Climate, Republicans, Tech Workers, Trade Deficit, Food Robots - Five Things - Issue #346

We can still hit the target of limiting global warming to 1.5 degree Celsius, as agreed on in Paris, but we have to act immediately and drastically.

The Kavanaugh confirmation fight revealed the GOP to be the party of situational ethics and moral relativism in the name of winning at all costs.

Tech employees concerned their products are being deployed for government surveillance or censorship are increasingly asking their employers how the technology is being used.

The economist N. Gregory Mankiw presents some conclusions about trade that most economists accept but, upon first hearing, are not at all obvious.

Down on a new robot farm, machines tend rows of leafy greens under the watch of software called “The Brain.”

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