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An economy needs government-financed investment, but DARPA is the way to do it?Project SyndicateEurope Needs a DARPA Dalia Marin | Chair of International Economics at the University of Munich and a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research.
Read More »Joel Achenbach — The Pentagon Wants to Create a Bioengineered Insect Army to “Protect Crops”
Critics fear it could become a bio-weapon.… The program, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has a warm and fuzzy name: 'Insect Allies'. But some critics find the whole thing creepy. A team of skeptical scientists and legal scholars published an article in the journal Science on Thursday arguing that the Insect Allies program opens a "Pandora's box" and involves technology that "may be widely perceived as an effort to develop biological agents for hostile...
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