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Winning and Lying | Emanuele Corso
Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust Aug. 13, 2017 I recently read a long essay in the New York Times Sunday magazine about a young lady, Noura Jackson, who spent nine years in jail because of ...
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Harvey Wasn’t Just Bad Weather. It Was Bad City Planning | Peter Coy and Christopher Flavelle
A family in Katy, just west of Houston, floats on an inflatable mattress. PHOTOGRAPHER: PHILIP MONTGOMERY FOR BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK Houston exulted in sprawling, hands-off growth. That’s no way to ...
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Hurricane Wars | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A, Farruggio -- World News Trust Aug. 31, 2017 This writer lived through a major hurricane assault when Mathew trampled through Port Orange, Florida, on Oct. 7th of last ...
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Researchers propose how the universe became filled with light | P. Kaaret
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Aug. 30, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Soon after the Big Bang, the universe went completely dark. The intense, seminal event that created the cosmos churned up so much hot, thick gas ...
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Human settlement in the Americas may have occurred in the late Pleistocene | Wolfgang Stinnesbeck
Prehistoric human skeleton in the Chan Hol Cave near Tulúm on the Yucatán peninsula prior to looting by unknown cave divers. Credit: Tom Poole, Liquid Junge Lab Aug. 30, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Analysis ...
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A Few Notes on Reincarnation | John Michael Greer
Aug. 30, 2017 (EcoSophia.net) -- At the beginning of this month, when I realized that there were going to be five Wednesdays in August rather than the usual four, I asked readers of this blog what ...
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The Terror Next Time: The Daesh Story Is Not Ending | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 29, 2017 Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, has been reduced to rubble. It has been finally conquered, snatched back from the notorious group, ...
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Sticks, Stones, and Nukes redux again… | Emanuele Corso
Atomic bomb mushroom clouds over Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right). Source: Wikipedia Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust July 26, 2017 I published the essay, “Sticks, Stones, and Nukes,” several ...
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US Energy Agency Asked Scientists to Scrub References to Climate Change | Jeff Tollefson, Amy Maxmen
Aug. 28, 2017 (Nature) -- Multiple researchers who received grants from the U.S. Department of Energy have been asked to remove references to “climate change” and “global warming” from the ...
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From the hearts and minds of men: Firebombing | Mickey Z.
Body of a woman who died in an air-raid shelter. Deutsche Fotothek. CC BY-SA 3.0 de Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Aug. 27, 2017 On Planet Patriarchy, males dominate. Thus, our decisions and ...
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The Dark Side of the Empire | Phiip A. Farruggio
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Aug. 27, 2017 One of rock's greatest albums is Pink Floyd's 1973 Dark Side of the Moon. This somber, surrealistic album paints a picture of ...
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