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/ 8 months agoAI vs. elections: 4 essential reads about the threat of high-tech deception in politics
Using disinformation to sway elections is nothing new. Powerful new AI tools, however, threaten to give the deceptions unprecedented reach.
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/ 8 months agoHow do airplanes fly? An aerospace engineer explains the physics of flight
People have been flying airplanes for well over a century. Engineers know how to balance all the forces at play, but...
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/ 8 months agoAmid growth in AI writing tools, this course teaches future lawyers and other professionals to become better editors
Learning how to produce polished prose can greatly enhance your value on the job.
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/ 8 months agoChildren experience more injuries, stress and even burnout when they specialize in one sport
The rate of injury for single-sport adolescents is far higher than for other kids who play a variety of sports.
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/ 8 months agoFree school meals for all may reduce childhood obesity, while easing financial and logistical burdens for families and schools
Since nutrition standards were strengthened in 2010, eating at school provides many students better diet quality compared with other major U.S....
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/ 8 months agoBiden and Trump, though old, are both likely to survive to the end of the next president’s term, demographers explain
Detailed data on the ages at which people die can give good indications of a person’s remaining life span.
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/ 8 months agoWhy Fani Willis was allowed to stay on as prosecutor of criminal case against Trump in Georgia – and what happens next
Though a Georgia judge strongly criticized the decision-making of Fani Willis, he did not kick her off the case against Donald...
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/ 8 months agoIs TikTok’s parent company an agent of the Chinese state? In China Inc., it’s a little more complicated
In China, ‘private’ businesses aren’t entirely private and the ultimate boss is the CCP, not the CEO.
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/ 8 months ago‘Gross negligence’: why a parent like James Crumbley can be found guilty for their child’s crimes
James and Jennifer Crumbley purchased a handgun for their son as a Christmas present. Ethan Crumbley used that gun to kill...
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/ 8 months agoHow ‘Dune’ became a beacon for the fledgling environmental movement − and a rallying cry for the new science of ecology
When Frank Herbert sat down in 1963 to start writing ‘Dune,’ he wasn’t thinking about how to leave Earth behind. He...
