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29Sep

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DIGITAL MARKETING

Podcast Of The Week: What It Takes To Win Fast In An Ever-Changing And Highly Competitive Industry: Exploring The Hawke Method With Hawke Media Founder Erik Huberman

Interview with Erik Huberman - Founder and CEO, Hawke Media Episode 078- What it takes to win fast in an ever-changing and highly competitive industry: Exploring The Hawke Method with Hawke Media Founder Erik Huberman Start Your Outgrow Trial Outgrow is an interactive marketing platform that lets marketers and digital agencies create quizzes, calculators and assessments to boost their marketing efforts. Our tools help companies generate new leads, increase their social footprint and engage their customers. We've seen numerous examples of Outgrow customers getting up to 50% conversions using calculators and quizzes! Saksham Sharda Creative Director, Outgrow Erik Huberman Founder and CEO, Hawke Media Erik is the founder and CEO of Hawke Media, a highly...

Photographer Shannon Taggart Takes Viewers Inside The World Of Séances, Mediums And Orbs – As Spiritualism’s Popularity Grows

4Apr

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SUPERNATURAL

Photographer Shannon Taggart Takes Viewers Inside The World Of Séances, Mediums And Orbs – As Spiritualism’s Popularity Grows

The word séance conjures images of darkened rooms, entranced mediums, strange occurrences and spirit voices. For many contemporary audiences, these visions might seem like something out of the past, or perhaps a movie, rather than a living belief system. For the past 20 years, American photographer Shannon Taggart has explored modern spiritualism, a religion whose adherents believe in communication with the dead. Her photographic series “Séance,” which was recently on view at the Albin O. Kuhn Gallery at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, provides a window into this often misunderstood religion. As a curator and art historian who has researched apparition photographs and the art of conspiracy theory, I was drawn to Taggart’s images because they offer a lens through which to e...

On An Airplane Why Does It Takes Longer To Fly From East To West

3Apr

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TECHNOLOGY

On An Airplane Why Does It Takes Longer To Fly From East To West

I am a retired United States Air Force pilot and flight instructor, and a few years ago I was sitting in the cockpit of a Boeing 747 airplane. I was 29,000 feet in the sky, flying from New Jersey to Sacramento, California, and then to Hawaii. The jet stream can have a big impact on how long a plane ride will last. Aeroprints via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Why does it take longer to fly from east to west on an airplane? – Henry D, Age 7, Cambridge, Massachusetts It took six hours to fly and land the plane safely in Sacramento. After a few hours in California, I continued to Hawaii,which took almost another five hours of flying. That was 11 total hours of flying. After enjoying the sunshine in Hawaii, it was time to fly back to New Jersey. This trip went much faster...

Once A Pipe Dream On Capitol Hill, Legalizing Marijuana Takes An Important Step Forward

3Apr

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POLITICS

Once A Pipe Dream On Capitol Hill, Legalizing Marijuana Takes An Important Step Forward

In early December, the House of Representatives passed the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, or the MORE Act. The bill sought to decriminalize marijuana nationally by removing cannabis from the federal government’s Schedule I controlled substance list. That category indicates the drug has high potential for abuse and no therapeutic value. It also includes drugs like methamphetamine and heroin. The bill is a long way from passage. With a new Congress just seated, it would need to be reintroduced and pass again in the House. Even if that happens, it is unlikely to get through the Senate. Still, the initial success of the MORE Act is an important sign that sentiment in Washington is changing, guided by increasing public backing for cannabis reform. Two-thirds of Ameri...

Here’s Why AI Is So Power-Hungry – It Takes A Lot Of Energy For Machines To Learn

4Apr

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AI, TECHNOLOGY, VIDEO REELS

Here’s Why AI Is So Power-Hungry – It Takes A Lot Of Energy For Machines To Learn

This month, Google forced out a prominent AI ethics researcher after she voiced frustration with the company for making her withdraw a research paper. The paper pointed out the risks of language-processing artificial intelligence, the type used in Google Search and other text analysis products. Data centers like this Google facility in Iowa use copious amounts of electricity. Chad Davis/Flickr, CC BY-SA Among the risks is the large carbon footprint of developing this kind of AI technology. By some estimates, training an AI model generates as much carbon emissions as it takes to build and drive five cars over their lifetimes. I am a researcher who studies and develops AI models, and I am all too familiar with the skyrocketing energy and financial costs of AI research. Why have AI models b...

“Big Girls Don’t Cry” – It Takes a Tough Woman to Withstand Harassment in American Politics

13Oct

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Journalism

“Big Girls Don’t Cry” – It Takes a Tough Woman to Withstand Harassment in American Politics

"BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY. The Election that Changed Everything for American Women." Rebecca Traister. New York: Free Press. In BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY, Rebecca Traister follows key women involved in the 2008 Presidential election, to tell the story "about the country and its culture, how we all reacted to the arrival of these surprising new figures on the presidential stage and what they showed us about how far we had come and how far we had yet to go." She does an extremely good job of reaching that goal for most of us. Traister basic contexts are gender politics (including but not narrowly defined by feminism and misogyny), race (including but not narrowly defined by racism), and inter-generational perspectives. She observes that Hillary Clinton, who would put 18 million cracks in the hig...