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=====How tariffs supercharge home construction costs.===== | =====How tariffs supercharge home construction costs.===== | ||
[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/12/26/2293813/-How-tariffs-supercharge-home-construction-costs?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web by Greg from Vermont 12/25/24 DailyKos] | [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/12/26/2293813/-How-tariffs-supercharge-home-construction-costs?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web by Greg from Vermont 12/25/24 DailyKos] | ||
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Back in 2020, three middle school students from Eastern New York solved the issue of gerrymandering, and their team leader won a $10,000 STEM prize for it. Kai Vernooy, James Lian, and Arin Khare devised a method for determining the level of gerrymandering in a state, and then applied a mathematical algorithm to draw fair and balanced districts. Coincidentally, in this 2020 article from Forbes about their project, Alabama was used as an example.1 | Back in 2020, three middle school students from Eastern New York solved the issue of gerrymandering, and their team leader won a $10,000 STEM prize for it. Kai Vernooy, James Lian, and Arin Khare devised a method for determining the level of gerrymandering in a state, and then applied a mathematical algorithm to draw fair and balanced districts. Coincidentally, in this 2020 article from Forbes about their project, Alabama was used as an example.1 | ||
====DNA from cave dirt tells tale of how some Neanderthals disappeared===== | ====DNA from cave dirt tells tale of how some Neanderthals disappeared===== | ||
[https://www.science.org/content/article/dna-cave-dirt-tells-tale-how-some-neanderthals-disappeared?utm_campaign=news_daily_2021-04-15&et_rid=35100799&et_cid=3736250&fbclid=IwAR3y5_DrNAhZIIqlrKAC4L8EQYQ52ltBloCpOE66ZBOSUeAwlyGwW4PSKYE by Ann Gibbons 4/15/21 Science Advisor] | [https://www.science.org/content/article/dna-cave-dirt-tells-tale-how-some-neanderthals-disappeared?utm_campaign=news_daily_2021-04-15&et_rid=35100799&et_cid=3736250&fbclid=IwAR3y5_DrNAhZIIqlrKAC4L8EQYQ52ltBloCpOE66ZBOSUeAwlyGwW4PSKYE by Ann Gibbons 4/15/21 Science Advisor] | ||
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=====Billionaire-funded group driving effort to erode democracy in key US states===== | =====Billionaire-funded group driving effort to erode democracy in key US states===== | ||
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/23/foundation-government-accountability-democracy Brendan Fischer 6/23/2023 The Guardian ] | [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/23/foundation-government-accountability-democracy Brendan Fischer 6/23/2023 The Guardian ] | ||
The Foundation for Government Accountability, a Florida-based group affiliated with the alliance of conservative thinktanks called the State Policy Network, has played a key role in recent efforts to raise the threshold for passing citizen ballot initiatives from a simple majority to a supermajority, and to make it harder to place measures on the ballot in the first place. | The Foundation for Government Accountability, a Florida-based group affiliated with the alliance of conservative thinktanks called the State Policy Network, has played a key role in recent efforts to raise the threshold for passing citizen ballot initiatives from a simple majority to a supermajority, and to make it harder to place measures on the ballot in the first place. | ||