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By Roger Harris / CounterPunch Sixty years ago, a crowd of us young people anxiously massed around a black-and-white TV in my college student union building. The US and the USSR were in an existential standoff. The US had deployed ballistic nuclear missiles in Turkey. When the Soviets responded by placing missiles in Cuba, the […]

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Host Jordan Smith and law professor Hila Keren discuss a Colorado case that could expand the right to discriminate under the guise of free speech.

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Researchers agree that social trust causes many positive social outcomes. But they differ on its definition and causes

- by Kevin Vallier

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Unfolding like a haunting dream, life’s big, unsolvable questions turn one man’s existential crisis into a stunning animation

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A World Fragmented by Inequality.

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It’s easy to become blasé about the built world. Tune in more deeply and architectural adventures await around each corner

- by Colin Ellard

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On this week’s Lever Time: David interviews Rep. Mary Peltola (D-Alaska); and speaks with Getty whistleblower Marlena Sonn.

Texas community fights to save its coastline as the developers of Rio Grande LNG reassure investors over climate impact.

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FRED economic database additions allow you to get more-detailed answers to questions about the U.S. economy, consumers, businesses and interest rates.

Much of our talk about ChatGPT has been about students using it to cheat, but there are ways to use it that academics might be interested in trying for themselves. One interesting set of ChatGPT apps are “readers.” You upload a PDF and then you ask the app questions about it. One of these apps is Filechat. Another is Humata. (There’s also Embra, a ChatGPT-based assistant that integrates into your other apps, such as Chrome; it is in limited beta release, and I have not tried it.) Filechat gives you a certain number of free questions; when you run out, you have the option to buy more. Humata is free, but seems more prone to crashing. I tried both out on an article I’d been meaning to read, but hadn’t (and still haven’t, alas): “Understanding Philosophy” by Michael Hannon (Nottingham) and James Nguyen (Stockholm), published recently in Inquiry. Of the two, I thought Humata had better answers, but keep in mind this is an n=1 experiment.

Evidence-Based Medicine remains a subfield of Big Pharma marketing and conventional neoliberal economics.

The Ninth Doctor goes up against the Vashta Nerada in a brand-new box set of frightful Doctor Who full-cast audio adventures, Shades of Fear, released today by Big Finish Productions. Starring Christopher Eccleston, Shades of Fear is the final box set of The Ninth Doctor Adventures series two and features the ravenous hunters, the Vashta […]

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Pasta não apenas se omitiu de buscar novas áreas para preservar como entregou de bandeja outras 39 que poderia transformar em unidades de conservação.

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Rishi Sunak 'needs to deal with the issue of moonlighting MPs once and for all' the Labour Party told Byline Times 

Russia had a budget shortfall due to a fall in energy-related tax receipts. How serious a problem is this development?

E-commerce sites are getting bloated and junky.

BP is dialing back its climate pledge.