Paul D. MillerIcon version of the Flipboard logoDonald Trump The Man Behind the Right Wing’s Favorite Conspiracy Theories newrepublic.com - Seth Hettena Meet David Booth, the fake news peddler who is helping Russia spread its lies. No one is sure where President Trump got the idea that the Democratic …
Paul D. MillerCities Here’s How Cities Are Making It Illegal to Be Homeless VICE - Emma OckermanWhen cities make it illegal to live out of a car, the fines and punishments can end up pushing poor people even deeper into homelessness, according to a new report from the National Law Center on Homelessness
Paul D. MillerClimate Change Our Climate Is Like Reckless Banking Before the Crash realclearscience.com - Will Steffen After a quarter of a century of nations from around the world coming together to discuss progress in dealing with climate change, emissions are still …
Paul D. MillerClimate Climate scientists try to cut their own carbon footprints phys.org For years, Kim Cobb was the Indiana Jones of climate science. The Georgia Tech professor flew to the caves of Borneo to study ancient and current …
Paul D. MillerClimate Change This Youth Activist Wants People to Pay $10 a Month to Fight Climate Change globalcitizen.org - By Joe McCarthy “This is about today. It’s not about future generations. Our existence is being threatened.” The United Nations’ Global Goal 13 calls on countries to …
Paul D. MillerHumanity You should get out more, because being alone for too long will literally shrink your brain SYFY WIRE - Elizabeth Rayne Missing out on that dreaded holiday office party probably won’t affect your brain, but if you’re the type who prefers to hide out alone in your lair …
Paul D. MillerInternational Relations America’s influence, once so dominant, waning under Trump Chicago Tribune - By Tim SullivanIt’s whispered in NATO meeting rooms and celebrated in China’s halls of power. It’s lamented in the capital cities of key U.S. allies and welcomed in the Kremlin. Three years into Donald Trump’s presidency,
Paul D. MillerFossil Fuels Drax owner plans to be world's first carbon-negative business The Guardian - Jillian AmbroseAn energy company once labelled western Europe’s biggest polluter is planning to become the world’s first carbon-negative business within 10 years. The owner of the Drax power plant, once a coal-fired
Paul D. MillerIcon version of the Flipboard logo The Arts Contribute More Than $760 Billion to the U.S. Economy arts.gov Washington, DC—New data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) offers an …
Paul D. MillerVenture Capital Hackers Trick Venture Capital Firm Into Sending Them $1 Million VICE - Karl BodeSecurity researchers at Check Point say the company has uncovered evidence that Chinese hackers managed to hijack $1 million in seed money during a wire transfer between a Chinese venture capital firm
Paul D. MillerElon Musk Elon Musk revives his plan to power the United States entirely on solar Inverse - Mike Brown The CEO of the company that sells the Tesla Solar Roof speaks out. Could you meet the United States entirely from solar energy? Sure, claims tech …
Paul D. MillerWater The world's supply of fresh water is in trouble as mountain ice vanishes National Geographic - Alejandra BorundaThese high "water towers" provide a huge percentage of global fresh water, but climate change and geopolitical stresses endanger their existence. High in the Himalaya, near the base of the Gangotri glacier,
Paul D. MillerSingularity Here's the Pentagon's Terrifying Plan for Cyborg Supersoldiers VICE - Matthew GaultCybernetic enhancements that fuse humans and machines are coming, and the U.S. Military wants to be prepared. A new report from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological
Paul D. MillerRenewable Energy This small German town took back the power—and went fully renewable techxplore.com - Bertie Russell The case for ambitious and transformative environmental policy is being made with increasing fervor and a series of "Green New Deals"—a reference to …
Paul D. Miller The Genius Neuroscientist Who Might Hold the Key to True AI WIRED - Shaun Raviv Karl Friston’s free energy principle might be the most all-encompassing idea since Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection. But to understand …
Paul D. MillerArtificial Intelligence The 10 Best Examples Of How Companies Use Artificial Intelligence In Practice Forbes - Bernard MarrAll the world’s tech giants from Alibaba to Amazon are in a race to become the world’s leaders in artificial intelligence (AI). These companies are AI trailblazers and embrace AI to provide next-level
Paul D. MillerTech Industry 90 percent of growth in high-tech jobs happened in just 5 metro areas Recode - Rani MollaTechnology jobs and the economic prosperity they bring are being concentrated in fewer US cities, according to a new report from The Brookings Institution. Since 2005, five metro areas — Boston, the San
Paul D. Miller The Origins of Cyberpunk Documentary: Neuromancer, Blade Runner, Akira www.youtube.com
Paul D. MillerOpinion Trump is the natural consequence of our anti-democracy decade The Guardian - Robert ReichAs Trump said in 2016, 'I give money to everybody, even the Clintons, because that’s how the system works' A principled Congress and decent president could still rescue our democracy We’re coming to the
Paul D. MillerLiberal View Here are 5 reasons to suspect Jesus never existed rawstory.com - Valerie Tarico Most antiquities scholars think that the New Testament gospels are “mythologized history.” In other words, based on the evidence available they think …
Paul D. MillerCities CityLab Daily: Will Buffalo Become a Climate Change Haven? CityLab - Andrew SmallAlso: The city known for “sewer socialists” actually has great sewers, and the changing geography of the opioid crisis. This is a second version of today’s newsletter that corrects two nonworking links
Paul D. MillerHousing California’s Vacant Housing Debate Isn’t Really About Vacancy CityLab - Benjamin SchneiderAs a controversy over vacancy in the Bay Area and Los Angeles reveals, advocates disagree about what kind of housing should be built, and where. The week before Thanksgiving, housing Twitter exploded.
Paul D. MillerSilicon Valley (TV Series) This is what happens when an AI-written screenplay is made into a film The Guardian - HAL 90210With a dark, ominous atmosphere and gibberish script, short film Sunspring was penned by a computer and stars Silicon Valley’s Thomas Middleditch Artificial intelligence has recently been trying its hand
Paul D. MillerChina Chinese government to replace foreign hardware and software within three years ZDNet - Catalin Cimpanu New Beijing "5-3-2" policy to give local tech scene a boost to the detriment of foreign companies. Beijing officials have ordered all government …
Paul D. MillerClimate Change Climate change: Oceans running out of oxygen as temperatures rise BBC News - Matt McGrathClimate change and nutrient pollution are driving the oxygen from our oceans, and threatening many species of fish. That's the conclusion of the biggest study of its kind, undertaken by conservation group
Paul D. MillerOpinion Texting really is ruining personal relationships NBC News - By Maggie MulqueenText messages can't provide the human contact and perspective that come from true dialogue, but they can encourage laziness and passive-aggressive behavior. It’s just too easy. Delayed on your way to meeting,
