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Friday Nite Videos | Feb 16, 2018

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How Some Democrats Aided The NRA-GOP Agenda. How Tech Giants Feed Off Capitalism's Failures. Students at South Broward High School Protest Gun Violence Jimmy Kimmel on School Shooting in Parkland, Florida. Why Black Panther’s Box Office Success Matters.

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Marxism as ‘Organized Sarcasm’

Richard Seymour Salvage
Saying Marxism is a science is preface. Add organized sarcasm and we come closer to mocking not so much intimate feelings associated with worldly illusions but their form in a particular perishable world. It aims to give new form to certain aspirations, the better to regenerate them. Yet if Marxist movements are to be effective, they must create new tastes and a new language for struggles to be born. Sarcasm then is about what outrages our sense of what should be.

Celebrating Women in Science

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Sunday, 11 February, is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. To mark the day female scientists from around the world were asked to reflect on their experiences and offer their advice.

Friday Nite Videos | Feb 9, 2018

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Russia Hacks Voter Rolls & Rob Porter Resigns. "Unforgettable." Why Is the Naked Mole Rat So Weird? Our Cartoon President | Series Premiere. A Persuasive Case That Presidents Can Be Indicted.

Why Is the Naked Mole Rat So Weird?

Naked mole rats feel no pain. They’re exceptionally long-lived. They frequently enter reversible comas, and a single queen mole rat rules over her colony with totalitarian authority. They can also survive without oxygen for extended periods of time.

Friday Nite Videos | Feb 2, 2018

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Confounds the Science - (Parody of) Sound of Silence. Daniel Ellsberg Says We've Escaped Self-Annihilation by Luck. As You Are | Amandla Stenberg Movie. Humiliating: Watch Nunes Demolish Himself On Surveillance. 5 Ways Trump Has Betrayed His Voters.
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