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20Dec

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IN OTHER NEWS

Nobody Knows How It Actually Works – But Everyone’s Having A Field Day With ChatGPT

ChatGPT is the latest and most impressive artificially intelligent chatbot yet. It was released two weeks ago, and in just five days hit a million users. It’s being used so much that its servers have reached capacity several times. OpenAI, the company that developed it, is already being discussed as a potential Google slayer. Why look up something on a search engine when ChatGPT can write a whole paragraph explaining the answer? (There’s even a Chrome extension that lets you do both, side by side.) But what if we never know the secret sauce behind ChatGPT’s capabilities? The chatbot takes advantage of a number of technical advances published in open scientific literature in the past couple of decades. But any innovations unique to it are secret. OpenAI could well be trying to build a te...

These 5 Shows Bring Everyone Together Both Liberals And Conservatives With Wildly Different TV-Viewing Habits

31Mar

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TELEVISION

These 5 Shows Bring Everyone Together Both Liberals And Conservatives With Wildly Different TV-Viewing Habits

There’s been a lot of concern about how conservatives and liberals consume their news from sources that merely confirm their preexisting beliefs. The result, supposedly, has been a disintegration of a shared reality and a fracturing of the nation’s political life. But does this trend extend to the shows we choose to watch on TV to relax and unwind? Since 2007, the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California has been tracking how Americans’ favorite TV shows are connected to their attitudes on a host of hot-button political issues. In each of these studies – including our most recent one – we found that people with different political beliefs seem to be drawn to different types of TV entertainment. But in the most recent study, there was also a distinct overlap: certain ...

The Keys To Smart Cities That Work For Everyone – Infrastructure Law’s Digital Equity Goals

3Apr

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TECHNOLOGY

The Keys To Smart Cities That Work For Everyone – Infrastructure Law’s Digital Equity Goals

Gregory Porumbescu, Rutgers University - Newark The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed into law by President Joe Biden on Nov. 15, 2021, differs from past infrastructure investments not only in its size but also its emphasis on addressing long-standing and persistent racial injustice. This major investment comes at a time when smart-city initiatives, which aim to use technology to make cities more responsive to their residents’ needs, are growing more common around the world. Smart cities are made possible by high-speed internet connections. They rely on big data, algorithms and the internet of things to better serve their increasingly diverse communities. For example, smart cities might use data collected from wireless sensors to predict the number of buses that need to be i...

Everyone Knows Big Things Come From Texas

7Jul

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CELEBRITIES

Everyone Knows Big Things Come From Texas

Who knew that things that come from Texas would make you big . . . in your pants! Well, that's exactly what Euless, Texas, native Sarah Shahi will do to any red-blooded American man, even if she's of Persian descent. Come on, people, if this doesn't prove that more than just oil comes from the Middle East nothing will! She first came to notice by winning beauty contests and eventually became the cover model for the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders’ 2000 calendar. We can thank director Robert Altman for Sarah's onscreen career. He encouraged Sarah to move to Hollywood after she worked as an extra on his Dr. T and the Women (2000). That led to small roles on TV shows such as Spin City and Boston Public, which led to her big break as Erica, working with a naked Will Ferrell, in the comedy Old Schoo...

4 Valuable Self-Care Tips Everyone Should Remember

19Jun

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SELF

4 Valuable Self-Care Tips Everyone Should Remember

There’s a big difference between being selfish and looking after your own well-being. Ultimately, people have a responsibility to safeguard their personal health and wellness. The bad news is that it can be easy to lose sight of that fact. Work, familial, social, and other obligations can become distracting or even overwhelming. And, as such, people may forget to practice proper self-care. If that sounds familiar, then this blog is for you. Here are four important tips to always keep in mind in order to protect your own health and happiness: Schedule in “Me Time” If you’re like millions of others, then odds are your schedule is packed to the gills. Regardless of your job or family situation, it’s vital to set aside some time each day just for yourself. Whether that’s fifteen minutes to m...

Generous Unemployment Benefits Job Policies Create More Happiness For Everyone

6Nov

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BUSINESS, IN OTHER NEWS

Generous Unemployment Benefits Job Policies Create More Happiness For Everyone

Losing one’s job undoubtedly makes someone less happy, a feeling tens of millions of people around the world are experiencing right now. Even as the labor market recovers, as we saw in the latest U.S. employment report on Nov. 6, the number of people who have been without a job for more than 26 weeks continues to increase. Governments have implemented a wide variety of labor market policies to address the pandemic’s impact, from beefing up funding of existing unemployment policies to supplemental income programs like the US$600 checks that the U.S. sent out during part of the pandemic. While these policies are intended to alleviate the economic pain of losing one’s job, we, as happiness researchers, are more interested in how they might affect people’s well-being during the pandemic. Br...

American society teaches everyone to be racist – but you can rewrite subconscious stereotypes

18Sep

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SOCIAL JUSTICE

American society teaches everyone to be racist – but you can rewrite subconscious stereotypes

Progress toward a more just and equitable society may be on the horizon. Since the killing of George Floyd by a white police officer in May, around the United States, millions of people have taken to the streets, statues have been felled, leaders have been fired and pressured to resign, and activists-turned-politicians have gained traction in prominent political races. But until people recognize that racism is wired into the American mind, we believe that few of these efforts are likely to actually reduce racist behavior. Our work provides a way to understand how race and society influence the brain. One of us (Waddell) is a sociologist who researches social inequality; the other (Pipitone) is a psychologist who examines the biological implications of human behavior. Our respective work...

The homeless could be hit hard by Coronavirus and that could hit everyone hard

4Apr

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COVID-19, HEALTH & WELLNESS, Journalism

The homeless could be hit hard by Coronavirus and that could hit everyone hard

As the number of cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, continues to grow, the nation is on edge. Doctors and scientists do not know what percentage of the general population has been infected and what percentage of the infected develops symptoms. State and local governments and the federal public health system are deploying strategies to contain the spread of the virus and consider ways to mitigate the effects of the disease on vulnerable groups, the health care system and the economy. But amid all the planning, and a growing sense of panic, the impact of the spread of COVID-19 among homeless people is not being widely discussed. It should, however, be of special concern to local officials. I am a professor of preventive medicine and health policy at the Keck School ...

Joaquin Phoenix’s lips mocked – here’s what everyone should know about cleft lip

4Apr

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

Joaquin Phoenix’s lips mocked – here’s what everyone should know about cleft lip

After discussing actor Joaquin Phoenix’s appearance on her talk show earlier this month, Wendy Williams received near universal condemnation for mocking those affected with cleft lip – a common birth defect in which the upper lip does not form completely while still an embryo. To her credit, Williams was quick to apologize. Note that it is also unclear whether Phoenix has a cleft lip or simply a scar. Unfortunately, however, the incident was another reminder of how individuals with facial differences (and their families) often feel stigmatized and can face discrimination and social isolation. We have each devoted major portions of our professional lives to understanding what causes clefts and to the treatment and advocacy of those affected. We are geneticists and a pediatric craniomaxillo...

What everyone should know about Reconstruction 150 years after the 15th Amendment’s ratification

6Jan

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SOCIAL JUSTICE

What everyone should know about Reconstruction 150 years after the 15th Amendment’s ratification

I’ll never forget a student’s response when I asked during a middle school social studies class what they knew about black history: “Martin Luther King freed the slaves.” Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929, more than six decades after the time of enslavement. To me, this comment underscored how closely Americans associate black history with slavery. Many African Americans made education a high priority after the Civil War. National Museum of African American History and Culture While shocked, I knew this mistaken belief reflected the lack of time, depth and breadth schools devote to black history. Most students get limited information and context about what African Americans have experienced since our ancestors arrived here four centuries ago. Without independent study, most adults a...