by P. W. Singer
8. BALLSTON NEIGHBORHOOD
1. National Weather Service, “1936 Flood Retrospective.” Accessed June 23, 2019. https://www.weather.gov/lwx/1936Flood.
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2. Floodmap.net, “Elevation of Washington, D.C., US Elevation Map, Topo, Contour.” Accessed March 12, 2019. http://www.floodmap.net/Elevation/ElevationMap/?gi=4140963.
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3. “View of the City of Washington in 1792, Showing Goose Creek (Tiber Creek) and James Creek (18??).” Wikipedia. Accessed July 25, 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_City_Canal#/media/File:View_of_the_city_of_Washington_in_1792.tif.
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4. Aaron Steckelberg, Philip Kennicott, Bonnie Berkowitz, and Denise Lu, “A 200-Year Transformation: How the Mall Became What It Is Today.” Washington Post, August 23, 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/lifestyle/the-evolution-of-the-national-mall/.
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5. Libby Nelson and Annah Hackett, “The Flood Map: Using NASA’s Data to Show the Devastating Impact of Global Warming on the World’s Coastlines.” SLIS Digital Humanities Project Toolkit 2015. https://sites.google.com/a/wisc.edu/slisdhtoolkit15/how-did-they-make-that/flood-map.
“Washington D.C. 100 Year Flood (FEMA Map).” ArcGIS, October 29, 2012. https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=639caddb19614293ba90ca09cf21c747.
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6. “Marine Corps Commercial: Toward the Sounds of Chaos.” YouTube, March 10, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYrBSTBHCS4.
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7. Interview by Peter W. Singer with water facility expert, Washington, DC, July 26, 2019.
See also Clean Rivers project (https://www.dcwatercom/cleanrivers) and Neil Augenstein, “Raw Sewage in DC Rivers Likely After Heavy Rain. But That Will Change.” WTOP, July 28, 2017. https://wtop.com/dc/2017/07/heavy-rain-raw-sewage-potomac-anacostia-rivers-likely/.
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9. THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
1. Flood image: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/93hmFYccNlg/maxresdefault.jpg.
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2. National Museum of American History, “Mister Rogers’ Sweater.” Smithsonian. https://www.si.edu/object/nmah_680637.
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3. Sarah Kessler, “AMAZON: This Company Built One of the World’s Most Efficient Warehouses by Embracing Chaos.” Quartz. Accessed July 23, 2019. https://classic.qz.com/perfect-company-2/1172282/this-company-built-one-of-the-worlds-most-efficient-warehouses-by-embracing-chaos/.
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4. Donovan Alexander, “New Self-Aware Robotic Arm Can Recognize and Repair Itself.” Interesting Engineering, February 3, 2019. https://interestingengineering.com/new-self-aware-robotic-arm-can-recognize-and-repair-itself.
Kalev Leetaru, “Will We Really Need Humans to Fix the Robots?” Forbes, April 25, 2019. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/04/25/will-we-really-need-humans-to-fix-the-robots/#36a8e4613673.
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5. Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near. New York: Penguin Books, 2006.
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6. Stefan Holtel, “From Computer to Centaur—Cognitive Tools Turn the Rules Upside Down.” KM World, January 30, 2015. https://www.kmworld.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=101525.
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7. Matthew Sadler and Natasha Regan. Game Changer: AlphaZero’s Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI. Alkmaar, The Netherlands: New in Chess, 2019. https://www.newinchess.com/en_US/game-changer.
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8. Dan Costa, “Garry Kasparov Says AI Can Make Us ‘More Human.’” PC Magazine, March 20, 2019. https://www.pcmag.com/article/367202/garry-kasparov-says-ai-can-make-us-more-human.
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9. Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself,” 1855. Available at https://whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1891/poems/27.
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10. Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Nick Bostrom, “Superintelligence.” Talks at Google. YouTube, September 22, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pywF6ZzsghI.
Joshua Gans, “AI and the Paperclip Problem.” VoxEU.org, June 10, 2018. https://voxeu.org/article/ai-and-paperclip-problem.
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10. BALLSTON NEIGHBORHOOD
1. David Canellis, “WATCH: Bitcoin ATM Showers London’s Bond Street Station in Cash Money.” TNW June 7, 2019. https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2019/06/07/bitcoin-atm-london-cash-money-notes-duffel-bag-cryptocurrency-bond-street/.
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2. Sesame Street—Little Jerry and The Monotones, “Sesame Street: Sad.” YouTube, September 19, 2011. Video, 2:39. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hBYDrBnMnc.
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3. Brian Trompeter, “Fairfax County to Pursue Autonomous-Vehicle Pilot Program in Merrifield.” InsideNoVa.com, February 21, 2019. http://www.insidenova.com/news/business/fairfax/fairfax-county-to-pursue-autonomous-vehicle-pilot-program-in-merrifield/article_723eca84-3535-11e9-88af-fbd43c377b55.html.
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4. Ben Fritz, “Startup Backed by Spielberg and Studios Seeks to Create VR Experiences for Malls.” Wall Street Journal, February 13, 2017. https://www.wsj.com/articles/startup-backed-by-spielberg-and-studios-seeks-to-create-vr-experiences-for-malls-1486990802.
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5. “John W. Gardner.” Wikipedia. Accessed June 15, 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_W._Gardner&oldid=901967935.
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6. “John Gardner: Engineer of the Great Society.” PBS. Accessed July 8, 2019. https://www.pbs.org/johngardner/chapters/4.html.
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7. Lily Hay Newman, “How to Make Your Amazon Echo and Google Home as Private as Possible.” Wired, April 11, 2019. https://www.wired.com/story/alexa-google-assistant-echo-smart-speaker-privacy-controls/.
Geoffrey A. Fowler, “Alexa Has Been Eavesdropping on You This Whole Time.” Washington Post, May 6, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/06/alexa-has-been-eavesdropping-you-this-whole-time/.
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8. Anne-Marie Slaughter, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.” The Atlantic, July/August 2012. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/why-women-still-cant-have-it-all/309020/.
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9. Larry Cooper, “How Casinos Use Facial Recognition Technology.” Cool Cat Casino. Accessed June 23, 2019. https://www.coolcat-casino.com/casino-news/how-casinos-use-facial-recognition-technology.php.
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10. Stephen Streng, Adulterating More Than Food: The Cyber Risk to Food Processing and Manufacturing. Food Protection and Defense Institute Report, University of Minnesota, September 2019. https://foodprotection.umn.edu/sites/foodprotection.umn.edu/files/fpdi-food-ics-cybersecurity-white-paper.pdf.
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11. Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don’t. New York: Penguin Books, 2015.
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12. Tech Insider, “This Sea-Craft Looks Like a Plane, Has a Car’s Engine, and Docks Like a Boat.” YouTube, March 9, 2018. Video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-sWokqiVHw.
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13. Jackson Barnett, “Pentagon Partners with Singapore to Develop AI for Disaster Response.” FedScoop, July 1, 2019. https://www.fedscoop.com/jaic-working-with-singapore-on-ai/.
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14. “The Fragile,” song by Nine Inch Nails. Accessed November 5, 2019. https://genius.com/Nine-inch-nails-the-fragile-lyrics.
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15. Sex Robots. Digital photograph, 467 x 374. Accessed June 26, 2019. https://img.scoop.it/8ls07MswihziRE4D5NB-gDl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9.
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16. Erin Brodwin, “Here’s the Personality Test Cambridge Analytica Had Facebook Users Take.” Business Insider, March 19, 2018. https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-personality-test-cambridge-analytica-data-trump-election-2018-3.
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17. David Yates, “I Mean, It’s Sort of Exciting, Isn’t It, Breaking the Rules?” From
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2007. https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/a787344e-30d1-435d-a975-e076338510c5.
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18. “Othala Rune.” Anti-Defamation League. Accessed June 26, 2019. https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/othala-rune.
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19. Henry Farrell, “The ‘Intellectual Dark Web,’ Explained.” Vox, May 10, 2018. https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/5/10/17338290/intellectual-dark-web-rogan-peterson-harris-times-weiss.
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20. Geoffrey A. Fowler, “First Look: Now Laptop Screens Fold, Too, with This ThinkPad from Lenovo.” Washington Post, May 13, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/13/first-look-now-laptop-screens-fold-too-with-this-thinkpad-lenovo/.
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11. FBI HOSTAGE RESCUE TEAM OPERATIONS CENTER
1. Malcolm Owen, “Apple Working on Force-Sensing Gloves for Gesture Controls.” AppleInsider, January 15, 2019. https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/01/15/apple-working-on-force-sensing-gloves-for-gesture-controls.
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2. “Built for Boys,” Blue Ridge School, 2015. https://www.blueridgeschool.com/.
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3. “Next Generation Squad Weapons (NGSW).” US Army Acquisition Support Center, 2019. https://asc.army.mil/web/portfolio-item/fws-cs-2/.
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4. Military Exoskeleton Suit. GIF, 632 x 268. Accessed June 26, 2019. https://66.media.tumblr.com/03838f53888dabb692ceaeb55b61af52/tumblr_nizd9ifMwV1tks6n9o1_1280.gif.
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5. The 500-Volt Shotgun. Photograph, 600 x 373. Accessed June 26, 2019. https://d1w116sruyx1mf.cloudfront.net/ee-assets/channels/cdd_default/130808image2.jpg.
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6. Patrick Tucker, “This Formula Predicts Soldier Firepower in 2050.” Defense One, September 17, 2019. https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2019/09/formula-predicts-soldier-firepower-2050/159931/.
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7. Kyle Mizokami, “This Russian Company Plans a Sniper Rifle That Can Fire Rounds at Mach 5.83.” Foxtrot Alpha, October 3, 2018. https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/this-russian-company-plans-a-sniper-rifle-that-can-fire-1829496377.
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8. Giancarlo Fiorella, “A Beginner’s Guide to Flight Tracking.” Bellingcat, October 15, 2019. https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/10/15/a-beginners-guide-to-flight-tracking/.
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9. Nigel Chiwaya, “Along the East Coast, Rainy Days, High Tides and Sea Rise Make Floods a Part of Life.” NBC, January 10, 2019. https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/news/east-coast-sea-level-rise-high-tides-flooding-ncna957241.
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10. Jennifer Kite-Powell, “How Sensors, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Agriculture.” Forbes, March 19, 2017. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferhicks/2017/03/19/how-sensors-robotics-and-artificial-intelligence-will-transform-agriculture/#69bfeb30384b.
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11. Zeo Kleinman, “Ocado Trials Fruit-picking Robot.” BBC, January 31, 2017. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38808925.
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12. “Strawberry Robots Forever.” @Mashable, July, 1, 2019. https://twitter.com/mashable/status/1145725499806760962.
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13. Janet Adamy and Paul Overberg, “Rural America Is the New ‘Inner City.’” Wall Street Journal, May 26, 2017. https://www.wsj.com/articles/rural-america-is-the-new-inner-city-1495817008.
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14. Alex Hern, “Stormfront: ‘Murder Capital of Internet’ Pulled Offline After Civil Rights Action.” The Guardian, August 29, 2017. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/29/stormfront-neo-nazi-hate-site-murder-internet-pulled-offline-web-com-civil-rights-action.
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15. Gunwerks, “Determining Wind Speed and Direction.” YouTube, January 24, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBdhWe-C4Co.
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16. “Industry Day for the Advanced Targeting and Lethality Automated System (ATLAS) Program—W909MY-19-R-C004.” Federal Contract Opportunity, February 11, 2019. https://govtribe.com/opportunity/federal-contract-opportunity/industry-day-for-the-advanced-targeting-and-lethality-automated-system-atlas-program-w909my19rc004.
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17. Peter W. Singer, Children at War. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520248762/children-at-war.
Michel Chossudovsky, “Military Training for Young Children at Ukraine’s ‘Neo-Nazi Summer Camp.’” Geopolitica.ru, September 2, 2015. https://www.geopolitica.ru/en/1158-military-training-for-young-children-at-ukraines-neo-nazi-summer-camp.html.
Ben Makuch and Mack Lamoureux, “Neo-Nazis Are Organizing Secretive Paramilitary Training Across America.” Vice, November 20, 2018. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3mexp/neo-nazis-are-organizing-secretive-paramilitary-training-across-america.
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18. Andrew Prokop, “The 2014 Controversy over Nevada Rancher Cliven Bundy, Explained.” Vox, May 14, 2015. https://www.vox.com/2014/8/14/18080508/nevada-rancher-cliven-bundy-explained.
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19. Sticky Foam Gun. Photograph, 460 x 318. Accessed June 26, 2019. https://futures.armyscitech.com/ex4/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/STICKY-FOAM-1_v2.jpg.
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20. Nick Hague and Alexei Ovchinin, “2 Astronauts Safe after Soyuz Forced to Make Emergency Landing.” CBC, October 11, 2018. https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/soyuz-iss-incident-emergency-landing-1.4858238.
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21. “Artificial Intelligence: An Evangelical Statement of Principles.” The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, April 11, 2019. https://erlc.com/resource-library/statements/artificial-intelligence-an-evangelical-statement-of-principles.
Ruth Graham, “How Southern Baptists Are Grappling with Artificial Intelligence.” Slate, April 12, 2019. https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/southern-baptist-convention-artificial-intelligence-evangelical-statement-principles.html.
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22. “Federal Line of Duty Death Benefits (LODD).” FEDweek Forum & Knowledge Base, May 11, 2016. https://ask.fedweek.com/federal-government-policies/line-duty-death-benefits/.
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23. “This Is What Your Next MOPP Suit Could Look Like.” We Are The Mighty, September 19, 2016. https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/this-is-what-your-next-mopp-suit-could-look-like.
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24. Kathryn Harkup, “Chlorine: The Gas of War Crimes.” The Guardian (blog), September 16, 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2016/sep/16/chlorine-the-gas-of-war-crimes.
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25. Michael Carpenter, “Russia Is Co-opting Angry Young Men.” The Atlantic, August 29, 2018. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/08/russia-is-co-opting-angry-young-men/568741/.
Bill Gertz, “Russian Group Offered Paramilitary Training to U.S. Neo-Nazis.” RealClearDefense (RCD), April 6, 2019. https://www.realcleardefense.com/2019/04/06/russian_group_offered_paramilitary_training_to_us_neo-nazis_307443.html.
Kevin Poulsen, “Trump’s New Favorite Network Embraces Russian Propaganda.” Daily Beast, May 3, 2019. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-favorite-network-oann-embraces-russian-propaganda.
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26. National Park Service, “Baltimore-Washington Parkway.” July 31, 2017. https://www.nps.gov/bawa/index.htm.
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27. Maya Oppenheim, “Neo-Nazis Are Taking Genetic Tests and Are Deeply Upset by the Results.” The Independent, August 18, 2017. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/neo-nazis-genetic-tests-white-supremacist-stormfront-racial-ethnic-african-jewish-asian-dna-a7899746.html.
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28. US Marshals Service, “Witness Security Program.” Accessed June 25, 2019. https://www.usmarshals.gov/witsec/.
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29. Joel Achenbach, “Two Mass Killings a World Apart Share a Common Theme: ‘Ecofascism.’” Washington Post, August 18, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/two-mass-mur
ders-a-world-apart-share-a-common-theme-ecofascism/2019/08/18/0079a676-bec4-11e9-b873-63ace636af08_story.html.
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12. FBI DOMESTIC SPECIAL DETENTION FACILITY
1. Kashmir Hill, “Jamming GPS Signals Is Illegal, Dangerous, Cheap, and Easy.” Gizmodo, July 24, 2017. https://gizmodo.com/jamming-gps-signals-is-illegal-dangerous-cheap-and-e-1796778955.
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2. Robert S. Mueller, “Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election: Volume I of II.” Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, March 2019. https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf.
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3. Quint Forgey, “McCabe: ‘I Was Fired Because I Opened a Case Against the President.’” Politico, February 17, 2019. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/17/mccabe-fired-trump-fbi-1173596.
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4. James Vincent, “Welcome to the Automated Warehouse of the Future.” The Verge, May 8, 2018. https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/8/17331250/automated-warehouses-jobs-ocado-andover-amazon.
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5. “Bureau of Engraving and Printing.” Wikipedia. Accessed June 19, 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Engraving_and_Printing.
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6. Sabrina Stierwalt, “How Do You Estimate Crowd Size?” Everyday Einstein, January 25, 2017. https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/science/how-do-you-estimate-crowd-size.
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7. Dianna Cahn, “Senate Approves Global War on Terrorism Memorial in DC.” Military.com, August 4, 2017. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/08/04/senate-approves-global-war-terrorism-memorial-dc.html.
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8. Kevin Roose, “His 2020 Campaign Message: The Robots Are Coming.” New York Times, February 10, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/technology/his-2020-campaign-message-the-robots-are-coming.html.
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9. Howard M. Wasserman, “Argument Analysis: ‘Contempt of Cop’—Justices Search for Compromise Standard for First Amendment Retaliatory Arrests.” SCOTUSblog, November 27, 2018. https://www.scotusblog.com/2018/11/argument-analysis-contempt-of-cop-justices-search-for-compromise-standard-for-first-amendment-retaliatory-arrests/.
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10. William McPeak, “Weapons of War: The War Hammer.” Warfare History Network, November 20, 2018. https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/military-history/weapons-of-war-the-war-hammer/.