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E! Online (UK) 

Inside Nikki and Brie Garcia’s Unshakeable Bond

Nikki Garcia and Brie Garcia never have to look twice to find a shoulder to lean on. “Sisters are a very special thing, and then what’s double that is when you’re an identical,” Nikki said on a...

Vox 

Only 1 percent of neuroscience faculty is Black. Kaela Singleton hopes to change that.

Being a scientist is hard. Being a young scientist is harder. Academic institutions squeeze cheap labor out of graduate students and postdocs who are busy competing for publications and increasingly limited faculty jobs, sucking joy from once-enthusiastic trainees.  While people generally think of scientists as smart and competent, they’re rarely viewed as warm or caring. […]

Vox 

Shannon Vallor says AI does present an existential risk — but not the one you think

You may have heard the idea that AI is a “stochastic parrot,” mechanistically repeating our words back to us without actually understanding them. But Shannon Vallor, a philosopher of technology at the University of Edinburgh, thinks there’s a better metaphor: AI, she says, is a mirror. After all, a parrot is another mind — not exactly […]

Vox 

Denmark is tiny. Its ambition to make its food system more climate-friendly is huge.

Climate scientists agree on at least one necessary change to our food system: People, especially those in rich countries, ought to be eating more plants and fewer animals.  Globally, livestock production accounts for some 15 to 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions and accelerates a host of other environmental problems, from deforestation to freshwater depletion […]

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Hamilton admits to early Mercedes F1 exit desire - Racingnews365.com

  1. Hamilton admits to early Mercedes F1 exit desire  Racingnews365.com
  2. Lewis Hamilton admits he wanted to leave Mercedes early ahead of Ferrari switch following torrid Sao Paulo GP  Sky Sports
  3. WIN: Chance To Have Your Name on Lewis’ Car for Abu Dhabi  Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team
  4. “I didn’t really want to come back” – Hamilton explains cryptic Brazil radio message  RaceFans
  5. Lewis Hamilton admits early Mercedes EXIT wish after surprise radio message  Planet F1

Technology Review  

China’s complicated role in climate change

This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. “Well, what about China?” This is a comment I get all the time on the topic of climate change, both in conversations and on whatever social media site is currently en vogue.…