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Blackstone, BlackRock or a Public Bank? Putting California’s Funds to Work | Ellen Brown
California has more than $700 billion parked in private banks earning minimal interest, private equity funds that contributed to the affordable housing crisis, or shadow banks of the sort that ...
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Physicists invent flux capacitor, break time-reversal symmetry | Jared Cole
Schematic representation of the proposed circulator. Credit: FLEET May 28, 2018 (Phys.org) -- In the popular movie franchise "Back to the Future," an eccentric scientist creates a time machine that ...
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Genes, environment and schizophrenia -- new study finds the placenta is the missing link | Daniel R. Weinberger
Fetus in utero, between fifth and sixth months. Image credit: Wikipedia.May 28, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- Hiding in plain sight, new research shines a spotlight on the placenta's critical role in the ...
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That time I saw people reading my newspaper column on the NYC subway | Mickey Z.
Credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 28, 2018 “I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn't nice, I don't know what ...
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The Choice of a Canon | John Michael Greer
May 23, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Last week’s post on the spooky dimensions of reading -- the one-on-one encounter, in the silent places of the mind, with another person’s thinking -- sparked a lively ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- May 27, 2018 -- FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation May 26, 2018 May 21-June 1 2nd CTBT Science Diplomacy Symposium, Vienna International Centre, Vienna, Austria. Register online. May ...
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Scientists discover new magnetic element | Patrick Quarterman
This schematic illustrates how a tetragonal phase of Ru has been forced using ultra thin film growth methods. Credit: University of Minnesota, Quarterman et al, Nature Communications May 25, 2018 ...
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New materials, heated under high magnetic fields, could produce record levels of energy, model shows | Jennifer Chu
Schematic depiction of the E × B drift of carriers in a strong magnetic field. Electrons (labeled e−) and holes (labeled h+) drift in the same direction under the influence of crossed electric and ...
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How a particle may stand still in rotating spacetime | Lisa Zyga
When a particle with a certain angular momentum is located at the critical distance rst, it remains at rest while the spacetime is rotating around it. The closer a particle is to this critical ...
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The Pawns of War | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust May 25, 2018 She would always have the brightest smile as she stood at the intersection of Avenue T and Ocean Ave. in Brooklyn, New York, ...
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Israel’s Premature Celebration: Gazans Have Crossed the Fear Barrier | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 23, 2018 Sixrty Palestinians were killed in Gaza on May 15, simply for protesting and demanding their Right of Return as guaranteed by ...
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