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Local veterans will be honored Friday, Nov. 11 as once again VFW Post 6073 and American Legion Post 30 will host a program on Veterans Day.

Climate change experts

Human use of nonhuman animals contributes to pandemics, climate change, and other global threats which, in turn, contribute to biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, and nonhuman suffering. Similar dynamics are emerging in human use of artificial intelligences (AIs).

Beginning November 1, 2022, in observance of Native American Heritage Month in the United States, the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research will be sharing at least one video per day from our recent international conference "Mass Violence and Its Lasting Impact on Indigenous Peoples - The Case of the Americas and Australia/Pacific Region," which was held at the University of Southern California, on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Tongva and Kizh Nation peoples.

The service is most effective when operational, technological, and strategic influences are in balance.

As America's largest investment to fight climate change, the Inflation Reduction Act positions the country to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by an estimated 40 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

The MIT-developed Tool for Air Pollution Scenarios (TAPS) can be used to estimate the likely air-quality and health outcomes of a wide range of climate and air-quality policies at the regional, sectoral, and fuel-based level. 

Were going to offer some bonus podcast content this week as there is a lot going on in the run-up to next Mondays Supreme Court oral argument on the Harvard/UNC affirmative action admissions cases. We may even have a couple short episodes of the 3WHH on a couple of loose ends from last weekends show to respond to some listener questions and comments. But first, this special and highly newsworthy

With Covid prompting more employers to consider remote arrangements, employment has soared among adults with disabilities.

The states are asking voters whether to amend constitutions that have exceptions to slavery bans. Some hope that the changes could allow prisoners to challenge the practice of being forced into labor for little or no pay.