India Is Targeting Defenders of Indigenous Rights as ‘Terrorists’ Adivasis and their allies are being persecuted for protesting development that destroys the environment By Virginius Xaxa on January 4, 2021 Adivasi woman signs a petition with her thumbprint during a campaign to organize. Credit: Joerg Boethling Alamy On October 8, 2020, Indian authorities arrested Stan Swamy, an…
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ow Zoom violated its own terms of service for access to China’s market Like global tech companies before it, Zoom caved to the Chinese government, even when it meant overlooking basic human rights. Zoom helps people connect — but it also helps governments like China’s surveil and censor people.Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis via Getty Images…
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Aging Mice Have Memory And Cognitive Declines Reversed With An Experimental Drug Rebecca CoffeyContributor Science I’m interested in the nexus of evolution, health, and behavior. A small-molecule drug named ISRIB quickly and safely restores to old mice youthful levels of cognitive function. Alphabet Inc,’s Biotech Firm Calico holds the license to ISRIB. The…
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Will a New Glass Battery Accelerate the End of Oil? New low-cost, nonflammable, high-capacity, rapid-charging solid-state battery could pose threat to the internal combustion engine By Mark Anderson Photo: Cockrell School of EngineeringJohn Goodenough, coinventor of the lithium-ion battery, heads a team of researchers developing the technology that could one day supplant it. Advertisement Editor’s Picks…
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Scientists Just Set a New World Record in Solar Cell Efficiency DAVID NIELD 14 DECEMBER 2020 Improving the efficiency of solar cells can make a huge difference to the amount of energy produced from the same surface area and the same amount of sunshine, and another world record has been beaten in the push for better…
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Best Linux Distributions Crafted Specifically for Gaming Last updated October 29, 2020 By Munif Tanjim 61 Comments Long gone are the times when gaming on Linux was next to impossible. In fact, gaming on Linux has grown quite stable in recent years. Although there are hundreds of Linux distros, all with different ideals and for various…
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Bionic Eye Tech Learns Its ABCs An experiment stimulates monkeys’ brains to generate shape perceptions By Simon Makin on December 4, 2020 Credit: Alamy Jens Naumann was 17 when an accident sent a fragment of metal from a railway line flying into his left eye. Three years later, a metal sliver from…
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CAIR Warns American Muslims Against Travel to France, Condemns Macron’s ‘Hypocritical’ Attempt to Suppress Boycott Campaign Ibrahim Hooper October 27, 2020 10:47 am (WASHINGTON, D.C., 10/27/20) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today issued a travel advisory warning American Muslims against traveling to France amid…
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CAIR Calls on U.S. Religious Freedom Commission (USCIFR) to Probe France’s Anti-Religion Laws and ‘Collective Punishment’ of French Muslim Community Ayan Ajeen October 22, 2020 12:27 pm American Muslim civil rights group says French government has a long history of turning anti-Muslim bigotry into government policy (WASHINGTON, D.C., 10/22/20) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations…
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CAIR Condemns President Macron’s Attempt to Dictate Islamic Principles to French Muslims Ibrahim Hooper November 19, 2020 3:20 pm (WASHINGTON, D.C., 11/19/2020) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned French President Emmanuel Macron’s attempt to dictate the principles of the Islamic faith after he…
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