Humanity

Part of the Series Human Rights and Global Wrongs On April 27, the International Commission of Inquiry on Systemic Racist Police Violence Against People of African Descent in the United States issued its long-awaited report on the U.S.’s police-perpetrated racist violence. The Commissioners concluded that the systematic police killings of Black people in the U […]

We’re living through an era of collapsing paradigms. The conceptual frames that many people use to organize their understanding of the world are crashing and burning upon contact with Middle Eastern reality. The first paradigm that failed this month was critical race theory or woke-ism. Yascha Mounk has a good history of this body of […]

A recent Emory College graduate and a current junior are among 76 young scholars from around the globe working this year to create unique public projects stemming from their own research. Niara Foster, who graduated in 2022 with a degree in African American studies, and junior Ansley Langham, a double major in math-political science and […]

OneBeat, one of the U.S. Department of State’s music diplomacy exchanges, convened musicians from more than a dozen countries to collaborate in Southern U.S. states in April and September. (© Alexia Webster/OneBeat) By ShareAmerica For decades, U.S. musicians have traveled the world offering beats and solos in a cultural exchange aimed at promoting better understanding […]

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Human actions have pushed the world into the danger zone on several key indicators of planetary health, threatening to trigger dramatic changes in conditions on Earth, according to a new analysis from 29 scientists in eight countries. The scientists analyzed nine interlinked “planetary boundaries,” which they define […]

Before 1992, Cabrini-Green, a more than 15,000-person housing project originally . . .

The whole gimmick of “Black Mirror” has traditionally been that technology is amazing, but also bad; the title of the show itself literally refers to the black rectangle we all stare at when our phone screen isn’t lit up. From the worst uses of a Google Glass-type tech in “The Entire History of You” to […]

The golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) is one of only a handful of primate species that have complex multilevel social structures.Credit: Sylvain Cordier/Gamma-Rapho via Getty The largest ever study of primates has unveiled surprises about humanity and our closest relatives, providing insight into which genes do, and don’t, separate us from other primates. The huge […]

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A lot of studies have focused on the economic cost of global heating, caused by humans burning fossil fuels. A new study in Nature Sustainability “Quantifying the human cost of global warming,” by Timothy M. Lenton et al. instead concentrates on what heating will mean for the lives of human […]

The show navigates complex topics with grace Courtesy of IMDb “’Ted Lasso’ does something no other show has succeeded in accomplishing; it shows us, honestly, what it means to be human,” writes Carolyn Malman. “Ted Lasso” premiered on Apple TV in August 2020 after the height of the pandemic. The show has been nominated for […]


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