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As seen in: The Daily Beast, Medium, The New York Times, New York Post, Thought Catalog, Guernica Mag, War is Boring
Covers:  Innovation, technology, gaming, science, defense, national security, Iraq & Middle East, East Africa, Syrian Civil War, North Africa, global conflict, cybersecurity, intelligence
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Mermaid Robot Helps Scientists Hunt for Sunken Treasure

Mermaid Robot Helps Scientists Hunt for Sunken Treasure

More than 330 meters below the surface of the Mediterranean Sea, OceanOneK, a humanoid submersible developed …

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This Aquatic Vehicle Is Rescuing Survivors in Ukraine

This Aquatic Vehicle Is Rescuing Survivors in Ukraine

Ukrainian mud has a special kind of stickiness to it. There's even a word for that time of the year when trav…

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Here's What the Metaverse Apocalypse Will Look Like

Here's What the Metaverse Apocalypse Will Look Like

Over 25 years of emptied servers remind us digital worlds have come and gone. Whether we like it or not, meta…

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Teaching a Medieval Russian Martial Art in a Flatiron Basement

Teaching a Medieval Russian Martial Art in a Flatiron Basement

The desert boot of the instructor weighed heavily on the sternum of a student lying on a thin layer of indust…

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Mitch Swenson: Postcards from Ukraine

Mitch Swenson: Postcards from Ukraine

Photos by Mitch Swenson Simferopol. March 16, 2014 Men in blank uniforms, their faces in masks, patrol Simfer…

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New Yorker's firsthand account of hell in Cairo

New Yorker's firsthand account of hell in Cairo

Swenson, 23, of the Lower East Side is a former student at up state Bard College who now ma jors in journalis…

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Sudan's model citizens

Sudan's model citizens

Her mother had fled. Her uncle would be arrested the next day. Eligha Ojok was not yet 12 years old, but she …

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Faces of the Free Syrian Army

Faces of the Free Syrian Army

by MITCH SWENSON The Syrian civil war is being waged by a complex mosaic of governments, rebel factions, civi…

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