UN Projections: China’s Population to Decrease Significantly by 2075

Overview What we’re showing Population data and forecasts for the world’s 6 largest countries. This data comes from the UN World Population Prospects 2022 (latest version). Projections are based on a medium fertility scenario, which assumes countries will converge at a birth rate of 1.85 children per woman, by 2045-2050. China’s decline China’s population boom has officially come …

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MIT’s New AI Model Predicts Human Behavior With Uncanny Accuracy

A new technique can be used to predict the actions of human or AI agents who behave suboptimally while working toward unknown goals. MIT and other researchers developed a framework that models irrational or suboptimal behavior of a human or AI agent, based on their computational constraints. Their technique can help predict an agent’s future actions, …

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Constructor Theory. @DavidDeutschPhysicist (David Deutsch)

This is a physics theory that David Deutsch and Chiara Markletto developed in 2012. It is proposed as an approach to fundamental physics that focuses on which physical transformations are possible and impossible, and why. It aims to unify theories of information, knowledge, thermodynamics, and life. Watch the Video

Surgeon says ‘toxic’ DEI in medicine has led to ‘erosion’ of quality care: ‘Dangerous to our patients’ (Kristine Parks)

A surgeon blasted a top medical organization for doubling down on its antiracist initiatives at a time when many corporations and organizations are distancing themselves from these controversial principles. “America’s surgeons are not woke enough, according to the American College of Surgeons (ACS),” Dr. Richard Bosshardt penned in his column for the National Review this week.  The surgeon …

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A Day of Tension and Protests on Campus (Johanna Alonso, et al.)

Tensions flared on campuses across the country Thursday as groups of students gathered to show their support for Israelis or Palestinians in the midst of an escalating war between Israel and Hamas. Students for Justice in Palestine declared Thursday a “day of resistance,” calling on individual campus chapters to rally in support of Palestinian liberation. “As …

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A constitutional revolution is underway at the Supreme Court, as the conservative supermajority rewrites basic understandings of the roots of US law (Morgan Marietta)

In a 2006 episode of the television show “Boston Legal,” conservative lawyer Denny Crane asserted that he had a constitutional right to carry a concealed firearm: “And the Supreme Court is going to say so, just as soon as they overturn Roe v. Wade.” That was a joke, an unimaginable event, when the show aired 17 years ago. …

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