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| 08.09.2025 | UK Age Verification Data Confirms What Critics Always Predicted: Mass Migration To Sketchier Sites | New data from the UK’s age verification rollout provides hard evidence of what internet governance experts have been warning about for years: these laws don’t protect children—they systematically drive users from regulated, compliant platfo... |
| 23.07.2025 | Africa: AI Chatbots Can Boost Public Health in Africa - Why Language Inclusion Matters | Language technologies like generative artificial intelligence (AI) hold significant potential for public health. From outbreak detection systems that scan global news in real time, to chatbots providing mental health support and conversatio... |
| 19.05.2025 | Вот сколько лет нужно, чтобы личность человека изменилась на 100% — ответ ученых | Многие считают, что личность человека не меняется с возрастом — будто она застывает навсегда, как портрет. Эта идея давно укоренилась и в повседневных разговорах, и даже в некоторых научных кругах. Ее часто подкрепляют поговорками вроде «Го... |
| 03.04.2025 | The Green Shift: How Plant-Based Foods Could Revitalize the US Economy | The winds of change are blowing through the American economy. A new study reveals that embracing plant-based foods could be the key to unlocking thousands of jobs and boosting economic growth. The research, conducted by BW Research Partners... |
| 02.04.2025 | Protein Shift: This One Change Could Create 70,000 Jobs in the US | 5 Mins Read Amid trade wars and a potential recession, the solution to a strong US economy could simply be on your plate.
Can growinf and eating more plants equal more jobs? That’s the central argument from a new report suggesting that the ... |
| 14.01.2025 | The Sound of Serenity: Olo's Innovative Approach to Mental Wellness | In a world buzzing with distractions, finding peace can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. Enter Olo, a Finnish startup that’s redefining mental wellness through sound. Forget traditional meditation apps that often leave users ... |
| 13.01.2025 | Tired of meditation? Olo's sound holograms offer a scientifically-backed alternative | Startup entrepreneurs wax lyrical about going to the ends of the earth to build a great product. Here's one that actually did.
The makers of Finnish mental health and wellness startup Olo travel the world to capture the richest sounds avail... |
| 13.01.2025 | Exploring AI Consciousness: A Social Science Framework | Share
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| 20.11.2024 | Depression, Anxiety, and Dread Spiking Among Trans People after the Election: “My country is no longer the same” | Post Election, 80% of Trans People Report Health Problems That Interfere With Daily Functioning
The political environment is now one of the lead social determinants of health for trans people.”
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| 03.10.2024 | Tesco, Sainsbury’s ‘Misled’ Consumers By Burning Most of the Soft Plastic They Pledged to Recycle | 7 Mins Read The take-back schemes run by UK supermarkets to recycle soft plastics have misled consumers, with 70% of this waste being burned instead, an investigation has found.
Tesco and Sainsbury’s – the UK’s two largest retailers – are b... |
| 05.09.2024 | First patient enrolled in a clinical trial to evaluate Brain+’ next generation cognitive training technology for Mild Cognitive Impairment | First patient enrolled in a clinical trial to evaluate Brain+’ next generation cognitive training technology for Mild Cognitive Impairment
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| 27.08.2024 | Africa: Children and the Internet - Helping Kids Navigate This Modern Minefield | The United States' most senior public health official, surgeon-general Vivek Murthy, believes social media platforms should come with warning labels. The United Nations' education, science and culture agency says smartphones should be banne... |
| 20.08.2024 | How accurate are wearable fitness trackers? Less than you might think | Enlarge
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Back in 2010, Gary Wolf, then the editor of Wired magazine, delivered a TED talk in Cannes called “the quantified self.” It was about what he termed a “new fad” among tech enthusiasts. These early ado... |
| 09.08.2024 | Как на самом деле определять автора с помощью компьютера? | Как делается атрибуция?
Атрибуция — определение авторства — имеет много применений как в науке, так и в приземленных задачах, например, в судебной практике. Ниже мы будем говорить о текстовой атрибуции, и иногда от того, кто автор текста, з... |
| 09.07.2024 | Ученые создали классификацию видов прокрастинации и рассказали, как с ней бороться | Прокрастинация, хоть и сознательное, но пагубное откладывание выполнения задач, имеет множество форм. Саити Чеболу из Института биологической кибернетики имени Макса Планка использовала точную статистическую модель, чтобы понять различные п... |
| 25.06.2024 | Искусство мозговых волн. Как ученые визуализируют вызванные потенциалы: результаты опроса | Меня зовут Владимир Михеев, я работаю в лаборатории Вычислительных когнитивных наук Университета Штутгарта, Германия. Мы разрабатываем библиотеки для анализа, симуляции и визуализации ЭЭГ данных на языке Julia под зонтичным брендом Unfold. ... |
| 09.06.2024 | The AI paradox: Path to utopia or dystopia? | VB Transform 2024 returns this July! Over 400 enterprise leaders will gather in San Francisco from July 9-11 to dive into the advancement of GenAI strategies and engaging in thought-provoking discussions within the community. Find out how y... |
| 04.06.2024 | Elemind’s neurotech headband puts you to sleep when you want | GamesBeat is excited to partner with Lil Snack to have customized games just for our audience! We know as gamers ourselves, this is an exciting way to engage through play with the GamesBeat content you have already come to love. Start playi... |
| 16.05.2024 | Over Two Dozen Labor Unions, Civil Rights Groups, and Public Interest Advocates Endorse New York’s BOT Act | (ALBANY, NY) – Today, a coalition of more than two dozen organizations announced support for New York Senate Bill 7623/Assembly Bill A.9315, the Bossware and Oppressive Technologies (BOT) Act. This bill, sponsored by Senator Brad Hoylman-Si... |
| 18.04.2024 | Africa: Understanding AI Outputs - Study Shows Pro-Western Cultural Bias in the Way AI Decisions Are Explained | Humans are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to inform decisions about our lives. AI is, for instance, helping to make hiring choices and offer medical diagnoses.
If you were affected, you might want an explanation of why an A... |
| 04.04.2024 | Размышления о высококачественных данных, собранных людьми
Эксперты-классификаторы ↔ качество данных
Качество данных ↔ обучение модели
Источники... | Высококачественные данные — это «топливо» для современных моделей глубокого обучения. Большая часть данных, размеченных под конкретные задачи, создается живыми людьми — аннотаторами, которые занимаются классификацией или проводят RLHF-разме... |
| 04.03.2024 | Understanding and Addressing the Surge of Chronic Absenteeism | The national average rate of chronic absenteeism in K-12 schools has significantly increased in recent years. According to data from the U.S. Department of Education, nearly 14.7 million students, or 29.7 percent of the student population, ... |
| 06.02.2024 | Elemind raises $12M for neurotech wearable that can help your brain and let you sleep better | Elemind, a neurotechnology startup founded by leading neuroscientists, medical doctors, and entrepreneurs, has raised $12 million in funding.
Emerging from stealth today, the company said it is developing an innovative AI-enhanced neurotech... |
| 22.01.2024 | Counter Strike raked in nearly $1 billion in 2023 by from randomized loot boxes | Tech Counter Strike raked in nearly $1 billion in 2023 by from randomized loot boxes
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| 27.11.2023 | Most clinical trials run in Canada failed to take basic steps toward transparency, analysis finds | Just 3% of more than 3,700 studies run exclusively in Canada over a recent 10-year period were registered prospectively, reported results, and published the findings, underscoring ongoing concerns about clinical trial transparency, accordin... |
| 14.11.2023 | People think white AI-generated faces are more real than actual photos, study says | Enlarge / Eight images used in the study; four of them are synthetic. Can you tell which ones? (Answers at bottom of the article.)
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| 31.10.2023 | Community Notes Is A Useful Tool For Some Things… But Not As A Full Replacement For Trust & Safety | When Twitter first launched what it called “Birdwatch,” I was hopeful that it would turn into a useful alternative approach to helping with trust & safety/content moderation questions, but I noted that there were many open questions, in... |
| 12.09.2023 | Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA): Why More Is Not Always Better | Dana D’Ambrosio, M.S., BCBA, LBA, Director, Clinical Development at RethinkFutures
In a society where so many want more—more money, more time off, more adventure—few stop to question the logic of insatiably wanting “more.” Perhaps, no place... |
| 07.09.2023 | История систем распознавания лиц: от Вуди Бледсо до нейронной сети Косински | К сожалению, как показывает мировая история, война — самый эффективный двигатель прогресса. Направляя неограниченное количество ресурсов на разработку новых технических устройств, она выводит технологические и исследовательские изыскания во... |
| 31.07.2023 | How extreme heat hits America's hungry | Some Americans are being hit harder than others by the extreme heat wave baking swaths of the country because they can't get enough to eat or drink.
The big picture: Food-insecure households are among the most at risk of health and financia... |
| 12.07.2023 | Why New Orleans has no lesbian bars | New Orleans is home to one of the largest concentrations of LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. with 4.7% of the adult population identifying as members of the community. And yet, it has no brick-and-mortar lesbian bars.
It does, however, have a thri... |
| 05.07.2023 | Bloomington's lesbian bar The Back Door last of its kind in Indiana | It's a Wednesday, which means one thing at The Back Door, Indiana's only lesbian bar: Open stage — an open mic night, but for drag.
Why it matters: Performers say the bar is a special place where everyone is truly welcome in a state where i... |
| 30.06.2023 | Why finding a lesbian bar near you is almost impossible | Data: SOCARXIV; Chart: Tory Lysik/Axios Visuals
The owner of Arizona's last lesbian bar, one of less than 30 left in the U.S., manages to keep her doors open every holiday despite fending off threats to the business over the years.
"St... |
| 30.06.2023 | Despite rich LGBTQ+ history, Detroit doesn't have a single lesbian bar | Data: SOCARXIV; Chart: Tory Lysik/Axios Visuals
Dasia Werts feels called to action when thinking about the estimated fewer than 30 lesbian bars left in the U.S. — and zero in Detroit.
"We need a space where we can come in and feel like... |
| 28.06.2023 | This Radically Simple Solution Helps Students Feel Like They Belong in School | Everyone has a memory about feeling lost on the first day of school — figuratively or literally. Whether it’s trying to find your first-ever locker at the start of middle school or stepping onto a giant college campus for the first day of c... |
| 23.06.2023 | В командах с хорошей продуктивностью выкладываются не более чем на 85% | Хотя некоторые компании и предпринимают подобные попытки, современную культуру выгорания не исправишь приложением для здорового образа жизни. Для этого потребуется изменение культуры в организациях и отношения к проблеме у руководства.
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| 22.06.2023 | The cult of Emily Oster | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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Emily Oster is sitting in the back of a car, checking her Garmin watch as we lurch through rush-hour traffic toward the Holland ... |
| 20.06.2023 | Finding Language Models in Influence Operations | With the 2024 election campaign around the corner and public interest in artificial intelligence (AI) at fever pitch, policymakers, business leaders, and researchers have voiced concern about AI-enabled influence operations interfering in t... |
| 02.06.2023 | New Reports Suggest Support for Reducing Rodenticide Use | SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, June 2, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- Research organization Rethink Priorities has released new reports revealing the hidden costs of using rodenticides to combat rodents in the U.S. The reports highlig... |
| 02.06.2023 | Media’s ‘Missed Steak’: The Underrepresentation Of Livestock’s Climate Impact | 3 Mins Read A mere 7 percent of climate-related articles referenced livestock farming and its effects on climate change were scarcely discussed, says a new report.
There is a persistent gap between the conclusions of scientific research and... |
| 05.05.2023 | Harnessing Technology and Sustainability: Chicken Camp Revolutionizes the Egg Industry | Percentage of hens in cage-free housing from December 2007 to February 2021. Data available at https://osf.io/z2gxn/
Chicken Camp showcased at the manufacturing facility, designed to accommodate 500 hens.
Aerial view of Chicken Camp fully d... |
| 04.04.2023 | Highschool Startup Begins User Testing of an Instant and Mobile Test for Early Detection of Neurodegeneration. | Vytal.ai begins user testing for NeurEye, a 30-second test for ocular biometrics indicative of neurodegenerative disease viable on any smartphone. MCLEAN, VA, UNITED STATES, April 4, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- After a rapid but thorough deve... |
| 09.03.2023 | As Safety Threats Rise in Schools, Could SEL Programs Help? | Schools are becoming increasingly unsafe for our nation’s students — physically, socially and emotionally. American youth are in crisis.
According to one method of defining and tracking gun violence, compiled by The Washington Post, nearly ... |
| 24.02.2023 | Младенцы против ИИ: оценка и сравнение психологии здравого смысла | Любопытство ученых уступает только любопытству детей. Когда ребенок начинает говорить, это большая радость для родителей. Когда же гугу-гага заменяется на вполне вразумительную речь, то поток вопросов становится практически нескончаемым. Но... |
| 16.02.2023 | ChatGPT is a robot con artist, and we’re suckers for trusting it | Redeem now
A few days after Google and Microsoft announced they'd be delivering search results generated by chatbots — artificially intelligent software capable of producing uncannily human-sounding prose — I fretted that our new AI helpers... |
| 16.02.2023 | ChatGPT is a robot con artist, and we’re suckers for trusting it | A few days after Google and Microsoft announced they'd be delivering search results generated by chatbots — artificially intelligent software capable of producing uncannily human-sounding prose — I fretted that our new AI helpers are not to... |
| 28.01.2023 | Darkness To Light Announces April Release Of The New Stewards Of Children® Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Training | CHARLESTON, S.C. (PRWEB) January 28, 2023
Darkness to Light, a national not-for-profit leader in the prevention of child sexual abuse, announced today the April release of the much-anticipated update to the award-winning Stewards of Childre... |
| 06.12.2022 | Датировка звукозаписи по гулу в энергосети | Сравнение колебания частоты тока в целевом сигнале (target) и референсной базе данных (ref) относительно несущей частоты 50 Гц с помощью программы enf-matching, источник
В современную эпоху очень важно иметь инструменты, которые позволяют т... |
| 30.10.2022 | Jair Bolsonaro has been compared to Donald Trump, and he certainly mirrors Bolsonaro’s United States’ buddy’s approach to gender issues | Share
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It’s a bustling financial center that is home to more than 12 million inhabitants. The city is the largest city in the Americas as well as the southern and western hemispheres.
It’s the biggest city that is Por... |
| 26.10.2022 | #3 Нейронные сети для начинающих. Работа с изображениями в OpenCV. Алгоритм Canny Edge Detector | Здесь должна быть шутка
Сегодня я хочу представить вам третью статью из серии «Нейронные сети для начинающих». Мы научимся обрабатывать изображения и сохранять результаты в отдельные файлы. Вот небольшой список задач, которые будут разобран... |
| 19.10.2022 | Запахи в VR: обонятельный дисплей для виртуальной реальности | Виртуальная реальность стала вполне реальной в современном мире, уж простите за каламбур. Когда-то эта технология считалась научной фантастикой, но сейчас любой, имеющий достаточно средств, может приобрести себе развлекательную систему VR (... |
| 17.10.2022 | Companies are being forced to reveal what a job pays. It’s a start. | You wouldn’t rent an apartment or even buy a pair of jeans online without knowing the price. Soon, many Americans won’t search for a job without knowing what it pays, either.
A series of local and state laws, both newly adopted and soon to ... |
| 13.10.2022 | Swedish Scientists Take Gaming to Next Level by Adding 'Sense of Smell' | Joaquin Victor Tacla, Tech Times 13 October 2022, 11:10 pm
The idea of incorporating "smell-o-vision" into movies or TV shows has been pursued by innovators for many years. But now, Swedish scientists have taken gaming to the next... |
| 09.08.2022 | USA vs Germany Live Score, Time, date, and Venue – IIHF World Juniors Day 1 | Share
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On Tuesday, August 9, the 2022 IIHF World U20 Championship (also known as the World Juniors), will begin. Ten teams will compete to win the right of being crowned gold medalists. North American viewers will tun... |
| 30.06.2022 | Health
Health | CU Boulder study: Nationwide abortion ban would increase maternal death rate by 24% | Just days after the Supreme Court ruled on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health and overturned Roe v. Wade, new research from CU Boulder‘s Institute of Behavioral Science has shown that a national abortion ban would cause a 24% overall increase ... |
| 17.05.2022 | Японские ученые выяснили, что кошки различают клички друг друга и имена хозяев | Ученые из Токийского университета опубликовали исследование, согласно которому домашние кошки различают имена друг друга и членов семьи хозяина. Представитель исследовательской группы заявил, что представления людей о поведении кошек могут ... |
| 08.05.2022 | Я умею работать в команде: почему эта фраза всех бесит и что она на самом деле означает | Разбираемся, почему эту фразу любят работодатели, какой смысл вкладывают в эти загадочные слова и существует ли предрасположенность к командной работе.
В 2021 году британская рекрутинговая компания Hays провела исследование, которое показал... |
| 02.02.2022 | Does Startup Culture Encourage Misconduct? | SAN JOSE, CA - JANUARY 3: Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes (2nd L) walks with her ... [+] partner Billy Evans (L), her mother Noel Holmes and a lawyer as they leave the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building on January 3, 2022 i... |
| 26.01.2022 | Буба или кики: эффект, объединяющий народы | Планета Земля богата не только разнообразной флорой и фауной, но и культурами, народностями и языками. По данным 2020 года в мире насчитывается порядка 7139 языков. Какие-то из них очень похожи, так как относятся к одному семейству, какие-т... |
| 20.01.2022 | Is vaccination the silver bullet for keeping schools open? | Long-term, nationwide school closures during the COVID-19 crisis have resulted in significant learning losses among the world's children and have widened existing educational inequalities.
In 2020-2021, students in Europe and Central Asia l... |
| 19.01.2022 | Biden administration to give out 400 million free N95 masks | The Biden administration is planning to give out 400 million free N95 masks to Americans in the coming weeks, supplied from the country's strategic stockpile as the nation is facing a record surge in COVID-19 cases fueled by the Omicron var... |
| 13.01.2022 | Mimecast : Teaching Good Security Behaviors with Seinfeld | A recent survey of security awareness training programs found that users view the content as overwhelmingly tedious. "Get a red-hot poker and open up my eyes, it's so boring" was one of the more expressive remarks made by responde... |
| 23.11.2021 | Zero2.5 natural fiber air ionizers inactivate 99.998% of COVID-19 virus, independent test shows | SINGAPORE, Nov. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- As of May 2021, the World Health Organization has officially recognized aerosolized particles as a mode of transmission for COVID-19.
Zero2.5 Natural Fiber Air Ionizer Series - CF4000 and the derivat... |
| 08.11.2021 | What's the Latest Research in Development Economics? A Roundup from NEUDC 2021 | Email
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| 08.09.2021 | Improving Critical Thinking May Take Practice | A researcher tested a new weight loss supplement. She gave it to 200 overweight adults and discovered that their average weight, as measured by a precise weight scale, declined after two months of taking the supplement. She concluded that t... |
| 30.08.2021 | Doctors are refusing to take out IUDs, so people are pulling them out at home – and posting how-to videos on TikTok and YouTube | Tieesha Essex, a social-service specialist and YouTuber in Georgia, said her provider wouldn’t take out her IUD unless she agreed to go on another form of contraception. YouTube/Tieesha Essex
IUDs are a form of long-acting, reversible birth... |
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| 30.07.2021 | 45% of Republicans support a universal vaccine mandate, as do a strong majority of Americans, a new poll shows | Rally goers hold signs protesting vaccines at the ‘World Wide Rally for Freedom’, an anti-mask and anti-vaccine rally, at the State House in Concord, New Hampshire, May 15, 2021. JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images
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| 15.04.2021 | COVID-19 itself could cause blood clots much more often than vaccines, data shows, as regulators wrestle with pausing rollouts | A woman receives a dose of COVID-19 vaccine in Los Angeles, California, on December 17. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
Experts at the University of Oxford noted the relative risks of blood clots amid debate over vaccines.
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| 02.04.2021 | The Impact of COVID-19 on Education – Recommendations and Opportunities for Ukraine | School closures due to COVID-19 have brought significant disruptions to education across Europe. Emerging evidence from some of the region's highest-income countries indicate that the pandemic is giving rise to learning losses and increases... |
| 08.03.2021 | Study: Seafood’s response to COVID-19 can pave the way for future resilience | The impacts of COVID-19 on the globalized seafood sector may offer crucial lessons for making the industry more resilient and capable of minimizing economic threats to food and nutrition security, seafood-based livelihoods, and local econom... |
| 22.02.2021 | Avoiding Gender Disparity in Remote Work | February 22, 2021 4 min read
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Many employers have found to their surprise that remote work offers productivity and savings. Why return to the office, and continue paying that pri... |
| 03.02.2021 | Coronavirus Hasn't Lead To The Baby Boom That Was Anticipated, According To A New Study | While some people anticipated a baby boom, one organization's estimates 300,000 fewer babies to be ... [+] born.getty |
| 11.01.2021 | Outlandish Stanford facial recognition study claims there are links between facial features and political orientation | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
A paper published today in the journal Scientific... |
| 11.01.2021 | Outlandish Stanford facial recognition study claims there are links between facial features and political orientation | A paper published today in the journal Scientific Reports by controversial Stanford-affiliated researcher Michal Kosinski claims to show that facial recognition algorithms can expose people’s political views from their social media profiles... |
| 24.12.2020 | An AI reporter’s favorite books of 2020 | The older I get, the more I wish I could stop time so I could read more books. Books that earn my time and attention are those that promise to enrich me as a person and deepen my understanding of AI for the work I do as senior AI staff writ... |
| 24.12.2020 | An AI reporter’s favorite books of 2020 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The older I get, the more I wish I could stop time so I could read more books. Books that earn my time and attention are those that pro... |
| 21.12.2020 | How To Be Planful To Improve Your Success With Goals | I use science—neuroscience, behavior change & lean communications®—to help leaders thrive in our VUCA world. www.connectconsultinggroup.com |
| 13.12.2020 | Can We Really Compare Covid-19 School Closures To Life Expectancy? | Student video conference e-learning with teacher on computer in living room at home.getty |
| 30.10.2020 | Could Low Doses Of Radiation Raise COVID-19 Survival Rates? | Most discussions about the COVID-19 global pandemic, caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, involve how to prevent spreading of the disease, as they should be. |
| 26.10.2020 | Let’s Make Math Education Relevant for Real Life | Over a decade ago, I learned about a pioneering course at Cabrillo College in California. In it, students collected survey data in their neighborhoods on issues such as youth gangs or discrimination against immigrants, learned statistical m... |
| 15.10.2020 | How To Become A Scientist And Help Make Your Science Matter | When I was a graduate student I read academic career books and resources to try to figure out if academia or some other nonacademic path was the right fit for me. Now as a professor who is responsible for training graduate students, I have ... |
| 30.09.2020 | Poor Mental Health For Executives Isn’t Just A Work-Life Balance Issue | Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Supporting Today’s Workforce” |
| 13.07.2020 | How The Pandemic Is Negatively Impacting Women More Than Men, And What Has To Change | Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Today’s True Leadership” |
| 29.06.2020 | You’re More Racist Than You Think: How Your Mental Biases Perpetuate Racism And How To Fix Them | Business cartoon showing six identical white businessmen in a meeting. One says, "Diversity is ... [+] good. Pass it down."Getty |
| 17.06.2020 | The Scientist Who Predicted 2020's Political Unrest On What Comes Next | In 2012, VICE published an article titled, "2012 Is Bullshit; 2020 Is When We'll Really Be in Trouble". That headline was fairly prophetic: while 2012 saw the embers of the Arab Spring uprisings and quaint fears of a foretold apoc... |
| 04.06.2020 | Your boss wants you to take a Covid-19 test and track your symptoms. There’s software for that | As more employers reopen their offices, stores, and warehouses, a growing number of health tech companies are pitching smartphone apps and other tools to help them bring employees back to work safely in the Covid-19 era.
The tools go far be... |
| 02.06.2020 | What motivates innovative entrepreneurs: Money or altruism? | Hala Hanna Contributor
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In today’s new world completely engulfed by COVID-19, all sorts of innovations are emerging to help... |
| 28.05.2020 | Challenge trials can speed development of a Covid-19 vaccine. Planning for them needs to start now | Human challenge trials, also known as controlled human infection models, are an essential tool for developing new vaccines. But unless we start preparing now for Covid-19 challenge trials by quickly manufacturing an unadulterated version of... |
| 21.05.2020 | Wink Blinks: But Is Coronavirus Killing The Cloud? | A fortnight after Wink announced it would be terminating their free cloud platform in favour of a paid service, they’ve given users of their home automation products a last minute reprieve an extended the free platform for an indefinite per... |
| 23.04.2020 | Can a Residential College Sell an Online Experience in a Crisis? | With financial losses mounting the longer campuses are closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, securing tuition dollars for next academic year is a top priority for colleges.
That may be difficult. Students and their families who have experien... |
| 14.04.2020 | Family Ties Are Precious In Italy, But Are They To Blame For The Coronavirus Spread? | A family toasts as it prepares to celebrate Easter Monday even in this period when Coronavirus ... [+] (COVID-19) affects the whole world. They are in the family and therefore do not use masks and gloves to protect themselves from the virus... |
| 31.01.2020 | Preprints can fill a void in times of rapidly changing science | The rapid emergence in China of 2019-nCoV, a novel coronavirus, and its spread beyond its borders highlights the need for rapid scientific communication to better characterize transmissibility patterns, contagiousness, and illnesses and dea... |
| 14.01.2020 | The last decade showed how social media could topple governments and make social change — and it's only getting crazier from here | Protesters chant during Arab Spring protests in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, in May 2011. Flickr/Sallam
The Arab Spring kicked off a decade in which technology and social media would play a key role in powering social movements and bringing ... |
| 31.10.2019 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Rebel Scum Alliance | I talk about the photographs of Congresswoman Katie Hill and whether the rush to portray her as a victim of revenge porn raises questions about revenge porn laws themselves. Paul Rosenzweig, emboldened by twin tweets – from President Trump ... |
| 21.06.2019 | Research Posters Are a Staple of Academic Conferences. Could a New Design Speed Discovery? | Scholars around the world share their latest research findings with a decidedly low-tech ritual: printing a 48-inch by 36-inch poster densely packed with charts and graphs, and accompanied by blocks of text describing their research hypothe... |
| 21.11.2018 | Report Explores How to “Repower” Scotland’s Windfarms | The use of low-cost, green energy is increasing in Scotland, with a recent report from WWF Scotland highlighting the benefits of wind power. However, ensuring the nation’s green energy infrastructure is adequately maintained could be a key ... |
| 12.09.2017 | Researchers face backlash from LGBTQ groups over AI study | More On: lgbtq
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