Nouriel Roubini at Project Syndicate: “Blockchain has been heralded as a potential panacea for everything from poverty and famine to cancer. In fact, it is the most overhyped – and least useful – technology in human history.

Interview with Paul Tucker by Benedict King: “In your book, you place what you call the “administrative state” at the heart of the political dilemmas facing the liberal political order. Could you tell us what you mean by ‘the administrative state’ and the dilemmas it poses for democratic societies?

How do we respond to natural disasters? What comes to mind? Large relief organizations like the American Red Cross? Or perhaps the Federal Emergency and Management Agency? Well, those images are certainly part of the story — but they’re not the whole story. In our new podcast series, The Response, we aim to share a perspective that isn’t extensively covered in the mainstream media.

Robert Raymond: When Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico on Sept. 20, 2017, Judith Rodriguez was asleep in her home. Or rather, she was trying to sleep, but the sounds of the deadly storm blowing over the island woke her up.

My first ever rendezvous with the word “IoT” was during my final year at a college conference, when a prominent regional start-up figure dispensed an oblique reference to it. I learned that IoT was the next big thing veering towards the mass market, which would eventually change the course of everyday human existence by making our way of life more convenient. What caught my attention was the term “things” in IoT – an unbounded category which could be anything from the the bed you sleep on, the clothes you drape, or even the personal toiletries you use.

Angesichts einer steigenden Anzahl multiresistenter Krankheitserreger ist es wichtig, neue Antibiotika und Therapieformen zu entwickeln. Ein Beispiel ist die „antimikrobielle photodynamische Inaktivierung“ (aPDI). Dabei werden Bakterien schnell und effizient abgetötet: Mittels Lichtenergie wird in der Zelle ein Prozess in Gang gesetzt, bei dem hochreaktive zelltoxische Sauerstoffspezies (sog. reactive oxygen species, ROS) entstehen.

On October 2nd, the Internet Society was happy to support the ITU in organizing the IXP Workshop on Peering and Interconnection in the Arab World “Towards unlocking regional interconnection opportunities” It was held in Manama-Bahrain, and kindly hosted by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of Bahrain.

W3-Professor Dr. Holger Stark lehrt seit 2013 am Institut für pharmazeutische und medizinische Chemie an der HHU und hatte für die 8. Lange Nacht der Industrie eine Vorlesung zum Thema Parkinson-Therapie vorbereitet. Der Direktor des Instituts für Pharmazeutische Chemie ist Miterfinder von 'Pitolisant', einem Histamin-H3-Rezeptorantagonisten zur Behandlung von Narkolepsie, einer Schlaferkrankung, die beim Patienten zu starkem Schlafdrang am Tag führt.

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Paper by Daniela Paolotti;  Elad Yom-Tov; Natalia Adler; Ciro Cattuto; Kyriaki Kalimeri; Michele Tizzoni; Stefaan Verhulst;  and Andrew Young in the Journal of Medical Internet Research: “India is home to 20% of the world’s suicide deaths. In India, and around the world, young people are especially at risk of suicide. While statistics regarding suicide in India are distressingly high, data and cultural issues likely contribute to a widespread underreporting of the problem.

Richard Wike and Alexandra Castillo at Pew Research Center: “An engaged citizenry is often considered a sign of a healthy democracy. High levels of political and civic participation increase the likelihood that the voices of ordinary citizens will be heard in important debates, and they confer a degree of legitimacy on democratic institutions. However, in many nations around the world, much of the public is disengaged from politics.

Con el propósito de continuar generando lazos e instancias de coordinación entre las diferentes planteles estatales, y en la búsqueda de aunar criterios e interpretaciones respecto a las diferentes normas que rigen a estas instituciones, especialmente las referidas a la Ley 21.094 sobre Universidades del Estado, se realizó la segunda cita de direcciones jurídicas del Consorcio de Universidades del Estado de Chile (Cuech), cita desarrollada en la Casa Central de la U. de Chile.

En esta columna de opinión publicada en La Segunda, Andrés Peñailillo, oficial de Seguridad de la Información de la Dirección de Servicios de Tecnologías de Información y Comunicaciones (DSTI), analiza los desafíos pendientes para el país en materia de ciberseguridad en un contexto de cada vez mayor interconexión y dependencia tecnológica.Para EE.UU., Canadá, Australia y los más de 25 países que conforman la Unión Europea, octubre es el mes de la ciberseguridad y Chile por primera vez se suma a esta importante iniciativa mediante la Ley 21.113, que de hoy e

Bajo la línea temática "Las Fronteras del Arte: Nuevas articulaciones en torno a las comunidades y los saberes", la cuarta edición de este festival artístico ofrecerá gratuitamente un concierto para piano y voz sobre el legado de Violeta Parra; la obra de danza experimental "Lumin"; y un seminario con expertos nacionales e internacionales, entre otras instancias, para vincular el trabajo de creación artística desarrollado en la Casa de Bello con toda la ciudadanía.Profundizar el debate nacional sobre el arte en el contexto contemporáneo desde la relación entre polít

Aprovechando los avances de la tecnología ligada a la inteligencia artificial en las áreas de visión y audición, un grupo de académicos del Departamento de Gestión y Sistemas de Información (DCS) de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios busca generar un prototipo para aumentar la seguridad y calidad clínica en los hospitales nacionales, evitando errores y ayudando a detectar los riesgos para reducir su frecuencia.

Il y a deçà quelques jours, paraissait le World University Ranking faisant état des classements des meilleurs universités dans le monde.

The news that optical physicist Donna Strickland did not have a Wikipedia page before winning the Nobel Prize in Physics brought renewed attention to Women in Red, a long-standing volunteer effort to add more biographies about women to the encyclopedia.

This post ran in the Los Angeles Times on 18 October 2018.
When Donna Strickland won the Nobel Prize this month, she became only the third woman in history to receive the award in physics. An optical physicist at the University of Waterloo, Strickland is brilliant, accomplished and inspiring. To use Wikipedia parlance, she is very clearly notable.

Over the course of the last decade, in response to significant pressure from the US government and other governments, service providers have assumed private obligations to regulate online content that have no basis in public law. For US tech companies, a robust regime of "voluntary agreements" to resolve content-related disputes has grown up on the margins of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the Communications Decency Act (CDA).

The Internet is an incredible tool that can help amplify voices that may not otherwise be heard. But when it comes to making sure everyone can have access to this tool, we can’t downplay the power of human connections to overcome connectivity challenges.