Elon Musk Warns AI Poses 'Civilizational Risk' to Humanity
Elon Musk, one of several tech tycoons who met lawmakers in Washington D.C.
Matthew Medinsky
BRICS 3.0 — What now?
On the final day of the BRICS meeting in Johannesburg (22–24 August 2023), South African leader Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the current member countries will open the doors to BRICS for six new countries in 2024: Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
BRICS was
Summers: EV Transition Hurts Jobs, Means Auto Workers Have to Push to Get what 'They Can While They Can'
While speaking with Bloomberg on Wednesday, Harvard Professor, economist, Director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama, and Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton Larry Summers stated that auto worker unions have to push to get as much as they can “while they can” because the electric vehicle
California Legislature Passes Bill Requiring Firms to Report Carbon Emissions
The California state legislature passed a bill Tuesday that would require large companies to disclose their estimated carbon emissions.
Australia: Rights at Core of Voice Referendum
(Sydney) – A referendum in Australia on October 14, 2023, is an important opportunity for Australians to enshrine a First Nations Voice in the country’s constitution, Human Rights Watch and the Australian Human Rights Institute at the University of New South Wales said today. A new Questions and Answers document
Could a Vitamin Reduce Hearing Deficit?
Loss of cholesterol in the inner ear may be involved in age-related hearing loss and phytosterols, a common over-the-counter supplement, may help resolve it.
Illusory Guilt
You are not destroying the planet.
Brazil has become a guinea pig for the global effort to censor information
Brazilian Justice Alexandre de Moraes has censored a shocking number of high-profile people in a surprisingly short period of time.
Lumbrokinase for Lyme?
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The Curious Case of the Spreading Red Meat Allergy.
“A rare meat allergy from tick bites is rising and may have already impacted as many as 450,000 people,” says the CDC who adds that there now is a “steep increase in cases of alpha-gal syndrome (AGS).”
AGS, they claim, “has been traced to the saliva from the lone
What Are Plastic Fragments Doing in Human Hearts?
Tiny pieces of plastic may be hiding out in an alarming place — the human heart.
AUDIO: Iain Davis on Perspective with Jesse Zurawell – Sept 2nd 2023
Iain Davis returns to Perspective to discuss his on-going series of articles on “Synthetic Hegemonic Currency” (available on Geopolitics & Empire).
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US Court rules against Internet Archive and, in doing so, against digital collections in all libraries
The Internet Archive, like hundreds of US libraries, is a non-profit institution. Yet a court ruling in mid-August has sided with publishers’ commercial interests to disallow non-profit organisations from lending books.
But there’s a significant catch – the protections afforded to the Internet Archive and all libraries under the first
What Are the Signs of Vitamin B Complex Deficiency?
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Wikipedia Is an Information Warfare Tool
Intelligence agencies have a long history of using propaganda as a tool of war, and the effectiveness of information warfare radically improved with the emergence of the internet, to say nothing of artificial intelligence and social media.
If you're over 50, you can probably remember a time when your family
