JOHANNA NEUMANN
Published: 2/1/2021 11:45:52 AM
Kaitlyn Mitchell said no to being an activist before she said yes. Why did she come back? Perhaps, it was her political and community-minded upbringing. Perhaps it was self-interest. Asthma attacks, made worse by bad air pollution in her hometown of Springfield, had plagued her since she was 2 years old. In the end, though, it could have been that she realized that if she didn’t push for what she believed in, who would?
When Kaitlyn arrived at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, she was among the 100-plus students who attended the semester kickoff meeting of MASSPIRG, a student-advocacy group working to protect the environment, alleviate poverty, and increase participation in democracy. She didn’t immediately lean in because she felt compelled to figure out her coursework and her major first.
The Fragility Of American Democracy Is Nothing New In front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 - John Nacion/NurPhoto/ZUMA 2021-02-01
For many people, the lesson from the assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 – and more broadly from the experience of the last four years – is that American democracy has become newly and dangerously fragile.
That conclusion is overstated. In fact, American democracy has always been fragile. And it might be more precise to diagnose the United States as a fragile union rather than a fragile democracy. As President Joe Biden said in his inaugural address, national unity is that most elusive of things.
Feb 1, 2021 3:20pm
Google Cloud announced Monday new artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to help with vaccine rollout efforts from vaccine information and scheduling, to distribution and analytics, to forecasting and modeling COVID-19 cases. (achinthamb/Shutterstock)
Google Cloud is the latest company to put its tech muscle behind efforts to vaccinate millions of Americans against the COVID-19 virus.
The company launched artificial intelligence and machine learning tools Monday to help organizations forecast and model COVID-19 cases to better inform vaccine allocation. The cloud-based tools also are designed to assist with vaccine distribution, appointment scheduling, eligibility screening and communications.
The technology, called the Intelligent Vaccine Impact solution, also analyzes consumer sentiment around the COVID-19 vaccine. Understanding how local communities feel about the risks and benefits of the vaccine is critical to being able to increase confiden
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