This is Lava Mae’s charge: provide sanitation, assist in deterring potential public health problems, and perhaps most critically, provide a much needed service to help a population struggling to retain a sense of dignity and self worth. In essence, Lava Mae seeks to solve a…
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On Feb 26th, the FCC will vote to save net neutrality or let Comcast and other ISPs create Internet slow lanes. Net Neutrality is the Internet’s guiding principle: It preserves our right to communicate freely online. This is the definition of an open Internet. Some members…
Forty years ago, Bill Gates and his childhood friend Paul Allen bet that software and personal computers would change the way people around the world worked and played. This bet wasn’t exactly a wager. It was an opportunity to make computers personal and empower people…
It’s the first legislation enacted by Congress that curtails the government’s ability to enforce penalties or intrude on states that permit medical marijuana, a drug that is still considered by federal regulators to be as dangerous as heroin and LSD. For sure, the Obama administration…
HAVE YOU LOOKED OUT OF YOUR WINDOW LATELY? We are living in a sequin-encrusted virtual prison where an economic elite can hog along in plump luxury – destroying the planet as they go. We must stop this. Our initial targets are corporate tax evaders, environmental desecraters…
Irish high school student Émer Hickey was gardening with her mom when she observed wartlike nodules on a pea plant. She later learned that the swellings contained something that could cut back our dependence on chemical fertilizers and mitigate world hunger: bacteria. But not just…
Strike Debt, an organization that emerged out of Occupy Wall Street to protect debtors’ rights, announced today it has purchased—and abolished—more than $4 million in student debt. It’s a first for the organization, which until now has only canceled medical debt. The organization’s Rolling Jubilee…