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Machine translation tools find word meanings vary based on news viewership | Byron Spice
Oct. 23, 2020 (TechXplore) -- It's not news that U.S. politics are highly polarized or that polarization affects cable news channels. But researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, using computer ...
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Energy Scavenging Nanogenerator Finds Power All Around Us | Flinders University
Aqueous biologically based polyurethanes reinforced with cellulose nanocrystals. Credit: CC0 Public Domain Oct. 20, 2020 (Phys.org) -- Imagine a mobile phone charger that doesn't need a wireless or ...
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A New Theory Of Consciousness | University of Surrey
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Oct. 20, 2020 (MedicalXpress) -- Electromagnetic energy in the brain enables brain matter to create our consciousness and our ability to be aware and think, ...
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That Time I Gave a Lecture at Yale University — Mickey Z.
The Yale mascot celebrates a Bulldogs’ victory during the 2016 NCAA tournament. (Photo: Catherine Avalone/Hearst Connecticut Media) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust October 19, 2020 “Every child is an ...
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A Surge in Nontraditional Gun Ownership Requires a Surge in Resources | Harper S. Ferry
Harper S. Ferry -- World News Trust Oct. 3, 2020 On a recent thunder-filled Saturday, I hosted 10 very green shooters for a basic pistol safety workshop. Of the attendees, only a couple had ...
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Everything You Know About Self-Defense is Wrong | Mickey Z.
Photo Credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust September 25, 2020 To begin, let me clarify what “self-defense” means. I’ll do so by paraphrasing this from the Center for Anti-Violence ...
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America is a Smoking Fascist Dystopia | umair haque
America Has Less Than 50 Days to Save Itself From Even Greater Disaster Sept. 15, 2020 (Eudaimonia & Co) -- I woke up this morning to news that was particularly horrific. Forced mass sterilisations ...
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We Are the Children of Gaza: The Poet, the Fashionista and the Footballer | Wafaa Aludaini and Ramzy Baroud
Children of Gaza. Images provided by Dr. Ramzy Baroud Wafaa Aludaini and Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 17, 2020 The inevitable has finally happened, and the coronavirus pandemic is now ...
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A Few Notes on Synchronicity | John Michael Greer
Sept. 2, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- Back in July, when I realized there were five Wednesdays on that page of the calendar and I didn’t have anything lined up for the fifth, I asked my readers what they ...
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The Other 9/11 (and That Time I Gave a Lecture at MIT) | Mickey Z.
Photo by Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 4, 2020 Preface: I’ve written (several times) about the “other 9/11” in 1973 Chile. I’ve also written once about my related MIT talk in 2003. ...
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Study unveils the unstable nature of some topological phases | Ingrid Fadelli
Image representing time-reversal symmetry. Credit: McGinley & Cooper Aug. 11, 2020 (Phys.org) -- In recent years, physicists worldwide have been conducting studies exploring the characteristics and ...
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