Society

I offer this as a tentative foray into a discussion about abortion, obviously spurred by the recent SCOTUS decision, Dobbs v. Jackson.  I note that I have long been convinced that as brilliant…

From space, no political borders or boundaries are visible. The Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, and land masses are subject to common geophysical forces, and human-induced effects are confronting the whole globe. Looking beyond our home planet, the Moon, the planets of our solar system, and the cosmos beyond beckon us and hold the dreams of all […]

It must be more than a coincidence that there are almost enough jobs for everyone–a billion more jobs on Earth than there were a generation ago. Unemployment is debilitating and a real proble…

As more workers choose to work remotely, organizations face a dilemma: do they pay remote workers the same as those living in high-cost metropolitan regions? For some companies, that conundrum is already a reality.

A first-of-its-kind study from the Violence Prevention Research Program at UC Davis shows an algorithm can forecast the likelihood of firearm suicide using handgun purchasing data. The study was published in JAMA Network Open.

Incentives are drawing high-paid tech workers, and challenging how we think about local economic development

Gun purchases rose to record levels in 2020 and 2021, according to a Washington Post analysis. Gun deaths reached a 25-year peak in 2021.

What will it take for Democratic leadership to cry foul?

Why class, a common topic in British comedy, too rarely gets discussed in American culture.

She talks about seeing Emmett just before his death

The shift back towards landlordism didn’t happen by accident. It has been engineered by the State and partly paid for by the taxpayer

Putin's next (and final) battle. (This thread went viral in Russian so I decided to publish an English version as well)A long thread about what, in my opinion, is Putin's strategy right now, and the last gamble he is making to break Ukraine's resistance.⁰⁰1/26— Leonid Volkov (@leonidvolkov) July 17, 2022

The activism spotlight has left the Coal River Valley. But when the battlefield is your home, you don’t give up the fight.

Dr. Beia Spiller is a Fellow and Transportation Program Director at Resources for the Future. She had previously served as a Lead Senior Economist at EDF. This post is the final in a series dedicated to the future of the electricity sector and new scholarship supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foun

Women Developers Academy and Google Cloud Platform helped Women Techmakers ambassador Annalisa Arcella become a machine learning engineer.

Building Trust At Scale When Trust Has Fallen Off A Cliff – a DisruptHR talk by Kelsy Trigg VP + Global Head of HR Project Office at SAP and Darryl Stickel – Executive Consultant DisruptHR Vancouver 8.0 – June 6, 2019 in Vancouver, BC #DisruptHRYVR

Scaling Trust with DevRel, Pt. 1

The role of systems in making big organizations seem small

How to build and re-create trust at all different levels of your career and your community's maturity - a clear system

You hear it throughout corporate boardrooms everywhere as 2020 kicks off. How do we scale our business? How do we […]

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Senior executives involved in global operation to thwart law enforcement, leaked files reveal

Emmanuel Macron is among leaders who helped the ride-hailing company disrupt new markets.

Regulators entered Uber’s offices only to see computers go dark before their eyes as the company used covert tech to thwart government raids, leaked records show.

In military intelligence, he was renowned for his skill connecting the dots and finding terrorists. But somewhere along the way, his dot detector began spinning out of control.