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Julie Nolke - Working in Government

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See also  Julie Nolke - Working in Government . And this one, written by Alexa MacKell (co starring) is really, well, complex! Subscribe to Julie Nolke .

J. K. Rowling on Writing - Part One

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There's a shed, and there's a lake nearby, ... See also this recent Sunday Times piece (login required):  JK Rowling: how Strike changed the way I write . Subscribe to The Rowling Library .

Louis Rossmann - Just in Case You Don't See The Issue With Right to Repair ...

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Imagine it was a kitchen range made by Rayburn or Aga, ... See  Louis Rossmann on YouTube's Perverted Capitalism : Subscribe to Louis Rossmann .

Cambridge University Free Palestine Protest

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Some of Elbit Systems' Products (not just "surveillance" drones) Subscribe to Elbit Systems . Subscribe to Military-TV . IDF promising "use of extreme force" in East Rafah: Subscribe to Al Jazeera English .

What is Water Worth On the Free Market?

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You only have to listen to two minutes, ... See  Black Mesa Peabody Coal controversy : Peabody Energy developed two coal strip mines on the Black Mesa reservation: the Black Mesa Mine and the Kayenta Mine. The company pumped water from the underground Navajo Aquifer for washing coal, and, until 2005, in a slurry pipeline operation to transport extracted coal 273 mi (439 km) to the Mohave Generating Station in Laughlin, Nevada. With the pipeline operating, Peabody pumped an average of 3 million gallons of water from the Navajo Aquifer every day. At 10:01 on the reclamation project. Subscribe to Spagoshi .

Fran's Science News

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This is a really good one. Art and Science, Rock and Roll, the US Helium Reserve, Dark Matter galaxies and earthquakes and all sorts of other things to make parents worry.  Subscribe to Fran Blanche and support her on Patreon:  https://patreon.com/frantone .

Giraffes

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 One very shiny ... and one wearing a hat!

Jim Boulton Taking With Lynn Conway About the History of VLSI

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See  Lines in the Sand - Unsung Heroes . Subscribe to  The Centre for Computing History . Rachel Blevins - U.S. Economy in Crisis, the Demise of the American Dream & China's Rise w/ Prof. Richard Wolff Subscribe to Rachel Blevins . Here's a bit about how it works now, ... Subscribe to Anastasi in Tech . What about the software though? Look at this bug in Google Android/Chrome. How can something like this even happen? Some relic of split screen? Software these days is too complex to be written by people without electronic design tools.

Louis Rossmann on YouTube's Perverted Capitalism

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It seems that even when you try to play the game you still get screwed-over. Get the Grayjay app at  https://grayjay.app/ . Subscribe to Louis Rossmann .

Julian Assange on How The Legal Systems Are Failing to Protect Human Rights

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This speech was given at a conference of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers while he was in the Ecuadorean Embassy. Demonstration on 20 May at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Americans can urge their representatives to support House Resolution 934:  H.Res.934 - Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that regular journalistic activities are protected under the First Amendment, and that the United States ought to drop all charges against and attempts to extradite Julian Assange. Subscribe to Stella Assange .