Charles III waited a very long time to become King. Since his investiture as Prince of Wales in 1969, he filled his life with activity, pursuing deeply held passions and causes – on the environment, farming, architecture, charities to help young people and projects to improve understanding between religious groups. …
(RNS) — It’s been more than half a century since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail” on scraps of paper, but faith leaders say his response to white clergy critics endures as a “road map” for those working on justice and equal rights. …
Enlarge / Screenshot from RNC’s “Beat Biden” ad. Shortly after US President Joe Biden announced his 2024 presidential run—asking Americans to re-elect him so he can “finish the job!”—the Republican National Committee (RNC) responded with a 100 percent AI-generated video. The 30-second RNC ad urged voters to “Beat Biden,” or else …
Image by The USO, via Flickr Commons I first discovered Stephen King at age 11, indirectly through a babysitter who would plop me down in front of daytime soaps and disappear. Bored with One Life to Live, I read the stacks of mass-market paperbacks my absentee guardian left around—romances, mysteries, …
His announcement sets up a potential rematch with Donald Trump in 2024. Also: Recent, rapid ocean warming ahead of El Niño alarms scientists, uneasy truce holds in Sudan and South Korea welcomes major Netflix investment. Title: President Biden launches US re-election campaign URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fjqmqg Source: Global News Podcast Source URL: …
Comment “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” These were the words that introduced most people in my generation to the concept of an AI gone rogue; HAL 9000 in the classic science fiction movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, eventually went insane singing the lyrics of Daisy, Daisy …
In April 2018, author Andrew Forrester wrote an open letter to “People Who Don’t Make Every Conceivable Effort to Ensure that the Bathroom Door is Locked.” And now Benedict Cumberbatch has read it, and read it well. This reading took place at Letters Live, an event celebrating the power of literary …
This post was written by NCTE member Gina Kortuem, originally posted on the blog lit & more. I first heard about Book Bentos a few years ago on Instagram. “Cute!” I said, then scrolled on. However, the image stayed with me. A few months later I sought it out with …
Quelle: Mapping Open Science resources from around the world by discipline and principles – https://ift.tt/iTGLZrp In this map, you can explore Open Science resources by discipline, open science principles, and standards. With Open Science being pretty much a mainstream term nowadays and with an ever-increasing number of digital tools, national …
‘Dominion wins but the public loses’: Fox settlement avoids paying the highest price https://ift.tt/XMyqtPK The staggering $787.5m settlement between Fox and the voting equipment company Dominion marked the end of one of the most aggressive efforts to hold someone accountable for spreading misinformation after the 2020 election. Dominion sued Fox …