Jason W. Moore & Raj Patel: Settled agriculture, cities, nation-states, information technology and every other facet of the modern world have unfolded within a long era of climatic good fortune. Those days are gone. Sea levels are rising; climate is becoming less stable; average temperatures are increasing. Civilization emerged in a geological era known as the Holocene. Some have called our new climate era the Anthropocene.
Trini Trimpop (*1951) gehört zu den wichtigsten Protagonisten des deutschen Punk- und Undergroundfilms. Darüber hinaus war er als Musiker und Manager (Die Toten Hosen), Moderator („Keynote“, Kanal 4) und Autor („Exzess all Areas“, 2011) tätig. Seine beiden Langfilme genießen Kultstatus: „Humanes Töten“ (1980, mit Muscha) war für den Max Ophüls Preis nominiert, „Decoder“ (1984, mit Klaus Maeck, Muscha und Volker Schaefer) hatte neben einer originellen Geschichte eine ebensolche Besetzung zu bieten, darunter William S. Burroughs, Christiane Felscherinow und F.M. Einheit.
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A showcase of works by metaLAB artists exploring the emotional effects of algorithms, the uncanny experiences of sensor-enabled computers, and what intelligent machines might reveal about understandings of the nature of intelligence itself.
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It’s not always easy to be reasonable. Very often, reason is uncomfortable and a reasonable choice can be difficult to make. Fortunately, rational algorithms promise to support us and take... MORE
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My article Everything Radiates: Does the Fourth Amendment Regulate Side-Channel Cryptanalysis?, 49 Conn. L. Rev. 1393 (2017), has recently been published by the Connecticut Law Review. You can download it from SSRN here.
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“Culture, any culture… depends on the quality of its record of knowledge.” — Don Waters, “‘Preserving Digital Information”
Congress's chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said "every Indian must condemn this mindless act" of the government.
The news by PTI was published in Moneycontrol on January 7, 2018
Ben Schiller at FastCompany: “Americans could do with new ways to save on healthcare….
Obwohl bereits seit den 1970er Jahren bekannt, setzt sich erst seit jüngerer Zeit auch in der klinischen Forschung die Erkenntnis durch, dass reaktive Sauerstoff- und Stickstoffspezies, die in höheren Konzentrationen die zellularen oxidativen Schädigungen herbeiführen, in geringeren und damit physiologischen Konzentrationen essentiell für die Regulation vieler Signalwege sind. Eine Eliminierung dieser Spezies durch zu hohe, zum Beispiel künstlich herbeigeführte, Antioxidantien-Konzentrationen, kann sogar zelluläre Signalwege unterbinden.
(Open Access) Book by Ralph Schroeder: “The internet has fundamentally transformed society in the past 25 years, yet existing theories of mass or interpersonal communication do not work well in understanding a digital world. Nor has this understanding been helped by disciplinary specialization and a continual focus on the latest innovations.
La profesora Tania Tamayo fue galardonada con el Premio Municipal de Literatura 2017 por su libro "Incendio en la torre 5. Las 81 muertes que Gendarmería quiere olvidar", mientras que la egresada Cynthia Rimsky lo fue por la novela "El futuro es un lugar extraño". A esto se suma que Victoria Ramírez, periodista y funcionaria de la U. de Chile, resultó ganadora en la Categoría Juvenil del Premio Municipal Juegos Literarios Gabriela Mistral.
Desde el martes 26 de diciembre, a poco de conocerse los resultados de la PSU, los jóvenes y sus familias han llegado a ser partícipes del encuentro en el que la Universidad de Chile busca apoyarlos en el proceso de admisión 2018. Actividades abiertas, información a distancia, e instancias de conversación con estudiantes de las distintas carreras son parte de lo destacado en este evento que continúa en Diagonal Paraguay 205 hasta este viernes 29 a las 13:00 hrs.
Miles de jóvenes y sus familias participaron este miércoles de la segunda jornada del evento organizado por la Casa de Bello para orientar e informar a la comunidad sobre el proceso de admisión, además de abrir un espacio de experiencia universitaria a partir de charlas, como la que realizó el astrónomo, académico y Premio Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, José Maza.La segunda jornada de la edición 2017 de la Semana del Postulante tuvo una concurrida participación, con la presencia de 2.852 visitantes que desde muy temprano llegaron a la
In 2016, Norwegian writer Tom Egeland, uploaded a post on Facebook, listing seven photographs that “changed the history of warfare”. The post featured the Pulitzer-winning image, ‘The Terror of War’, which depicts a naked nine-year-old running from a napalm attack during the Vietnam War. Facebook deleted the post, and suspended Egeland’s account. A Norwegian newspaper, […]
Levente Polyak: Spacehive is a civic crowdfunding platform based in London. The platform, established in 2012, supports projects aimed at improving local civic and community spaces. Besides collecting donations from individuals, Spacehive also connects initiatives with funding sources including city councils, companies and grant-makers. Furthermore, the organisation and its partners help people with project ideas to build support from a community, make viable plans and create stronger impact.
The distributive concept of the 21st century is not about redistribution, but about sharing the sources of wealth from the start. An interview with Kate Raworth, by Triodos bank.
Personal data, including biometric information, of citizens safe and secure, says UIDAI on Aadhaar data breach.
The article by Komal Gupta was published by Livemint on January 7, 2018
Kevin Stark: The Great Lakes Commons is a regional grassroots initiative advocating for the freshwater chain of lakes in the upper Midwest and Mideast parts of the U.S. and Canada. As part of that mission, the group has released a new toolkit designed to help communities and residents protect the lakes, which its members view as a public, natural resource.
Elisabeth A. Mason in The New York Times: “When it comes to artificial intelligence and jobs, the prognostications are grim. The conventional wisdom is that A.I. might soon put millions of people out of work — that it stands poised to do to clerical and white collar workers over the next two decades what mechanization did to factory workers over the past two.