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Franny Choi is the 2023 Arons Visiting Poet.

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US researchers have modified a commercial virtual reality headset, giving it the ability to measure brain activity in order to examine how we react to hints, stressors and other outside forces.The team at The University of Texas at Austin ...

Poets are grappling with their anxieties over the future of artificial intelligence; with their awe at technological innovation; with their fumbling through the knowledge that, in pockets and backpack

I am no stranger to snow, having lived a rather long life north of the 45th parallel. My mom and I shoveled all night during the blizzard of 1949 to

The Outside with Evan Miller from 11/27/22, from WYSO Music On Demand.

Reading poetry sometimes feels like battling a giant squid: overwhelming, disorienting, and more than a little slippery. Poems can be elusive beings, evading comprehension and dissection. When you take an already chimeric beast and give it appendages of fantasy, science fiction, horror, or mythology—well, then it becomes another monster entirely. Even just a few years ago, I would steer clear of poetry tables at book festivals, feeling that it was too frustrating of an artform to fully grasp....

Climate change is a very important global challenge, but the global society has far more urgent priorities. This article takes a look at the most critical global challenges and how they interact with climate change policy.

High malnutrition rate in Xinjiang amid China crackdown on Uyghurs By Mansoor|   Updated: 22nd February 2021 11:05 pm IST Xinjiang: With the Chinese government continuing to suppress Uyghurs in Xinjiang, malnutrition has been rising in the community, especially among children and adolescents, according to two separate studies by Chinese researchers. About 16 per cent of Xinjiang residents 15 years old or younger had anaemia, according to South China Morning Post (SCMP). The rate of anaemia in ...

The verdict, made in May last year but only released in December, has decreed that Amazon can no longer use the term AWS or any similar logos in China. The tech giant has also been ordered to pay compensation of 76.5 million Yuan (£812.5 million) to ActionSoft.  Amazon still had AWS on its Chinese cloud services website as of Tuesday, according to the WSJ. However, a disclaimer at the bottom of the page notes that AWS is used as an abbreviation and "is not displayed herein as a trademark". ...