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Hitting the Books: Summer reading list
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Hitting the Books: In Russia, home is where the hearth is
A look at how traditional masonry stoves have influenced Russian cuisine and culture since the 17th century.Hitting the Books: Newton's alchemical dalliances make him no less of a scientist
The father of physics may have investigated pseudoscience but he never published on it.Hitting the Books: What the 'Work from Home' revolution means for those who can't
It's the new class divide of a post-pandemic world.Hitting the Books: Why we need to treat the robots of tomorrow like tools
Wall-E will never be your friend, sorry.Hitting the Books: US regulators are losing the fight against Big Tech
Despite a rising antitrust tide, monopolies just keep sailing along.Hitting the Books: Dodge, Detroit and the Revolutionary Union Movement of 1968
Thousands of workers walked out in a series of wildcat strikes in opposition of unsafe working conditions.Hitting the Books: When the military-industrial complex came to Silicon Valley
Turns out, Big Tech has bought a lot of CIA-backed startups over the years.Hitting the Books: How American militarism and new technology may make war more likely
"A soldier’s sense of identity seems increasingly tied to war, not the service war is supposed to provide to our nation."Hitting the Books: Raytheon, Yahoo Finance and the rise of the 'cybersmear' lawsuit
This legal fight set off decades of debate surrounding online anonymity.Hitting the Books: The Soviets once tasked an AI with our mutually assured destruction
The Perimeter system would have unleashed a civilization-ending counterstrike following a US nuclear launch.Hitting the Books: The mad science behind digging really huge holes
Delving Earth's depths for fun, profit, and the power of world domination.Hitting the Books: How Ronald Reagan torpedoed sensible drug patenting
'Owning the Sun' examines how public research is exploited for private profit.Hitting the Books: How Mildred Dresselhaus' research proved we had graphite all wrong
The STEM pioneer's experiments at MIT revolutionized our understanding of charge carriers.Hitting the Books: The case against tomorrow's robots looking like people
The world doesn't need more Sonny's, but a few extra Johnny 5's wouldn't hurt.Hitting the Books: Lab-grown meat is the future, just as Winston Churchill predicted
'The Genesis Machine' examines synthetic biology's impact on the world of tomorrow.Hitting the Books: How crop diversity became a symbol of Mexican national sovereignty
A look at Mexico's fight to protect of landrace varieties and traditional agricultural methods.Hitting the Books: 'Miracle Rice' fed China's revolution but endangered its crop diversity
Now researchers are working to revitalize landrace varieties to nourish our ever-growing population.