Stories by jpster

US student, 14, wins award for developing soap to treat skin cancer

A sailboat is stuck on a Bay Area beach. It may be destroyed

AI as systemic risk in a polycrisis world [pdf]

Chien-Shiung Wu – A Heroic Experimental Physicist

West Texas Farm Grows the Most Expensive Spice in the World

VR is as good as psychedelics at helping people reach transcendence

Blake Lemoine Says Google's LaMDA AI Faces 'Bigotry'

Debunking the idea that viruses always evolve to become less virulent

Alexa suggests dangerous outlet challenge to 10-year-old

House Democrats Decide to Hand FB the Internet by Taking SEC 230 Away from Algos

1B TikTok Users Understand What Congress Doesn’t

China marches on toward 4th Industrial Revolution

Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from Covid

Can banana buffers save California from wildfires?

El Salvador beach town rides crypto wave

Scientist made a Google Doc to educate about airborne Coronavirus transmission

A plasma shot could prevent coronavirus. But feds and makers won’t act

Black People in the US Were Enslaved Well into the 1960s

Coronavirus treatment given “rare disease” status, may limit affordability

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