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Weekend Reads 10/24/15

Democrats are in denial. Their party is actually in deep trouble.

Elections for state legislature rarely make the national news, but they are the fundamental building blocks of American politics. Since they run the redistricting process for the US House of Representatives and for themselves, they are where the greatest level of electoral entrenchment is possible.

And in the wake of the 2014 midterms, Republicans have overwhelming dominance of America's state legislatures.

Trauma May Be Woven Into DNA of Native Americans

According to researchers, high rates of addiction, suicide, mental illness, sexual violence and other ills among Native peoples might be, at least in part, influenced by historical trauma.

Do surgeons wear latex gloves in Catholic hospitals?

Give your classmates a deliriously weird comic book telling them they’re damnably stupid and evil and they’re likely to regard you as a creepy weirdo who thinks they’re better than everyone else. But this social suicide is a feature, not a bug. That ostracism and isolation is the intended result of such “evangelism,” which has nothing to do with “outreach” to the “unsaved,” but rather with strengthening tribal bonds of identity for the poor kids duped into passing these things out. It’s a way of manufacturing a sense of persecution that will create the illusion of righteous contrast.

Fully transparent solar cell could make every window in your house a power source

To achieve a truly transparent solar cell, the Michigan State team created this thing called a transparent luminescent solar concentrator (TLSC), which employs organic salts to absorb wavelengths of light that are already invisible to the human eye. Steering clear of the fundamental challenges of creating a transparent photovoltaic cell allowed the researchers to harness the power of infrared and ultraviolet light.

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