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Nice to have some precedent established, especially considering the current nominee.
The Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of A Special Education Student
School districts must give students with disabilities the chance to make meaningful, “appropriately ambitious” progress, the Supreme Court said Wednesday in an 8-0 ruling.
Nice to have some precedent established, especially considering the current nominee.
Great until you type left handed holding a sandwich, break a finger, get carpal tunnel or arthritis, have a stroke…
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/know-nothing-authentication/ Great until you type left handed holding a sandwich, break a finger, get carpal tunnel or arthritis, have a stroke…
Want an Energy-Efficient Data Center? Build It Underwater
Renewables Are Better for Jobs
For U.S. Jobs Creation, Renewables Are a Better Bet Than Coal
If the free market was enough to ensure treatments worked, there would be no big supplement or homeopathy industry
If the free market was enough to ensure treatments worked, there would be no big supplement or homeopathy industry https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/donald-trump-versus-the-fda-part-2/
The surgeon giving his patients VR instead of sedatives
Graphene Temporary Tattoo Tracks Vital Signs
The ‘untranslatable’ emotions you never knew you had
Scientific American: The War on Facts is a War on Democracy
Science is Not the Enemy
Science is Not the Enemy via @MadArtLab
Hundreds of companies have signed an open letter to Trump & Congress encouraging the…
Hundreds of companies have signed an open letter to Trump & Congress encouraging the US to honor its Paris climate commitments, as in the long run it will be better for our economy (not to mention the ball of rock that we live on). It's not just the companies you'd expect like Ben & Jerry's. Several of the giant agribusiness conglomerates like Unilever, Mondelez and General Mills and Mars are on the list as well.
The Viruses That Made Us Human
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/endogenous-retroviruses/
The Viruses That Made Us Human
Wikipedia Wants You to Improve Its Coverage of Indigenous Peoples
Careful not to name Mylan specifically, but good to know
A Statement from the CEO of FARE
The recent concerns raised about epinephrine pricing practices have led to questions on FARE’s relationship with commercial organizations. As CEO of FARE I think it’s important to address these questions.
Careful not to name Mylan specifically, but good to know: “We have therefore decided that until meaningful competition exists in the epinephrine auto-injector space we will no longer accept donations from companies marketing these devices.”
Why it’s so hard to get rid of Argentine ants.
Meet the worst ants in the world
Why it’s so hard to get rid of Argentine ants. Also some interesting insights on how founder-effect genetic bottlenecks can change the behavior of species as they move into new ecosystems. In their original habitat, each colony fights each other ruthlessly. But when a colony hitches a ride on a ship or train and expands in a new region, all that region’s ants descend from the same colony and read each other as friends, not foes.
An interesting look at desalination in the Middle East
Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here
One of the driest countries on Earth now makes more freshwater than it needs
An interesting look at desalination in the Middle East and how to deal with drought in lands that are already dry to begin with. Israel and Jordan are also working on a joint project on the Red Sea with the intent of sending the brine discharge to the Dead Sea.
Irony: A networking spec designed to protect against TCP spoofing ended up making it easier.
Irony: A networking spec designed to protect against TCP spoofing ended up making it easier. On the plus side, Linux is the only major OS that's implemented it so far. On the minus side…that's an awful lot of websites and Android phones.
Linux TCP flaw lets ‘anyone’ hijack Internet traffic
What started as an attempt to secure TCP/IP in Linux ended up enabling an attack vector that can be used to break, or even hijack, internet connections between Linux and Android systems.
Interesting perspective: IoT has given the internet “hands and feet.”
Interesting perspective: IoT has given the internet “hands and feet.”