parliament building more than two years ago, Greta Thunberg’s fundamental message has been clear and unchanging: The climate crisis is humanity’s greatest existential threat and we need to treat it as such. That message inspired millions of young activists to protest for change…
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October 28, 2020
Preserving a Sense of Wonder in DNA Hydrogen

Preserving a Sense of Wonder in DNA

Not long ago, Joe Davis, the “artist-scientist” in George Church’s genetics lab at Harvard Medical School, was in Brittany, France. The region is known for thousand-year-old salterns that produce fleur de sel, or flower of salt—salt that forms as seawater evaporates. Davis was there sampling these brightly colored ponds with…
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October 28, 2020
How Eugenics Shaped Statistics Cursor

How Eugenics Shaped Statistics

In early 2018, officials at University College London were shocked to learn that meetings organized by “race scientists” and neo-Nazis, called the London Conference on Intelligence, had been held at the college the previous four years.The existence of the conference was surprising, but the choice of location was not. UCL…
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October 28, 2020
Tucker Carlson says Hunter Biden documents disappeared en route from New York to Los Angeles Times Square

Tucker Carlson says Hunter Biden documents disappeared en route from New York to Los Angeles

Soon after his show began Wednesday night, Tucker Carlson tweeted a video in which he explains that a trove of documents about Hunter Biden that was shipped overnight from New York to Los Angeles never arrived … the packaged was opened at one of the shipping facilities and the documents…
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October 28, 2020
NYC announces Open Storefronts program to help small businesses live through pandemic New York City

NYC announces Open Storefronts program to help small businesses live through pandemic

NEW YORK, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday announced the Open Storefronts program, permitting businesses to use a portion of their sidewalk to display merchandise, sell goods, complete transactions, and provide queuing areas. Building on the success of the Open Restaurants and Open…
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October 28, 2020
News24.com | Former British Cycling doctor would never ‘cross the line’ Doping in Cycling

News24.com | Former British Cycling doctor would never ‘cross the line’

Former British Cycling and Team Sky doctor Richard Freeman said Wednesday that neither he nor those organisations would ever "cross the line" with regard to doping.Facing a hearing in Manchester, Freeman is accused of ordering testosterone "knowing or believing" it was to be given to a rider to enhance performance…
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October 28, 2020
Section 230: Senators grandstand during hearing with Big Tech bosses NATO

Section 230: Senators grandstand during hearing with Big Tech bosses

What happened: Less than a week before the US presidential elections, the CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter appeared before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.The four-hour hearing was meant to focus on Section 230, the regulation that has shielded internet companies from liability for user content. Most…
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October 28, 2020
Business mystified by govt’s lack of interest in recycling initiative Recycling

Business mystified by govt’s lack of interest in recycling initiative

The country's biggest bulk wine supplier has begun turning gigantic flexibags into plastic fenceposts but the fencepost manufacturer protests that a lack of government funding is barring the way from doing so much more. A plastic bladder weighing 110kg at a North Island landfill. (file pic) Photo: Supplied Multinational giant…
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October 28, 2020