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Why Ditching NAFTA Could Hurt America's Farmers More Than Mexico's

Trade in food between the U.S. and Mexico has exploded over the past 15 years. President Trump is talking about restricting that trade, but when it comes to food, such moves could backfire.

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Alexandra Ressler, Data Scientist at Facebook

Alexandra Ressler graduated from the Management and Technology Dual Degree Program at the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. Alexandra worked a few years for McKinsey before starting her JD/MBA Program at Stanford in 2009. Since her graduation, she’s been working at Facebook as a Data Scientist. Ed...

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More than 80 people died in a Pakistan terror attack last night – where exactly is the hashtag and the solidarity?

Last night, a suicide attack on a shrine in Pakistan killed at least 80 people and injured a further 250 at last count. This comes just two days after a suicide bomber attacked a rally in Lahore, the cultural heart of Pakistan, and killed over a dozen people.

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Hasnain says:

"Western media and governments want the whole world to consider the Western terrorism problem as their own, demanding solidarity and action, yet they won’t extend the same courtesy when the victims of Isis are in a majority-Muslim country. Until we realise that all lives deserve the same respect, regardless of race, wealth or creed, we’ll never be able to eradicate the threat of extremism which hangs over us all."

Posted on 2017-02-17T21:08:15+0000

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Tipping point: revealing the cities where exercise does more harm than good

In at least 15 cities, air pollution has now become so bad that the danger to health of just 30 minutes of cycling outweighs the benefits of exercise altogether, according to new research

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Hasnain says:

"In cities such as Allahabad in India, or Zabol in Iran, the long-term damage from inhaling fine particulates could outweigh the usual health gains of cycling after just 30 minutes. In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this tipping point happens after just 45 minutes a day cycling along busy roads."

Posted on 2017-02-17T20:23:05+0000

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Hasnain says:

"DistroKid has dozens of automated bots that run 24/7. These bots do things that humans do at other distributors. For example, verifying that artwork & song files are correct, changing song titles to comply with each stores’ unique style guide, checking for infringement, delivering files & artwork to stores, updating sales & streaming stats for artists, processing payments, and more."

Posted on 2017-02-16T02:08:08+0000

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In the age of robots, our schools are teaching children to be redundant| George Monbiot

A regime of cramming and testing is crushing young people’s instinct to learn and destroying their future

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Hasnain says:

"In the future, if you want a job, you must be as unlike a machine as possible: creative, critical and socially skilled. So why are children being taught to behave like machines?"

Posted on 2017-02-15T16:16:36+0000

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Raising the American Weakling - Issue 45: Power - Nautilus

When she was a practicing occupational therapist, Elizabeth Fain started noticing something odd in her clinic: Her patients were weak.…

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Government-grade spyware hits Mexican advocates of soda tax

SAN FRANCISCO — Last summer, Dr. Simón Barquera’s phone started buzzing with a series of disturbing text messages from unknown numbers. One said his daughter had been in a serious accident. Another claimed to be from a friend whose father had died — with a link to funeral details.Yet another message...

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One Reason Staffers Quit Google's Car Project? The Company Paid Them So Much

'F-you money' awarded to veteran team members boosted parent Alphabet’s R&D costs, prompting comment from the company's CFO

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Hasnain says:

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Also worrying due to people expecting jobs to come back. No, inequality will only widen over time due to this.

Posted on 2017-02-13T19:22:34+0000