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A culture war is brewing over AI

As AI systems increasingly display emotion, genuine or not, public opinion will split around calls for their rights

Salon

E-Bike And Scooter Injuries Have Tripled Since 2019

Recent years have seen a massive uptick in the adoption of electric mobility devices. From stand-up e-scooters to electric bicycles and everything in between, it’s clear that lightweight electric transport is here, and it’s here to stay.That being said, just like many things that gain popularity, the more people use…

RideApart

I’m Sorry To Be The One To Tell You: That’s Not Summer Rain, You’re Walking Through Cicada Piss

If the sky is blue, the mystery spritz might be piss.

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How Scientific American's Departing Editor Helped Degrade Science

When magazines like Scientific American are run by ideologues producing biased dreck, it only makes it more difficult to defend the institution of science itself.

Reason

Odd Omission in N.Y. Times Article About Resignation of Scientific American Editor-in-Chief

The Times reported yesterday, under the headline "Editor Resigns After Calling Some Trump Supporters 'Fascists'": On election night, Laura Helmuth, who served… The post Odd Omission in N.Y. Times Article About Resignation of Scientific American Editor-in-Chief appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason

Scientific American editor steps down after calling Trump supporters ‘fascists’ and ‘bigoted’

Laura Helmuth, who had led the magazine since 2020, wrote an expletive-filled social media post on election night

The Guardian - US

Scientific American Top Editor Resigns After Calling Trump Supporters 'F–king Fascists'

The editor-in-chief of Scientific American has resigned following a series of election night social media posts referring to Trump supporters as "fascists."

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Top Editor of Oldest American Magazine Resigns After Calling Trump Supporters 'F–king Fascists' in Post-Election Rant

The editor-in-chief of Scientific American has resigned following a series of election night social media posts referring to Trump supporters as "fascists."

Latin Times

Scientific American makes presidential endorsement for only the second time in its 179-year history

‘The US faces two futures,’ according to editors at top science magazine

The Independent UK

Infamous 'Wow! signal' that hinted at aliens may actually be an exceptionally rare cosmic event

The source of a supposed alien broadcast that made researchers go "Wow!" may instead have been the result of a remarkably rare cosmic event, a new study suggests.

LiveScience

AI finds optical illusions just as mind-boggling as we do

Its interpretations are "surprisingly humanlike".

Creative Bloq

China's Retribution

Plus: Homework liberation in Poland, Orthodox rabbi tells students to flee Columbia, toddler anarchy, and more...

Reason

Orcas aren't all the same species, study of North Pacific killer whales reveals

Scientists suggest that killer whales be divided into two distinct species.

LiveScience

NASA's troubled Mars sample-return mission has scientists seeing red

NASA's Mars Sample Return program is the agency’s highest priority in planetary science, but projected multibillion-dollar overruns have some calling the plan a 'dumpster fire.'

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Why is the US ramping up production of plutonium ‘pits’ for nuclear weapons?

The Pentagon is concerned about the the US nuclear arsenal’s viability, but critics worry about a renewed arms race

The Week

The extinction threat to emperor penguins caused by climate change

Thousands of emperor penguin chicks are thought to have died across Antarctica last year as a result of a “catastrophic breeding failure”.

The Week

The Harvard and Papua New Guinea interstellar meteor row

The removal of fragments from a possible interstellar meteor has sparked a row between scientists from Harvard and Papua New Guinean authorities.

The Week

White paint: a cool solution for climate change?

Brilliantly whitewashed houses are a familiar sight in hot countries, from Morocco to Greece. In fact, white-painted roofs “have been used to cool buildings for centuries”, said The Guardian.

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The Week

J. Robert Oppenheimer: the real ‘father of the atomic bomb’ at centre of new blockbuster

J. Robert Oppenheimer, the subject of a soon-to-be-released blockbuster directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Cillian Murphy, could be one of the most misunderstood figures of the 20th century.

The Week

Why the 1.5C threshold matters to our climate

The probability of the world exceeding the 1.5C climate change target within the next five years has risen to 66%, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

The Conversation

Climate change first 'went viral' exactly 70 years ago

We have grown so used to many things. To the pictures of wildfires and cremated animals, to the ice sheets calving into the ocean, to the promises of world leaders that they will heed the “last chance” warning of the scientists.

Fortune

‘Promptography’: Artist who rejected photography prize for his A.I.-generated image backs new term

The term is "large enough" to include generative A.I. images that "can look like a drawing, like a painting, like a photo," says Boris Eldagsen.

Reason

The Shameless Attack on a Climate Change Dissenter

We couldn't find any negative review of physicist Steven Koonin's Unsettled that disputed its claims directly or even described them accurately.

WEKU

NASA once again declines to rename the James Webb Space Telescope

NASA says an extensive review of historical records found no evidence that Webb ever led or supported purges of government employees who were gay. But some astronomers think that's a pretty low bar.

Reason

Michael Shermer: How Scientific American Got Woke

The science writer and journalist talks identity politics, wokeness, trans athletes, and why his goal is to find out what is true rather than to "be right."

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