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Sugar is Making us Sick
By Robert Lustig for The Conversation Children are manifesting increased rates of adult diseases like hypertension or high triglycerides. And they are getting diseases that used to be unheard of in...
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What We Want From Science
A 2005 study published in Nature journal of several thousand United States based scientists in their early-to-mid careers funded by the NIH shows that over one third of all scientists surveyed...
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Anonymous is Taking on Islamic State and That’s not a Good Thing
By Levi J. West for The Conversation It’s been a week since the terrorist attacks in Paris and the hacktivist group Anonymous has further expanded its online confrontation with the Islamic State (IS)....
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Hope or Hype? Opportunities and Challenges for Africa’s Startups
By Andrew Manners for Global Risk Insights As the global economy continues its sluggish recovery and emerging markets stutter, investors are looking further afield for newfound opportunities. And with...
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Rise of the Algorithm
As opening night of Star Wars: The Force Awakens approaches, I can’t help but reflect back forty years to when I was pretending to fight a childhood friend in the backyard with a makeshift lightsaber....
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Stranger than Strangelove: How the U.S. Planned for Nuclear War in the 1950s
By Paul Lashmar for The Conversation Those who have written about the nuclear Cold War remain grateful to Stanley Kubrick for giving us the satirical 1964 film Dr. Strangelove which captures the...
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Epidemic Futures?
Last week Liberia joined Guinea and Sierra Leone in recording no new Ebola cases for 42 days. The World Health Organization officially declared the two-year epidemic in West Africa to be over. This...
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How the West Ignores the Rising Tide of Chinese innovation
In the post-war years of the ’50s and ’60s, the United States was the undisputed leader in terms of manufacturing, production, and innovation, and we saw the lead in innovation expand with the dotcom...
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Do We Need An Age Cap on Driving?
From New York to California, news media sources have reported fatal car accidents involving elderly drivers in the last few months, reigniting the debate on whether the driver’s licenses of older...
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Should Porter Ranch and Flint Change Priorities?
Two unrelated incidents, both causing health hazards, have occurred in the United States recently. One is a gas leak in Porter Ranch, California and the other is lead poisoning in the water in Flint,...
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Precursor to Pre-Cogs
Minority Report is a science fiction movie based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, starring Tom Cruise. In the movie crimes not yet committed are prevented based on foreknowledge of future events...
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U.K. Minister: We Choose to Invest in OUR Cyber Defenses
“We chose to Invest in Our Cyber Defenses” said U.K. Minister Matt Hancock in a speech in Israel supporting the cybersecurity sector. He announced that London wants to partner with Tel Aviv and grow...
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Minority Medical Students are Crucial to the Future of Healthcare in America
At the first sign of a foreign invader, the body quickly selects and nurtures specialized cells, the ones best suited for the mission, and provides them the resources to overcome the invasion and...
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Slick, Fast, and Lethal – Navy Tests F-35C Stealth Warfighter
Warfighting capability has never looked so good for the Grim Reapers of U.S. Navy Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 101. No stranger to supersonic jets and the pilots who fly them, VFA-101, based at Eglin...
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Apple vs. the FBI: Much Ado about Nothing or a Temporary Truce?
Now that the FBI has magically cracked an iPhone used by San Bernardino gunman Syed Farook, the vitriol has calmed down in Apple’s very public battle in defense of privacy. Apple’s hardened stance in...
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Slick, Fast, and Lethal – Navy Tests F-35C Stealth Warfighter
Warfighting capability has never looked so good for the Grim Reapers of U.S. Navy Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 101. No stranger to supersonic jets and the pilots who fly them, VFA-101, based at Eglin...
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U.S. Navy F-35: Meeting the Demands of 21st Century
Warfighting capability has never looked so good for the Grim Reapers of U.S. Navy Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 101. No stranger to supersonic jets and the pilots who fly them, VFA-101, based at Eglin...
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Rise of the Algorithm
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Joint Strike Fighter: The Real Costs of the F-35
The JSF program was a failure from the outset. The program’s purpose was to construct a single fighter system that would serve all military branches’ purposes; however, the military’s diverse needs...
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Yuri Gagarin in Space: the Politics of Cosmic Discovery
Aristotle thought notions of humanity as a supreme species atopos – absurd. In contrast, the Romans had a very defined term that distinguished humans as humans, impressive relative to other species:...
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