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The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world

Research featuring Carr Center's Erica Chenoweth. Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to ...
Reuters

Bank of Canada cuts rates to 2.5%, says ready to cut again if risks rise

OTTAWA, Sept 17 (Reuters) - The Bank of Canada reduced its key policy rate to a three-year low of 2.5% on Wednesday, the first cut in six months, and said it would be ready to cut again if risks to ...
The Conversation

Where America’s CO2 emissions come from – what you need to know, in charts

Kenneth J. Davis does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Thoroughbred Daily News

'Tremendous Start': $2.7-Million Gun Runner Colt One of Nine Million-Dollar Yearlings at Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Opener

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY – The Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale had its first million-dollar yearling when the two-day auction was just 13 hips old Monday evening and bidding stayed strong throughout the ...
GitHub

Cr0mb/CS2-GFusion-Python

The most advanced Counter-Strike closet cheats ever made in Python. Kernel driver included. After install command is done, go into .\CS2-GFusion-Python-main\NeacController-main\NeacDriver, right click ...
CNBC

Social Security cost-of-living adjustment may be 2.5% in 2026, new estimates find

Social Security beneficiaries may see a 2.5% increase to their monthly checks in 2026, based on new government inflation data released Wednesday. Those estimates may be subject to change, since there ...
C&EN

Degradation of 2-Amino-2-methylpropanol and Piperazine at CO

The degradation pathways of the nonproprietary solvent blend CESAR1, consisting of 3.0 M 2-amino-2-methylpropanol (AMP) and 1.5 M piperazine (PZ), were studied under oxidative and thermal stress ...
SciELO

DUAL PROMOTION OF Cu/ZnO CATALYSTS MODIFIED BY ACETYLACETONE PRECURSORS FOR CO 2 HYDROGENATION TO METHANOL

First, Cu II acetylacetonate and Zn II acetylacetonate were prepared by co-precipitating Cu(OH) 2 and Zn(OH) 2 with acetylacetonate, respectively. Then, as an example, take Cu: Zn = 6:3 (ratio of the ...
The New York Times

U.K. Announces Increase in Military Spending Ahead of Trump Meeting

Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who is set to meet with President Trump on Thursday, said he would increase British spending on defense to 2.5 percent of G.D.P. by 2027. By Stephen Castle and Mark ...
Wall Street Journal

U.S. GDP Grew 2.5% in 2024, but Slowed Slightly in Final Quarter

The U.S. economy grew last year at a solid clip, boosted by American consumers who just kept spending. U.S. gross domestic product—the value of all goods and services produced across the economy—grew ...
C&EN

Plastic production belches out over 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions

A study from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory finds that, in 2019, production of virgin plastic spewed about 2.24 billion metric tons (t) of carbon dioxide equivalent into the atmosphere, or 5.3% ...