There is no American history without the histories of Indigenous and enslaved peoples. And this past has consequences today.
Saturday, 17 July 2021
DeepMind’s AI for Protein Structure is Coming to the Masses
Machine-learning systems from the company and from a rival academic group are now open source and freely accessible.
Friday, 16 July 2021
The Need for a New Garden City Movement
In the early 1900s, a strange and wonderful planning fad caught on. It can still help us think about building livable places.
Thursday, 15 July 2021
Wednesday, 14 July 2021
Trudeau Refuses to Condemn Cuba's Communist Regime
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has refused to condemn Cuba's communist regime amid anti-authoritarian protests on the island.
Our Bare-faced Teflon PM Blunders Merrily Along
Usually governments are not defeated; they defeat themselves. This government has gone to extraordinary lengths to do that, but to no avail.
Tuesday, 13 July 2021
Tel Aviv Will Test Dog Poop DNA to Fine Owners Who Don’t Clean Up
City council approves setting up database, obligating owners to submit their pets’ DNA details when receiving license.
The Soviet Spectre Haunting Afghanistan
When the war ended in 1988, it was not because the Soviets had been beaten on the battlefield but because they had been exhausted.
Monday, 12 July 2021
Canada Has Abandoned Middle Class
A powerful work that aims to unlock stagnating wages, by adjusting immigration and boosting productivity.
Sunday, 11 July 2021
Mathematx
Ideas from ethnomathematics (including Western mathematics), postcolonial theory, aesthetics, biology, and Indigenous knowledge in order to propose a new vision for practicing mathematics.
Insect Scientists Dropping Common Names for 2 Species that Included an Ethnic Slur
“If people are feeling excluded because of what we call something, that’s not acceptable,” the president of the Entomological Society of America said.