One question for Eli Yablonovich, an applied physicist at UC Berkeley.
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In May 2011, 20,000 people took to the streets of San Cristóbal de Las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico. The Zapatista support movement had called for a ‘march of silence’ against the government’s so-called ‘war on drugs’. Women, children, and men walked in silence, holding up banners saying “no more blood” and “we are fed up” (“estamos hasta la madre”). Their clarity about the violence not only by so-called cartels, but also by state institutions, exposes what much state theory on the 'war on drugs' has lacked — an idea of the state's role. In my new book Selective Security in the War on Drugs, on security policies in the 2000s in Mexico and Colombia, I contribute to the emerging debate on the state in this so-called ‘war’.
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If the electron’s charge wasn’t perfectly round, it could reveal the existence of hidden particles. A new measurement approaches perfection.
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And how the family business first took me there.
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Parasites, weather, and luck can play a role in determining whether some animals are male or female.
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The jet stream is one of Earth’s defining features—but it wasn’t easy to find.
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Even when we know they’re “fake,” placebos can tame our emotional distress.
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One question for Sönke Dangendorf, a coastal flooding researcher at Tulane University.
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The coming federal budget, to be tabled in May, would be Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ first opportunity to build what he calls “values-based capitalism”.
In an essay published in The Monthly, Chalmers envisions an Australian capitalism that is not defined by just one notion of value (presumably economic value), but by values, or “our (Australian) values”.
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After 53 years in captivity, she has a chance at a better life.
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