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U.S. Company To Mine Asteroids Using High Tech Spaceships

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Asteroids in space (Creative Commons/Sweetie187)

Salomon Fuentes
Executive Producer

One company has an ambitious plan to bring minerals from asteroids back down to Earth.

iPhone 5 Hype Perpetuates Human Rights Violations

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Tin Ore, one of the four "conflict minerals" at the heart of this conflict.

Jonathan Stoller-Schoff
Contributor

Why are we continuing to ignore the greatest human rights crisis since World War II?

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