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At any rate, in the other cities mentioned before, Uber's vehicles are already operating in full self-driving mode, albeit with a safety driver at the wheel in case an emergency arises. By contrast, Uber's Washington, DC vehicles will not have autonomous driving enabled from the get-go. Instead, drivers will cruise throughout the city in manual mode, which will allow the vehicles to gather data about Washington, DC's unique navigational challenges. … [Read more...] about Uber’s self-driving vehicles are coming to Washington, DC

In Iowa on Wednesday, Klobuchar's 24-year-old daughter, Abigail Bessler, appeared at her first campaign event of her mother's presidential bid. Klobuchar made sure to mention her daughter to reporters during one break, noting that Bessler had texted her to say she was in good company by campaigning "up against AOC" -- that is, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of Sanders' surrogates in Iowa this week. … [Read more...] about Stuck in Washington: Democratic senators trade campaign trail for impeachment trial

Ice can be an archive – buried in polar strata are records of climate going back millions of years. Campbell speaks to scientists who drill for them (“Once, explorers rammed their flagpoles into the ice as proof of conquest; now science leaves behind only a cylindrical absence.”) In the Alps, she recounts the story of Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin “who left home to feed their cattle on 15 August 1942 and had been lost ever since”. The couple’s seven children were separately fostered; 75 years later their parents’ bodies were released from a glacier. In 1991, a 5,000 year-old body was found frozen into the Italian-Austrian frontier. The ice-man, “Ötzi”, is “fated to be the example by which all life in that era will be judged”, Campbell observes. Pollens in Ötzi’s stomach suggested he’d been climbing up and down the Alps; grains in his clothing suggested an autumn journey. Ice is understood as a … [Read more...] about The Library of Ice by Nancy Campbell review – an Arctic obsession

Then the self-doubt starts. She asks me, "Am I smart enough for these schools, Mom?" "Why?" I ask. She tells me that all her friends stress about the SAT score and remark about how her score isn't that high, so how did a girl like her get into a school like Georgia Tech. Random folks on social media ask her to share her SAT score and GPA. Is it because she is black? We wonder, and it eats at us. We don't want to be the affirmative action quota. EVERYTHING is about that damned test. Our lives hang in the balance on that score. And the values that I have worked so hard to instill in my children don't matter. What matters is that SAT score. And now to find out the level of cheating going on -- it really pisses me off. I had heard rumors before this, that parents were paying tens of thousands of dollars to cheat their way into a great SAT score. So I am not surprised, but I am still pissed. Why should your acceptance to a college depend on one test taken on one day of your 12-grade career … [Read more...] about We asked how the college cheating scam made you feel. Your stories were incredible

He just got more famous and more revered on MSNBC. You can find him most weekdays now having lunch in the best restaurants in the city right across from the guys who planned the Iraq War and got rich from securitizing subprime mortgages. … [Read more...] about Tucker Carlson: Schiff got Trump-Russia collusion all wrong, never got punished. Instead, he’s being rewarded