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A humanoid robot is a robot resembling the human body in shape. The design may be for functional purposes, such as interacting with human tools and environments, for experimental purposes, such as the study of...
The US supreme court currently has a fixed size of 9 members, but it hasn't always been this way. It takes only an act of congress to change the size of the court. The president Franklin D. Roosevelt famously failed to increase the size of the court...
According to the article An Automated Scientist to Design and Optimize Microbial Strains for the Industrial Production of Small Molecules (pdf here):
Although industrial fermentation of engineered microbes has proven impactful in that it can...
The following excerpt is taken from this <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-the-u-s-and-china-cooperate-in-space/">Scientific American article</a> from August 2021:
In 2011 Congress passed a law that included an add-on known...
The Colorado Supreme Court recently ruled that Donald Trump is to be removed from the state's 2024 Republican primary ballots. In response, some Republicans have intimated the possibility of trying to have Biden removed from the ballots of certain...
Praxis Society describes itself as a membership-based intentional community centered around building a city-cryptostate. Praxis Society is building a "city in the cloud" (i.e., the creation of a unified online community) prior to creating a physical...
Since World War II, Congress has opted to pass a series of resolutions to authorize the president to use force rather than declare war. These resolutions are an extension of the War Powers Resolution (WPR), a federal law passed in 1973 that was meant...
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The police abolition movement is a political movement, largely in the United States, that advocates replacing policing with other systems of public safety. Police abolitionists believe that policing, as a system, is inherently...
3M Company, one of the 30 components making up the Dow Jones Industrial Average and ranked #102 on the Fortune 500, is a multinational corporation based in Minnesota with approximately 95,000 full-time equivalent employees. It manufactures a wide...
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