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A collection of resources about the opioid epidemic in the USA, exploring its historical context, public health impacts, prevention strategies, treatment options, and policy responses. This compilation aims to educate stakeholders on the multifaceted challenges and solutions surrounding opioid misuse and addiction.
USA - Oil, Coal and Gas Energy
The Everglades, Miami, and the environment
Surprising facts about maps and geography
A collection of articles and videos looking at the USA, Trade, Protectionism and Political Division
A collection of articles and videos looking at the hyper- polarization (Left and Right) in US politics and culture
USA history - Race, Racism, Slavery and Inequality
Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control
a collection of articles, papers and videos looking at NATO and European Defence
A collection of articles and videos looking at EU regulations and food and agriculture
A look at the complicated history of India and the USA
Festivals and Celebrations - Mardi Gras, New Orleans
Executive Orders - Presidential Power in the USA and Political Division
A look at the pros and cons of Globalization
USA and Israel - history, politics, culture
A collection of articles and videos looking at Voting and Elections in the USA
2017: articles and videos looking at the US decision to recognize Jerusale as the capital of Israel (instead of Tel Aviv), and the political implications of this decision
a collection of articles and videos to help students understand global financial markets - with a focus on currencies, and global debt markets
Business and Hispanic, Latino Culture in the USA
Texas and Hispanic, Mexican Culture
a collection of articles about Murdoch and Fox
Amusement Parks - rides, entertainment
articles and videos looking at New York City, and the infrastructure and policy decisions needed to make subway systems work
Highways, Cities, Roads and Neighborhoods, Development
A collection of articles and videos looking at the much needed Infrastructure Investment in the USA
a collection of research about Chicago
a collection of articles about the Florida Keys, and the environment
a collection of articles about Las Vegas
A collection of articles about San Francisco
a collection of articles and resources for a possible Trip to Wyoming

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MEET THE COUPLE KEEPING MIAMI’S BEACHES CLEAN - The Miami Foundation

An avid kayaker, Dave Doebler was out paddling in Biscayne Bay one day when he saw trash floating in the water. He instinctively picked it up to to... (2018)


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Chinese green technologies are pouring into Latin America

Climate, and geopolitics, the great green rivalry. Chinese clean technology is blooming and at America. Uncle Sam is worried. That is prompting anx... (2024)


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Energy: A millennial is building America’s first nickel-cobalt refinery

But it’s proving ethically trickier than she expected | United States (2024)


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How to fix the Ivy League

Its supremacy is being undermined by bad leadership | Leaders (2024)


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Silicon rally: As San Francisco builds the future of technology, can it rebuild itself?

Cities: one of America’s great cities has a fresh chance to rebuild itself. People feared a doom loop. Reality has been more surprising | Leaders (2024)


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A MAGA court in New Orleans is shaping the Supreme Court’s agenda 

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals makes SCOTUS look moderate by comparison, and is shaping its agenda | United States (2023)


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Technology and the state. Surveillance capitalism

Silicon Valley is piling into the business of snooping. Tech upstarts are selling their wares to America’s police | Business (2023)


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The energy industry. A pioneering deal

Why ExxonMobil is paying $60bn for Pioneer. Consolidation will transform America’s fragmented shale industry | Business (2023)


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California cracks down on carbon. Business and the climate. Emissionary zeal

California’s crackdown on carbon will have international repercussions. It is not just attacking big oil. Big everything is in the line of fire | B... (2023)


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America’s plan to cut drug prices comes with unpleasant side-effects

American medicine. A bitter pricing pill. A lot to cut drug prices is changing how pharma firms make medicines. It is already changing how pharm... (2023)


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Big business: America’s corporate giants are getting harder to topple

Why America’s corporate giants are surprisingly impervious to disruption. Incumbents from Walmart to General Motors are fighting back against disr... (2023)


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The sports business: Which sport is the best business?

American sports leagues (NBA, NFL, NHL) are more competitive, lucrative and monopolistic than European ones like the English Premier League| Busine... (2023)


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The new king of beers is a Mexican-American success story

Move over, Bud Light. Heed the power of the Hispanic market | Business Bud light, Americas, self styled “king of beers“ for 22 years, is dethron... (2023)


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Trade and Geopolitics; enter the investment police. America’s plan to vet investments into China

Citing national security, America’s government considers tighter rules on outbound capital | Business Placing limits on America’s globetrotting ... (2023)


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Banking. The financial system is slipping into state control

Government control the banking sector; What will it look like after the next spell of instability? | Finance & economics (2023)


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Why Israel is becoming a partisan cause in the United States | The Economist

It goes to the essence of the Jewish state, and of the American one | United States (2023)


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Book Review: ‘The Exceptions,’ - sexism faced by female scientists at M.I.T., by Nancy Zernike - The New York Times

Kate Zernike’s “The Exceptions” tells the infuriating, inspiring story of the sexism faced by female scientists at M.I.T. — and how they fought back. (2023)


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Should tech platforms be liable for the content they carry? | The Economist

America’s Supreme Court grapples with their fiercely contested “Section 230” immunity | United States (2023)


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Chicago’s woes are over-hyped | The Economist

In fact, the Windy City could offer a model for change across America | United States (2023)


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Starlink’s performance in Ukraine has ignited a new space race | The Economist

Never mind the moon; look to low-Earth orbit | Leaders (2023)


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America Inc. - The Economist

From semiconductors to electric vehicles, the American government is going into business | United States Joe Biden’s industrial policy is big, b... (2022)


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Midwestern states want to become “hard-tech” hubs | The Economist

Putting their money where their machines are | United States (2022)


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Opinion | Can America ‘do big things’ again? Ask the regulators and lawyers. - George Will - The Washington Post

Mitch Landrieu has the task of doling out $1.2 trillion for infrastructure spending in a country where 'procedure fetish' and 'rule stupor' can bog... (2022)


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Why America’s clean-energy industry is stuck | The Economist

Blame in part its climate-friendly president | Business (2022)


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Why an agricultural boom does not help rural America | The Economist

Farms are ever more profitable, but employ fewer workers | United States (2022)


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Opinion | Inequality and the Piketty Accounting Error - WSJ

The stock-market crash, not high FDR-era taxes, caused the ‘great leveling’ of the middle 20th century. By Phillip W. Magness and Vincent Gelos... (2022)


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US Edtech’s Roaring Twenties Begins With $8.2 Billion Invested in 2021 | by Reach Capital

A rising tide of capital swept through every industry last year, and education technology was no exception. Buoyed by ongoing digital transformatio... (2022)


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The hidden costs of cutting Russia off from SWIFT | The Economist

America’s foes would rush to alternatives, hastening its financial decline | Finance & economics (2022)


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Karl Popper on democracy - From the archives: the open society and its enemies revisited

In 1988 The Economist invited the philosopher Karl Popper to write an article on democracy. It appeared in the issue of April 23rd that year and ma... (2021)


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Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional | The Economist

Covid-19 has exposed many of the city’s old problems—and some new ones, too | United States (2021)


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The “Great Wall” of Louisiana Full Documentary

With the recent flooding of New York and New Jersey by hurricane Sandy it is a good time to revisit New Orleans and the work that was done by the U... (2016)


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Miami Shouldn't Exist — Here's Why It Does

Miami geography defies logic — no bedrock, no natural harbor, and land barely above sea level, yet it became the financial capital of Latin America... (2026)


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Puerto Rico History and Challenges

Puerto Rico is part of the United States but it often doesn’t really feel like it. Mostly because while the rest of the country has prospered, Pu... (2026)


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Full interview: Ken Burns, The American Revolution, on "Face the Nation"

As the U.S. celebrates 249 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, CBS Evening News co-anchor John Dickerson spoke with documen... (2025)


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How Chicago Solves its Overheating Problem

How Chicago Solves its Overheating Problem (2024)


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Why The World Is Rushing Back To The Moon

During the Cold War, competition between the the United States and the former USSR was fierce, as the two countries rallied for the chance to make ... (2024)


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The end of globalization? How Biden's Inflation Reduction Act IRA changed the world | FT Film

The US was for decades the exemplar of free market globalisation. That changed with Donald Trump’s 'America first' agenda. President Joe Biden’s la... (2023)


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Anduril - Can Palmer Luckey Reinvent the U.S. Defense Industry? | WSJ

Military tech startup Anduril Industries is shaking up the U.S. defense industry as it is one of the few privately held technology companies findin... (2023)


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H-1B visa holders: How The U.S. Lost Thousands Of High-Skilled Workers To Canada

On July 16, 2023 Canada opened visa applications for a pilot program that would allow up to 10,000 H-1B visa holders in the United States to apply ... (2023)


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Memory chips: How Micron is Building the Biggest U.S. Chip Fab

Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix are responsible for making 90% of the world’s DRAM memory chips, and Micron is the only one based in the U.S. That’s m... (2023)


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Why West Virginia is so Poor

Why West Virginia is so Poor (2023)


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Solar panel canopies: How to fight climate change with parking lots

Why haven’t we covered them in solar panels? (2023)


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How the U.S. Government Broke the Everglades | Everglades National Park

After a devastating hurricane and chronic flooding issues, the US Government, along with the State of Florida, embarked on a project which would ch... (2023)


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The new land rush in Wyoming

Teton County in Wyoming is home to the widest income divide in America, with a median house price of more than $5 million and an average income of ... (2023)


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The movement to shrink Oregon and expand Idaho

In a state dominated by progressive politics, some residents in rural Oregon east of the Cascade Mountains want to move the border so that their co... (2023)


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New York's $3BN Skyscraper Explained

Is 270 Park Ave New York's comeback skyscraper? (2023)


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Why America's Biggest Cities Are Littered With Vacant Lots | WSJ

From New York to Austin, America’s biggest cities are littered with vacant plots of land because property tax bills can skyrocket once vacant lots ... (2023)


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The Battle for Las Vegas

The Battle for Las Vegas (2023)


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The reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in WWII

Japan attacked the U.S Pacific Fleet at its base at Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December 1941, but what led to that decision? Why did the Japanese a... (2023)


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Why didn't Canada join the American Revolution? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't Canada join the American Revolution? (Short Animated Documentary) (2023)


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NATO - Summary on a Map

The history of NATO on maps, from the end of World War II, until the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.--------Support the channel on Patreon: https://... (2023)


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Why didn't Puerto Rico become a US State? (Short Animated Documentary)

Many of America's 19th century territorial acquisitions became formal states in the 20th century but one notable exception is Puerto Rico. So why d... (2023)


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Why did Russia sell Alaska to America? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Russia sell Alaska to America? (Short Animated Documentary) (2023)


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Why So Much Land In The West Is Owned By The Federal Government

Why So Much Land In The West Is Owned By The Federal Government (2023)


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Alaska in 8K 60p HDR (Dolby Vision)

Explore Juneau, Alaska with us as we navigate through an Alaskan summer. We visited the Tracy Arm Fjord, Mendenhall Glacier, Pack Creek bears, Hoon... (2023)


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Why a Billionaire is Building a $400BN City in the US Desert

Why a Billionaire is Building a $400BN City in the US Desert We spoke to US billionaire Marc Lore about his plans to build Telosa... (2023)


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Amtrack - Why Train Tickets Cost So Much In America

Taking a train in the U.S. is often more expensive than flying and more expensive than intercity train systems in other developed countries, which ... (2022)


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The Simple Genius of NYC’s Water Supply System

The Simple Genius of New York City’s Water Supply System (2022)


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America’s opioid crisis - How the Mexican cartels are making profits now - The Economist

Mexican cartels and criminals are the leading producers of illegal synthetic drugs. This shift is fuelling the latest phase in America’s opioid cri... (2022)


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The Real Reason U.S.Highways Are Always Under Construction - Cheddar Explains

Wherever you drive, highway construction seems unavoidable, but U.S. roads have needed so much repair and maintenance, you start to wonder if we’re... (2022)


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America's Truck Driver Crisis Is Complicated - 1A | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from 1A on Spotify. Truck driving in America remains in crisis. There are 80,000 fewer drivers on the road than needed, acco... (2022)


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Market forces at Christmas tree auctions : Planet Money : NPR

Nick and Robert head to the world's largest Christmas tree auction with $1,000 and a truck. And get schooled in the tree market. | Subscribe to our... (2021)


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What Happened The One Time the U.S. Paid Off The Entire National Debt : Planet Money : NPR

There was one time the U.S. federal government stopped borrowing and paid off every penny of national debt. It did not end well… (2021)


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The Federal Reserve is thinking about a digital dollar - Marketplace

Plus, what shoe sales are telling us about the economic recovery, President Joe Biden is asking federal agencies to gauge the financial risk of cli... (2021)


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Goodwill Doesn't Want Your Broken Toaster : NPR

Goodwill Has A Trash Problem. We're The Cause. "Wish-cyclers" are donating millions of pounds of broken goods and trash to Goodwill. (2021)


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The Afterlife Of American Clothes : Planet Money

The U.S. exports a billion pounds of used clothes every year. Much of that winds up in used clothing markets in sub-Saharan Africa. (2020)


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Millions of Americans face stigma of moving back in with their parents

As the financial crisis deepens, many adults are moving back home. But the trend started before the pandemic. (2020)


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Facebook And Twitter Remove Russia-Backed Accounts Targeting Left-Leaning Voters

Researchers say one of the operation's goals was to steer left-leaning voters away from the Biden-Harris campaign ahead of the November election. (2020)


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Ex-Officials Call For $46 Billion For Tracing, Isolating In Next Coronavirus Package

Leading former federal health officials Andy Slavitt and Scott Gottlieb are leading a call for $46 billion for specific measures in a next coronavi... (2020)


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Banks Took Billions In Fees To Process Small Business Loans Amid Pandemic Crisis

Banks handling the government's $349 billion loan program for small businesses made more than $10 billion in fees — even as tens of thousands of sm... (2020)


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For Many, Issue Of Logging In America's Largest National Forest Cuts Deep - NPR

The world's largest intact temperate rainforest is in a place you may not expect: southeast Alaska. The Trump administration wants to eliminate a l... (2019)


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Most U.S. Dairy Cows Are Descended From Just 2 Bulls. That's Not Good - NPR

NPR science correspondent Dan Charles explains why most of the dairy cows in America are descended from just two bulls, creating a lack of genetic ... (2019)


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U.S. Dairy Cows Are Very Genetically Similar. That's Not Good : The Salt : NPR

The drive to make more milk has had an unsavory side effect: Cows have become more genetically similar and less fertile. Scientists are trying to r... (2019)


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CRISPR Gene-Editing Tool: 1st Patient With Genetic Disorder Treated in the USA (2019) - NPR

Victoria Gray, 34, of Forest, Miss., has sickle cell disease. She is the first patient ever to be publicly identified as being involved in a study ... (2019)


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Why Foreign Investors Aren’t Buying As Much U.S. Debt (Podcast) - Bloomberg (2019)

There’s something wrong with prices in funding and bond markets, according to this week’s Odd Lots guest. Zoltan Pozsar is a former adviser to the ... (2019)


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The Battle to Control the Murdoch Media Empire - The New York Times

Rupert Murdoch’s media outlets have helped destabilize democracy on three continents. The power struggle among his children has world-changing cons... (2019)


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What Does Bruce Springsteen's 'Born In The U.S.A.' Really Mean? : NPR

It's not enough to say the Bruce Springsteen hit is misunderstood. Its contrasts — between grim verses and a joyous chorus, damning facts and fierc... (2019)


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The Benefits Of Taking Out Loans For College : NPR

Counselors and parents are hesitant for students to take out loans for college. But a new study shows that borrowing money can actually be helpful ... (2018)


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How Yellow Fever Turned New Orleans Into The 'City Of The Dead' : NPR

Some years the virus would wipe out a tenth of the population, earning New Orleans the nickname "Necropolis." The gruesome disease killed thousands... (2018)


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Exploring Why So Many Americans Don't Vote || NPR

On The Sidelines Of Democracy: In recent midterms, 4 in 10 eligible voters cast ballots. Nonvoters talk of apathy, disgust, barriers and other ... (2018)


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The New Housing Crisis: Shut Out Of The Market : NPR

Ten years after a housing collapse during the Great Recession, home values have rebounded but there are too few homes on the market. Buyers face in... (2018)


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High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up For University : NPR

Huge shortages loom in the skilled trades, which require less — and cheaper — training. Should that make students rethink the four-year degree? (2018)


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Section 230: A Key Legal Shield For Facebook, Google Is About To Change : All Tech Considered : NPR

The 1996 law is praised by the tech industry as the core pillar of Internet freedom. But its path also runs through some of the darkest corners of ... (2018)


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Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost | NPR

Just what exactly is permafrost? And what is happening now that it's warming up? To find out, we enter the Arctic Circle's secret world of ice and ... (2018)


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Social media's threat to democracy

The Economist, 2017: “Twitter, Facebook and Google were supposed to improve politics. Instead, from Russian meddling in America's election to polit... (2017)


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Right to Roam - Walking across Private Land || 99% Invisible

When 99% Invisible producer Katie Mingle’s father Jim Mingle retired, he began walking —a lot. He’d always been a walker, but with more time, he to... (2018)


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After the Storm: Marking 120 Years Since the U.S. Invasion of Puerto Rico | The Takeaway | WNYC Studios

Today, on the 120th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico, author Esmeralda Santiago joins The Takeaway to discuss the invasion ... (2018)


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The Green Book redux

The new film “Green Book” is rolling out across the country. I have not seen the film, so I can’t speak to its merits or shortcomings, but while pe... (2018)


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#478 – Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex

Scott Horton is the director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of The Scott Horton Show, co-host of Provoked, a... (2025)


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Ghosts of Football Past

In anticipation of Super Bowl LII (Go Eagles), we're revisiting an old episode about the surprising history of how the game came to be. It's the en... (2023)


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The Low-Density University | Johns Hopkins University Press Books

COVID-19 has placed American higher education at a crossroads. This book is the roadmap.COVID-19 triggered an existential crisis for American highe... (2020)


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Common Core - National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy

National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy, by Nicholas Tampio The Common Core State Standards Initiative is one of the most contr... (2017)


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Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier | IndieBound.org

"A surreal, lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a century transformed a forgotten cor... (2018)


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The High Cost of Free Parking - (book) by Donald C. Shoup

American drivers park for free on nearly ninety-nine percent of their car trips, and cities require developers to provide ample off-street parking ... (2018)


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This Land Is Our Land: How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back by Ken Ilgunas

This Land Is Our Land has 47 ratings and 11 reviews. Letitia said: A thoughtful and informative argument for the idea that Americans should have th... (2018)


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AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, Kai-Fu Lee, eBook - Amazon.com

AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order - Kindle edition by Kai-Fu Lee. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, ... (2019)


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Startup Communities

First published in 2012, Startup Communities became a blueprint for what it takes to build a supportive entrepreneurial community. Now regarded as ... (2023)


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The Tyranny of Merit

A Times Literary Supplement’s Book of the Year 2020 A New Statesman's Best Book of 2020 A Bloomberg's Best Book of 2020 A Guardian Best Book About ... (2021)


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Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World by Robert D. Kaplan

Earning the Rockies book. Read 238 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. An incisive portrait of the American landscape that show... (2020)


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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance

Hillbilly Elegy book. Read 25,407 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powe... (2020)


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Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, by Sam Anderson

Oklahoma City and Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis ... (2018)


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The United States is the world’s largest oil producer

When people think about global oil, their minds often go toward countries in the Middle East. (2026)


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The 1619 Project Curriculum

The 1619 Project, inaugurated with a special issue of The New York Times Magazine, challenges us to reframe U.S. history by marking the year when t... (2020)


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HipCamp - book campsites, cabins, RV parks, public parks and more

Book unique camping experiences on over 300,000 campsites, cabins, RV parks, public parks and more. From public parks to private land, we're the... (2020)


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Free Speech Rankings - universities USA - College Pulse, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

College Pulse, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and RealClearEducation have released the first ever College Free Speech Rankings, a c... (2021)


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Flood Factor - Find Your Home's Flood Factor

Flood Factor is a free online tool created by the nonprofit First Street Foundation that makes it easy for Americans to find their property’s past ... (2020)


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Flood Zone Maps - Miami-Dade County

The Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) detailed digital flood hazard maps reflect current flood risks for Miami-Dade County. (2020)


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IHME - COVID-19 Projections (state by state)

Explore hospital bed use, need for intensive care beds, and ventilator use due to COVID-19 based on projected deaths (2020)


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Human-Centered Computing BS Degree at RIT

HCC is about leveraging technology, exploring and adapting how people access and interact with it. Finding ways to integrate technology with our ev... (2019)





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Poverty, and the cost of college

The California Sunday Magazine The College Try Liz Waite and Kersheral Jessup couldn’t afford a higher education, let alone rent. But they worked a... (2017)


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Hidden ivies - list of top liberal arts colleges in the USA - Google Sheets

liberal arts schools - beyond the Ivy League Claremont McKenna college,Claremont,California,private liberal arts college in Claremont, Californi... (2019)


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shareChunksSpreadsheet - google spreadsheet

shareChunksSpreadsheet - google spreadsheet (2019)