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  • Here’s How Wrong Past Environmental Predictions Have Been

    Here’s How Wrong Past Environmental Predictions Have Been0

    Each year, Earth Day is accompanied by predictions of doom. Let’s take a look at past predictions to determine just how much confidence we can have in today’s environmentalists’ predictions. In 1970, when Earth Day was conceived, the late George Wald, a Nobel laureate biology professor at Harvard University, predicted, “Civilization will end within 15

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  • Here’s How Much Money the NFL Rakes in From Taxpayers

    Here’s How Much Money the NFL Rakes in From Taxpayers0

    The National Football League is now plunged into politics as players throughout the sport kneel for the national anthem and President Donald Trump continues to rebuke them publicly. Undoubtedly, the situation has left many fans and non-fans of the league conflicted or angry. This fiasco may, however, open the eyes of the public to a

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  • Here’s How Few Republicans Are On College Faculties

    Here’s How Few Republicans Are On College Faculties0

    Just within the past week or so, some shocking professorial behavior has come to light. In the wake of Barbara Bush’s death, California State University, Fresno professor Randa Jarrar took to Twitter to call the former first lady an “amazing racist.” Jarrar added: PSA: either you are against these pieces of s— and their genocidal

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  • Here’s How Bad San Francisco’s Poop Problem Got In 2019

    Here’s How Bad San Francisco’s Poop Problem Got In 20190

    San Francisco residents reported more than 30,000 cases of poop to authorities in 2019, city records show. As of Monday afternoon, the city’s Department of Public Works responded to 30,136 cases of “human or animal waste” this year, easily topping the 28,353 cases the agency handled in 2018 with a week still to go, according to a

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  • Here’s Why Robots Will Never Achieve Consciousness

    Here’s Why Robots Will Never Achieve Consciousness0

    You know the doomsday movie scenarios: An army of robots we’ve made to serve us decides to enslave or even replace the inefficient, refractory human race, and to that end wages a pitiless war of extermination on us. But is all that mere sensationalism? It would be flippant to dismiss the possibility. As science writer

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  • Here’s the Best Predictor of Support for Donald Trump

    Here’s the Best Predictor of Support for Donald Trump0

    What’s the best predictor of those likely to support Donald Trump? According to this Vox piece by political-science researcher Matthew MacWilliams, it’s not “income, education, or age.” In fact, the only “statistically significant” predictors of support for Trump were “[a]uthoritarianism and a hybrid variable that links authoritarianism with a personal fear of terrorism…” That’s an

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