10/14/2019 Since the discovery of liquid water flowing on its surface, the idea of colonizing Mars has become more and more feasible. Elon Musk and…
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Ocean plastics: who is the main contributor?
9/30/2019 “I can’t believe you’re even reaching for that plastic straw. How much do you hate sea turtles?” my friend says as I retract my…
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How Airlines Could Set the Pace for Sustainable Travel
9/23/2019 Today, global aviation accounts for 2.4 percent of total carbon dioxide emissions and about 12 percent of greenhouse gases released by the transportation industry…
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How Did the Public Health Crisis Around Vaping Get So Bad?
9/16/2019 In the past few months, a disturbing trend has emerged. More than 400 illnesses and several deaths have been attributed to vaping, an activity…
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Hiding in Plain Sight
4/26/2019 Profiled article Knight, Will. “How to Hide from the AI Surveillance State with a Color Printout.” MIT Technology Review, MIT Technology Review, 23 Apr.…
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A Vision for Vision
4/19/2019 Profiled article G. S. L. Peh, H. S. Ong, K. Adnan, H.-P. Ang, C. N. Lwin, X.-Y. Seah, S.-J. Lin, and J. S. Mehta,…
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Alexa Hears You, and so does Amazon
4/12/2019 Profiled article C. Jee. “Amazon workers are listening to some of your conversations with Alexa”, MIT Technology Review, 2019. [Online]. Available: https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/613303/amazon-workers-are-listening-to-some-of-your-conversations-with-alexa/ About the…
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Klotho: The Neural Enhancer of the Future?
4/5/2019 Profiled article C. Zimmer, “One Day There May Be a Drug to Turbocharge the Brain. Who Should Get It?”, The New York Times, 2019.…
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Big Tech Pushes Toward Defense. Engineers Push Back.
3/29/2019 Profiled article T. Romm and D. Harwell, “Microsoft workers call for canceling military contract for technology that could turn warfare into a ‘video game’”,…
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Big Benefits of Big Data: Data Privacy Takes a Backseat
“Between the dawn of civilization and 2003, we only created five exabytes (1 exabyte=1,000,000,000 gigabytes) of data; now we’re creating that amount every two days.…
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