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Lockout of Honeywell Workers Signals Emergence of Broader Corporate Challenge to Collective Bargaining

Professor Paul Mishler, who organized a rally in support of the UAW workers in Indiana, says there's a need for community support for labor struggles and tactics outside of traditional collective bargaining.

February 16, 2017
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Category: Justice

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EU-Canada Trade Deal Will Undermine Domestic Regulations

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Trade deals like CETA are in part a result of undemocratic policymaking, says Global Justice Now's Jean Blaylock.

February 16, 2017
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Category: Politics

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Scientists Have Finally Created a Molecule That Was 70 Years in the Making

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IBM researchers in Zurich, Switzerland have created triangulene, a molecule that has eluded chemists for a period of nearly seventy years. This could allow us to encode and process information in electronics, pushing us closer to the age of quantum computing.

February 16, 2017
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Category: Science

U.S. Scientists Have Backed the Genetic Modification of Human Embryos

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A new report from the National Academy of Sciences shows how the scientific community is beginning to soften their stance on gene editing. The biggest concern that experts still have over gene editing is anchored on the very real possibility that it will be used to create designer babies.

February 15, 2017
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Category: Science

You Can Help Scientists Find the Next Earth-Like Planet

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A two-decade long radical velocity-planet hunting program has compiled almost 61,000 individual measurements made of more than 1,600 stars. That's a considerable amount of data to comb through – so the research team made the data set available to the public.

February 15, 2017
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Category: Science

China’s New “Weather-Controlling Tech” Could Make it Rain on Demand

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China has spent $168 million on cloud seeding technology to hopefully manipulate the weather and combat drought and extreme weather due to climate change. Cloud seeding technology has existed for a long time, however because of early false claims and deep-rooted skepticism, there isn't sufficient research to back up the tech.