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| Sep 10, 2026 | Экономика личности: от рабства до ИИ | В прошлой статье мы остановились на вопросе: какой человек нужен, чтобы не сломался под тяжестью технологий, которые сам же создал?
Чистая психология здесь буксует. Человек слишком сложен, чтобы изучать его сознание в отрыве от практики и п... |
| Sep 3, 2026 | The Gentlemen Season 2: Drug Baron Eddie Lobbies Parliament to Keep His Drug Illegal | By Mark Rutherford
Published: Sep 03 2026, 6:05 AM EDT
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| Aug 24, 2026 | Fall books: Fiction takes the spotlight in bookstores during the midterm season | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Midterm election news will fill the headlines this fall, but, among book buyers, fiction will likely have top billing.
Former President Joe Bide... |
| Aug 17, 2026 | Римская империя: дороги и дома | Из атласа Itiner-e
Если верить мемам, многие мужчины удивительно часто думают о Римской империи. Этот факт удивляет женщин, но на самом деле его легко объяснить. Вся западная цивилизация формировалась под влиянием Рима. Архитектура, политик... |
| Aug 6, 2026 | Diarra From Detroit Season 2 Infiltrates Freemasons With Real Abolitionist History | By Shannon Harwood
Published: Aug 06 2026, 9:54 AM EDT
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| Aug 3, 2026 | Princeton University Press & Cashmere Sign Partnership to License Academic Content to Copyright Compliant AI Platforms | Agreement enables PUP to use Cashmere’s infrastructure as a gateway to AI platforms, ensuring integrity of copyright, citation and compensation to authors. PRINCETON, NJ, UNITED STATES, August 3, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Princeton Univers... |
| Jul 20, 2026 | Cyclops Came From Fossil Skulls: Science Behind Nolan’s $264M Odyssey Opening | By Maxwell Templeton
Published: Jul 20 2026, 3:43 PM EDT
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| Jul 14, 2026 | The East Palace: Korean Shamanism’s Bureaucratic Ghost Logic Arrives on Netflix | By Devin Culbertson
Published: Jul 14 2026, 3:34 PM EDT
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| Jul 10, 2026 | Теория мёртвой экономики | Вероятно, вам знакома теория мёртвого Интернета, гласящая, что бóльшая часть того, с чем мы сталкиваемся онлайн, сгенерировано ботами и для ботов, а роль людей редуцировалась до скукожившейся аудитории создаваемого машинами шума. В прошлом ... |
| Jun 4, 2026 | End of Oak Street Dinosaur Science: Why the Feathered Allosaurus Is Defensible | By William Chan
Published: Jun 04 2026, 09:58 AM EDT
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| Mar 30, 2026 | Engines of External Governance | Who are the pivotal actors and interests shaping corporate governance? Traditional accounts focus on shareholders, directors, and officers, and treat corporate governance as largely an intra-firm issue of power, incentives, and monitoring. ... |
| Mar 30, 2026 | 2026 Lionel Gelber Prize awarded to Francis Gavin for Thinking Historically: A Guide to Statecraft and Strategy | gelber.munkschool.utoronto.ca | @gelberprize | #GelberPrize
Thinking Historically: A Guide to Statecraft and Strategy (Yale University Press) selected as the best non-fiction book published in the English language on international affairs
T... |
| Jan 11, 2026 | ‘Memory manipulation is inevitable’: How rewriting memory in the lab might one day heal humans | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — We often think of memories like the contents of a museum: static exhibits that we view to understand the present and prepare for the future.
The ... |
| Dec 7, 2025 | Pentagon investigation of Sen. Mark Kelly revives Cold War persecution of Americans (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Gregory A. Daddis
In an unprecedented step, the Department of Defense announced online on Nov. 24, 2025, that it was reviewing statements by U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, a Democrat, who is a retired Na... |
| Dec 1, 2025 | South Africa: Machines Whisper Before They Scream - We Built an AI Model That Predicts Expensive Problems | In most industries, maintenance is a waiting game. Things are fixed when they break. But in the 21st century, an age defined by data and automation, that approach no longer makes sense. The solution could be predictive maintenance. This is ... |
| Nov 6, 2025 | Westchester Publishing Services and 2K/Denmark Announce Exclusive Partnership to Deliver Sustainable Typesetting® Solutions for Publishers | A new collaboration combining 2K/Denmark's innovative Sustainable Typesetting® solutions with Westchester Publishing Services' extensive editorial, production, and digital conversion expertise, empowers publishers who are working towards me... |
| Sep 27, 2025 | Systemic risk in the age of AI | People’s lives are more enmeshed with digital systems than ever before, increasing users’ vulnerability and insecurity. From data leaks like the 2017 Equifax data breach to the more recent cyberattack on British retailer Marks & Spencer... |
| Sep 2, 2025 | From Trump to TikTok: how digital platforms bend the rules of politics | Digital platforms have become the essential infrastructure of modern life. They power everything from our group chats to businesses, shopping, election campaigns and emergency coordination. They instantly connect us and continuously feed us... |
| Jul 20, 2025 | Is there any hope for the internet? (Opinion) | Algorithms and alienation
I explore these questions in my new book, “Attention and Alienation.”
In it, I explain how social media companies’ profits depend on users investing their time, creativity and emotions. Whether it’s spending hours ... |
| May 30, 2025 | New Research and Teaching Initiative to Map the Religious and Spiritual Infrastructure of the Future | This three-year, multi-faceted initiative aims to map the religious and spiritual infrastructure of the future, focusing on research, public engagement, and professional pipeline development.
Made possible by a $3.9 million grant from the T... |
| May 12, 2025 | The Democratic Dilemma: Searching for a New Identity | The Democratic Party stands at a crossroads. Once a bastion of liberalism, it now grapples with an identity crisis. The vibrant banner of FDR’s liberalism has faded. Today, Democrats lack a unifying symbol, a rallying cry. They are adrift i... |
| May 11, 2025 | Opinion: Kevin M. Schultz: FDR united Democrats under the banner of ‘liberalism.’ Today’s Democratic Party has nothing to put on its hat. | Republicans right now have strong tribal belonging that begins and ends with a single question: Do you support President Trump? They have a banner to march under: MAGA. And a song: “God Bless the U.S.A.” They live, laugh and love to own the... |
| Apr 1, 2025 | The Hidden Struggles of Africa's Data Workers: A Call for Change | In the shadows of the digital age, Africa's data workers toil. They are the unseen hands behind the algorithms, the silent voices in the tech revolution. Yet, their reality is far from glamorous. Job insecurity looms like a dark cloud. Temp... |
| Mar 31, 2025 | Africa's Data Workers Are Being Exploited By Foreign Tech Firms - 4 Ways to Protect Them | Data workers in Africa often have a hard time. They face job insecurities - including temporary contracts, low pay, arbitrary dismissal and worker surveillance - and alarming physical and psychological health risks. The consequences of thei... |
| Mar 20, 2025 | The Cold War Revisited: Sergey Radchenko's Award-Winning Exploration of Kremlin Ambitions | In a world where history often feels like a distant echo, Sergey Radchenko's "To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power" emerges as a clarion call. This book, awarded the prestigious 2025 Lionel Gelber Prize, i... |
| Mar 19, 2025 | 2025 Lionel Gelber Prize awarded to Sergey Radchenko for To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power | munkschool.utoronto.ca/gelber | @gelberprize | #GelberPrize
To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power (Cambridge University Press) selected as the best non-fiction book published in the English language on the subject of... |
| Feb 21, 2025 | The Profit Motive Behind Immigration Detention: A Deep Dive into Local Government Incentives | In the intricate web of U.S. immigration policy, local governments are playing a pivotal role. They are not just enforcers of federal law; they are also profit-seekers. The interplay between local jails and Immigration and Customs Enforceme... |
| Feb 21, 2025 | National Politics | ‘Perverse’ incentives: How local governments might cash in on Trump’s migrant detention | Cell room doors are seen at the Caroline Detention Facility in Bowling Green, Virginia, on August 13, 2018. (SAUL LOEB // AFP via Getty Images)
Trump’s plans will require building a massive nationwide infrastructure, including centers to de... |
| Dec 26, 2024 | Без компьютеров: как вычислители двигали науку вперед | Центр непрерывного образования
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Сегодня мы завершаем рассказ о людях-вычислителях, которые профессионально занимались математическими расчетами. В первой части мы увидели, как возникла эта профессия, а во ... |
| Dec 12, 2024 | Без компьютеров: как вычислители водили корабли и выигрывали войны | Центр непрерывного образования
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В первой части мы рассмотрели два вычислительных проекта, предпринятых в XVIII веке: предсказание времени возвращения кометы Галлея и создание логарифмических таблиц для дес... |
| Nov 28, 2024 | Без компьютеров: как люди-вычислители предсказали возвращение кометы | Центр непрерывного образования
факультет компьютерных наук НИУ ВШЭ
Вычислитель (расчетчик) — это человек, который профессионально занимается математическими расчетами. Эта профессия появилась в середине XVIII века и просуществовала два стол... |
| Nov 18, 2024 | The Political Pendulum: Understanding the Future of American Politics | American politics is a pendulum. It swings left, then right, and sometimes it pauses in the middle. The recent election results have sparked a flurry of predictions. Some see a new era of Republican dominance. Others predict doom for the De... |
| Nov 17, 2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Philip Klinkner: One election victory does not make a new era in American politics − here’s what history shows | By Philip Klinkner
According to The New York Times, “… a newly triumphant Republican president” is “once again in the headlines.”
What will it take to break “the present national divide, between the narrow but solid Republican majority and ... |
| Oct 20, 2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Jennifer Selin: Why FEMA’s disaster relief gets political − especially when hurricane season and election season collide
By Jennifer Selin | By Jennifer Selin
Rumors and lies about government responses to natural disasters are not new. Politics, misinformation and blame-shifting have long surrounded government response efforts.
When Hurricane Harvey hit Houston in 2017, for exam... |
| Jul 30, 2024 | Women in Crypto Earn More Than Men | Pantera Capital recently conducted the largest compensation survey in crypto, with 502 general survey participants. When we got the results we discovered something surprising: crypto, unlike almost every other industry we know of, pays wome... |
| Jun 1, 2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Rick LaRue: Will we ever amend the Constitution again? | Just over a decade later they were resoundingly proved wrong. The problems of unbridled capitalism and corrupt ascension to the Senate via state legislatures were rampant. They became so bad that a federal income tax (the 16th Amendment) an... |
| May 3, 2024 | Health | Mandatory reporting laws meant to protect children get another look | “This is designed to help individuals who are disproportionately impacted,” Villafuerte said. “I’m hoping it’s the combination of these efforts that could make a difference.”
Some critics worry that changes to the law could result in missed... |
| Apr 7, 2024 | Angus Deaton won a Nobel Prize in economics. Now he says he got it wrong on globalization. | Economy Angus Deaton won a Nobel Prize in economics. Now he says he got it wrong on globalization.
Juliana Kaplan
2024-04-07T09:27:01Z
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| Apr 4, 2024 | Remembering Rwanda | On 7 April, commemoration ceremonies will be held in Kigali and around the world to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide which occurred over a 100 day period from April to July in 1994. Looking back over three decades, wha... |
| Mar 22, 2024 | Anti-Trans Rhetoric Helps the Right Pivot to Gun Violence Myths, Sell Guns | Transgender people are more likely to be victims, rather than perpetrators, of gun violence. Despite the data, the increasing number of mass shootings and gun violence in the United States has been accompanied by an uptick in anti-trans nar... |
| Mar 8, 2024 | Flawed Democracy: The Math Behind US Presidential Primaries | The US presidential primary system is under scrutiny for its exclusionary nature, as highlighted by the dominance of Super Tuesday. The process, riddled with flawed mathematics, often results in nominees that do not align with the majority ... |
| Mar 3, 2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Ismar Volić: GOP primary elections use flawed math to pick nominees | By Ismar Volić
Republicans around the country are picking a nominee to run for president. However, their process — designed and run by the party, not government officials — is a mess of flawed mathematics that can end up delivering a result... |
| Feb 22, 2024 | How Mars ‘broke the link’ between business growth and carbon emissions | Decarbonization is high on just about every large company’s agenda. But how do you achieve it while still achieving growth?
One company that has untied that Gordian knot is Mars, the family-owned company most known for its eponymous snack b... |
| Jan 18, 2024 | Africa: Ai Weiwei Says Art That Can Be Replicated By AI Is 'Meaningless' - Philosopher Explains What That Means for the Future of Art | Ai Weiwei, China's most famous dissident and artist, has called art that can be easily replicated by artificial intelligence (AI) "meaningless". What I find most striking about this comment is how it manages to look both backwards... |
| Dec 23, 2023 | Live events became a status symbol in 2023 | Economy Live events became a status symbol in 2023
Juliana Kaplan
2023-12-23T10:47:01Z
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| Dec 12, 2023 | How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value | The year was 2010, and Michael Gibson found himself on the first day of a research job at a hedge fund run by the controversial billionaire Peter Thiel. Gibson had little experience in finance. His major had been philosophy, and he had near... |
| Nov 29, 2023 | Opinion Columnists | Opinion: Page Fortna: In Gaza conflict, words like ‘terrorism’ and ‘genocide’ are potent weapons. Definitions matter. | By Page Fortna
Since the Hamas attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, language is being used strategically in a contest over legitimacy in ways that blur important distinctions. Much of the heat — and none of the light — comes from a failure to disti... |
| Nov 24, 2023 | WeWork masqueraded as a tech company, but offices are places not platforms | Source: Shutterstock article-article-body
On November 6, the co-working firm WeWork filed for bankruptcy. WeWork, founded by Adam Neumann and Miguel McKelvey in 2010, had a simple business model: it signed long-term leases on urban building... |
| Nov 7, 2023 | I'm tired of people thinking of my twin and I are the same person. However, sometimes even I forget — once, I asked her whether she wanted me to pee for her. | Health I'm tired of people thinking of my twin and I are the same person. However, sometimes even I forget — once, I asked her whether she wanted me to pee for her.
Essay by Helena de Bres
2023-11-07T13:00:01Z
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| Oct 26, 2023 | Discovery that chimpanzees go through menopause challenges ‘grandmother hypothesis’ | Chimpanzees — they’re just like us.
Female chimps, it turns out, go through menopause, and go on to live long (and, one hopes, fulfilling) lives afterward. A new paper published today in Science describes the discovery of the onset of menop... |
| Oct 6, 2023 | Albert Einstein used to ponder these 5 mind-melting questions for fun. Can you figure them out? | Albert Einstein pondered very complex ideas but tried to make them accessible. Hulton Archive / Stringer / Getty Images
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| Oct 6, 2023 | College Athletes Get Way More Than A Slice Of The Admissions Pie | Sam Milanovich of the University of Pittsburgh Panthers jumps up with the basketball against their ... [+] game with the University of Fordham Rams.Bettmann Archive |
| Oct 3, 2023 | Americans Without College Degrees Live Shorter Lives, Brookings Study Finds | American with a college degree are living increasingly longer lives compared to those without a ... [+] degree, according to a new study,getty |
| Sep 3, 2023 | Commentary | Guest opinion: Jay L. Zagorsky: We have forgotten the true meaning of Labor Day | By Jay L. Zagorsky
Labor Day is a U.S. national holiday held the first Monday every September. Unlike most U.S. holidays, it is a strange celebration without rituals, except for shopping and barbecuing. For most people it simply marks the l... |
| Aug 10, 2023 | MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech fading from memory | Data: Pew Research Center; Chart: Axios Visuals
The percentage of Americans who say they've read or heard a great deal about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech decreases among younger generations of adults, ... |
| Aug 1, 2023 | The New Normal in Healthcare Marketing | Few industries are as complex today as healthcare. The pace of disruption is unrelenting as new entrants, new discoveries, and new technologies are emerging nearly every day. Category leaders are being challenged to deliver patient-first, s... |
| Jul 6, 2023 | When I got laid off, all I wanted was another job. Instead I felt pressured to say I wanted to spend more time with my kids. | Parenting When I got laid off, all I wanted was another job. Instead I felt pressured to say I wanted to spend more time with my kids.
Alice Gomstyn
2023-07-06T12:57:02Z
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| Jun 6, 2023 | How Housing Segregation Shaped America's 'Gayborhoods' | For much of the last century, the “American dream” has centered on homeownership by married, white families. Alongside explicitly racist policies like racial segregation enforced by redlining, banks and realtors routinely rejected applicati... |
| Apr 20, 2023 | Rational Security: The 'Catch More Flies with Shugerman' Edition | This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by law professor extraordinaire Jed Shugerman to talk over his controversial take on the New York district attorney's case against former President Trump, among other items in the week's nation... |
| Mar 14, 2023 | Digitizing the Battlefield: Using Social Media to Track U.S. Weapons in Ukraine | Since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, the United States has invested over $27 billion in security aid to support Ukrainian forces. This aid has included man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS), anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs), HI... |
| Mar 10, 2023 | A Not-So-Imperial Presidency | Since at least 1973, scholars of war powers have bemoaned an “imperial presidency” that is ready, willing, and able to utilize military force regardless of Congress’s wishes. Every cruise missile strike undertaken, every drone strike conduc... |
| Feb 13, 2023 | A Road Map For Action On Health Care Spending And Value: Part I – Administrative Waste And Inefficiencies | This is the first in a four-part series on the Health Affairs Council on Health Care Spending and Value’s newly released report, “A Road Map for Action.” Each piece will detail one of the four priority areas within the report, which provide... |
| Feb 11, 2023 | Good news about global warming: The public’s paying attention | How can the world forge the cooperation needed to manage climate change? Most answers to that question hinge on the challenge of enforcement. It is easy to dream up bold agreements but hard to make them stick.
Over the last decade, there ha... |
| Feb 11, 2023 | Exploring the Asian origins of global capitalism | In late 2022 the five-year ERC Advanced Grant CAPASIA, based at the EUI, unveiled its website, and the project team is busy planning the first scientific meetings. In an interview, History Professor Giorgio Riello and Senior Research Fellow... |
| Jan 24, 2023 | It’s time to retire ‘poor historian’ from clinicians’ vocabularies | Should we pity the “poor historian” — the individual or family member who can’t give a clear accounting of their illness or symptoms — or embrace them? They have important stories to offer their clinicians, but can’t tell them. Who is reall... |
| Jan 20, 2023 | Why state and local relationships matter to national prosperity: A case for economic collaboration | In February 2021, over 40,000 residents of the city of Jackson, Miss. lost access to clean running water for at least a month, following a historic winter storm that damaged an out-of-date and under-resourced infrastructure system. The mayo... |
| Jan 18, 2023 | Columbia University Names Nemat Shafik To Be Its Next President | Columbia University has selected Nemat Shafik to be its next president. She will assume office in ... [+] July. (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images |
| Jan 13, 2023 | Could Beijing Risk a Diversionary War Against Taiwan? | China’s deteriorating strategic situation and President Xi Jinping’s consolidation of power appears to raise the possibility that a desperate leadership might risk aggression against Taiwan. But Xi’s ascent to supreme power masks a far more... |
| Nov 30, 2022 | Digital Bioacoustics Now Assist Scientists Hear Nature's Hidden Sounds | Griffin Davis , Tech Times 30 November 2022, 08:11 am
Digital bioacoustics is now assisting scientists. These tiny recorders allow various experts to hear hidden sounds in nature.
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| Nov 11, 2022 | Around the halls: What’s happening at COP27 in Egypt? | At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, known as COP27, leaders from around the world are gathering to discuss solutions to climate change and global warming. Brookings experts explain what is on the agend... |
| Nov 6, 2022 | Great Power Competition and Internal Politics in Asia, Then and Now | Editor’s Note: As the U.S.-China rivalry increases, worries abound that a new Cold War will develop. For Asia, this concern is particularly ominous, as the Cold War there contributed to numerous bloody internal conflicts. Paul Staniland of ... |
| Oct 30, 2022 | How tech is helping us talk to animals | The world around us is vibrating with sounds we cannot hear. Bats chitter and babble in ultrasound; elephants rumble infrasonic secrets to each other; coral reefs are aquatic clubs, hopping with the cracks and hisses and clicks of marine li... |
| Oct 21, 2022 | House oversight of the executive branch—What did the 116th and 117th Congresses spend their time on? | With the 2022 midterm elections on the horizon, Democrats’ unified control of the House, Senate, and the presidency may be nearing its end. Investigations of the executive branch by House committees occur more often when the chamber is cont... |
| Oct 20, 2022 | Электромобили, которые мы забыли, или Выгода под флагом экологичности | Когда заходит речь об автомобилях, первый бренд, который сейчас приходит на ум людям — это «Тесла». Что поделать, как маркетолог Маск действительно хорош. Но на самом деле история электромобиля началась намного раньше, ещё в конце XIX века.... |
| Oct 16, 2022 | Wyoming's new land rush | Jackson, Wyoming is often called the Last of the Old West. Its cowboy culture runs so deep it even rides long on the morning cup of coffee. And while some of the best things in life here may be free, you pay a steep price to live in this va... |
| Oct 12, 2022 | MacArthur Foundation Announces 2022 ‘Genius Grants’ | The 2022 class of MacArthur Fellows has been announced. More than 75% of the 25 recipients work at ... [+] an American college or university, and several hold endowed chairs or professorships.getty |
| Oct 9, 2022 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Zen Dochterman: ‘Great resignation’? ‘Quiet quitting’? America’s anti-work movement has long cinematic history | By Zen Dochterman
A femme fatale who tries to con thousands through her lover’s insurance company. Jobless bikers on drug-fueled adventures in New Orleans. People smashing printers at work.
Watching movies like “Double Indemnity,” “Easy Rid... |
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| Aug 19, 2022 | The Metaverse Isn’t Here Yet, But It Already Has A Long History | Violent extremists could find the metaverse a useful recruiting and organizing tool – and a target-rich environment. D-Keine/E+ via Getty Images |
| Jun 20, 2022 | Hold science to higher standards on racism | Shortly before an 18-year-old white supremacist entered a supermarket in a Black neighborhood of Buffalo, N.Y., and shot 13 shoppers and employees with an assault rifle bearing a racist epithet, he posted an online diatribe. Other white nat... |
| May 30, 2022 | The positive side of UN peacekeeping missions in Africa | The positive side of UN peacekeeping missions in Africa: Image: Adobe stock
Media headlines often make it seem as if peacekeeping is not going well; they tend to highlight violence, displacement and abuse. The quantitative data, however, te... |
| May 4, 2022 | Streetfighters, Hooligans and Nazis: Inside Sweden's Most Notorious Underground Fight Club | King of the Streets hosts unsanctioned brawls at secret locations in Sweden and posts them on YouTube.
These events mix ultimate fighting with an increasingly emboldened alliance of soccer hooliganism and neo-Nazis.
Started in Gothenburg, S... |
| May 3, 2022 | Global health should not be determined by pharma investors and shareholders | What could go wrong when pharmaceutical company shareholders and investors shape the public health response to Covid-19?
Everything, of course, including perpetuating the pandemic with immense avoidable suffering and death. And that’s exact... |
| Apr 24, 2022 | How Emerging Technology Is Breaking Arms Control | Editor’s Note: New technologies are emerging at a dizzying pace, and arms control agreements cannot seem to keep up. My Brookings colleague Amy Nelson examines how the increased speed of technological change is creating holes in existing ar... |
| Mar 8, 2022 | What kind of leaders can set South Africa free | What kind of leaders can set South Africa free: Image: Adobe stock
Former South African president Thabo Mbeki recently painted a gloomy picture of the country and its prospects. He said the governing African National Congress (ANC), led by ... |
| Mar 8, 2022 | The Subversive Trilemma in Cyber Conflict and Beyond | In a Lawfare post, Jason Healey provides a thoughtful critique of my recently published theory on the “subversive trilemma.” The key argument I make (summarized here) is that cyber operations are instruments of subversion that hold great st... |
| Feb 23, 2022 | Научный прогресс ускорится, если ИИ начнёт анализировать данные в автономном режиме
Проклятие общественных иерархий
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Автономный ИИ
Самосборка и самоорганизация ИИ
ИИ превзойдёт человека в разработке новых вооружений... | Научно-технический прогресс — это магистраль, которая ведёт в фантастическое будущее с неизведанными возможностями. Но с какой скоростью мы помчимся по этой магистрали — зависит только от нас. Мы можем вообще развернуться и двинуть в обратн... |
| Feb 22, 2022 | The Lawfare Podcast: U.S. Intelligence with Amy Zegart | Last week, the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security and Lawfare hosted an event with Amy Zegart, a professor at Stanford University and one of the leading academic analysts of the intelligence commun... |
| Feb 20, 2022 | Building Iraqi Army Will to Fight to Prevent Another Disaster | Editor’s Note: As the United States draws down in the Middle East and seeks to counter Russia and China, it will rely heavily on partner military forces. Too often, however, U.S. efforts to train these forces have achieved little or at time... |
| Dec 29, 2021 | Deaths of despair: the unrecognized tragedy of working class immiseration | Given the socioeconomic effects of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, it should have come as no surprise that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported more than 100,000 drug overdose deaths during the 12-month period end... |
| Dec 14, 2021 | The history of the metal box that’s wrecking the supply chain | Behold the simple shipping container. It’s a large, steel box that can carry tens of thousands of pounds of cargo. It’s also stackable and designed to fit on ocean freight ships, trains, and even trucks. These containers have been an unnoti... |
| Nov 29, 2021 | The Lawfare Podcast: Timothy Frye on ‘Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia’ | Dominic Cruz Bustillos sat down with Timothy Frye, the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy within the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, editor of “Post-Soviet Affairs” and co-director of the Int... |
| Nov 12, 2021 | Ваш мозг — генетический DIY в реальном времени | Что это значит? Автор книги The Self-Assembling Brain, профессор Питер Хизингер, рассказывает, чему нейросетям стоило бы поучиться у биологического мозга, насколько назрел новый подход к искусственному интеллекту и как именно мозг собирает ... |
| Nov 10, 2021 | UPSC CSE: Choose Economics as optional only if you have interest in subject, says AIR 17 Sarthak Agrawal | I didn’t think much before choosing my optional subject for the Civil Services Examination, 2020. Holding a BA (Hons) from SRCC and an MPhil in Economics from Oxford, it was a no-brainer, not to add the fact that I was working as an economi... |
| Nov 5, 2021 | Enforcement Provisions in New National Security Reforms Packages | In the past several months, similar bipartisan reform packages have been introduced in the House and the Senate on war powers, national emergencies and arms sales. In July, Sens. Chris Murphy, Mike Lee and Bernie Sanders introduced the Nati... |
| Oct 27, 2021 | Lasting Damage To Workers And Regions From Expanded China Trade | A new report documents lasting damage to many workers and regions from expanded trade with China. getty |
| Oct 12, 2021 | Perpetual debt is already here | Pundits worldwide are debating what to do with all the public debt accumulated since the global financial crisis (GFC) and during the pandemic. The most extreme have called for central banks, which are engaged in fiscal quantitative easing ... |
| Sep 16, 2021 | Central banks and history: a troubled relationship | Barry Eichengreen
The Bank of England co-organised a 'History and Policy Making Conference' in late 2020. This guest post by Barry Eichengreen, Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California Berkley, is based o... |
| Sep 12, 2021 | Should we care about the lives of our kids’ kids’ kids’ kids’? | We live during a time of live, real-time culture. Telecasts, spontaneous tweetstorms, on-the-scene streams, rapid-response analysis, war rooms, Clubhouses, vlogging. We have to interact with the here and now, feel that frisson of action. It... |
