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Missing the Point of Plymouth Rock 1619 Slavery

Missing the Point of Plymouth Rock

Of course the Pilgrim landing at Plymouth Rock in 1620 explains American history. Of course the 1619 Project’s shoddy exercise in vituperation is meant to delegitimize America. John G. Turner’s recent article in National Review is an extended exercise in missing the point.Turner, a scholar of the history of American religion,…
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April 6, 2020
Freeze–Thaw‐Promoted Fabrication of Clean and Hierarchically Structured Noble‐Metal Aerogels for Electrocatalysis and Photoelectrocatalysis Alexander von Humboldt

Freeze–Thaw‐Promoted Fabrication of Clean and Hierarchically Structured Noble‐Metal Aerogels for Electrocatalysis and Photoelectrocatalysis

Introduction Aerogels are a large class of self‐supported porous materials with virtually unlimited compositions ranging from silica, polymers, nanocarbons, and semiconductors to metals.1-7 Especially for the recently emerging noble‐metal aerogels (NMAs), their combined features, including self‐supported architectures, high specific surface areas, 3D electron/mass transfer pathways, and numerous optically/catalytically active sites,…
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April 6, 2020
Bailing Out Gulag

Bailing Out

The Brooklyn Community Bail Fund opened for business in 2015, a heady time for criminal justice reform. The protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore had helped catapult conversations about police violence, mass incarceration, and the myriad injustices of the criminal justice system into a wider public awareness. For the first…
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April 6, 2020
Global Educational Robots Market, Forecast to 2025 Moravec‘s Paradox

Global Educational Robots Market, Forecast to 2025

DUBLIN, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Educational Robot Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2020-2025" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.Research and Markets LogoLooking forward, the market is projected to expand at a CAGR of more than 15% during 2020-2025.The emerging trend of digitization,…
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April 6, 2020
9/11 No Longer Defines Our World Gulag

9/11 No Longer Defines Our World

The coronavirus pandemic and a chapter of history that should have expired long ago April 6, 2020 Former deputy national security adviser to Barack Obama Ray Stubblebine / ReutersIn a large windowless room in the bowels of the CIA, there is a sign that reads Every day is September 12th.…
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April 6, 2020
Whale sharks: Atomic tests solve age puzzle of world’s largest fish Cold War

Whale sharks: Atomic tests solve age puzzle of world’s largest fish

Data from atomic bomb tests conducted during the Cold War have helped scientists accurately age the world's biggest fish.Whale sharks are large, slow moving and docile creatures that mainly inhabit tropical waters.They are long-lived but scientists have struggled to work out the exact ages of these endangered creatures.But using the…
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April 6, 2020
How Useful Are National Referenda to Alleviate Conflicts of Sovereignty in the EU? An enquiry about the Greek 2015 referendum on the bail out Grexit

How Useful Are National Referenda to Alleviate Conflicts of Sovereignty in the EU? An enquiry about the Greek 2015 referendum on the bail out

Τhe debate about sovereignty has increasingly stressed how popular sovereignty has been affected by EU integration.  A relatively recent scholarship promoting demoicracy has tried to reconcile Europe wide democracy with popular sovereignty. Demoicratic scholars claim that, to work in a way which places popular sovereignty at the heart of democracy,…
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April 6, 2020