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Polls Showed Sanders Had a Better Shot of Beating Trump–but Pundits Told You to Ignore Them

There was a debate last spring, when the Sanders/Clinton race was at its most heated, as to whether Bernie Sanders’ consistently out-polling Hillary Clinton was to be taken as a serious consideration in favor of his nomination. Before, during and after the race was competitive, this was the Vermont

November 11, 2016
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‘It’s About Embracing a Different Way of Life’ - CounterSpin interview with Rose Aguilar on reporting from Standing Rock

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Janine Jackson interviewed Rose Aguilar about reporting from Standing Rock for the November 4, 2016, episode of CounterSpin.

November 12, 2016
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Here’s How Automation Will Prevent Trump’s Job Promises

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Wadhwa believes Donald Trump will have difficulty creating jobs given the shift toward automation, with robots predicted to do some jobs for one-tenth the cost of human workers. He urges talks between the government and the private sector on how to distribute new wealth and cope with the fact that tech will disrupt industries and eliminate millions of jobs.

November 10, 2016
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End to Illness: Machine Learning Is Revolutionizing How We Prevent Disease

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The TeraStructure algorithm can analyze genome sets much larger than current systems can efficiently handle, including those as big as 100,000 or 1 million genomes. Finding an efficient way to analyze genome databases would allow for personalized healthcare that takes into account any genetic mutations that could exist in a person's DNA.

November 10, 2016
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Vehicles Powered by Artificial Intelligence Will Eliminate Uncertainty in Traveling

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The average individual living in Los Angeles County spends 81 hours a year sitting in traffic trying to get from A to B. Self-driving cars powered by artificial intelligence will not only transform our commuting time, they will utterly transform how we travel.

November 10, 2016
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Nanoparticles Are Moving Us Toward a Cancer-Free World

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A new nanoparticle therapy that uses a minute gel pellet to deliver siRNA to cancer cells has reduced or eliminated carcinomas in in vivo tests in four mice. The treatment is still in its very early stages, but joins a growing number of nanoparticle therapies looking to improve how we combat disease on a cellular level.