Dr Moeed Yusuf: Why Pakistan’s Raw Talent Often Struggles in Structured Settings
Dr. Moeed Yusuf shares his views on Pakistan’s ‘ethos of mediocrity’: Sourced from digital pakistan @ instagram
How I Learned to Embrace Open Science
Albert Li in Science: It sounded like the right thing to do. I was a first-year Ph.D. student in educational psychology, and my research adviser told me I should consider practicing
Alan Cowell on Using Pigeons to File News From a War Zone
by Alan Cowell at the Air Mail: Watching the nano-second messaging of modern electioneering from Washington to Paris to London, I couldn’t help but think of pigeons. Carrier pigeons, to
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This Is What Could Happen if AI Content Is Allowed to Take Over the Internet
by Shelly Fan at Singularity Hub: Generative AI is a data hog. The algorithms behind chatbots like ChatGPT learn to create human-like content by scraping terabytes of online articles, Reddit
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Cars Beat Climate in Court
Jack Marley, Environment commissioning editor of the Imagine Newsletter: For planning to block a motorway encircling London, five Just Stop Oil activists were recently sentenced to a minimum of four
Not Yet Panicking About AI? You Should Be
Daniel Kehlmann in The Guardian: I do not want to demonise the revolution we are experiencing. I believe nothing as fascinating has happened in the realm of the human mind
It Feels Like the Entire 1 Pct is on the Move in Search of Lower Taxes—and a Taste of the Good Life
By Elena Clavarino at Air Mail: With a Trump presidential victory looking surer by the day, U.S. citizens are buying into golden-visa programs—immigration schemes where individuals can obtain residency in
The Euro and Its Imperial Ancestors
Victoria Gierok at Project Syndicate: Twenty-five years ago, the euro was introduced, in virtual form, as the common currency of the eurozone, which consisted of 11 countries. Banknotes and coins
Some Climate Experts Say Carbon Removal Start-ups Will Limit Global Warming, But Significant Questions Remain
By Ramin Skibba at Undark: On April 11, a small company called Graphyte began pumping out beige bricks, somewhat the consistency of particle board, from its new plant in Pine
Could We Turn Mars Into Another Earth? Here’s What It Would Take to Terraform the Red Planet
By Sven Bilén at Singularity Hub: When I was in middle school, my biology teacher showed our class the sci-fi movie Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. The plot
Lessons From Singapore – Nothing To Lose
by Eric Feigenbaum at 3 Quarks Daily: For a strange five minutes in 1994, Americans were talking about caning. An American teenager named Michael Fay drew Singapore into the international
For Sustainable Food Production on Land, We Might Soon be Looking to the Sea
by Emma Bryce at Anthropocene: Researchers have found that a unique species of marine bacteria is just as effective at fertilizing agricultural soils as mineral fertilizers that are over-applied to
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