Perhaps the AI apocalypse will paradoxically encourage educators to adopt more traditional approaches to teaching and giving assignments.
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Hopefully the McDonald’s corporation will realize that the PlayPlace is a big part of what makes its restaurants so appealing.
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He notes, if our brains evolved merely to help us stay alive, then it’s strange that those same mental states could invent the telescope to explore the cosmos.
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People debate whether Huxley’s Brave New World or Orwell’s 1984 gives a clearer diagnosis of the Western malaise. Fahrenheit 451 should be in the conversation.
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Lin notes that scientists and online outlets like Wikipedia, entrenched in a materialistic perspective, tend to simply dismiss them.
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“The world is intelligible,” Ross Douthat said to Jonah Goldberg on “The Remnant” podcast. Douthat, an opinion columnist at The New York Times, has a new book coming out on religion and why “everyone should be more religious,” and he joined Goldberg to discuss the book along with our current political landscape. Douthat, a Catholic, referenced fine tuning and the profound evidence of intentional design in nature as one of the motivations for his own faith. He told Goldberg that it’s remarkable that we have minds that are able to accurately comprehend the world around us, let alone the chemical makeup of the universe. Our questioning natures, bent on discovering the truth of things, demonstrate that we live in something Read More ›
Super Bowl 2025 is less than two weeks away, with the Philadelphia Eagles finding themselves in a rematch with reigning champions, the Kansas City Chiefs. Sports engagement has ballooned over the past few years through the medium of online sports betting. Formerly illegal, sports betting has taken the U.S. by storm, with major celebrities and sports stars going on air advocating the practice. Making money off your favorite team just got wildly popular. But is it healthy? A recent article titled “I Got Divorced Because of Sports Betting” shows the dark side of the gamble. Pitched as an easy way to make money online, no one talks about the mad fury that ensues after your bet fails to deliver, your Read More ›
The Constitution guards against government interference in the speech of American citizens.
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Trump has garnered support from an unlikely cast of tech giants. What happens now?
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A federal ban of the wildly popular social media app TikTok is set to take effect on Sunday, unless a last-minute intervention occurs, or an American-owned business buys the company. The FBI, as well as several state authorities around the country, have said the app represents a national security threat, as it allows a foreign adversary to access the data of the 170 million Americans who use it. Apart from the issue of national security, plenty of people, particularly sociologist Jonathan Haidt, have pointed out TikTok’s profound negative impact on kids and users in general. TikTok uses an advanced algorithm system to hook its users. Haidt and his research assistant, Zach Rausch, list out the multiple harms: Executives within the Read More ›
The poet employs language to do justice to the subject matter, while the totalitarian hijacks language by trading reality with ideology.
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Johnson’s views on AI sound crazy, but they reflect a burgeoning hope that computerized superintelligence will somehow solve all the enigmas of existence.
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Following the data, observing personal experience, and developing another vision for human flourishing can get us a step closer to a fuller, intentional life.
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While there might not be a culture-wide renewal of faith yet, some significant voices are heralding a new way forward.
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“You are the media now.” If Oxford were to have a “phrase of the year,” it might be that single little line, which, if you kept in touch with the media’s pulse over the last few months, makes a lot of sense. 2024 was arguably the year of the meteoric rise of the independent creator and the calamitous fall of the so-called legacy media. More than any other time in the digital era, it’s obvious that people with no ties to the gatekeeping institutions of our culture can create and distribute videos, journalism, and literature. You don’t have to send a million stories to The New Yorker anymore, only to be rejected. You can post your own commentary on Substack Read More ›
Singal wisely concludes the essay by saying that we don’t have a right-wing or a left-wing problem but a human problem.
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Finally, the FBI and Homeland Security is starting to investigate, and we will hopefully have a transparent answer about the origin of the drones.
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The novel is one of those traditional mediums that struggles in our screen-heavy society.
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The fact that such a video is available and became so widely watched is a horror in itself; a grisly crime is now a scene in a murder episode.
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Ironically, “brain rot” started making the rounds primarily on TikTok, one of the biggest culprits when it comes to getting people addicted to screens.
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