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Smart Neighborhood. Public Safety Drones. Real Safety, or the beginnings of Smart City Open-air Prisons?

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Yesterday, I noticed a story about a senior apartment complex in south Seattle, that was being renovated into a "Smart Neighborhood". This apartment complex has been around since the 1960s, and it started out as a "low-income" complex. We all know that those "low-income" apartments always suffer from lack of maintenance and that upgrades are …

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Ancient History you have probably never heard about

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Did you know that England and Ireland have not always been islands, separated from mainland Europe? Well, the below post shows how that went down (literally!). Doggerland is all that we have left. Doggerland was a vast, now-submerged landscape that once connected Britain to continental Europe, forming a broad plain across what is today the …

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