Wednesday, October 03, 2018

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  • It really should be no mystery as to why some Republicans are staking out a leadership position on carbon pricing. Mr. Forbes should follow their lead. The post Why Republicans Should...
  • The “AI in Government Act of 2018” would be a monumental – and positive – shift in emerging technology governance. The post Codifying “Soft Law” Governance in Statute...

    • Our social ties, resources, and racial views are all dividing us into two partisan sides. The post How Marriage and Inequality Reinforce Political Polarization appeared first on...

  • The Department of Justice recently filed a lawsuit against the state of California, claiming the state’s newly-signed law regarding “net neutrality” seeks to regulate interstate...
  • View Full Document as PDF Deterioration of checks and balances via regulatory overreach and over-delegation by Congress to agencies are central to most modern critiques of the administrative...

    • View Full Document as PDF The Honorable Mike Pompeo, Secretary U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20520 The Honorable Alex Azar, Secretary U.S. Department...

  • By reducing politics to a celebrity obsession – from Johnson to Trump to Corbyn – the media misdirects and confuses usWhat kind of people would you expect the newspapers to interview...
  • Ford is facing the same humiliation as thousands of sexual assault complainants before her. We need to rip up this script of male dominationI believe Dr Christine Blasey Ford. I found...

    • Moggites, libertarians, foot-soldiers – do the young people at the Conservative conference really have anything new to offer?At the Tory conference in Birmingham this week there...

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  • Math scores are declining in most provinces, leading some parents to blame teachers’ pivot away from repeated drills on times tables and other basic math facts...
  • On CTVNews.ca: Teachers in Ontario may not be getting enough mathematics training, Aung San Suu Kyi is no longer an honorary Canadian, and Vancouver eases up slightly on its alcohol...

    • U.S. President Donald Trump ignited a crowd at a campaign rally in Mississippi by mocking a woman who has claimed she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh...

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  • Meet ‘The Goblin’. This body’s maximum distance from the Sun is a massive 2300 times further out than Earth’s. A newly spotted dwarf planet, 2015 TG387, adds to the mounting...
  • ‘Record-breaking’ turns out to mean ‘as warm as three other UK summers’, but now things have calmed down. Probably just a temporary return to sanity until the next weather...

    • They’re still playing the same broken record after nearly ten years. These fake dramas wore very thin a long time ago, but the tedium carries on seemingly ad nauseam. H/T The GWPF...

  • WATCH: President Trump mocks Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Trump's Supreme Court pick Judge Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, during rally in Mississippi. https://t.co/pZfWN8IFMV...

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    • Dear Cats. For reasons more varied and complex to detail here, this will be Spartacus’ last post. Spartacus is retiring from blogging from this august site and elsewhere. What started...

  • The silence over Nana Patekar's history of roughshodding co-stars is because of Bollywood's insistence on 'compromise'.
  • Both the present and previous governments had different priorities with Aadhaar. And both of them missed the opportunity to truly use it in the interest of national security...

    • Subhash K Jha outlines his religion and recalls the day he met Her.

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  • Facebook and Instagram were not immediately available to comment.
  • LG Electronics earlier said its survey showed that cameras and social media apps are the most frequently used features on smartphones.

    • The new colour adds to the existing portfolio of blue, black, purple and copper variants. The silver edition will also be released in the US, Yonhap news agency reported...

    Zee News :Sci-Tech


  • Super-Earth (Planet Nine) is a world '10 times the mass of Earth and 20 times farther from the sun than Neptune.'
  • Planet Nine, is likely a world “10 times the mass of Earth and 20 times farther from the sun than Neptune.”

    • Google Doodle on Monday paid tribute to Dr Govinda Venkataswamy, a visionary Indian ophthalmologist, on his 100th birth anniversary.

  • The death toll in Indonesia's twin quake-tsunami disaster has touched 1400.
  • Rosmah Mansor is under the scanner in connection with the 1MDB scandal. 

    • The family was carrying UN refugee IDs.

  • A report in Pakistan-based Dawn News has said that the country would become the fourth most populous nation in the world by 2030.
  • The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Frances H. Arnold, George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter for 'harnessing the power of evolution'...

    • They had been in an Indian jail since 2012 on charges of illegal entry.

  • Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan have been scheduled later this year.
  • Maywati has said that BSP will contest the upcoming Rajasthan and MP elections on its own.

    • The Centre has extended the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act in three districts of Arunachal Pradesh and its eight police station areas bordering Assam by another six months, in...

  • Cows burp and fart more than they need to, says a Swiss firm that has developed a feed that cuts methane emissions from livestock - helping to combat global warming into the bargain...
  • PARIS: French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen goes on trial Wednesday (Oct 3) accused of making a string of homophobic remarks, including about a gay policeman killed in a...

    • STOCKHOLM: US scientists Frances Arnold and George Smith and British researcher Gregory Winter won the Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday (Oct 3) for applying the principles of...

  • HONG KONG: Hong Kong's leading Catholic cleric said on Wednesday (Oct 3) that he feared continued suppression of Catholics in mainland China despite a landmark accord struck last...
  • VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis on Wednesday (Oct 3) offered a "warm welcome" to two Chinese Catholic bishops attending a synod for the first time following a landmark deal between...

    • ALMATY, Kazakhstan: When he looks back on his youth in China's far-west Xinjiang region, Akikat Kaliolla, an ethnic Kazakh, recalls the place's natural beauty and the big, colourful...

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  • The Federal Reserve painted a picture of the U.S. economy that was almost too good to be true at its last meeting, with inflation seen contained in the near future despite the lowest...
  • American Brooks Koepka dismissed reports that he fought with team mate Dustin Johnson following the United States' dismal Ryder Cup loss to Europe last weekend, saying that Johnson...

    • Cows burp and fart more than they need to, says a Swiss firm that has developed a feed that cuts methane emissions from livestock - helping to combat global warming into the bargain...

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