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Recent White House initiatives suggest that addressing climate change has risen to the policy forefront of government at the presidential level for the first time in US history. Last week President Biden convened an online international meeting of heads of state on the issue and committed the US to a
In fact, the single most common technique for insisting that Austen is anti-slavery is for the critic to draw an equivalence between slavery and her depiction of social class, or her portrayal of the status of women.
The essence of AI is not white oppression, racism, sexism, and colonialism, it is the automation of mathematics and logic.
The politicization and generation of narratives surrounding the coronavirus (and ensuing governmental responses) funneled information flow into partitions based on political affiliation.
The pursuit of material immortality, even if material immortality cannot be realized, is the most reasonable long-term course of civilization; it’s thus the busywork of humanity.
But it is sad to see established facts now suppressed along with undesirable beliefs and opinions. And to see our institutions of higher learning being led to this kind of neo-obscurantism in the name of enlightened social attitudes.
Africa has not been affected on anything like the scale of most countries in Asia, Europe, and North and South America.
It’s hard to imagine a more inaccurate description of the peace and contentment so apparent in this pastoral scene.
The aim of antenatal screening is to discourage the birth of people with severe disabilities.
Science as a discipline is supposed to be based on empirical evidence.
The COVID-19 vaccine development experience shows it is possible to produce safe and effective vaccines much faster than previously thought.
The Declaration states that achieving herd immunity for COVID-19 can be assisted by vaccines, “but is not dependent” on their use.
As recent studies have shown, these advantages generally don’t go away simply because an athlete has changed their pronouns and hormone chemistry. At the highest levels, the difference between male and female world records typically hovers around 10 percent.
It’s easy to decry cancel culture, but hard to turn it back. Thankfully, recent developments in my area of academic specialty—artificial intelligence (AI)—show that fighting cancel culture isn’t impossible.
An expansive free encyclopedia is impossible without an army of volunteer writers.