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Alex Fink

Zuckerman vs Zuckerberg

July 14, 2024

Ethan Zuckerman is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a scholar of digital media. He and his team work to understand the contemporary digital world and build social media systems that are focused on communities, not on profits. Ethan is currently suing Meta (i.e. Facebook) in a landmark case that might (and likely should) change our interpretation of section 230. Please tune in to hear the details of the case and the various ways it could change the social media landscape. It's fascinating!

Prof. Jeff Jarvis - Rewriting Media's Business Model (Yet Again)

May 24, 2024

Jeff Jarvis is a journalism professor at the City College in New York (CUNY), the author of six books, and the cohost of the successful podcast "This week in Google and AI". Jeff spent many years teaching entrepreneurial journalism - and God knows journalism could use some entrepreneurial spirit, right about now. Please check out Jeff's books, The Gutenberg Parenthesis and Magazine, both from Bloomsbury (discount codes here: gutenbergparenthesis.com).

Donald Robertson - Where Philosophy Meets Psychology

June 22, 2024

Our guest today is Donald Robertson - Donald is a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist and author of several books, including How to Think Like a Roman Emperor and, more recently, Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor. He is one of the founders of the Modern Stoicism nonprofit organization and the founder and president of the Plato's Academy Centre in Athens, Greece. He was born in Scotland but now lives in Montreal, Canada. His upcoming book, How to Think Like Socrates, will be released later this year, and can be preordered on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or anywhere else books are generally sold.

Rick Edmonds - Analyzing the Financial Decline of Legacy Media

July 8, 2024

Rick Edmonds is the media business analyst for the Poynter Institute, a school and study center for working journalists. He has been doing research and writing for 25 years on the financial decline of legacy media, newspapers particularly, and the rise of new media alternatives. His reporting and commentary appear regularly on the Poynter Online site. He has spoken to conference groups in the U.S.A. and in Paris, Norway, Madrid, Vienna and Chile.

Jonathan Green - How To Make ChatGPT and Other Tools Useful (Right Now)

July 5, 2024

Welcome to the Otherweb. Our guest today is Jonathan Green - a bestselling author of hundreds of books, a celebrity ghostwriter, and an expert in using artificial intelligence tools to their utmost capacity. This is the best conversation I've had on the practical implications of ChatGPT and how regular people can augment their own capabilities by using these tools as a shortcut.

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News from physics

Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about physics, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 566 stories have been published about physics which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.

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Phys Org

Phys Org

A new plasma-based technological design boosts graphene production by more than 22%

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Windows

Windows

This week's lab city is number one: 5 satisfying science stories

Windows

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Live Science

Live Science

Watch atoms fuse into world's 'smallest bubble' of water in 1st-of-its-kind 'nanoscale' video

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Phys Org

Phys Org

NASA announces a new class of space missions: Probe explorers

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ScienceDaily

ScienceDaily

In double breakthrough, mathematician solves two long-standing problems

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edmontonjournal

edmontonjournal

University of Alberta forecasting device predicts surge in daily flu cases

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Ars Technica

Ars Technica

How to do low error quantum calculations

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TechCrunch

TechCrunch

Exclusive: Zap Energy shows off its new fusion power prototype, Century | TechCrunch

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VOA

VOA

Baker, Hassabis, Jumper win 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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ABC News

ABC News

The Nobel Prize in chemistry is being awarded in Stockholm

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The Cool Down

The Cool Down

Researchers make major advance in fuel cell tech that could change how we power the world: 'We have now laid a foundation'

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Engadget

Engadget

Machine learning pioneers, including the 'Godfather of AI,' are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics

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ScienceDaily

ScienceDaily

AI and quantum mechanics team up to accelerate drug discovery

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Global News

Global News

British-Canadian wins Nobel Prize in physics for AI development | Globalnews.ca

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Quanta Magazine

Quanta Magazine

As a teenager, Lenka Zdeborov glimpsed her future in an Isaac Asimov novel

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Good News Network

Good News Network

Good News in History, October 7 - Good News Network

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ScienceAlert

ScienceAlert

Forget Superconductors: Electrons Living on The Edge Could Unlock Perfect Power

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Wired

Wired

A group is a set, or collection of objects, together with an operation that takes in two objects and outputs a third

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Interesting Engineering

Interesting Engineering

Japan's tokamak sets world record with 160-cubic-meter plasma volume

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Phys Org

Phys Org

New materials and techniques show promise for microelectronics and quantum technologies

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