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The End of the Internal Combustion Engine & Real Time Energy Production is Nigh

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"We present a wide range of testing results on an excellent moderate-energy-density lithium-ion pouch cell chemistry to serve as benchmarks for academics and companies developing advanced lithium-ion and other “beyond lithium-ion” cell chemistries to (hopefully) exceed. These results are far superior to those that have been used by researchers modelling cell failure mechanisms and assuch, … Continue reading The End of the Internal Combustion Engine & Real Time Energy Production is Nigh

Alternative Influence

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"These strategies reveal a tension underlying the content produced by these influencers: while they present themselves as news sources, their content strategies often more accurately consist of marketing and advertising approaches. These approaches are meant to provoke feelings, memories, emotions, and social ties. In this way, the “accuracy” of their messaging can be difficult to … Continue reading Alternative Influence

An Interview with Brontez Purnell – Believer Magazine

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"Will I be anything? Will I be nothing at all? / The question wastes time. / I focus, get the chores done." —Jenn Pelly interviewing Brontez Purnell, "An Interview with Brontez Purnell." The Believer Magazine. August 1, 2019. Amazing interview throughout. Also liked: “We endorse the use of lies but not at the expense of … Continue reading An Interview with Brontez Purnell – Believer Magazine

Explanation of Why Life on Earth is Made Out of Only 20 Amino Acids When Hundreds are Possible| PNAS

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"One of the long-standing questions in origins-of-life research centers on how the proteinaceous side chains and the protein backbone were selected during the earliest phases of evolution. Here we have studied oligomerization reactions of a group of positively charged amino acids, both proteinaceous and nonproteinaceous. Amino acids spontaneously oligomerized without the use of enzymes or … Continue reading Explanation of Why Life on Earth is Made Out of Only 20 Amino Acids When Hundreds are Possible| PNAS

Chile and the United States: Declassified Documents Relating to the Military Coup, September 11, 1973

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"September 11, 1998 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. The violent overthrow of the democratically-elected Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende changed the course of the country that Chilean poet Pablo Neruda described as "a long petal of sea, wine and snow"; because of CIA covert intervention in … Continue reading Chile and the United States: Declassified Documents Relating to the Military Coup, September 11, 1973

From Mind Control to Murder? How a Deadly Fall Revealed the CIA’s Darkest Secrets

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"Decades later, however, spectacular revelations cast Olson’s death in a completely new light. First, the CIA admitted that, shortly before he died, Olson’s colleagues had lured him to a retreat and fed him LSD without his knowledge. Then it turned out that Olson had talked about leaving the CIA – and told his wife that … Continue reading From Mind Control to Murder? How a Deadly Fall Revealed the CIA’s Darkest Secrets

Liberatory Education | The Hedgehog Review

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"In a psychic context, racial reparations may be less obviously needed, but needed nonetheless, for those of us from white families and communities that practice racial thoughtlessness. We, too, need to study race and racism in order to understand ourselves, because the implicit attitudes about race that we have consciously and unconsciously created and accepted … Continue reading Liberatory Education | The Hedgehog Review

How a “Political Astroturfing” App Coordinates Pro-Israel Influence Operations

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"...a pro-Israel smartphone app that seeds and amplifies pro-Israel messages across social media — saw its first major test in May 2019. It offered a glimpse of the novel methods by which future influence campaigns will be conducted and information wars won...[the app] assigns users a series of 'missions' — typically a comment, retweet, or … Continue reading How a “Political Astroturfing” App Coordinates Pro-Israel Influence Operations

The Fashion Line Designed to Trick Surveillance Cameras | The Guardian

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"But to an automatic license plate reader (ALPR) system, the shirt is a collection of license plates, and they will get added to the license plate reader’s database just like any others it sees. The intention is to make deploying that sort of surveillance less effective, more expensive, and harder to use without human oversight, … Continue reading The Fashion Line Designed to Trick Surveillance Cameras | The Guardian