“The Vatican today sought to limit its responsibility for the abuse scandal involving priests, as a representative appeared before the UN committee against Torture. Archbishop Silvani Tomasi...”
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“Bleacher Report Report: Donald Sterling's Racism Almost Halted JJ Redick-LA Clippers Signing Bleacher Report Sterling, the man whose racist comments sparked this whole furor, was believed to have had concerns about paying a white player that kind...”
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This is my favorite comic of the past six months. It's by Portland-based illustrator Natalie Nourigat: Just four panels. Wisdom for the ages. And yet, the simple truth embedded in this webcomic is regularly disregarded, as we’ve seen repeatedly in just the past few weeks. Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher who refused to pay grazing fees for letting his...
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April 29 (Bloomberg) -- The National Basketball Association suspended Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life and fined him $2.5 millio...
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We're living in a "post-racial" society? Yeah, right.
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From artificial mammal brains to prosthetics that feel like real limbs, the military’s blue-sky researchers are aiming to bring man and machine closer than ever before.
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Mlik Sahib's curator insight,
March 7, 2014 1:27 PM
"DARPA doesn’t just want machines to get smarter; it wants them to work better, together. We’re talking about drones, which have already changed how the U.S. wages war. But the potential of drones is far from untapped and this year’s DARPA budget is brimming with research for new ways to leverage advances in robotics. The $5 million “Swarm Challenge” looks to see if a flock of small drones can all play well together. It involves the development of algorithms that would allow a number of small unmanned systems to work in unison and solve problems. Darpa envisions the drone hive-mind could be useful supporting troops in air, ground and maritime operations and could even help out in obstacle-clearing and search and rescue operations."
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The inventor of the world wide web believes an online "Magna Carta" is needed to protect and enshrine the independence of the medium he created and the rights of its users worldwide. Sir Tim Berners-Lee told the Guardian the web had come under increasing attack from governments and corporate influence and that new rules were needed to protect the "open, neutral" system. Speaking exactly 25 years after he wrote the first draft of the first proposal for what would become the world wide web, the computer scientist said: "We need a global constitution – a bill of rights." Berners-Lee's Magna Carta plan is to be taken up as part of an initiative called "the web we want", which calls on people to generate a digital bill of rights in each country – a statement of principles he hopes will be supported by public institutions, government officials and corporations.
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Kirsten Powers: Sex trafficking in your backyard
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Celebs React To Donald Sterling Racism. He was reportedly caught on tape making racist comments to his girlfriend V. Stiviano involving Magic Johnson. ▻ http://bit.ly/ENTVSubscribe Watch...
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“The NBA Finally Eliminated Racism... Unless You Count Native-Americans Huffington Post That's the message from All Def Digital, who dropped a video this week impaling the hypocrisy of punishing racism in professional sports.”
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Wherever the locale, Obama's talk isn't met with action.
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By now you've heard the back-story making the rounds on Donald Sterling, owner of the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers. Sterling is long known to have issues surrounding race, and TMZ broke audio over the weekend of him waxing poetic to...
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Bottom line: What options do the majority of such employees have?
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"Research shows that reading rich narratives and metaphors activates areas of our brain outside of language, and frequent fiction reading is correlated with empathy. Brain scans are revealing what happens in our heads when we read a detailed description, an evocative metaphor or an emotional exchange between characters. Stories, this research is showing, stimulate the brain and even change how we act in life. The brain, it seems, does not make much of a distinction between reading about an experience and encountering it in real life; in each case, the same neurological regions are stimulated." | by Amir Aczel Via Todd Reimer
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Many believe that the model minority label allows me to ride on the coattails of my ethnicity, giving me a "one-up boost" ahead of others. Yet to me, the model minority myth has done nothing but strip me of my humanity....
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This false "stereotype" is far more harmful than helpful as any Asian American or their family members (such as adoptive parents) know all too well.
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A qualitative change in our information environment that is every bit as seismic as the meteor that marked the end of the dinosaurs. Deity-scale information capability. Complexity driving cognition to ever more competent techno-human networks. Perceptual, conscious, and subconscious processing increasingly outsourced to technology systems. Fragmentation of self across avatars in various increasingly engaging virtual realities. But any such list is misleadingly simplistic. The technological evolution impacting the self is not simply a case of interesting but isolated case studies but, rather, represents profound and accelerating evolution across the entire technological frontier. And the conscious self is where these must be integrated, or at least collated.
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During 2010-12, noted AI researcher and long-time Humanity+ Board member Ben Goertzel conducted a series of textual interviews with researchers in various areas of cutting-edge science — artificial general intelligence, nanotechnology, life extension, neurotechnology, collective intelligence, mind uploading, body modification, neuro-spiritual transformation, and more. These interviews were published online in H+ Magazine, and are here gathered together in a single volume. The resulting series of dialogues treats a variety of social, futurological and scientific topics in a way that is accessible to the educated non-scientist, yet also deep and honest to the subtleties of the topics being discussed. Between Ape and Artilect is a must-read if you want the real views, opinions, ideas, muses and arguments of the people creating our future.
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luiy's curator insight,
March 8, 2014 2:34 PM
- Itamar Arel: AGI via Deep Learning - Pei Wang: What Do You Mean by “AI”?
Mlik Sahib's curator insight,
March 8, 2014 10:40 PM
- Itamar Arel: AGI via Deep Learning - Pei Wang: What Do You Mean by “AI”?
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An Atlanta Public Schools teacher is speaking out after she caught her colleagues allegedly abusing disabled students on a hidden camera. (April 28)
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