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California vs. Trump: Lawmakers Push to Become "Sanctuary State" Despite Threats from Washington

California state Senate President Kevin de León recently introduced a bill to make California a sanctuary state. President Trump responded by threatening to pull federal funds from the state. "If they’re going

February 13, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

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Immigration

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Former ‘Border Czar’ Gives Real Facts About Immigration

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Alan Bersin says a border wall won’t address the real challenges confronting the U.S. border enforcement system: hopelessly understaffed immigration courts and lawlessness and poverty in Central America.

February 13, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Justice

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Immigration

Physicists Just Showed That Quantum Entanglement Is a Physical Reality

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Researchers from the MIT, the University of Vienna, and elsewhere are working to close a quantum entanglement loophole. The team's research focused on stars capable of sending enough photons to their direction – the closest of which was about 600 light years away.

February 10, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Science

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Quantum Physics

Doomsday Vault: The World’s Seed Bank Backup

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In a remote Arctic island lies Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV), a facility where all of the world's seeds are securely stored. They are meant to replace seeds from the world's seed banks in case these

February 10, 2017
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Category: Science

The Solar Industry Now Employs Twice As Many People As Coal

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Despite what some may say, the solar industry now employs twice as many people as the coal industry in the US today. The jobs right now are mainly in manual installation, and as more solar becomes more common, there is hope that other jobs will be created to keep up with improving technology.

February 10, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Science

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Renewable Energy

We Need to Address the Heavy Metals Polluting Our Water

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Across the country there are open pits of water, laden with pollution, waiting for remediation while chemicals slowly seep into the ground. Bioremediation systems, ones that utilize living organisms to perform complex chemical reactions with very little input or waste, could be the answer.