Rhythm plays an important role in how we perceive — and connect with — the world. By: Nina Kraus My husband reads to me every night in bed before we go to sleep. With our special bear, Oatmeal, tucked in between us and listening too, this is a wonderful way to end the day and is…
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David Wengrow | TED What if the commonly accepted narratives about the foundation of civilization are all wrong? Drawing on groundbreaking research, archaeologist David Wengrow challenges traditional thinking about the social evolution of humanity — from the invention of agriculture to the formation of cities and class systems — and explains how rethinking history can…
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MIT Technology Review It’s a really weird time in AI. In just six months, the public discourse around the technology has gone from “Chatbots generate funny sea shanties” to “AI systems could cause human extinction.” Who else is feeling whiplash? My colleague Will Douglas Heaven asked AI experts why exactly people are talking about existential…
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Tips from Botswana on how to avoid the resource curse Africa’s soil is studded with buried treasure. Half the world’s diamonds are mined there. The largest producers of cobalt, manganese and uranium are all African countries. Since 2000 more big petroleum discoveries have been made in sub-Saharan Africa than in any other region. Yet Africans are not…
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Its government is virtual, borderless, blockchained, and secure. Has this tiny post-Soviet nation found the way of the future? By Nathan Heller The Estonian government is so eager to take on big problems that many ambitious techies leave the private sector to join it. Illustration by Eiko Ojala Up the Estonian coast, a five-lane highway bends with…
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Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, the Youth Poet Laureate of 2017, delivers a poem at President Joe Biden’s inauguration. For access to live and exclusive video from CNBC subscribe to CNBC PRO: https://cnb.cx/2NGeIvi Amanda Gorman, 22, became the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history after reciting her poem “The Hill We Climb.” “But while democracy can…
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The challenge eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, Februari 1st, 2023 — Artificial intelligence has been all the rage lately. Programs such as chatbot ChatGPT and art generator DALL-E are in the news a lot. But AI is more than a gimmick and has the potential to change society and our lives. That is why work is being done on new…
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Not only in Brazil but also in Suriname eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, February 1st, 2023– Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Luís Roberto Barroso has ordered an investigation by the Attorney General of the Republic, the Military Prosecutor’s Office, the Ministry of Justice and Public Safety, and the Regional Superintendence of the Federal Police of Roraima into…
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