The first thing Pepper told me was that he was running out of battery. “He’s got about 15 minutes before he dies,” Emanuel Nunez Sardinha, a Ph.D. candidate in robotics at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, told me. That turned out to be plenty. Sardinha greeted Pepper; then I did. I asked Pepper how he was doing, to which he replied, “How are you doing?” Then Sardinha resumed telling me about the sorts of things Pepper, a friendly, wide-eyed robot designed to
Branko Milanović’s century-spanning intellectual history of inequality in economic theory reveals the ideological reasons behind the field’s resurgence in the last few decades.
Branko Milanovic, 2017.
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Branko Milanović’s Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War is an intellectual history of how leading economists since the 18th century, from Adam Smith to Karl Marx and beyond, have thought about
Whenever I meet someone new and they discover that, as a professor of psychology and neuroscience, I study memory for a living, the most common question I get is: ‘Why am I so forgetful?’
I often ask myself the same question. Daily, I forget names, faces, conversations, even what I’m supposed to be doing at any given time.
We all wring our hands over those moments. Forgetting remains one of the most puzzling and frustrating aspects of the human experience
„Der Gedanke, dass jungen und leicht zu beeinflussenden Studenten die Unwahrheiten Ihres Briefes beigebracht werden könnten, macht mich absolut krank“, schrieb der UC-Regent.
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In 2016, Ox Lennon was trying to peek in the crevices inside a pile of rocks. Lennon, who uses they/them pronouns, considered everything from injecting builders’ foam into the tiny spaces to create a mold to dumping a heap of stones into a CT scanner. Still, they couldn’t get the data they were after: how to stack rocks so that a mouse wouldn’t squeeze through, but a small lizard could hide safely
Keeping count of nostril hairs and investigating the promiscuity of anchovies may seem completely unrelated.
But these studies are among 10 others to win this year’s spoof ‘Ig Nobels’, thanks to their ability to make scientists chuckle.
Traditionally hosted at Harvard University, this ceremony is the 33rd of its kind, and sees genuine Nobel laureates handing out awards to lucky academics.
The prize is ten trillion Zimbabwean dollars, which might sound like a huge amount, but is actually only the
This article originally appeared in Undark Magazine.
When Kevin E. Taylor became a pastor 22 years ago, he didn’t expect how often he’d have to help families make gut-wrenching decisions for a loved one who was very ill or about to die. The families in his predominantly Black church in New Jersey generally didn’t have any written instructions, or conversations to recall, to help them know if their relative wanted—or didn’t want—certain types of medical treatment.
So Taylor started
Der oberste Bildungsbeamte von Arkansas forderte am Montag Schulbezirke, die einen Advanced Placement African American Studies-Kurs anbieten, auf, ihre Kursmaterialien zur Überprüfung einzusenden, und verwies auf Bedenken, dass die Klasse möglicherweise nicht einem Landesgesetz entspricht, das die Art und Weise, wie Rasse im Klassenzimmer gelehrt wird, einschränkt.
Bildungsminister Jacob Oliva schickte den Brief an die fünf Bezirke, die erklärten, sie würden den Kurs weiterhin unterrichten, nachdem der Staat erklärt hatte, dass es sich nicht um einen genehmigten Kurs handele und
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Die Schüler kommen am Montag, den 24. August 2020, zum ersten Unterrichtstag im Little Rock School District zur Little Rock Central High School.
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Schüler an öffentlichen High Schools in Arkansas, die sich für den umstrittenen Advanced Placement African American Studies-Kurs eingeschrieben haben, können keine Anrechnung auf ihren Abschluss erhalten, teilten staatliche Bildungsbeamte den Bezirken letzte Woche mit.
Die Anweisung des Bildungsministeriums von Arkansas kam, als Lehrer und Schüler im ganzen Bundesstaat sich
Greta Gerwig’s hotly-anticipated Barbie movie has finally hit the big screen – and is set to supercharge the cinema industry left decimated by Covid.
‘Barbie’ – which is competing with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer for box office success – stars Australian actress Margot Robbie as the titular character and Ryan Gosling as her boyfriend Ken.
Robbie pays tribute to the original doll created by US inventor Ruth Handler, who saw a gap in the market after noticing not many children’s dolls
