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By Lina Khan Imagine cows fed and milked entirely by robots. Or tomatoes that send an e-mail when they need more water. Or a farm

**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**

By Tyler Durden Some may have forgotten, or not be aware, that the Federal Reserve system has its own police force. Well, it does: “The

By David B. Collum Every December, I write a Year in Review or, as my wife calls it, my Urine Review. It has found a

By Tyler Durden It was in October 2012 when we explained how Iran evades the Western blockade (ostensibly with the implicit nod of none other

By RT Security researcher Jacob Appelbaum dropped a bombshell of sorts earlier this week when he accused American tech companies of placing government-friendly backdoors in

By Kevin Bullis Clean energy technology made progress in 2013, but low-carbon energy isn’t growing fast enough to meet goals for limiting climate change. That

By My Budget 360 Money is only as useful as to what it can purchase. The Fed has created a system where debt is now

By: Claudio Guarnieri and Morgan Marquis-Boire 2013 will be remembered as the year that the Internet lost its innocence for nearly everyone as light was

By Institute of Science in Society Single nucleotide mutations form the majority of genetic polymorphisms (single nucleotide polymorphisms, SNPs) in populations. When found in gene