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https://jacobinmag.com/2020/10/kim-stanley-robinson-ministry-future-science-fiction

A speculative history of the next few decades, the novel revolves around an international ministry assembled to help implement the Paris climate agreement. The novel’s action spans the globe, featuring popular uprisings, ecoterrorism, asymmetrical warfare, s…[Read more]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93w5by/gig-workers-only-chance-to-pee-is-apparently-an-app

“On top of the physical challenges of working out of their cars daily, most drivers are working increasingly long hours, often far from home and at an unrelenting pace,” the Whizz team wrote in a press release. “Adding to their challenges, drivers are oft…[Read more]

https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/65833-sometimes-freedoms-just-another-word-for-not-giving-a-damn

Cases in Howell County have climbed from 40 to about 1,400, and several families are reporting that the local hospital couldn’t admit their loved ones with COVID-19 because it had reached capacity. So far, at least 20 Howell County r…[Read more]

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/dark-matter/#close

Dark energy is even more mysterious, and its discovery in the 1990s was a complete shock to scientists. Previously, physicists had assumed that the attractive force of gravity would slow down the expansion of the universe over time. But when two independent teams tried to measure…[Read more]

Divest / Invest 

With movements calling for defunding and divesting, people are finally talking about spending and raising the heat on the thousands of corporations that profit off the millions of people we lock up. The list of 4,100 prison contractors from the advocacy group Worth Rises includes thousands of…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/10/22/heres-how-meatpacking-corporations-could-protect-workers-covid-19-and-what-theyre

For instance, Smithfield Foods took out a full-page ad in The New York Times, which costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, to baselessly deny well-documented allegations of harmful working conditions. In fact, our…[Read more]

https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/65817-the-trump-campaign-reportedly-blew-1-billion-on-private-jet-rides-trump-properties-and-don-jrs-shitty-book

The Associated Press reports that despite having raised over $1 billion since 2017, the president’s reelection campaign has “set a lot of it on fire.” One of the biggest tells is that…[Read more]

NicaNotes: From Headache to COVID Test: My Journey through the Nicaraguan Public Health System

I found myself hesitating to go in. When the first coronavirus cases were reported in Nicaragua, opposition groups flooded social media with stories of hospital systems collapsing, overrun with the virus. On WhatsApp I was forwarded lists…[Read more]

https://futurism.com/the-byte/new-voyager-space-denser-outside-solar-system-surprise-astronomers

Before either Voyager probe left the solar system, scientists expected interstellar space to have a plasma density of just 0.002 electrons per cubic centimeter, ScienceAlert reports. But the probes actually measured much higher values as they exited…[Read more]

https://futurism.com/the-byte/research-claims-consciousness-itself-energy-field

The idea is that these waves of electrical activity get sent out by neurons and, as they propagate across swaths of the brain, orchestrate our entire conscious experience. The research, published last month in the journal Neuroscience of Consciousness, offers more…[Read more]

Public Opinion on Single-Payer, National Health Plans, and Expanding Access to Medicare Coverage

As Medicare-for-all becomes a staple in national conversations around health care and people become aware of the details of any plan or hear arguments on either side, it is unclear how attitudes towards such a proposal may…[Read more]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/07/22/what-is-it-like-as-you-approach-the-edge-of-the-universe/

But one thing we are certain about is that the Universe has an edge: not in space, but in time. Because the hot Big Bang occurred a known, finite time in the past — 13.8 billion years ago, with an uncertainty of less than 1% — the…[Read more]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/21/rudy-giuliani-faces-questions-after-compromising-scene-in-new-borat-film

Although unfortunate, the circumstances of the set-up appear consensual, with Giuliani led to believe he was being courted. Bakalova, 24, is highly plausible in the sting, despite also having to pretend, for the benefit of…[Read more]