November 7, 2024 4 min read Parents Labeling a Kid’s Friend a Bad Influence Can Backfire Is your kid in trouble? Blaming their friends is ill advised By Francine Russo edited by Gary Stix Olga Rolenko/Getty Images Parents have always blamed their teens’ misbehavior on their kids’ friends: they may say their kids “fell into… Continue reading Parents Labeling a Kid’s Friend a Bad Influence Can Backfire
Clemency Request ‘Pending’ for Leaker of Trump’s and Others’ Taxes
The Biden administration is formally considering commuting the sentence of the convicted felon who stole and leaked incoming President Trump’s tax records along with those of thousands of other taxpayers, in the biggest tax data heist in U.S. history. Littlejohn (top photo) leaked Trump’s and Elon Musk’s taxes … Pool Getty Images North America … and those… Continue reading Clemency Request ‘Pending’ for Leaker of Trump’s and Others’ Taxes
Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way.
Learning a language can’t be that hard — every baby in the world manages to do it in a few years. Figuring out how the process works is another story. Linguists have devised elaborate theories to explain it, but recent advances in machine learning have added a new wrinkle. When computer scientists began building the… Continue reading Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way.
Who Should We Emulate? | RealClearBooks
“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.” This aphorism appears in Meditations, a collection of philosophical musings written by Marcus Aurelius, a 2nd century Roman emperor. Aurelius is considered one of the less tyrannical, even just rulers of the Roman Empire — and he is portrayed as such by the… Continue reading Who Should We Emulate? | RealClearBooks
Rainwater Could Help Satisfy AI’s Water Demands
November 7, 2024 5 min read Rainwater Could Help Satisfy AI’s Water Demands A few dozen ChatGPT queries cost a bottle’s worth of water. Tech firms should consider simpler solutions, such as harvesting rainwater, to meet AI’s needs By Justin Talbot Zorn & Bettina Warburg edited by Ben Guarino In late September Microsoft announced that… Continue reading Rainwater Could Help Satisfy AI’s Water Demands
LA Inferno | RealClearBooks
Upon the hills in LA where dreams are sown every day,The fiery winds have fiercely blown.Torn so many from their home.A golden land, now wreathed in flame,Which government is to blame.Where whispers cry and scream Help us we’re all aflame. Homes and lives collapse to embered dust,Steel and stone once grand betray their trust.Families with… Continue reading LA Inferno | RealClearBooks
Alone Together for Christmas 2024
Podcast: Download MYS346a: Continuing his annual tradition, Jimmy Akin held a marathon 4-hour livestream on his YouTube channel on Christmas Day, hanging out and answering questions for anyone who came by. And now we’re sharing it with our podcast audience as well. Merry Christmas! Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email… Continue reading Alone Together for Christmas 2024
The Physicist Decoding the Nonbinary Nature of the Subatomic World
Many discoveries in physics flow from theory to experiment. Albert Einstein theorized that mass bends the fabric of space-time, and then Arthur Eddington observed the effects of this bending during a solar eclipse. Likewise, Peter Higgs first proposed the existence of the Higgs boson; nearly 50 years later, the particle was discovered at the Large… Continue reading The Physicist Decoding the Nonbinary Nature of the Subatomic World
A Unified Team for HHS Reform
The incoming Trump administration has set an ambitious goal to transform the culture and operations of government. A recurring theme across all initiatives is the decoupling of corporate interests from regulatory activities—especially when these interests conflict with the well-being of Americans. Whether addressing the military-industrial complex, the coziness among monopolistic banks and federal regulators, or the incestuous ties between… Continue reading A Unified Team for HHS Reform
The Ocean Teems With Networks of Interconnected Bacteria
Next, to see whether the links were in fact nanotubes, they performed versions of the now-canonical experiments with green fluorescent protein and calcein described by Ben-Yehuda and Dubey. The networked cells lit up. The team also confirmed that the links were indeed made of membrane lipids and not protein, which would instead suggest pili. They… Continue reading The Ocean Teems With Networks of Interconnected Bacteria