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By John Roach The U.S. Navy may need to look no further than the water around its ships to produce jet fuel, according to a program underway at its research laboratory. The technology would free the Navy from the logistical and economic challenges of refueling ships underway.

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By Amy Barth Stopped at a red light on his drive home from work, Karl Deisseroth contemplates one of his patients, a woman with depression so entrenched that she had been unresponsive to drugs and electroshock therapy for years. The red turns to green and Deisseroth accelerates, navigating roads and intersections with one part of his mind

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Julia Angwin and Jennifer Valentino-Devries Wall Street Journal License plate recognition vehicle The rise of license-plate tracking is a case study in how storing and studying people’s everyday activities, even the seemingly mundane, has become the default rather than the exception. Cellphone-location data, online searches, credit-card purchases, social-network comments and more are gathered, mixed-and-matched, and stored in vast databases.

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Paul Craig Roberts Infowars.com In my last column, “A Culture of Delusion,” I wrote that “Americans live in a matrix of lies. Lies dominate every policy discussion, every political decision.” This column will use two top news stories, Iranian nukes and Julian Assange, to illustrate how lies become “truth.”

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