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“E Pluribus Unum” (Latin: “Out of many, one”) — once the US’ official motto, which still appears in a wavy scroll near the eagle, in the Great Seal on the back of every dollar bill. What makes us us? What makes us “America”? What makes us...
by dratler
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on Sun Nov 30, 2025 at 05:29 PM PST
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Fear of Change and Technology Many people fear change and seek to return to a simpler time when they felt more in control of their lives. Some of the most dramatic changes in the last 70 years have come with advances in communications technology....
by pouncecafe
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on Sat Feb 15, 2025 at 05:34 AM PST
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What’s for Dinner? � is a Saturday evening get-together where friends share recipes, talk about good food and help others answer culinary questions.
We welcome you to our virtual table every ...
by zenbassoon
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on Sat Jun 03, 2023 at 04:30 PM PDT
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Australians must now face the challenge of alternative housing with more urgency than has been shown in the past. Having had conservative Coalition governments for twenty of the last 27 years, Australia suffers badly from high homelessness rates and...
by Alan Austin
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on Mon Apr 17, 2023 at 02:18 AM PDT
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Elon Musk and others of his ilk have always ridden high on the idea that having a lot of money allows them to “disrupt” the economic landscape through innovation. In practice the only real innovations are technical ones done by others, and what people...
by Walter Einenkel
144 comments
on Fri Mar 24, 2023 at 12:05 PM PDT
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Euro News Green occasionally has outstanding stories, and this is one of them. Russia has bombed entire apartment blocks, maternity hospitals, schools, theatres, houses, and industrial buildings, not only slaughtering and wounding thousands of innocent...
by Pakalolo
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on Fri Mar 31, 2023 at 11:47 AM PDT
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Take a walk around your local home improvement outlet and see how do-it-yourselfers are upgrading the environment. What a difference it would make if most of them made one more trip outside the store and picked up a piece or two of waste instead of...
by greenandblue
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on Sun Feb 05, 2023 at 03:00 PM PST
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China is so big and has so much economic potential that its global neighbors can become paralyzed with fear. China is projected to overtake the US as the largest economy in about ten years. That kind of power in a country that is consolidating its...
by b3LLsb33r
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on Sun Dec 11, 2022 at 09:54 AM PST
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“Oh we, like sheep, have gone astray, -ay” “Every one to his own way.” — Handel’s Messiah This holiday season, Americans can give thanks that our democracy seems to have survived, if only temporarily, and if only by the skin of its teeth. But where are...
by dratler
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on Sun Nov 13, 2022 at 04:17 PM PST
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Everybody knows that democracy with a small "d" means rule by the people. But the "people" generally don't express themselves as individuals but as members of communities. Many members are inarticulate because they are children or disabled or prevented...
by Microbelover
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on Sun Aug 28, 2022 at 05:44 PM PDT
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Explaining the Title: You see Lewis H. Latimer carbonized the lightbulb, which gave us indoor lighting and the 2 Cities of Light: Las Vegas and Paris. By being the sole inventor of indoor lighting, this allowed everyone working in Science and...
by Kaizar
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on Wed Feb 09, 2022 at 11:58 AM PST
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If you enjoyed Avatar back in 2K9 or Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over or Mission Impossible or James Bond or The Great Gatsby or Hugo (Martin Scorsese) or Terminator or Titanic (1996) or Top Gun or Jurassic Park/World or Harry Potter or Hobbit movies or Planet...
by Kaizar
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on Fri Feb 04, 2022 at 12:06 PM PST
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It is not necessary for drug prices to be ridiculously high to create innovation for drugs. Peter Hotez & his Texas team proves it. Innovation does not require pilfering Watch Politics Done Right TV here. I stumbled on the following story. I had to...
by Egberto Willies
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on Sat Jan 01, 2022 at 09:41 AM PST
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A day or so ago, there was an article by an online friend of mine about Biden and his new budget proposal. The total is 6 Trillion dollars and the friend commented that when he first heard it, he thought Biden had lost his mind. After all, 6 Trillion...
by leftwisdom
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on Mon May 31, 2021 at 04:38 PM PDT
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Over a three-week period, the Clean Energy For Biden (CE4Biden) Clean Energy Summit has showcased dozens of proposals for consideration (and action) by the Biden-Harris transition team for action in the coming year(s). While, to be...
by A Siegel
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on Sun Nov 29, 2020 at 10:16 AM PST
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By 2030 Tesla will�manufacture�20 million vehicles�with carbon neutral batteries�while�deploying 1.5 TWh of grid storage solutions, annually. With 10 TWh/year market opportunities in both the ...
by B12love
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on Thu Sep 24, 2020 at 03:36 AM PDT
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Closing the loop: UBQ plant in Netherlands converting waste into plastic, wood, concrete substitutes UPDATE: UBQ was listed among TIME's THE BEST INVENTIONS OF 2023: 200 innovations changing how we live. [Amazon page] ...UBQ’s patented process converts landfill-destined household waste into a sustainable, bio-based thermoplastic material. This novel...
by mettle fatigue
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on Thu Sep 10, 2020 at 04:44 PM PDT
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The Energy Policy Act of 2005 was a Republican bill, passed by a Republican-controlled Congress, and signed by Republican President George W. Bush. It created a program in the Department of Energy to give loans to “help support innovative energy...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Tue Aug 04, 2020 at 06:34 AM PDT
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Yesterday, House Representative Sharice Davids held an interview with Rep Emanuel Cleaver. These are the two Reps for the majority of the Kansas City metropolitan area that spans the MO-KS state line. The topic was the rage over George Floyd’s death,...
by MaryAEnglish
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on Fri Jun 05, 2020 at 09:19 AM PDT
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For brief descriptions of and links to recent posts, click here. For an inverse-chronological list with links to all posts after January 23, 2017, click here. For a subject-matter index to posts before that date, click here. Tens of millions of skilled...
by dratler
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