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The University of Washington, like most schools, tracks the performance of student groups as part of its effort to enhance diversity and reduce inequality.
Many of these cultures surely had their share of Elon Musks—beings who wished to colonize other worlds.
Artists and scientists have a reductionist’s idea of one another and perceive the other as a threat.
By 2014, Homo sapiens had, by the reckoning of the World Wildlife Fund, destroyed an incredible 60 percent of the wild mammal, bird, reptile, and fish populations that were in existence as recently as 1970.
We retain the belief that, in supposedly pluralistic societies, everyone is entitled to their own opinions. We urge other scientists not to follow the American example, and to resist the campaign to racialize science.
The narrative that has emerged from the conclusions of these limited studies could inadvertently cause some populations to avoid medical follow-up and form an inaccurate view of healthcare practices.
Thus, the ancient question of what separates humans from animals is the inverse of the more recent question of what separates humans from computers.
But what I’m describing here isn’t evidence-driven debate: It’s angry, ideologically driven luddite mysticism masquerading as hard-headed conservative skepticism.
One possibility is that morality is dependent on local circumstances and facts about social order and organization.
There are fewer tenured black physicists at universities and laboratories because there are fewer black PhD physicists.
It is not unreasonable to consider avoiding research that risks creating unmanageable divisions.
To call SARS-CoV-2 the “pandemic of the century” is a figure of speech, and an optimistic one at that.
On May 30th, 2020, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched from NASA’s facility at Cape Canaveral. Hidden in the roar of the thrusters was the crack of a starting gun for the second era of human expansion: The era of private crewed space exploration was on. During the last
Most healthcare experts basically agree that there is still too much uncertainty about COVID-19 to play football safely this fall.
True progress in medicine can only be accomplished when we maintain a consistent standard of scientific excellence and honest inquiry.