by Omega | Jun 18, 2024 | Pandemics
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicineopens in a new tab or window has just proposed a new case definitionopens in a new tab or window for long COVID. The criteria specify that the condition “is present for at least 3 months as a...
by Omega | Jun 18, 2024 | Pandemics
The U.S. military’s anti-vax effort began in the spring of 2020 and expanded beyond Southeast Asia before it was terminated in mid-2021, Reuters determined. Tailoring the propaganda campaign to local audiences across Central Asia and the Middle East, the Pentagon used...
by Omega | Jun 18, 2024 | Worldviews
When Justin Trudeau meets Joe Biden at the G7 summit in Italy this week, Trudeau will probably not ask whether the United States is at risk of erupting in civil war in the next few years. A think tank housed within Trudeau’s government is already pondering that...
by Omega | Jun 18, 2024 | Pandemics
Under questioning by a congressional subcommittee, top officials from the National Institutes of Health, along with Dr. Anthony Fauci, acknowledged that some key parts of the public health guidance their agencies promoted during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic...
by Omega | Jun 18, 2024 | Polycrisis
In January, the computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton gave a lecture to Are We Doomed?, a course at the University of Chicago. He spoke via Zoom about whether artificial intelligence poses an existential threat. He was cheerful and expansive and apparently certain that...
by Omega | Jun 10, 2024 | Economy
As it happens, Susskind says precisely the same thing but in the reverse: that it’s degrowth’s advocates who suffer from a “lack of imagination.” The mirrored accusations are striking. Maybe it isn’t a matter so much of imagination scarcity as of where that...
by Omega | May 22, 2024 | Resilience
More than three-quarters of Americans say the United States is headed in the wrong direction. This year, for the first time, America dropped out of the top 20 happiest countries in the World Happiness Report. Some couples are choosing not to have children because of...
by Omega | May 22, 2024 | Environment
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments are the trusted source of scientific evidence for climate negotiations taking place under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Evidence-based decision-making needs to be...
by Omega | May 22, 2024 | Worldviews
They can outwit humans at board games, decode the structure of proteins and hold a passable conversation, but as AI systems have grown in sophistication so has their capacity for deception, scientists warn. “As the deceptive capabilities of AI systems become more...
by Omega | May 22, 2024 | Environment
Weare witnessing the acceptance of +1.5ºC or +2ºC global average temperatures becoming more commonplace to discuss, but these changes would already have huge impacts for millions of people’s lives, and are not something we want to further normalise through this work....
