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Matt Huston at Psyche: Babies have plenty in common with each other – the crying, the crawling, the sleeping – but their own little personalities are on display too. One
Continue readingHow Babies’ and Children’s Temperament Varies Around the World
By Devika Rao at The Week: The sun is currently at solar maximum. This means that the celestial body is at its peak activity, releasing higher levels of radiation and
Continue readingGetting to the Red Planet Requires Planning and a Whole Lot of Knowledge
Toby Walsh at The Conversation: Google has rolled out its latest experimental search feature on Chrome, Firefox and the Google app browser to hundreds of millions of users. “AI Overviews”
at The Conversation‘s Curious Kids series: Many, many years ago dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Six-year-old Aga knows that a meteorite wiped them out… but could another meteorite bring them back?
Continue readingIf an Asteroid Hit Earth and All the Humans Died, Would the Dinosaurs Come Back?
J.D. Tuccille at the Reason: “Cash was once a staple in the economy, but it’s fast becoming a relic of the past,” according to an April report on Australia’s financial
Continue readingAustralians Abandon Physical Cash and the Freedom It Protects
How things were going for Pakistan during the period 1960 thru 1991 (30 years). And what happened over the next 30 years (1991 thru 2022). 3 graphs below–out of the
By Greenbarge Reporters: Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukayode, has said that corrupt political leaders have no tribe, religion but are bound together by their
Continue readingNigeria: ‘Corrupt Leaders Have No Tribe But United By Common Greed’
–The Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce (OICCI) has called for a ban on Rs5,000 banknotes to prevent currency circulation… –OICCI has also suggested making the national tax number (NTN) mandatory
Sigal Samuel at Vox: For months, OpenAI has been losing employees who care deeply about making sure AI is safe. Now, the company is positively hemorrhaging them. Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike
Continue readingWhy the OpenAI Team In Charge of Safeguarding Humanity Imploded
Kate Mackenzie and Tim Sahay in Polycrisis: Biden’s announcement this week to sharply raise tariffs on Chinese imports is an escalation in the yearslong tariff war on China. The new tariffs specifically
James Stewart in The New York Times: It’s been 14 years since Goldman Sachs was vilified as a “vampire squid” by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone. “Organized greed always defeats disorganized
Continue readingIn the Corporate World, Woke Is the Rage But Greed Is Still King
Steven Pearlstein in The Washington Post: It is one of the recurring plotlines in the psychodrama of U.S. politics: A talented and charismatic young reformer goes to Washington, is hailed for
Continue readingThe Education of Lina Khan, Whose Superpower is Busting Monopolies