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What will it really take for vertical farms to succeed?
Funders and proponents say vertical farming is the future. But demand may change the nature of what it means to “grow.”
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Could a Global Living Wage Put an End to Corporations’ ‘Race to the Bottom’?
A true living wage would take into account the needs not just of workers but of society as a whole.
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Russian Trolling of US Social Media May Have Been Much Greater Than We Thought
The latest revelations from inside Russia heighten concern over Moscow’s Internet “troll farm.”
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How the Swindlers of Silicon Valley Avoid Paying Taxes
Now they’re pushing an ingenious new dodge that would allow them to pay even less.
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Blue jets, red sprites and other flashes
In recent years, the International Space Station has given astronauts the chance to photograph transient luminous events – or TLEs – natural light shows
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Tesla starts energy storage at hospital to help Puerto Rico
The project comes after Elon Musk offered to rebuild the destroyed power grid
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Creatures raft across Pacific, thanks to tsunami | Earth | EarthSky
Hundreds of species hitched a ride on debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami for a 4,400-mile journey across the Pacific Ocean.
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7 questions for Derek Bauman, 20-year law enforcement veteran, about police shootings
RSS REBLOGGED BY Daily Kos Police Accountability Group Barriers and Bridges Support the Dream Defenders TAGS CommunityPolicing PoliceShootings BlackLivesMatter DerekBauman TommyNorman Share this article Derek Bauman, a law enforcement veteran of over 20 years, is currently serving a suburban Cincinnati police department. He is the president of his department’s patrol officer union and in 2011…
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Elon Musk thinks he has the answer to Puerto Rico’s blackout. Here’s how it could play out.
It might actually work, but it won’t be easy.
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Nic Askew – A Series of short films on education
The MacArthur Foundation backed the Digital and Media Learning Hub to re-imagine the experience of education and schooling.
