How a plan to save the power system disappeared: A federal lab found a way to modernize the grid, reduce reliance on coal, and save consumers billions. Then Trump appointees blocked it
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Weekly thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests, racial injustice, and policing policy - week of August 17
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
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Why and where you should plant your flag
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Record heat, unprecedented lightning fire siege in Northern California; more dry lightning to come
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Loving the alien - How UFO culture took over America
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Women won the right to vote 100 years ago. Why did they start voting differently from men in 1980?
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Magnus Carlsen fought back from the verge of defeat as the world champion clinched his seven-day, 38-game match against Hikaru Nakamura by four sets to three
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Michigan reaches preliminary settlement to pay $600 million to Flint Water Crisis victims
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Appeals court grants a stay on injunction, after Lyft announces rideshare operations would be suspended in California at 11:59 PM tonight
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Uber and Lyft both threaten to suspend their services in California unless the ruling requiring them to classify drivers as employees is overturned
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The US Supreme Court justices are misusing the ‘shadow docket’
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Vanguard is outsourcing recordkeeping work, along with 1,300 of its workforce, to Infosys
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Ocean Vuong joins Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Karl Ove Knausgård to lock away work in the Future Library to be published in ninety-four years time
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How men’s rights groups helped rewrite regulations on campus rape
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Apple becomes first US company to reach a $2 trillion market cap
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The Bush-Gore recount is an omen for 2020: An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern US history
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United States Postal Service (USPS) files patent for a blockchain-based voting system
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US states seek $2.2 trillion from OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma: filings
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The 2020 San Francisco exodus is real, and historic, report shows
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National trends in grade inflation, American colleges and universities
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Updated isolation guidance does not imply immunity to COVID-19
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Amazon liable for defective third-party products rules CA Appellate Court
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Boston Bruins goalie Tukka Rask has opted out of NHL Playoff's return to play
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America is following disastrous Trump advice to slow down testing
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US Justice Department says Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants
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Weekly thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests, racial injustice, and policing policy - week of August 10
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
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The recession is over for the rich, but the working class is far from recovered
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AMC Theatres to offer fifteen-cent tickets for older films on first day of reopening
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US families consume cancer-linked glyphosate in their food; eating organic reduces levels
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The case against American truck bloat
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Broken cable damages Arecibo Radio Observatory
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Rt COVID-19 timelines for the United States
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Reddit CEO defends their intention to run Trump ads ahead of election, outlines their plans to move comments on ads into subreddits
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How not to lose the lockdown generation
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The clean network: A US Department of State proposal to provide 5G free of China's interference
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Microsoft faces complex technical challenges in TikTok carveout
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Analysis of data from the end of NASA's Dawn mission confirms that the dwarf planet Ceres is an ocean world with a deep reservoir of salt-enriched water
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Release the Kraken: Seattle unveils long-awaited name of their new NHL franchise
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The Trump Pandemic: A blow-by-blow account of how the president killed thousands of Americans
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The Amish keep to themselves. And they’re hiding a horrifying secret: "A year of reporting by Cosmo and Type Investigations reveals a culture of incest, rape, and abuse."
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Weekly thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests, racial injustice, and policing policy - week of August 3
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
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The workforce is about to change dramatically
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US Intelligence: China opposes Trump reelection; Russia works against Biden
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US President Donald Trump issues executive orders taking effect in forty-five days that ban "transactions" with Chinese owners of TikTok (ByteDance) and WeChat (Tencent)
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Everything, um, unusual about Kodak’s Trump-assisted pivot to pharmaceuticals
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Census cuts all counting efforts short by a month
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Leaked police bodycam video shows new details of George Floyd's fatal arrest
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Virginia touts nation's first contact tracing app with Apple-Google tech
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Anthony Levandowski sentenced to eighteen months in prison for stealing self-driving trade secrets from Google before joining Uber
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State Health Director warns coronavirus is widespread on Oahu
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