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Government Still Buying Lenovo Laptops Despite Foreign Ownership, Prior Security Issues
Not long after IBM sold its Thinkpad laptop division to a Chinese company in 2004, the State Department issued a ban on the laptops from being on the…
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Foreign Contributions to Universities Dominated by a Few Countries
Total foreign contributions—as donations or general payments—to American universities in 2019 almost topped $4 billion.
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EPI's Misleading Pay-Productivity Gap
The divergence between average wages and productivity over the last century is sometimes referred to as the “Great Decoupling.”
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J.P. Morgan's Efforts to Push the U.S. Into WWI
During the Nye committee of 1930s, Congress investigated the influence of financial interests on the decision for the United States to enter World War…
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Hunter Biden-Affiliated Metabiota and Its Non-Existent Failure on Ebola
Metabiota is a San Francisco-based health startup known for tracking epidemics.
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Estimating Retail Theft With CVS Filings
In December, the National Retail Foundation (NRF) walked back an estimate that said around $45 billion a year in retail losses were due to organized…
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Solar Is Only Cheap When It's Not On a Roof
Levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) is a common metric for determining how expensive a power source is for electricity generation.
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The Unlikelihood of Being an OnlyFans Millionaire
Various creators from the adult content website OnlyFans have described earning thousands of dollars a day through the service.
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FTX Tokenized Gamestop, AMC Stock On The Day Of Their Short Squeeze
In the fourth week of January of 2021, the stocks for the video game reseller Gamestop (GME) and the movie theater chain AMC shot up to become the…
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Measles Deaths Disappeared Before the Vaccine
Measles, or rubeola, is a highly contagious disease that causes fevers and spots and was associated with 5,087 deaths in the U.S.
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Ramaswamy's Biotech Firm's Clinical Trial Reinterpretation
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was previously the head of a biotech firm, Axovant Sciences.
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Recent Ice Core Carbon Dioxide Measurements Lean On Thin Ice
Ice cores are cylindrical samples from large glaciers sometimes going thousands of feet deep that can help paint a picture of the climate hundreds of…
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