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Hermit 'Scribblings' Of Eccentric French Math Genius Unveiled | Juliette Collen

Hermit genius mathematician as surrealist painting. by Bing Juliette Collen -- Phys.org Sept. 29, 2023 Tens of thousands of handwritten pages by one of the 20th century's greatest mathematicians, Alexander Grothendieck, many of which the eccentric genius penned while living as a hermit, were unveiled in France on Friday. The unpublished manuscripts, which veer from math to metaphysics, ...

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BOOKS: ‘Capitalism Is Dead. Now We Have Something Much Worse’ | Carole Cadwalladr

In his new book, Technofeudalism, the maverick Greek economist says we are witnessing an epochal shift. At his island home of Aegina, he argues it’s no longer the global finance system that shapes ...

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Our Digital Twins Will Help Diagnose And Treat Diseases | Thomas Gull, University of Zurich

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Thomas Gull -- University of Zurich Sept. 22, 2023 Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the world of medicine. In the future, we will be able to create ...

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Falling Solar Power And Storage Prices Make Global Climate Transition Cheaper Than Expected | Ulrich von Lampe

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Ulrich von Lampe -- Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Sept. 22, 2023 In just the past 10 years, the cost of electricity from solar ...

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How To Deinstitutionalize The Practice Of Human Warfare | Bard

Bard -- World News Trust May 13, 2023 Deinstitutionalizing the practice of human warfare is a complex and challenging task. However, there are a number of things that can be done to move toward this ...

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European Cities Boycott Apartheid Israel | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudWho Said BDS Has ‘Already Failed?' Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 4, 2023 A succession of events starting in Barcelona, Spain, in February, and followed in Liège, Belgium, and ...

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No Respite from the Slow-Motion US-China Collision | Nouriel Roubini

Despite U.S. efforts to de-escalate tensions with China and Chinese officials’ wariness of economic decoupling, attempting to restore trust between the two powers seems futile. In this increasingly ...

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Winners and Losers in Sudan | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudOn Proxy Wars and Superpower Rivalries in the Global South Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 2, 2023 The world is changing. In fact, it has been undergoing seismic change that ...

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The Post-Human Desert | Slavoj Žižek

Image portraying artificial intelligence. Public domain Unlike past technological innovations, artificial intelligence is not about humanity’s mastery over nature, but rather about relinquishing ...

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Tax the Rich to Save the Planet | Owen Gaffney

Full disk view of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance of about 29,000 kilometres (18,000 mi). It shows Africa, Antarctica, ...

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ChatGDP: How We End Poverty | Francis Goodwin

Francis Goodwin asks ChatGPT: "How do we end poverty?" ChatGPT: As an AI language model, I do not have personal beliefs or opinions. However, according to the United Nations, ending poverty requires ...

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Where Liquid Staking Meets Tokenization The crypto industry is changing rapidly, and liquid staking stands at the forefront of this transformation. www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/09/29/where-liquid-staking-meets-tokenization/

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OpenAI will give local news millions to experiment with AI | Nieman Journalism Lab Some of the funding will go to form a "studio" within the American Journalism Project; the rest will go to about 10 of AJP's grantees. www.niemanlab.org/2023/07/openai-will-give-local-news-millions-to-experiment-with-ai/

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How Microsoft could supplant Apple as the world’s most valuable firm It hopes to seize on AI to transform the future of work | Briefing www.economist.com/briefing/2023/09/27/how-microsoft-could-supplant-apple-as-the-worlds-most-valuable-firm?utm_medium=social-media.content.np&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=editorial-social&utm_content=discovery.content

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