Indigenous Wisdom
Juan Henry Mendez Chavajay Indigenous Peoples around the world are safeguarding the biodiversity that sustains all life on earth. The post Indigenous Wisdom appeared first on The Nation.
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The Antitrust Lessons of the OpenAI Saga
Economy Today 5:00 am The Antitrust Lessons of the OpenAI Saga The Antitrust Lessons of the OpenAI Saga The high-stakes battle for control of the tech start-up was a case study in the corporate strategy of vertical outsourcing. Brian Callaci December 12, 2023 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. (Jaap Arriens / NurPhoto via Getty Images) Subscribe…
British Museum: Accused thief not talking or cooperating, chairman tells BBC
39 minutes ago About sharing The British Museum’s outgoing director Dr Hartwig Fischer acknowledged that “the situation facing the Museum is of the utmost seriousness” By Katie Razzall Culture and Media editor The British Museum said the staff member they believe stole or damaged around 2,000 objects is not co-operating with their search for them….
MK Strinda: Yemen’s rebel Houthis hit Norwegian tanker with missile
1 hour ago About sharing There was a fire and some damage to the ship, but the crew were unharmed By Robert Greenall BBC News Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels have hit a Norwegian tanker with at least one missile, causing a fire. There were no casualties in the attack. A Houthi spokesman said the MT…
Renaissance nude offends French school students
1 hour ago About sharing The painting by Giuseppe Cesari was put before pupils in the first year of high school By Ido Vock BBC News French Education Minister Gabriel Attal has visited a school where pupils refused to look at a 17th-Century painting portraying nude women. Several first-year high school students said they were…
Coedely crash: Three teenagers dead after bus and car accident
3 minutes ago About sharing On the scene of fatal Coedely crash By Catherine Evans & Miriam Barker BBC News Three teenagers have died following a crash between a bus and an Audi A1 car, police have confirmed. Two young men aged 18, and one aged 19, were declared dead at the scene. Two other…
Bibby Stockholm: Asylum seeker on board barge dies
4 minutes ago About sharing By Lauren Turner & Tom Symonds BBC News An asylum seeker on board the Bibby Stockholm barge, which houses migrants off Dorset, has died. Several sources have told the BBC that the man who died is thought to have taken his own life. The death happened in one of the…
The Dubious Feminism of the Natural Childbirth Movement
Culture / Books & the Arts / December 12, 2023 More Than a Natural Function The politics of birth. The Dubious Feminism of the Natural Childbirth Movement Though it responds to a justified distrust of the medical establishment among women, it also subtly partakes of an insidious mythology. Moira Donegan Ad Policy (Corbis / Getty)…
One Big Cookout: From the “Negro Press” to Black Twitter
Feature / December 12, 2023 One Big Cookout: From the “Negro Press” to Black Twitter We always suspected that whatever magazines and newspapers for white folks weren’t telling us, Black newspapers and magazines would. Gene Seymour Days of yore: Workers at the Chicago Defender in the 1960s. The paper chronicled the Jim Crow era and…
Local News Has Been Destroyed. Here’s How We Can Revive It.
Feature / December 12, 2023 Local News Has Been Destroyed. Here’s How We Can Revive It. A plan to build back better. John Nichols Illustration by Adrià Fruitós. This article appears in the December 25, 2023/January 1, 2024 issue, with the headline “Build Back Better.” Over the past decade, the most useful construct for explaining…