Tag: policy

  • This is the Real Future of AI

    Scientists all over the world are using AI-assisted technologies in work that has the potential to lead to major advances in medicine, agriculture and mathematics. Why are we not hearing about them?

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  • Everyone’s Moving to … Japan?

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    The country – with the help of influencers on Youtube and Tiktok -is luring wealthy foreigners with the promise of cheap real estate.

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  • Learning to Live in the World as It Is

    Instead of simply exhorting the rest of the world to get on board with the American way of space cooling, we really should be looking to Europe and other regions for clues to adapting our habits to the world that we are in, instead of remaining stubbornly attached to the artificial world that we created,…

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  • How American Healthcare Got Here, part 2

    We have managed care, ‘Obamacare,’ and Medicare, but most Americans still lack affordable care

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  • How American Healthcare Got Here, Part I

    Why the United States is the only developed nation without universal healthcare “So, if you can’t afford to pay for your medicine, you just die?” That was the question posed by a fellow Redditor in a forum discussing the U.S. health system. The person who posted was from a European country with socialized medicine and…

    A group of people in surgical gowns and masks stand in a circle looking down into the camera. In the middle, above them, is a surgical lamp.