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The Thinning Veil between Big Data and Pissed-Off Citizens
The full moon has just passed, Samhain is this weekend, and the veil is thin. Thin between our world and the next, our world and where our passed loved ones exist, thin between here and the Nether. Whatever two worlds you think the veil is thinning between, there’s another veil that’s been thinning. Call it……
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250 Years of Not Learning a Single Thing
The 4th of July, a time when many Americans celebrate the founding of their country. This year is particularly momentous this year, as it is the 250th year since this country’s founding. Our president wants to celebrate this momentous occasion by starting up (or “going critical”) three untested, unlicensed, unregulated reactors—of course, creating more nuclear……
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The Buzz About Chornobyl: 40 Years Later, by Ann McCann
The Buzz About Chornobyl, 40 Years Later. How Do We Tell the Bees? No, the bees in the Chornobyl exclusion zone (CEZ) are not mutated–in the visual ways we think of–nor are they glow-in-the-dark. They didn’t turn into giant, killer bees, and they don’t light up green at night. But what they did do was……
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