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The Prospect of an AI Winter – Texts on philosophy, poetry, literature, history, altruism, science, programming and music.

Stacey Pope’s profile on The Conversation

A new book examines fandom and offers some advice

It is possible that the founders of the Egyptian dynastic culture and of Sumer may have benefited from an interaction with a rather different race called the New Race or the Dynastic Race.

Celebrated scientist Joe Tsien retreated to China after his Georgia university and the U.S. government began investigating him. He says he’s a victim of anti-Asian discrimination, but key parts of his story don’t add up.

Robert Michelss seminal treatise Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy (1911) offers an important theoretical exposition of the core belief that underlies populist politics: namely, that the elites (inevitably) capture democracy from the common people. Michelss disillusionment with the elitist betrayal of democracy led the sociologist to embrace Mussolinis fascism, a biographical note that seems to validate contemporary fears about populisms...

By Rudril Pandey* No person in the world would tout the practice of manual scavenging to be beneficial to society or a desirable outcome to be pursued. Many people would feel nauseated just by thinking about the activity. With an exceedingly low approval amongst the masses, one would think that manual scavenging would have been eradicated from the nation by now. The reality is far from it. According to the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis, 631 people have died in the activity from 2010...