“The planet’s fate is no longer decided on isolated battlefields, but in the permanent tension between two giants competing for trade, technology, and power.” The 21st century has no fixed center. It shifts to the rhythm of the rivalry between… Mauricio Herrera Kahn| Pressenza
For a while now, one question has been circling in my mind about how we inhabit digital ecosystems: from what stance do we speak? What position do we take when we participate, share, or interact in those spaces that, though… Mariano Multiviral| Pressenza
How digital technology ensures the continuation of capitalist hegemony| The Left Berlin
New research not only deepens our understanding of animal movement, but also points toward new potentials inspired by biology.| Futurity
New research could potentially lead to improved treatments for people with memory problems or even help students retain tricky concepts.| Futurity
The digital reconstruction of the Yunxian 2 skull, discovered in Hubei in 1990 and dated between 940,000 and 1.1 million years ago, constitutes an epistemic event that goes beyond the merely archaeological. Precisely this week, an international team of paleoanthropologists… Claudia Aranda| Pressenza
The recent finding by NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars—a possible sign of ancient microbial life in the rock nicknamed Cheyava Falls—could mark a turning point in the history of human knowledge. What makes this discovery truly monumental is not only… Claudia Aranda| Pressenza
It wasn’t supposed to be this way, Vice President JD Vance complained to tech and corporate leaders gathered at the American Dynamism Summit in Washington last March. “The idea of globalization,” he said, “was that rich countries would move further up the value chain, while the poor countries made the simpler things.” Implicit in the […] The post Pope Leo is taking a stand against the coming AI revolution appeared first on U.S. Catholic.| U.S. Catholic
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero are funding rooftop solar panels for schools and hospitals across England, as part of the government’s public services ‘Plan for Change’ and goal of reducing energy costs and making Britain a ‘clean energy superpower.’ The government, and the recently established public-owned energy company Great British Energy, are […]| Politics UK
Following on from last week’s signing of the UK-US Tech Prosperity Deal, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology yesterday launched a new task-force, consisting of universities, technology firms, and skills providers, that aims to create a new AI Growth Zone in the north-east of England that will lead Britain’s ‘AI Revolution.’ It is hoped […]| Politics UK
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has today announced the development of two new carbon capture facilities, as part of the government’s mission to achieve net zero by 2050. It is hoped that the UK’s first carbon capture-enabled cement plant in Flintshire, north Wales, and one of the world’s first carbon capture-enabled waste-to-energy […]| Politics UK
“The 21st century does not belong to oil. It belongs to those who control lithium, copper, graphite and rare earths.” Oil dominated the 20th century| Pressenza
International Ozone Protection Day, or World Ozone Day, is marked every year on 16 September – the date the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (the Montreal Protocol) was signed in 1987. This HillNote provides an overview of the progress made through the Montreal Protocol to reverse damage to the ozone layer caused by human-made synthetic substances. The Montreal Protocol is often cited as an example of the progress that can be made on environmental issues through ...| HillNotes
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the humanities? Yes — and every student gets their own personal chatbot. The second coming of the Trump Administration has exposed the civic sclerosis of the US body politic? Time to turn the Social Security Administration over to Grok. Climate apocalypse now feels less like a distant terror th...| n+1Articles – n+1
The Anker Soundcore Q30 Hybrid Active Noise Cancelling Headphones have also been compared to Bose and Sony for a fraction of the price| Chronicle Live
If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration. Nikola Tesla “Frequency and vibration” is another way of saying “waves”, but ...| Living Voluntary
(Author’s note: this post is meant to serve as an introduction and preface for future posts discussing specifics of physics and related concepts in more detail.) Reality Check: The Standard ...| Living Voluntary
The relationship between the teachings of Christ and many so-called Christian religions (historically and vaguely called “Christianity”) is similar to the relationship between the scientific method and science as a ...| Living Voluntary
Record-Keeping Technology People have been making records as long as they have been writing. Money serves as a unit of account, which makes the consistent tracking of finances and business ...| Living Voluntary
After Milton Friedman published a 1975 compilation of writings titled There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch, the phrase (lifted from Robert Heinlein’s sci-fi novel about a lunar penal colony) became something of a libertarian shibboleth. For Friedman, the “free lunch myth” was epitomized by the ostensibly “free” goods and services provided by the […]| n+1Articles – n+1
Nicotine, is it really as bad as people think it is? Could it have a pharmaceutical potential? Find out more in this feature about nicotine.| The Oxford Student
OxStu explores how artificial intelligence enables us to cognitively offload and how this offloading affects our ability to think.| The Oxford Student
In late 1948, the Women’s Club of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, decided to devote one of its programs to developments in the field of communications over the previous half-century. To secure information to facilitate that discussion, on October 19, Lucille Robb wrote to the Department of State’s Office of Transport and Communications asking for information on the … Continue reading A View of Telecommunication in 1948: Past, Present, and Future| The Text Message
On August 24, 2025, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Department of Space (DoS), successfully conducted its first Integrated Air Drop Test (IADT-1) of the Crew Module Recovery System as part of India’s first human spaceflight programme ‘Gaganyaan Mission’, at Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh(AP).| AffairsCloud.com
AI and biotechnology could solve humanity’s toughest problems — or trigger chaos, collapse, and dystopia. Mustafa Suleyman’s The Coming Wave warns we’re not ready. Can we contain what we’ve unleash…| Unsolicited Feedback
Review by Simon Pirani of Climate Injustice: Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change, by Friederike Otto (Greystone Books, 2025). Republished, with thanks, from the Ecologis…| People and Nature
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Neurobiologists at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign found the brain’s internal GPS changes each time mice navigate a familiar, static environment.| News Bureau
Why are humans so good at acquiring information and power but not wisdom? In Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari explores how human information networks enable large numbers of people to cooperate over great …| Unsolicited Feedback
Resolution No.57-NQ/TW, signed by Party General Secretary To Lam on December 22, considers science and technology, innovation and digital transformation as the decisive factor for development.| Vietnam Economic Times | VnEconomy
A silicone liner that constantly monitors the size and shape of an amputee's residual limb could vastly reduce the blisters, sores, rashes, and other insults caused by ill-fitting sockets.| Amplitude
One of the advantages of Encyclopedia Virginia being digital is that we can illustrate our entries with interactive media. We use Google technology to create tours of historic locations in Virginia so that our users can virtually step into the places we talk about in our entries. Right now, EV features 90 virtual tours, and that number is constantly growing. Read more about: Shooting the Shot Tower| Encyclopedia Virginia
Canada is exploring alternative protein sources—plant-based, insect, and cultured—to meet rising demand and address concerns about health, sustainability, and food security. This article outlines the benefits, challenges, and policy implications.| HillNotes
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.| www.nytimes.com
About 19 positions will be cut, including those in offices focused on technology policy and diversity, equity and inclusion.| www.nytimes.com
The post Living Intelligence: The Convergence of AI, Biotechnology, and Advanced Sensors appeared first on AI for CEOs.| AI for CEOs
Delaware Prosperity Partnership and Incyte receive an award recoginizing their efforts to expand business and economic development in Delaware| Business in Delaware | Delaware Prosperity Partnership
Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge social research accessible to general readers.| Contexts
Instant news flashed to downtown crowds by 3,136 electric light bulbs.| Flashback : Dallas
By Simon Pirani. Reproduced, with thanks, from Capitalism Nature Socialism journal, August 2024. Introduction Matthew Huber and Fred Stafford’s insistence that “electricity is poised to be a centra…| People and Nature
Mindanao's longest-running community newspaper| Mindanao Times
Here are all the deals worth exploring on Ring Doorbells, Fire TVs, Echo Devices and more before the Prime Day sale comes to a close at midnight| Chronicle Live
On Monday, June 3, 2024, ODC attended an afternoon conference titled “Enabling Environment for a Human-Centered Adoption of AI in ASEAN” at the Sofitel Angkor Phokeethra Resort in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The conference was a side event of the larger 85th meeting of the ASEAN Committee on Science, Technology, and Innovation (COSTI-85). The conference was| Open Development Cambodia (ODC)
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. Buckminster Fuller What we call matter is composed of conjugate gyroscopic toroidal standing waves and hyperboloid vortices of ether…| Living Voluntary
What, then, can light be, if not a transverse vibration? I consider this extremely important. Light cannot be anything but a longitudinal perturbation in the ether involving alternative compression…| Living Voluntary
“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.” – Thomas Jefferson…| Living Voluntary
On December 4, 2023, I received the following email from the NAS (National Association of Scholars): The NAS here is attempting to stand against the subversion of the academy…| Bill Dembski
In this information age, where Professor Google has become the expert of choice, being scientifically literate is an essential life skill. It is as important as reading and writing. Sydney Morning …| Science or not?
