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The typical red state gets back 19 cents more for each dollar sent to Washington than its blue-state friends.
Analysis | Do Blue-State Taxes Really Subsidize Red-State Benefits?
Andrew Van Dam and Linda Chong
First-person, subjective experience—the feeling of being in the world—is known as “phenomenal” consciousness. Here we can group everything from sensations like pleasure and pain, to emotions like fear and anger and joy, to the peculiar private experiences of hearing a dog bark or tasting a salty pretzel or seeing a blue door.
What an Octopus’s Mind Can Teach Us About AI’s Ultimate Mystery
octopus test
The city is standardizing materials and designs to reduce costs and labor, and streamlining approval and allocation processes to increase the speed and quality of repairs and maintenance.
We Need Smarter Cities, Not “Smart Cities”
technologyreview.com
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