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January 02, 2024

Why Dimming the Sun Would Be an Effective Tool in the Fight Against Climate Change

After the powerful Pinatubo eruption, global temperatures dipped. Eruptions create a hazy layer of microscopic particles in the upper atmosphere that last for several years, dimming the Sun temporarily. We could copy this effect to fight climate change....

December 30, 2023

The US Military's Big Bet on Artificial Intelligence

AI gone awry. There was a simulation where an AI-enabled drone, tasked with taking down missile sites, killed its operator, and cut the communications system....

December 29, 2023

Social Weather Report | 96% of Filipinos Enter New Year With Hope, the Highest Since Pre-pandemic 2019

The national Social Weather Survey December 8-11, 2023, found 96% of adult Filipinos entering the New Year with hope rather than fear....

December 27, 2023

Pope Francis’ approval of blessings for LGBTQ+ couples is a historic gesture, according to a Catholic theologian

“when one asks for a blessing, one is expressing a petition for God’s assistance, a plea to live better, and a confidence in a Father who can help us live better.”...

December 24, 2023

Moment

By Carol L. Gloor...

December 19, 2023

Forget ‘Man the Hunter’ – Physiological and Archaeological Evidence Rewrites Assumptions About A Gendered Division of Labor in Prehistoric Times

Time to shake these caveman myths. Not true that men hunted while women stayed at home....

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