Friday, May 9, 2025

Pope Francis’s remarkable peacemaking life

As Francis demonstrated, there's no better way to live life than to practice, teach and promote nonviolence.

Archaeology can now tell us how people have muffled and challenged economic inequality across...

Without archaeology, there is no way to truly examine economic inequality, its causes, and its consequences over very long time spans on a global scale.

The AI power play: How ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and others are shaping the future...

The competition among top AI models is transforming how we work, create, and communicate. But as these systems grow smarter and more accessible, new questions emerge about cost, sustainability, and responsible development in a rapidly evolving landscape.

How worker-owned news outlets are changing the media industry

For growing numbers of media companies, employee ownership offers journalistic freedom and job stability.

ProPublica’s embrace of large language models echoes what I’ve been saying all along

This distinction between “AI” as a vague, catch-all term and the specific type of advanced pattern-finding model actually at play here matters immensely.

If you believe in social justice, you believe in veganism

Eating animal products is analogous to the oppressive and unjust actions by powerful humans upon other humans.

The Trump-Musk cultural revolution

Do they want to root out all vestiges of progressivism, liberalism, and secularism from American society?

DeepSeek is showing us that another tech world is possible

How one Chinese company’s AI tool has slashed trillions from the US stock market, and revealed a future for technology without American tech hegemony.

Why we evolved to dream at night and what dreams mean

We forget most of our dreams. So why do we have them?

Phoenix places 10th on Worst Zoo List, pledges to shut down elephant exhibit

Phoenix Zoo’s decision is part of a growing trend among zoos across North America with about 40 zoos closing their elephant exhibits and many more pledging to close their exhibits.