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When developing any new technology, we need to stop and give the proposal critical thought. What does this development contribute to society? How many people will benefit from this development? In what ways can this development be harmful? Maybe most importantly, why? Why should time and resources be dedicated to this project, when time and resources are limited, and potential projects are unlimited? But this responsibility shouldn’t fall entirely upon the developer. We, as consumers, need to take a more active role as well. How does this technology help me? Does this technology do any harm? Why do I need this technology? Only once we’ve considered the relative benefits and costs of one project versus another can we begin to consider whether it’s worth it.
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When developing any new technology, we need to stop and give the proposal critical thought. What does this development contribute to society? How many people will benefit from this development? In what ways can this development be harmful? Maybe most importantly, why? Why should time and resources be dedicated to this project, when time and resources are limited, and potential projects are unlimited? But this responsibility shouldn’t fall entirely upon the developer. We, as consumers, need to take a more active role as well. How does this technology help me? Does this technology do any harm? Why do I need this technology? Only once we’ve considered the relative benefits and costs of one project versus another can we begin to consider whether it’s worth it.
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What does it mean to be a “cinephile” in the 2020s? In the mid-1990s, Susan Sontag famously argued that the globalization and hyperindustrialization of Hollywood had “killed” cinema as an art form in favor of its big, formulaic blockbusters. However, other critics argue that independent art cinema has simply moved outside of the Hollywood studio system, onto YouTube and other user-generated video platforms. Some critics even challenge the term “cinephilia” for its snobbish connotations and apolitical origins.
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What does it mean to be a “cinephile” in the 2020s? In the mid-1990s, Susan Sontag famously argued that the globalization and hyperindustrialization of Hollywood had “killed” cinema as an art form in favor of its big, formulaic blockbusters. However, other critics argue that independent art cinema has simply moved outside of the Hollywood studio system, onto YouTube and other user-generated video platforms. Some critics even challenge the term “cinephilia” for its snobbish connotations and apolitical origins.
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The following is the preface to The White Slaves of England, a book published in 1854 to decry the horrible working and living conditions among the poor working classes of England.
Let her miners, her operatives, the tenants of her workhouses, her naval service, and the millions upon millions in the Emerald Isle and in farther India attest its fallacy. These are the legitimate results of the laws and institutions of Great Britain; and they reach and affect, in a greater or less degree, all her dependencies. Her church and state, and her laws of entail and primogeniture, are the principal sources of the evils under which her people groan; and until these are changed there is no just ground of hope for an improvement in their condition. The tendency of things is, indeed, to make matters still worse. The poor are every year becoming poorer, and more dependent upon those who feast upon their sufferings, while the wealth and power of the realm are annually concentrating in fewer hands and becoming more and more instruments of oppression. The picture is already sufficiently revolting.
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The following is the preface to The White Slaves of England, a book published in 1854 to decry the horrible working and living conditions among the poor working classes of England.
Let her miners, her operatives, the tenants of her workhouses, her naval service, and the millions upon millions in the Emerald Isle and in farther India attest its fallacy. These are the legitimate results of the laws and institutions of Great Britain; and they reach and affect, in a greater or less degree, all her dependencies. Her church and state, and her laws of entail and primogeniture, are the principal sources of the evils under which her people groan; and until these are changed there is no just ground of hope for an improvement in their condition. The tendency of things is, indeed, to make matters still worse. The poor are every year becoming poorer, and more dependent upon those who feast upon their sufferings, while the wealth and power of the realm are annually concentrating in fewer hands and becoming more and more instruments of oppression. The picture is already sufficiently revolting.
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Thalassemia describes a group of disorders in which either the α or β chain is quantitatively reduced. Depending on the mutation, these defects can present with a wide range of anemia-related symptoms, and are particularly prevalent throughout Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Mediterranean. This geographical distribution is anything but random. Many studies have demonstrated that the production of suboptimal hemoglobin confers a degree of protection against malaria, a potentially deadly infectious disease caused by members of the Plasmodium genus, which parasitize red blood cells. It follows, then, that whereas in many regions throughout the world thalassemia may merely constitute disease, in those where malaria is endemic, it represents a favorable evolutionary advantage.
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Thalassemia describes a group of disorders in which either the α or β chain is quantitatively reduced. Depending on the mutation, these defects can present with a wide range of anemia-related symptoms, and are particularly prevalent throughout Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Mediterranean. This geographical distribution is anything but random. Many studies have demonstrated that the production of suboptimal hemoglobin confers a degree of protection against malaria, a potentially deadly infectious disease caused by members of the Plasmodium genus, which parasitize red blood cells. It follows, then, that whereas in many regions throughout the world thalassemia may merely constitute disease, in those where malaria is endemic, it represents a favorable evolutionary advantage.
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So why is it, with a rejuvenated effort to find evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has not found convincing evidence for alien life? Despite billions of dollars and years of research, SETI has nothing substantial to show for itself. In fact, the closest thing to ETI contact is the Wow! Signal: a strong narrowband radio signal detected in 1977 by Jerry R. Ehman of Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope project. Ehman was able to successfully observe the signal for a 72-second window, circling its non-natural waves and writing “Wow!” next to it—his enthusiasm led to its name, but not to any significant breakthrough. Since 1977, efforts to relocate the signal have failed again and again.
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So why is it, with a rejuvenated effort to find evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has not found convincing evidence for alien life? Despite billions of dollars and years of research, SETI has nothing substantial to show for itself. In fact, the closest thing to ETI contact is the Wow! Signal: a strong narrowband radio signal detected in 1977 by Jerry R. Ehman of Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope project. Ehman was able to successfully observe the signal for a 72-second window, circling its non-natural waves and writing “Wow!” next to it—his enthusiasm led to its name, but not to any significant breakthrough. Since 1977, efforts to relocate the signal have failed again and again.
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