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It Is a New Era, But China’s Balancing Act Will Fail in the Middle East | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 28, 2018 Although ties between Washington and Tel Aviv are stronger than ever, Israeli leaders are aware of a vastly changing political landscape ...
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America and Russia, Part Two: The Far Side of Progress | John Michael Greer
Credit: Dawid MichalczykOct. 17, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Two weeks ago, in the first part of this sequence of posts, we explored the way that Oswald Spengler’s insights into the cycles of history can ...
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Researchers uncover security gaps in the 5G mobile communication standard | Markus Gross
The 5G mobile radio standard still needs to be improved. Image: europeansanctions.com Oct. 10, 2018 (TechXplore) -- Researchers in the Information Security Group subjected the upcoming 5G mobile comm ...
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UN report on global warming carries life-or-death warning | Seth Borenstein
Oct. 8, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this fast-warming planet, ...
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The early universe was a fluid quark-gluon plasma | You Zhou
Fig. 1 An event from the first Xenon-Xenon collision at the Large Hadron Collider at the top energy of the Large Hadron Collider (5.44 TeV ) registered by ALICE . Every colored track (The blue lines) ...
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China used tiny chips in US computers to steal secrets: report | Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley
Image source: ezzat.info Chinese spies reportedly used tiny chips in computer equipment in data centers to steal U.S. corporate secrets Oct. 4, 2018 (TechXplore) -- Tiny chips inserted in U.S. comput ...
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America and Russia, Part I: Stirrings in the Borderlands | John Michael Greer
Oct. 3, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- To my mind, one of the main sources of collective stupidity in modern American society is our pervasive bad habit of short-term thinking. It’s embarrassingly rare for ...
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End of Hegemony: UN Must Reflect Changing World Order | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 3, 2018 There is a rational explanation of why India and Brazil, two countries with vast populations and large and growing economies, are not per ...
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2018 Nobel Medicine Prize awarded for cancer research | Johnson, Pollard, Dickson, Vaish and Ringstrom
An illustration of James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo provided by the Nobel Assembly. Photograph: Nobel Assembly Oct. 1, 2018 -- STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -- American James Allison and Japanese Tasuku Honjo ...
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Globally, 1.4 billion adults at risk of disease from lack of physical activity | Regina Guthold
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Sept. 5, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- More than a quarter (1.4 billion) of the world's adult population were insufficiently active in 2016, putting them at greater risk of cardio ...
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A Farewell to Norms | Milton Mueller
Credit: Derek Bridges, Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Milton Mueller -- Internet Governance Project Sept. 4, 2018 “Keep right on lying to me. That’s what I want you to do.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms ...
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