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Percy Jackson author Rick Riordan answers fan questions about Camp Half-Blood products, which may be available sooner than expected. Percy Jackson author Rick Riordan answers fan questions about Camp Half-Blood products. Riordan’s best-selling book series was first adapted into two 20th Century Fox feature films, which were poorly received by critics and fans alike. First […]

(Washington, DC) – Saudi prosecutors should drop an investigation that could lead to formal criminal charges against a US citizen living in Saudi Arabia for “disturbing public order,” Human Rights Watch said today. Carly Morris, 34, believes the allegation is linked to her statements on social media expressing concern about how Saudi Arabia’s discriminatory male […]

The line first appeared in a new owner’s manual. He states that: “While New World Melody’s welcomes our diverse culture and allows all languages ​​to be spoken, we require that all discussions in the workshop be conducted in English. “This is due to instances where staff and customers hear their names mentioned and know the […]

Two Valparaiso High School students, Cameron Hosek and Katherine Stalmah, have been appointed to the Human Relations Advisory Council of the City of Valparaiso. Mayor Matt Murphy said, “We welcome Cameron and Katherine to Council and thank them for sharing their time and ideas as students at Valparaiso High School. When we designed the Mayor’s […]

Eamon Gilmore is the European Union Special Representative for Human Rights. Last year we witnessed an avalanche of crises. Afghanistan, where girls are deprived of education and women their equality; Belarus, where more than 1,300 political prisoners are currently held; Myanmar, where a military coup sent a democratically elected leader to prison and the Rohingya […]

September 8, 2022Updated: September 8, 2022 9:00 a.m. NEW YORK (AP) — One of the world’s most generous poetry prizes is getting stronger and bigger. Officials of the Griffin Canadian Poetry Prize announced Thursday that they are combining their international and Canadian honors into one prize, worth $100,000. The prize’s founder, businessman and philanthropist Scott […]

On the not-so-rare nights when I’m plagued by insomnia, no combination of melatonin, weighted blankets, and white noise will do. There is only one remedy for my illness: my cat Calvin, lying on my shoulder, puts me to sleep purring. For veteran members of Club Purr, the reasons are clear. A purr is hot tea, […]

Like Jean-Jacques Rousseau and other Enlightenment supporters, Gorbachev assumed that people are inherently good, and only society makes them bad. If you give a person freedom, they will use it for good. The root of his errors was in this faith. But that’s the only faith we should share. It is easier today to understand […]

Sheikh’s precious memory of Akkitham: When I joined the department, you could enroll as a graduate student after class X, which is impossible to imagine now. Sheikh sir was a professor in the art history department. He took classes in English for graduate students, Hindi for graduate students, and sometimes Gujarati for local students. Like […]

Couldn’t attend Transform 2022? Discover all the summit sessions now in our on-demand library! Look here. The e-commerce scene has evolved. All other businesses are advancing online and trying to reap profits through the internet. While some enterprise tools can help digital-focused businesses, increasing competition means it’s not enough for brands to succeed in e-commerce. […]

Comment this story Comment When Republicans are asked about the midterm campaign issues that have them squirming, they have a ready answer. Never mind abortion rights or Donald Trump’s legal woes, they say – we’re running on inflation. The GOP will win Congress control over gas and grocery prices, and that is what they are […]

Kim and her husband Todd Churchill, parents of Carter Churchill, testified Monday at a human rights hearing in St. John’s. They claim the East School District discriminated against them by not providing an adequate education for their deaf son, Carter. His mother repeatedly broke down talking about her son and his isolation due to difficulties […]

A missing 14-year-old girl from UP has been reunited with her parents, courtesy of the Haryana Police’s Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU). The girl has different abilities (Divyang) and lived in a shelter in Kerala. According to the Haryana Police, the Child Protection Inspector in Kozhikode, Kerala had contacted the Haryana Crime Branch and told them […]

Researchers studying cutting-edge methods of carbon removal and storage, new additive manufacturing techniques, and technologies that support the regulation of positive emotions are among six Cornell faculty members who recently received awards from Early Career Development from the National Science Foundation. Over the next five years, each will receive approximately $400,000 to $600,000 from the […]

“Indian Matchmaking“, the second season of which dropped August 10 on Netflix, perfectly exploited an array of stereotypes about indian culture, while presenting himself as “authentically Indian”. Perhaps that is why it has maintained its place in the top 10 most-watched shows in the United States since its release. So what could be so wrong […]

The portrait of ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen is his blue flight suit with the ESA crest and the Danish flag. (Credit: ESA/NASA) PARIS (ESA PR) — ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen of Denmark is about to return to the International Space Station for his first long-duration mission on the Station. With just one year left before […]

The introduction of Power BI has simplified the business intelligence ecosystem. It is a fast and efficient business intelligence solution for sophisticated data visualization. The Microsoft Business Analytics solution combines raw data from multiple sources, including cloud-based information and simple desktop spreadsheets. Due to the simplicity and the need for little education, it is used […]

(Washington) – The US government’s passage of the Inflation Reduction Act advances the right to health care for millions of people in the United States, Human Rights Watch said today. Despite some problematic provisions, the law, signed into law by President Joe Biden on August 16, 2022, is also the most significant action the government […]

Placeholder while loading article actions As one of the most powerful data brokers of the 21st century, Facebook is best known for its role in sucking up the personal information of billions of users for its advertising clients. This lucrative model has led to ever greater risks – Facebook recently shared private messages between a […]

Despite this threat, a day later, when the right-wing outlet Breitbart News published the warrant underlying the Mar-a-Lago search, it did not redact the names of the FBI agents on the document. Almost immediately after, posts on a pro-Trump chatroom called them “traitors.” According to the FBI, there are now about 2,700 open domestic terrorism […]

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! In September 2021, Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain starred in a viral video of their appearance at the 2021 Venice International Film Festival to promote their show ‘Scenes from a Wedding’, where the couple seemed perhaps a bit too comfortable with each other. In the viral video, […]

The big picture On July 25, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule interpreting Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which prohibits any health program or activity receiving federal financial assistance from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin , gender, age or disability. Section 1557 […]

Even the natives of Australia wept when South African reggae and Rastafarian musician Lucky Philip Dube died. An elderly Australian wrote on a tree: “You will always be in our hearts with your music”. There have been times when the songs of non-Caucasian people have taken over the world. Country songs and work songs were […]

A still from video made available by the Russian Defense Ministry’s press service shows a Russian Tornado-G multiple rocket launcher system firing a rocket during battles at an undisclosed location in Ukraine on Wednesday. Photo courtesy of Russian Defense Ministry Press Service/EPA-EFE August 5 (UPI) — Oksana Pokalchuk, head of Amnesty International’s Ukraine office, has […]

Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International License. Although artificial intelligence is playing an increasing role in journalism, research reveals that Americans are unaware of the role of AI in their lives or their news. Technology has repeatedly transformed the news media industry – telegraph, radio, television, […]

FULL TIME JOB VACANCY ASSOCIATED Department of Development and Outreach London office Application deadline: August 22, 2022 The Development and Outreach Department of Human Rights Watch (HRW) is seeking candidates for the position of Associate in its London office, to support the team in program engagement for major donors and donors , as well as […]

Comment this story Comment There is a very good reason to unlock the secrets of the social media giants. Over the past decade, governments have watched helplessly as their democratic processes were disrupted by misinformation and hate speech on sites such as Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook, Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube, and Twitter Inc.. Over the next […]

NEW THIS WEEK Letternotes are only listed when a revision is available. (B-) DC LEAGUE OF SUPER-FAMILIES In this animated tale, Superman’s dog, Krypto, leads a team of other superpowered animals to save the Justice League after they are captured by Lex Luthor. Although the plot is predictable, the film is filled with absurd humor, […]

The Government of Quebec proposes the celebration of an annual Francophonie Day as part of a three-year plan to strengthen French throughout the country. The province’s Treasury Board president, Sonia LeBel, said she suggests March 22 be designated as Francophonie Day in the National Assembly, creating an opportunity for Quebecers to learn more. on other […]

3-month Market Strategy, Business Development and Business Access Program For startups from Research Incubators and Accelerators 10L fund support, scaling strategy and a combined demo day For DeepTech & MedTech startups, jointly by IIIT Hyderabad, IIT Hyderabad, BITS Hyderabad, CCMB and IKP with T-Hub and TSIC HYDERABAD, India, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — RICH (Research […]

As is the case with many social practice projects, she continued, judging Martens’ work in Lusanga in aesthetic terms may seem impossible: there is real money circulating and livelihoods people are at stake. “What do you get by saying you’re an artist? ” she asked. “Funding, first, but also freedom.” An academic would need approval […]

Bengaluru: “He sacrifices science for sensationalism, and his work is riddled with errors,” behavioral neuroscientist Darshana Narayanan writes in Ongoing casesin a new criticism from the work of renowned author Yuval Noah Harari. Harari, 46, is the best-selling author Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), its sequel, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow […]

Machine learning jobs are one of the hottest and highest paying jobs in tech. Data scientists and other roles can earn over $160,000. Insider has compiled 10 concepts and skills companies look for when hiring machine learning experts. Most modern products and tools have at least an element of artificial intelligence or machine learning. From […]

Human Services announces July 16e Launch of 988 – New easy-to-remember suicide and crisis line number The new number will connect to the National Lifeline for Suicide Prevention; Will be available 24/7/365 for calls, texts and chat June 11, 2022 (TENTON) – Social Services Commissioner Sarah Adelman announced today that New Jersey residents will be […]

Ballet, whether classical or contemporary, is a language that is not necessarily accessible to everyone. New York City Ballet dancers Sterling Hyltin and Adrian Danchig-Waring are working to change that with NYCB On and Off Stage. The program opens the company’s residency at SPAC on Tuesday and includes excerpts from each ballet that will be […]

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the author(s) do not represent the official position of Barbados TODAY. by wayne campbell Habari gani is the Kiswahili for how are you? The United Nations Educational and Scientific Education Organization (UNESCO) celebrates the first-ever World Kiswahili Language Day on July 7, 2022. UNESCO states that indigenous peoples […]

The eleventh session of the World Urban Forum (WUF11) emphasized that rapid action is needed for cities to recover from multiple crises and embark on a rapid transition towards sustainable urban development. To address these needs, WUF11 participants declared their “voluntary actions and commitments for the next two years and beyond”, including a shift from […]

According Multiple AI, most experts agree that the Singularity or some form of artificial intelligence that achieves human-level consciousness in a machine will eventually happen at some point in the future – although experts agree that it probably won’t. so early. However, these days, the greatest minds of humanity are on the other side of […]

Determined to break into film, he went to Hollywood, where he wrote a screenplay called “Salka Valka” or “A Woman in Trousers”, with Greta Garbo in the lead for the title role. The film had a good chance of being produced by MGM, until Laxness fell out with the studio over his idea of ​​shooting […]

Placeholder while loading article actions A group of educators in Texas proposed labeling slavery an “involuntary displacement” in second-grade classrooms – before being pushed back by the State Board of Education. The nine educators were one of many groups tasked with advising the Texas board of trustees on changes to the social studies curriculum, which […]

Artificial intelligence chatbot company Replika, which offers its customers bespoke avatars that talk and listen to them, says it receives a handful of messages almost daily from users who think their online friend is sensitive. “We’re not talking about crazy people or people who have hallucinations or delusions,” said chief executive Eugenia Kuyda. “They talk […]

Photo submitted Michelle Gray and Rachel Glade Rachel Glade, assistant clinical professor at the U of A, has been named the College of Education and Health Professions‘ new director of the Specialized College. His appointment begins July 1. Glade, Program Coordinator of the Communication Sciences and Disorders Programwill succeed Michelle Gray, who […]

The genocidal history of federal boarding school policies and the generational impact on Native American communities was presented to the US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs last week. Lawmakers on the committee pledged to introduce a bill to the full Senate that would establish a Truth and Healing Commission on US residential school policies that […]

Are intelligent robots a threat to humanity? It’s only a matter of time before they become self-aware anyway. Or will it be the next step in human evolution? We are probably on the verge of merging with the machines we create. After all, we humans are sort of organic robots. A lot of people are […]

June 23, 2022 — A new study on teaching humans navigation skills could bring you a little closer to Batman. The process is called echolocation. Used by bats to navigate in the dark, it is the process of locating an object using echoing sound waves. Dolphins and whales also use it to navigate the water. […]

When a squadron of alien spaceships arrives on Earth, linguist Dr. Louise Banks (Amy Adams) is recruited by the US government to help communicate with some of the aliens. Along with mathematician Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner), Banks unravels the mysterious alien language and gains the ability to see time nonlinearly. Turns out everyone’s favorite Doctor […]

“Like millions of refugees around the world, they are helping to bring new life, prosperity and rich diversity to their host communities. We must continue to support them,” the UN chief said on Twitter after the visit. Before #WorldRefugeeDayI visited refugees from Iraq and Afghanistan currently living in New York. Like millions of refugees around […]

Governments around the world are redefining dual-use and critical technologies with reference to current politics, economic competitiveness, and current global power distributions. It has never been more important for practitioners of synthetic biology to achieve consistency in the language they use to present the discipline to policymakers nationally and internationally. A global forum can guide […]

This awake, virtue-signaling trash attempts to avoid the wrath of a tiny minority of trans people, but at the same time upsets the vast majority of women who would simply like to continue to be referred to by their biological sex. “What is a woman?” I asked Dame Joan Collins several weeks ago on my […]

WOBURN, Mass., May 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bridgeline Digital, Inc. (BLIN), a cloud-based marketing technology software provider, today announced that its NLP site discovery product, Celebros, was chosen by another sports reseller on the AB Commerce platform. Leading sports and leisure store, Michael Murphy Sports and Leisure, selected Bridgeline for a multi-year subscription after […]

DUBAI: Google has placed one of its engineers, Blake Lemoine, on paid leave for violating the company’s privacy policies. Lemoine works for Google’s Responsible AI organization and was testing whether its LaMDA or Language Models for Dialog Applications model generates discriminatory language or hate speech, the Washington Post reported. On June 6, the day of […]

“You say you want a revolution” A new era of human-AI collaboration is enabled by a portfolio of powerful technologies … [+] novelties Getty It is truly an era of discontinuity. Old models of institutional education, traditional teachers, conventional guidance and pathways to opportunity are crumbling. Moreover, they are unequal. Elite institutions are able to […]

A brand of specialty mozzarella cheeses. A set of natural gas storage terminals. And the best-selling emergency contraception in the United States. At a time when half of America’s states are on the verge of banning or drastically reducing abortion services, the latest pill for women to avoid an unwanted pregnancy hinges on the unlikely […]

Victoria Police has not met its 1% Aboriginal employment target. In response to a question taken on notice at a recent Estimates hearing, the force confirmed that as of March 31, only 0.55% of employees identified as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. The target was 1% in June of last year. But Victoria Police stressed […]

New Yorkers may soon have another burial option: to be converted into the ground. The state legislature passed a bill (S.5535/A.382) enabling human composting. This would allow facilities to use natural organic reduction, which speeds up the process of biological decomposition in an aboveground container and turns human remains into soil, according to the wording […]

An English-Spanish dictionary. Pareme/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Pareme/Getty Images An English-Spanish dictionary. Pareme/Getty Images Corrections officials across the United States have banned certain books to prevent the flow of material they believe could incite violence. In Michigan, the ban extended to several non-English language dictionaries. For the past year, the Michigan Department of […]

When it comes to music, composition is a problem that has always frustrated computers. Sure, they can string a few notes or lyrics together, but creating patterns – repeated musical patterns that create form and meaning – is a real challenge. Now, after more than seven years of thinking about the problem, a computer scientist […]

Interest in rearing backyard chickens increased after the onset of the pandemic and shows no signs of slowing down. As a chicken owner, I’ve had a constant stream of curious friends visiting my hobby farm to see my setup and ask how they can get started with their own flock. I was shocked at the […]

BEIJING (AP) — The top UN human rights official said on Saturday she had raised concerns with Chinese officials about the impact of widespread enforcement of counterterrorism measures. and de-radicalization on the rights of Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim groups in China’s Xinjiang region. Michelle Bachelet, who visited Xinjiang as part of a six-day trip […]

As her sister watched a video on YouTube, Eliza Klingler found her attention drawn to the tongue. It was the first time the high school student had heard of Korean, and she wanted to know more. “I was really fascinated by the language. I like the way it sounds; I like everything about it,” she […]

BOONE, North Carolina — For more than 60 years, Appalachian State University has enjoyed the continued support of Scottish Rite organizations in North Carolina. The contributions, which collectively total more than $2 million, have supported clinics, scholarships and programs related to communication disorders and learning to read. “These clinics are vital resources where community […]

Australian Human Rights Commission Chair Rosalind Croucher has advocated for federal human rights legislation to have a stronger legal architecture. “We’re like a donut – with a hole in the middle,” Croucher said. in a speech to the Samuel Griffith Society. Croucher mentioned his own past hesitation for a human rights law in Australia, referring […]

SShortly after Tony, Sarah Holland-Batt’s father, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease – and told he was no longer fit to drive – he bought the car for himself of his dreams. A jaguar. He made the purchase through eBay, unseen; the first time his wife knew about it was when it was delivered to their […]

We currently live in the age of “artificial intelligence” – but not as the companies selling “AI” would have you believe. According to Silicon Valley, machines are rapidly outperforming humans in a variety of tasks ranging from mundane, but well-defined and useful tasks like machine transcription to much more vague skills like “reading comprehension” and […]

Iit was International Dawn Chorus Day and we were at Loch Insh at 6am for a RSPB guided walk. The birds in the parking lot were putting on a good show, and already we were up to the morning challenge. Our guide was pointing and saying, “That’s a chaffinch!” No sooner had everyone turned their […]

I was reading a book review the other day – an essay on poetry, by Elisa Gabbert, it turns out – and I came across the name of someone I once knew, a fabulously eccentric cult figure in old school. She writes about it: “The architect Christopher Alexander thought that large bay windows were a […]

A research center at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center postponed a panel on autism awareness after a petition written by an undergraduate student garnered more than 1,400 signatures condemning the college for having made the event public. The petition, widely circulated on Change.org, calls on Harvard College to “publicly withdraw its support” for an […]

“Water the Rocks Make” by David McElroy “Water the Rocks Do” By David McElroy. University of Alaska Press, 2022. 100 pages. $16.95. “Fishing Dead Water Hard” By Eric Heyne. Circus Press, 2022. 71 pages. $15 “Tales from afar” By Andrew Gottlieb. Trail to Table Press/Wandering Aengus Press, 2022. 86 pages. $18 Poetry month may have […]

Source: Unsplash/Priscilla du Preez. When it comes to why a cultural initiative might fail, it can’t be said that managers don’t try or don’t care. In a commissioned McCrindle study of 1,000 Australian middle managers, we sought to understand experiences and beliefs about their role in culture to help determine what drives organizational culture and […]

When someone who appeared to be actor Robert Pattinson showed up on TikTok about a month ago, fans couldn’t believe it. “I was like, crawling out of my skin, I was so uncomfortable,” said Sarah, a Pattinson pundit known for her TikToks on the “Twilight” franchise. “Because whoever does it is obviously using their face […]

North Dakota activists cleared a procedural hurdle to begin collecting signatures for a ballot initiative to legalize marijuana in the state. Secretary of State Al Jaeger’s office on Thursday approved the formatting of the measure about two weeks after New Approach North Dakota advocates first filed it with support from the National Marijuana Policy Project […]

company logo The collaboration will create digital interactions through artificial intelligence and natural language processing MISSISSAUGA, Ont., April 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Applied Systems today announced a new collaboration with Koïos Intelligence to optimize and simplify insurance sales and service processes using artificial intelligence and natural language processing. The integration between Koïos Intelligence and […]

“I think it allows us to be more thoughtful and deliberate about security issues,” Altman says. “Part of our strategy is this: gradual change in the world is better than sudden change. Or, as OpenAI VP Mira Murati put it when I asked her about the security team’s work restricting open access to software, “If […]

Gregerson’s syntax, unfolding to its tragic ends, does the articulate work that other poets could do with pure sounds: few living poets make English grammar so successful. (If you’re looking for a change in Gregerson’s style after her newly selected “Prodigal,” stop searching: she’s at her best right now, but her approach to language hasn’t […]

Medical imaging is an important part of modern healthcare, improving both the accuracy, reliability and development of treatment for various diseases. Artificial intelligence has also been widely used to further improve the process. However, conventional medical image diagnosis using AI algorithms requires large amounts of annotations as supervisory signals for model training. To acquire accurate […]

This patent covers methods that can interpret the real world, reduce it to digital formats that AGI can understand, and use it to plan, predict, and dream, communicating it all in human language.” — Brent Oster, CEO of ORBAI SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA, USA, April 10, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — ORBAI, a Silicon Valley start-up filed a […]

AUGUSTA, Georgia — Sungjae Im is a soft-spoken golf prodigy who lives on a volcano. Billy Spencer is a college hockey player turned career caddy from Toronto. I’m 24 years old. Spencer is 46 years old. I speak Korean. Spencer speaks English. They are inherently different. Endearingly. Watching the two plod along the fairway in […]

04/07/2022 LOC12:33 09:33 GMT (RIHS) implemented “Iftar for the Fasting” and “Ramadhan Food Basket” projects for Syrian refugees and Jordanian families AMMAN, Apr 7 (KUNA) — The Kuwait Islamic Heritage Renewal Society (RIHS) has implemented the “Iftar for Fasting” and “Ramadan Food Basket” projects for 2022 for Syrian refugees and Jordanian […]

Published on: 04/04/2022 – 03:44 San Francisco (AFP) – Carlos Vasquez is a master of the video fighting game “Mortal Kombat” although he cannot see the action on the screen because he is blind. The Texas resident – ​​who relies on sound to time punches, kicks and dodges – is part of a chorus of […]

Lyudmila, 71, and Viktor, 63, cook at the basement entrance of an apartment building in the besieged city of Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 30. (Alexander Ermoshenko/Reuters) Sergei Orlov, the deputy mayor of Mariupol, detailed the scene in the beleaguered port city as Ukrainian officials attempt to help those still inside and evacuate citizens who have […]

After a month of war, local authorities reported that more than 733 educational institutions were damaged or destroyed. Beyond learning, education provides an even more relevant protective environment for crisis-affected populations, especially childrenUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said in a Press release. UNESCO also announcement that it mobilizes support for the continuity […]

The Princeton Open Campus Coalition (POCC), the Princeton Federalist Society, and the Princeton Cliosophic Party hosted a panel of three academic freedom advocates for an event titled “Mob Rule: The Illiberal Left’s Threat to Campus Discourse” at the Senate Whig House March 24. The panel was moderated by POCC co-founder and senior research assistant at […]

A bill that would provide so-called equity payments to family planning providers who provide an ever-expanding range of medical services to MaineCare patients won narrow approval from a key legislative panel on Friday. The Health and Human Services Committee voted 7-4 to pass a last-minute bill by Sen. Cathy Breen, D-Cumberland, intended for compensate family […]

Almost a year after its release in Japan, Rune Factory 5 finally arrives in the west, with its system of meetings with marriage candidates. It’s a staple of the series that returns revamped in this new entry. We’ve featured each of the bachelor and bachelorette characters below. rune factory is finally back after years of […]

AAs a medical examiner, the dead of all ages, shapes and sizes have been central to my career. Many times a day, over the past 40 years, I have looked intently and directly at death, knowing that for many – probably most – of the people I examine, the beginning of their last day had […]

March 5, 2022 JIT DESTRUCTION of a language, a culture and the independence of a people can be done quickly, with an adventurous raid or virus. Most often it is a process of slow decline, over decades or centuries, caused by miscegenation and indifference. Foreign and modern manners prove more attractive; old traditions come to […]

I am a biotechnology investor and entrepreneur. But what’s more central to my worldview is that I’m someone who lives with a rare genetic disease. It made me aware of the flippant ways in which enthusiastic scientists and entrepreneurs use notions of “cures,” especially when genomic manipulation is involved. Whatever work awaits me, I see […]

“September 1, 1939” opens with the news that Hitler has invaded Poland. The story continues under the ad I’m sitting in one of the dives As clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade Circulates on the luminous And the darkened lands of the earth, Obsession with our private lives: The unmentionable smell of death […]

LOST IN DEATH VALLEY: A story of obsession and danger in the Himalayas, by Harley Rustad. (Harper/HarperCollins, $29.99.) In August 2016, an experienced American hiker named Justin Alexander Shetler embarked on an expedition to the Parvati Valley in northern India, which is never heard from again. Rustad’s tense and fascinating book about his life asks […]

A speaker and graduate student in the University of Miami’s creative writing program explain why poetry is the preferred language of love and how a poem’s vanities help tame this sometimes unruly emotion. To like. Oh dear. The rapturous feeling that passes through us when we see someone – or something – that ignites our […]