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When Cops Cry Wolf
Police have been setting up suspects with false testimony for decades. Is anyone going to believe them now when they tell the truth? By Frank Serpico
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The Radium Girls
SciShow explores the harrowing tale of the so-called Radium Girls, factory workers who were the first who for years worked with one of the world’s most radioactive substances -- and suffered the consequences. Hosted by Hank Green.
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A War Well Lost
Sam Harris and Johann Hari discuss the “war on drugs”
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Risky Moves in the Game of Life Insurance
Some insurance companies’ complex, and mostly hidden, maneuvers to increase profits for shareholders may end up costing taxpayers and policyholders.
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The Things I Carried Back
By John F. Burns
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Emails Reveal Discord Over Blackwater Charges
The disagreement foreshadowed an argument that will play out in court on Monday, when four former security contractors are scheduled to be sentenced over a deadly shooting in Iraq in 2007.
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The Slave Ship that Ran from Kerala to New Orleans
Post Hurricane Katrina, a whole new American dream was designed for some Indians — how to get trapped in a guarded labor camp by an American company. Five of these Indians just won $14 million in damages in their fight for justice and dignity, in one of the largest labor trafficking cases in US history. There are more than 200 other plaintiffs awaiting justice in this explosive, racist example of how America's broken visa program continues to exploit international migrants.
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Bottling water without scrutiny
Companies tapping springs and aquifers with little oversight
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The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of South Africa's Anti-Occult Police Unit
The satanic panic of the 80s and early 90s gave birth to a squad dedicated to hunting satanic crimes, and today the status of the unit remains shrouded in mystery.
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The Dolphin Trainer Who Loved Dolphins Too Much
Dolphin trainer Ashley Guidry loved her job and the animals she worked with—in particular, a dolphin calf named Chopper. But years of seeing how business was done behind the scenes...
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The Disease That Turned Us Into Genetic-Information Junkies
For many people, 1969 felt like a year when technology could solve all of our problems, a sentiment that reached a crescendo with the Apollo 11 moon landing. But back on Earth…
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FBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decades
Forensic hair matches were overstated in many cases heard before 2000, including those of 32 defendants sentenced to death, the FBI and the Justice Department acknowledged after a review.
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How Corporate Lobbyists Conquered American Democracy
Business didn't always have so much power in Washington.
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The Moral Questions Raised by the Rise of Maker Culture
Thinking through the consequences of the proliferation of powerful tools and technologies.
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Targeted Killing: The New Questions
Providing a glimpse of the Obama administration’s internal debate about a possible targeted killing of a US citizen, a Brooklyn terrorism case points to the many questions about the program that remain unanswered. By David Cole
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One Hundred Years of Silence: Turks Slowly Take Stock of Armenian Genocide
Officially, discussion of the Armenian genocide is taboo in Turkey, even 100 years after the crimes. But the issue is becoming harder for the country to suppress and many Turks are rediscovering their long-lost Armenian identities.
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Concerns of an Artificial Intelligence Pioneer
Computer scientist Stuart Russell wants to ensure that our increasingly intelligent machines remain aligned with human values.
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The Whistleblower’s Tale: How An Accountant Took on Halliburton
In 2005, Tony Menendez blew the whistle on Halliburton’s accounting practices. The fight cost him nine years of his life.
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The bank moved to seize a widow’s home. But it didn’t tell her the loan was insured
For more than a decade after her husband died, Laura Coleman Biggs paid her mortgage to a Bank of America subsidiary. She was never told, even as she was weeks from losing her home, that her husband had actually protected her against foreclosure.
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Chinese scientists genetically modify human embryos
Rumours of germline modification prove true — and look set to reignite an ethical debate.
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