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How Do Electric Grid Operators Warn Us About Extreme Heat? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

All in all, extreme heat is a major concern for grid reliability and thus warrants the use of robust and transparent alert systems to warn plant and distribution operators (and in some cases, customers) about impending strain on electricity infrastructure.

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What Philosopher Ibn Sina Can Teach Us about AI

Scientific American

A philosopher who lived centuries before artificial intelligence might be able to help us understand the field's personhood questions

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What Does the Movie "Dirty Harry" Teach Us About Adapting to Climate Change Risk?

Environmental and Urban Economics

In this scene, the Bad Guy is uncertain about whether Clint still has a bullet in his gun. The theme of my 2021 Yale University Press book adapting to climate change is that more and more of us know that we don't know how hard Mother Nature will punch different points in the map. He guesses wrong and dies due to his decision.

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What voodoo dolls can teach us about toxic masculinity

New Scientist

Feedback's eyebrows are raised by a study in which participants first "have their masculinity threatened", and then play an online game involving voodoo dolls and guns

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It’s About Damn Time to Have a Black Woman on the US Supreme Court

Union of Concerned Scientists

At President Biden’s first State of the Union address, he can tout a historic promise he kept from the campaign trail in 2020: his nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the 116th Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court. Standing on the shoulders of the likes of Constance Baker Motley and many others, she […].

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Our Evolutionary Past Can Teach Us about AI's Future

Scientific American

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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What Radioactive Fallout Tells Us about Our Nuclear Future

Scientific American

has embarked on the largest and most expensive nuclear build-out ever. military says it is necessary to replace an aging nuclear arsenal. But critics fear the risks.