In
Lawâs Dominion, Jay Berkovitz offers a novel approach to the history of early modern Jewry. Set in the city of Metz, on the Moselle river, this study of a vibrant prerevolutionary community draws on a wide spectrum of legal sources that tell a story about community, religion, and family that has not been told before. Focusing on the communityâs leadership, public institutions, and judiciary, this study challenges the assumption that Jewish life was in a steady state of decline before the French Revolution. To the contrary, the evidence reveals a robust community that integrated religious values and civic consciousness, interacted with French society, and showed remarkable signs of collaboration between Jewish law and the French judicial system.
I worked so hard for it : Jill Biden hits back at critics of her doctorate and condemns the tone of WSJ column that called her kiddo and told her to drop Dr title because it feels fraudulent and comic
The 69-year-old told Stephen Colbert it was really the tone of the opinion piece which caught her off guard during an interview alongside husband Joe Biden Yeah that was such a surprise, she told him, referring to last week s WSJ piece
Stephen Epstein wrote Dr sounds and feels fraudulent, not to say a touch comic
Epstein was accused of being patronizing and sexist by Michelle Obama
Representational image. | Yves Herman/ Reuters
This month, Google forced out a prominent AI ethics researcher after she voiced frustration with the company for making her withdraw a research paper. The paper pointed out the risks of language-processing artificial intelligence, the type used in Google Search and other text analysis products.
Among the risks is the large carbon footprint of developing this kind of AI technology. By some estimates, training an AI model generates as much carbon emissions as it takes to build and drive five cars over their lifetimes.
I am a researcher who studies and develops AI models, and I am all too familiar with the skyrocketing energy and financial costs of AI research. Why have AI models become so power-hungry, and how are they different from traditional data centre computation?
Book Bag: ‘Loved and Wanted’ by Christa Parravani; ‘Killing the Story’ by Joan Livingston
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Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children and Womanhood by Christa Parravani (Henry Holt and Company)
Writer and teacher Christa Parravani already had two young children, including one just about a year old, when she discovered she was pregnant again. The confirmation came when she used a store-bought test in her bathroom; she threw the test across the room, and it bounced off the tiled wall above her bathtub and flew back at her.
So begins Parravani’s “Loved and Wanted,” her painful memoir of becoming pregnant at a time when her family can barely pay its bills and her husband leaves almost all the child care and homemaking to her. She wants to get an abortion, but she’s living in a state West Virginia where obtaining one is almost impossible.
UMass Amherst geologist and team studied marshes from Wall Street to Albany
December 18, 2020
Hudson River graphic. Courtesy of the Dams and Sediment in the Hudson project.
AMHERST, Mass. – In a new study of tidal marsh resilience to sea level rise, geologist and first author Brian Yellen at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues observed that Hudson River Estuary marshes are growing upward at a rate two to three times faster than sea level rise, “suggesting that they should be resilient to accelerated sea level rise in the future,” he says.
Writing in
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Yellen and colleagues documented that more than half of Hudson River tidal marshes formed since 1850. That year, the channel was straightened and a riverside railroad, berms, jetties and human-made islands of dredged soil were built. This all trapped sediment and created backwaters that often – but not always – turned into marshes, an “unintended result o