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Coffee and bees

mercredi 13 septembre 2017 à 02:00

With Smart Planning, Coffee and Bees Can Survive Climate Change.

Victim-blaming

mercredi 13 septembre 2017 à 02:00

Victim-blaming and irrationality: as usual, blaming the victim of rape is based on deep confusion, between the moral responsibility for doing wrong to others, and the practical responsibility for taking a foolish risk. These are not just different in detail, they are different in kind.

Facial imaging

mercredi 13 septembre 2017 à 02:00

Facial imaging programs may be able to determine people's intelligence level and political views with fairly good accuracy, though not perfect accuracy.

Beware of plans to punish people because of this inaccurate metric.

Olympic destruction

mercredi 13 septembre 2017 à 02:00

NGOs accuse the Tokyo winter Olympic Games of knowingly allowing rainforest destruction in constructing venues.

Of course, the Olympic Games do other nasty things to every city they are held in.

North Korea sanctions

mercredi 13 septembre 2017 à 02:00

The UN Security Council adopted additional sanctions against North Korea.

Since China voted for them, this may put more real pressure on North Korea. More pressure could help get concessions, but pressure alone will only make Kim more stubborn. To get concessions requires negotiating with him, offering rewards as well as pressure.

Is the bully capable of this?