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Sarah Kerr at The Conversation: Climate activists Just Stop Oil launched a protest at Stonehenge, the 5,000-year-old stone monument in southern England, a day before thousands of people planned to
Continue readingIf You Worry About Climate Change Damages You Should Listen to Just Stop Oil
Defeat, my Defeat, my solitude and my aloofness;You are dearer to me than a thousand triumphs,And sweeter to my heart than all world-glory. Defeat, my Defeat, my self-knowledge and my
Civilisation is hooped together, broughtUnder a rule, under the semblance of peaceBy manifold illusion; but man’s life is thought,And he, despite his terror, cannot ceaseRavening through century after century,Ravening, raging,
by Shelly Fan at Singularity Hub: This week, a new study in Nature offers an unconventional idea: Using a second AI tool as a kind of “truth police” to detect
Continue readingResearchers Say Chatbots ‘Policing’ Each Other Can Correct Some AI Hallucinations
By Lynn Emanuel at Poetry Foundation: Love is boring and passé, all that old baggage,the bloody bric-a-brac, the bad, the gothic,retrograde, obscurantist hum and drum of itneeds to be swept
by Alexander Crooke at Singularity Hub: One could argue AI is essentially a tool aimed at making our lives easier. Humans been been crafting such tools for a long time,
Continue readingNo, AI Doesn’t Mean Human-Made Music Is Doomed. Here’s Why.
Hannah Critchlow in The Guardian: Since the sequencing of the human genome in 2003, genetics has become one of the key frameworks for how we all think about ourselves. From fretting
Continue readingCan You Inherit Memories From Your Ancestors?
Jeannette Cooperman in The Common Reader: Tempted as I am to lavish consciousness on everything around me, I was fascinated to learn that tobacco and tomato plants click when they are stressed. The
Continue readingPlants Warn, Defend, Scream, Remember, and Plan Ahead
Tell me, Rock, do you thinkmy mother misses feeling gravity’s sly tugas she lifted her hand to brush my cheek?And would that be enough to lure her backto sniff her
Irshad Salim, Karachi: My take on the vlog shared by a member at the Back2School WhatsApp Forum: –Seeking monies (aids, grants, support funds, etc.) due to being located on the
Continue readingTalking Points: ‘Why Pakistan’s Economy Keeps Collapsing’
This ancient tropical fruit is heart-healthy, may help fight inflammation and is a great meat substitute! Its benefits include being heart-healthy, and promoting wound healing. Grown in Asia, Africa and
Habib Khan, Quetta: In Greek mythology, Procrustus was a character notorious for his peculiar brand of hospitality. He would treat travelers to lavish dinners and high hospitality, only to then
Continue readingProcrustus, Shoaib Mansoor, and the lost Chaghai Militia