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How Will We Keep Our Thoughts Private in the Age of Mind-Reading Tech?

With BCIs having become commercially available after extensive use in the medical sector, recent research has found that they can be used to hack our brains for PINs or mine our minds for data.

May 20, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Science

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Technology

California Grid Smashes Record, Gets 67% of Energy From Renewables

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A California grid broke another renewables record, getting more than 67% of its energy from renewables on May 13, 2017. The state is still leading the U.S., but the entire country is making progress with renewable energy.

May 20, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Environment

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Renewable Energy

Teleportation Could Be Possible Using Quantum Physics

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Quantum physics could, theoretically, be used to fulfill the age old desire to teleport. However, any practical use is a an extremely long way off, with scientists only managing single particles so far.

May 20, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Science

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Quantum Physics

Human Rights Lawyer: Sweden Dropping Investigation of WikiLeaks' Assange is "Long Overdue Decision"

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Swedish prosecutors have dropped an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Assange has denied the allegations, which he calls a pretext for his ultimate extradition to the

May 19, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Justice

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Human Rights

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Bernie Sanders Supporters Are Suing the DNC for Fraud

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In an overlooked class-action case, Bernie Sanders supporters are suing the Democratic National Committee for fraud over revelations party officials sought to help Hillary Clinton defeat Sanders in the primary. Elizabeth Lee Beck,

May 19, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

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Corruption

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Is Russia the "Adversary" of the United States?

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Moscow based journalist Jeffrey Taylor and Paul Jay challenge the underlying assumption of the furor in Washington, that Russia is the enemy of the American people.

May 19, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

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Can Europe Stop the Far Right if It Doesn't Stop Neoliberal Austerity?

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As a second German soldier is arrested in an alleged plot to frame Syrian refugees for a shooting attack, Liz Fekete of the Institute of Race Relations in London says Europe's far-right movements

May 20, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

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"Repair the Damage From the Drug War": Susan Burton on a New Way of Life to End Mass Incarceration

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We are joined by two leading voices in the fight against mass incarceration: Michelle Alexander, author of the best-selling book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness," and Susan Burton, founder and executive director of A New

May 19, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Justice

Type: Video

Roger Ailes: No One Did More to Debase US Politics

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Roger Ailes, the man who pioneered “alternative facts,” is dead. During the first five years of Fox News—which was built almost single-handedly by Ailes’ genius—I was a regular on-air contributor/panelist there. I dealt with his right-wing lieutenants plenty,

May 18, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Media

At CNN, Imagining an Absurd Iranian/ISIS Alliance

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Pro-torture legal scholar Alan Dershowitz was on CNN the other night (Anderson Cooper 360, 5/17/17) arguing that the person who told the Washington Post that Donald Trump had disclosed classified information about ISIS to Russian visitors in the

May 20, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Media

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