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SCIENCE — Now you see me, now you don't – Gabe Cherry on ftn.media, republished from Futurity.: A new technique that peppers metallic nanoparticles into semiconductors could pave the way for invisibility cloaking devices.
SOCIETY,GENDER — Fluid borders – Gregory Gorelik for quillette.com: Reactionaries and progressives alike get a lot wrong about transgender people.
MILITARY,PEOPLE — Army of trans – Ben Christopher for priceonomics.com: An interesting tidbit about the recent debate: «In fact, the available evidence suggests that transgender Americans serve at rates well above the national average.»
MIGRATION,ECONOMICS — Let them come and they will build it – Lena Groeger for propublica.org: Foreign immigrants are still the quickest way to boost the domestic economy.
POLITICS,RUSSIA — In soviet Russia… – Isaac Webb for Global Voices: The Kremlin is cracking down on online anonymity. Again.
RUSSIA,PROPAGANDA — Troll manual – Alexey Kovalev and Matthew Bodner for themoscowtimes.com: An unauthorized reprint of a military intelligence handbook on psychological warfare gives insight into new propaganda troops.
WORK,ECONOMICS — Quit it – Natasha King for aeon.co: Thanks to neoliberalism, as competition intensifies, companies can count less and less on employee loyalty. A critical but roadworthy essay.
POLITICS,DEBATE — Donald the Anti-Nixon – Paul Berman for www.tabletmag.com: From a cultural standpoint, Trump's Russia scandal is the opposite of Watergate. Richard Nixon was not what he appeared to be. Donald Trump is exactly what he appears as.
CITIES — Underperforming – Nicholas Umashev for fee.org: The curse of big cities in developed countries: An absence of free and open markets.
GENETICS,SCIENCE,HEALTH — 6 million dollar babies – Steve Connor for technologyreview.com: Researchers have demonstrated they can efficiently improve the DNA of human embryos.
ENERGY,NUCLEAR ENERGY,SCIENCE — Clean – Hannah Ritchie for ourworldindata.org: The date says it all: Nuclear energy is one of the cleanest and certainly the safest form of electricity production.
CRIME — The empire strikes back – Paul Barrett for www.bloomberg.com: Canada's Resolute Forest Products is striking back against Greenpeace because the activists have been using falsehoods to accuse the company of destroying forests. The weapon of choice: An anti-mafia law.
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