Politics
“But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51
“They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Biden Administration
“Vaccine Waiver Pledge Tests Biden-World’s Pharma Ties” [David Sirota, Walker Bragman, and Andrew Perez, Daily Poster]. “The granular details of the waiver will be negotiated by a Biden administration populated by individuals with significant pharmaceutical investments and whose previous employers worked for a panoply of pharmaceutical giants. That includes drugmakers currently lobbying the White House on intellectual property.” • Antony Blinken, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, Anita Dunn, and Steve Ricchetti all have cozy relationships with Big Pharma, as does Biden himself.
What went wrong? Questions and theories about what caused the metro tragedy in Mexico City
A lack of maintenance, design errors, poorly executed construction and negligence all dominate the discussion after the accident this week. EL PAÃS analyzes the key factors
Experts believe that the accident stemmed from a break in the joint of the horizontal girders.
Raised bridge
Tláhuac Avenue
The structure collapsed under the weight of the train. The girders opened like a book and trapped the metro vehicle.
Experts believe that the accident stemmed from a break in the joint of the horizontal girders.
Raised bridge
Embroidery has a long history in the Americas – a profession once reserved for men, later foisted onto women as a symbol of domesticity. But in recent decades, women have reclaimed the craft as a tool for peaceful, powerful protest, even amid the pandemic.
Just this week, after Mexico City metro cars crashed when an overpass collapsed, embroidery in honor of victims appeared online. Punctuated by orange and green lines, the same colors as the metro, it read, “corruption kills.” Other artists use needlework to call attention to femicide, the ongoing legacy of colonization, or to encourage others to reclaim their history.
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IMAGE: Scanning electronic microscope images of gyrogonites of the new species Mesochara dobrogeica (above) and the utricles of the new Clavator ampullaceus var. latibracteatus variety (below) found in the region of. view more
Credit: Cretaceous Research
A study published in
Cretaceous Research expands the paleontological richness of continental fossils of the Lower Cretaceous with the discovery of a new water plant (charophytes), the species Mesochara dobrogeica. The study also identifies a new variety of carophytes from the Clavator genus (in particular, Clavator ampullaceus var. latibracteatus) and reveals a set of paleobiographical data from the Cretaceous much richer than other continental records such as dinosaurs .
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Artificial intelligence is often framed in terms of headline-grabbing technology and dazzling promise. But some of the workers who enable these programs the people who do things like code data, flag pictures, or work to integrate the programs into the workplace are often overlooked or undervalued.
“This is a common pattern in the social studies of technology,” said Madeleine Clare Elish, SM ’10, a senior research scientist at Google. “A focus on new technology, the latest innovation, comes at the expense of the humans who are working to actually allow that innovation to function in the real world.