The state hopes a new project will finally begin to tap an enormous source of renewable energy.
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Women Warriors Among Northern Plains Indians
December 26, 2016The popular media and sometimes history book view of the Northern Plains Indians of the nineteenth century envisions a male warrior, mounted on a horse, wearing a long war bonnet.…
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First-Ever GMO Labeling Law in U.S. Is Finally Here
December 26, 2016Vermont requires GMOs to be labeled, but the future of regulations for genetically engineered ingredients and labels is anything but clear.
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Thirteen Facts About America Conservatives Would Like You to Forget
December 26, 2016Conservatives opposed the Founding Fathers, the American Revolution and a lot of other righteous stuff as well.
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ISIS Is a Symptom, Not the Cause, of the Middle East’s Disintegration
December 26, 2016We live in an age of disintegration. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Greater Middle East and Africa. Across the vast swath of territory between Pakistan and Nigeria,…
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A haunting silence is spreading over the natural world.
December 26, 2016The first mammal has gone extinct from climate change. The Australian Bramble Cay melomys have vanished from its 350m-long cay home in the Torres Strait due to sea-level rise and…
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Rare footage of Bryde’s whales feeding
December 26, 2016Captured via drone off the coast of Auckland. There are thought to be fewer than 200 of these creatures left in New Zealand waters
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New Film ‘Zero Days’ Foreshadows Cyberwarfare’s Frightening Future
December 26, 2016The documentary is an ominous warning that cyber attacks are the new, unregulated, furtive frontier in warfare.
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The U.S. Spends Hundreds of Billions on Crops That Make Us Unhealthy
December 26, 2016A new study finds that high consumption of commodity crops is linked with poor health outcomes.
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When Soldiers Come Home, Who Tends to Their Moral Injuries?
December 26, 2016Listening can help ease the transition home for veterans and ultimately heal us as a nation.