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A Bold Solution To Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, Social Injustice -- Oregon State University
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Oregon State University Jan. 9, 2024 CORVALLIS, Ore. – An international team of scientists led by Oregon State University researchers has used a novel 500-year dataset to ...
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How To Maintain A Healthy Gut Microbiome In 2024 -- Rosie Young, Mariam Gamal El-Din and Yang Yue, The Conversation
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain by Rosie Young, Mariam Gamal El-Din and Yang Yue, The Conversation We all know by now that the pillars of a healthy lifestyle are regular exercise, eating enough ...
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AI Winter Coming In 2024, Top Scientist Predicts -- Tom Hale, IFL Science
Large language models were all the rage in 2023, but has their future been oversold? Image credit: Rose Pilkington/Google DeepMind/Unsplash. “Get your thick coats now. There may be yet another AI ...
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Journalism, Media, And Technology Trends And Predictions 2024 -- Nic Newman, Reuters Institute
Illustration created with AI-powered tool Dall-E. Nic Newman 9th January 2024 DOI: 10.60625/risj-0s9w-z770 Executive summary The disruptive power of artificial intelligence (AI) will sweep through ...
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Jan. 6 Was An Example Of Networked Incitement − The Danger Of Political Violence Orchestrated Over Social Media -- Joan Donovan, The Conversation
U.S. Capitol Jan. 6, 2021. Brett Davis, Flickr Joan Donovan -- The Conversation Jan. 5, 2024 The shocking events of Jan. 6, 2021, signaled a major break from the nonviolent rallies that categorized ...
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AI Is Our 'Promethean Fire': Using It Wisely Means Knowing Its True Nature And Our Own Minds -- Randolph Grace, The Conversation
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Randolph Grace -- The Conversation Jan. 5, 2024 Future historians may well regard 2023 as a landmark in the advent of artificial intelligence. But whether that ...
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'Giant' Predator Worms More Than Half-A-Billion Years Old Discovered In North Greenland -- University of Bristol
Greenland. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain University of Bristol Jan. 3, 2024 Fossils of a new group of animal predators have been located in the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet fossil locality in ...
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Public Christian Schools? Leonard Leo’s Allies Advance A New Cause -- Heidi Przybyla, Politico
Vatican logoA tight-knit group of activists tied to Leo’s nonprofit network are rallying around an Oklahoma effort to create a public Catholic school. By Heidi Przybyla Dec. 29, 2023 Groups aligned ...
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GAZA LIVE BLOG: Israeli Army Shells Deir Al-Balah; Fierce Fighting In Khan Yunis; Qassam Strikes Tel Aviv; New Massacres throughout Gaza – DAY 87 -- Palestine Chronicle
The majority of Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes are women and children. (Photo: via Eye on Palestine) By Palestine Chronicle Staff Jan. 1, 2024 LIVE UPDATES The Israeli army has decided to ...
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Red Alert In Antarctica: Rapid, Dramatic Change Hits Climate Scientists Like A ‘Punch In The Guts’ -- Adam Morton and Graham Readfearn, The Guardian
Antarctic Peninsula. Research suggests that accelerated melting of ice shelves over the Amundsen Sea in west Antarctica is locked in and beyond human control for the rest of this century, even if ...
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The End of Apartheid -- U.S. State Department
Nelson Mandela at the Wash. D.C. Longworth building Oct. 4, 1994. Mandela's first trip to the United States. © John Mathew Smith 2001U.S. State Department Archive This information was released ...
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