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Artificial intelligence can tackle climate change

Climate change is the biggest challenge facing the planet. It will need every solution possible, including technology like artificial intelligence (AI). Seeing a chance to help the cause, some of the biggest names in AI and machine learning—a discipline within … Continue reading

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Evolution of Modern Nation States: From Chiefdom to States

Some horticultural societies of the past developed more intensive agricultural subsistence patterns when their populations grew into the thousands.  As this interrelated economic and populational transition occurred, they were forced to create a new level of political integration in order … Continue reading

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Geography’s Perspectives: A Matrix

Geography’s relevance to science and society arises from a distinctive and integrating set of perspectives through which geographers view the world around them. Taking time to understand geography’s perspectives is important because geography can be difficult to place within the … Continue reading

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Liberty in the Time of Coronavirus

Never before has ‘freedom from’ so worryingly related to ‘freedom to.’ Nearly three billion people currently live under lockdowns enacted by governments. In these uncertain times, most of us remain confined to our homes and accept these unprecedented restrictions as … Continue reading

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