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Did The U.S. Spend Two Decades & Trillions Of Dollars In Afghanistan & Iraq Because Of Oil Addiction?

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I recall 9/11 vividly, as many Americans do. I was going into a morning sociology class in college. Everyone was glued to the TV — New York City’s Twin Towers had been destroyed from terrorists flying planes into them, another was soon flown into the Pentagon. As I’ve learned since then, almost everyone was shocked […].

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Study links PM2.5 pollution to increased risk of diabetes; even low levels pose risk

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The researchers also found that the overall risk of pollution-related diabetes is tilted more toward lower-income countries such as India that lack the resources for environmental mitigation systems and clean-air policies. The US experiences a moderate risk of pollution-related diabetes. In the US, the EPA’s PM 2.5

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An Inconvenient Truth About AI

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In 2002, iRobot , a company that I cofounded, introduced the first mass-market autonomous home-cleaning robot, the Roomba, at a price that severely constricted how much AI we could endow it with. The limited AI wasn't a problem, though. Our worst failure scenarios had the Roomba missing a patch of floor and failing to pick up a dustball.

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My Cycling trip from Agra to Bikaner

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Enterprising hunters in Afghanistan and Pakistan were the possible cause for a change in migration routes. One good thing about the restaurant was that it had super clean loos. Bharatpur is home to 300+ species of birds, of which about 200 are migratory. The most famous visitors have been the Siberian cranes. 150 per pax.

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