ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
LIMA, Peru — It was a day on which much of Peru was focused on Congress, where an impeachment vote was planned against the president on corruption charges. But shortly before noon, the Peruvian leader addressed the country in a surprise televised address. He announced the dissolution of Congress and the installation of an emergency …
Much of the commentary on today’s argument in 303 Creative starts from the premise that the case pits free speech (or maybe religious freedom) against LGBTQ rights. The headline in The Economist reads: “A new Supreme Court case may dampen protections for LGBT people.” Anyone listening carefully to the argument will discover that this framing is off the mark. …
Legal battles over partisan and racial gerrymandering “are as North Carolina as barbecue, tobacco fields and hot, humid summer days,” says the executive director of the state Common Cause chapter. Read more
The Euphrates River is one of the most important rivers in the world. It’s home to a wealth of plant and animal life, and it provides water for millions of people. But there’s something about the Euphrates River that’s even more incredible than its size or its importance. In this video we are going to …
Every Egyptologist doing archaeological excavations in Egypt has repeatedly heard the surprised questions from uninitiated people: “You’re working in Egypt?! But is there anything left to do there? Haven’t they excavated everything by now?” No, of course they haven’t. It seems that Egypt will never cease to surprise us and will always offer more new …
Can a planet have a mind of its own? Science continues to explore the Gaia Hypothesis, which speculates that our planet is a self-regulating organism which may hold a collective planetary intelligence, which humanity is part of and affects. If this is true, what will scientific observation show us about other civilizations on extraterrestrial planets? …
In 2018 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai had something to say: “AI is probably the most important thing humanity has ever worked on. I think of it as something more profound than electricity or fire.” Pichai’s comment was met with a healthy dose of skepticism. But nearly five years later, …
For the second time in five years, scientists are warning about declining human sperm counts. (I wrote about this issue in “Declining sperm counts: Nature’s answer to overpopulation?” early last year.) Read more
Sperm counts worldwide have halved over the past five decades, and the pace of the decline has more than doubled since the turn of the century, new research shows. The international team behind it says the data is alarming and points to a fertility crisis threatening the survival of humanity. Their meta-analysis looked at 223 …
As we mark the end of the ninth month of the largest, most brutal war in Europe since 1945, the worst thing we can do for peace on our continent is to push for peace negotiations with Vladimir Putin. The best thing we can do for peace is to increase our military, economic and humanitarian support …