The Bayer-Monsanto Merger Is Bad News for the Planet | Ellen Brown

April 4, 2018 (Web of Debt) -- Bayer and Monsanto have a long history of collusion to poison the ecosystem for profit. The Trump administration should veto their merger not just to protect competitor ...

The book I should’ve written 15 years ago (but it’s WAY too late now) | Mickey Z.

CC0 Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 22, 2018 It hit me while recently re-reading Andrea Dworkin’s 2002 memoir, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant. I first discovered it in fa ...

Nuclear Calendar -- March 21, 2018 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation March 21, 2018 March 21 9:00-10:00 a.m., Senator Robert Menendez (NJ), "Congressional Leadership in Foreign Policy," Center for Strategic ...

How Congress Censored the Internet | Elliot Harmon

In Passing SESTA/FOSTA, Lawmakers Failed to Separate Their Good Intentions from Bad Law Elliot Harmon -- Electronic Frontier Foundation March 21, 2018 Today was a dark day for the Internet. The U.S. ...

Kepler spacecraft nearing the end as fuel runs low | Charlie Sobeck

Credit: NASA March 14, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Trailing Earth's orbit at 94 million miles away, the Kepler space telescope has survived many potential knock-outs during its nine years in flight, from mech ...

Seeing is believing—precision atom qubits achieve major quantum computing milestone | Michelle Simmons

A scanning tunnelling microscope image showing the electron wave function of a qubit made from a phosphorus atom precisely positioned in silicon. Credit: UNSW March 7, 2018 (Phys.org) -- The unique A ...

Nuclear Calendar -- March 7, 2018 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation March 7, 2018 March 7 10:00-11:30 a.m., Daniel Salisbury, Project on Managing the Atom, "Countering WMD-related Illicit Trade: Insights f ...

What’s worse than fake news? The distortion of reality itself. | Aviv Ovadya

Aviv Ovadya -- The World Post Feb. 22, 2018 (Johan Viirok/Creative Commons) Aviv Ovadya is chief technologist at the Center for Social Media Responsibility at the University of Michigan and a Knight ...

Three Different Definitions of Blockchain | Stephen Farrington, MS, PE

Illustration by Stephen Farrington Stephen Farrington, MS, PE -- World News Trust Jan. 26, 2018 When I began my personal deep dive into the world of distributed ledger technology, blockchain and cryp ...

MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automatically-Synthesized Attacks Exploiting Invalidation-Based Coherence Protocols | Caroline Trippel, Daniel Lustig, Margaret Martonosi

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Feb. 11, 2018 (arXrv.org) -- The recent Meltdown and Spectre attacks highlight the importance of automated verification techniques for identifying hardware security vulnerab ...

Study finds earthquakes continue for years after gas field wastewater injection stops | Margaret Allen

Study area for the DFW Airport earthquake sequence. Yellow triangles are the 2008-2009 SMU operated stations. Blue asterisks are the earthquakes reported by the 2013-2016 SMU earthquake catalog, indi ...