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Poetics of Lineage Hiroshima

Poetics of Lineage

For most of his life, the boy feared his father. It wasn’t so much the whippings, a frequent sting of leather, bamboo switches against skin; rather, the boy had come to dread a careful stillness in the man, of air closing the gap between what struck and sung. In this…
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February 4, 2020
DARPA tests drones that can be dropped from planes and collected in midair Drones

DARPA tests drones that can be dropped from planes and collected in midair

Whether it’s drones that can be “grown” using chemistry in large-scale labs or dissolving drones designed to fly over enemy lines, there’s no shortage of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) innovation in military research. An ongoing project involving the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) adds one more item to…
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February 4, 2020
Russian priests must stop blessing nuclear weapons, says Russian Orthodox Church patriarch Nuclear Weapons

Russian priests must stop blessing nuclear weapons, says Russian Orthodox Church patriarch

“The blessing of military weapons is not reflected in the tradition of the Orthodox Church and does not correspond to the content of the Rite,” reads a new document on the website of the Moscow patriarchate of the the Russian Orthodox Church. Russian priests should stop blessing nuclear weapons and…
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February 4, 2020
Google mum on hardware as it divulges revenue for other two big bets Privacy Concerns

Google mum on hardware as it divulges revenue for other two big bets

FILE PHOTO: Google products on display during the presentation of new Google hardware in San FranciscoBy Paresh DaveSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai over the last three years has touted the business prospects of what he has called "three of our biggest bets: YouTube, cloud and hardware."On…
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February 4, 2020
Tennessee lawmaker drinks from chocolate syrup bottle during legislative session without shame Recycling

Tennessee lawmaker drinks from chocolate syrup bottle during legislative session without shame

Reporter Natalie Allison, who covers state politics for The Tennessean in Nashville, tweeted a photo Monday (the photo was shot by photojournalist George Walker IV) of TN state Rep. Kent Calfee drinking from a Hershey’s chocolate syrup bottle. Weird. Or -- not weird, if you ask TN state Rep. Kent…
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February 4, 2020