AI’s Education Revolution: What will it take? Live Webcast (MIT Open Learning)
Great background info as a prelude to using AI. Watch the Video
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Postmodernism (Gary Aylesworth)
That postmodernism is indefinable is a truism. However, it can be described as a set of critical, strategic and rhetorical practices employing concepts such as difference, repetition, the trace, the simulacrum, and hyperreality to destabilize other concepts such as presence, identity, historical progress, epistemic certainty, and the univocity of meaning. The term “postmodernism” first entered …
The Use of Knowledge in Society (by F.A. Hayek)
A presentation of Hayek’s “The Use of Knowledge in Society” in video format. Watch the Video
The Five Futures of Russia: And How America Can Prepare for Whatever Comes Next (Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs)
Vladimir Putin happened to turn 71 last October 7, the day Hamas assaulted Israel. The Russian president took the rampage as a birthday present; it shifted the context around his aggression in Ukraine. Perhaps to show his appreciation, he had his Foreign Ministry invite high-ranking Hamas representatives to Moscow in late October, highlighting an alignment …
No Substitute for Victory: America’s Competition with China Must Be Won, Not Managed (Matt Pottinger, Foreign Affairs)
Amid a presidency beset by failures of deterrence—in Afghanistan, Ukraine, and the Middle East—the Biden administration’s China policy has stood out as a relative bright spot. The administration has strengthened U.S. alliances in Asia, restricted Chinese access to critical U.S. technologies, and endorsed the bipartisan mood for competition. Yet the administration is squandering these early …
Assessing the Role of the United States in the World (William J. Burns)
The United States is no longer the only big kid on the geopolitical block, but has an opportunity to lock in its role as the world’s pivotal power–still with a better hand to play than any of its rivals. The Landscape Today’s world is more crowded, complicated, and competitive than at any point in my …
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የትግራይ ወጣቶች ሁኔታ እና የገዥው ፓርቲ አባላት ለግደፎች ሁሉ የሚሰጡት መለኮታዊ መግለጫ እየተበራከተ መሄድ። Watch the Video
East Asia’s Coming Population Collapse: And How It Will Reshape World Politics (Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs)
In the decades immediately ahead, East Asia will experience perhaps the modern world’s most dramatic demographic shift. All of the region’s main states—China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan—are about to enter into an era of depopulation, in which they will age dramatically and lose millions of people. According to projections from the Population Division of …
No shade, no water, no breaks: DeSantis’ new law threatens Florida outdoor worker health (Kate Cimini, USA Today)
NAPLES, Fla. – In South Florida, one of the state’s hottest regions, María González works outdoors cleaning planes. González spends her nights on the airport tarmac doing deep cleans of planes – scrubbing away feces, vomit, animal and human hair and more. Often, she said, airline staff turn off the plane’s air conditioning to save …
Whatever Happened To Equality Of Opportunity? (David Davenport, Hoover Institution)
Americans have consistently said they believe in the principle of equality ofopportunity. As the authors of a Brookings Institution study on the subjectconcluded: “Americans believe in opportunity. . . . They are far more interestedin equal opportunity than in equal results.” These days, however, that notion isunder constant challenge and even attack. Indeed, there are …