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When the coronavirus began its long, deadly march through the United States last spring, and states mandated that businesses and schools close and people stay home to limit the spread of the virus, the ability to communicate and work via videoconferencing platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Skype was hailed as a technological blessing. In stark contrast with the purgatorial mood many people were experiencing during indefinite lockdown, newspaper articles set a celebratory tone, hailing the arrival of the Zoom cocktail hour and encouraging Americans who were now spending countless hou...

SUBSCRIBE TO EIR Executive Intelligence Review. by John Sigerson, National Music Director of the Schiller Institute The following is an edited transcript of Mr. Sigerson’s opening remarks to Panel 4, “A Human Future for Youth: A Beethoven-Driven Renaissance of Classical Culture,” of the Schiller Institute’s December 12-13 Conference, The World after the U.S. Election: Creating a World Based on Reason. Let me attempt to introduce to you the real Ludwig van Beethoven, and to indicate why Beethoven’s mastery of the Coincidence of Opposites in the domain of Classical, well-tempered poly...

The following is an edited transcript of the opening remarks delivered by Jacques Cheminade on December 13 during Panel 4, “A Human Future for Youth: A Beethoven-Driven Renaissance of Classical Culture,” of the Schiller Institute conference, “The World After the U.S. Election: Creating a World Based on Reason.” Mr. Cheminade is the founder and President of the Solidarité et Progrès political party in France. Subheads have been added. Schiller Institute Jacques Cheminade If you consider all that has been said during this Conference, the most human thing to ask ourselves is why is the...

Arnab Goswami and the pale blue dot ByDushyantDushyant / Updated: Dec 25, 2020, 15:39 IST Even as a British media regulator comes down hard on a channel for its bigotry, tolerance seems light years away I was absolutely awestruck when I first read about the concept of the ‘observable universe’. That even with all of our technology, we can only see a portion of the entire universe. Wikipedia tells me this observable universe has two trillion galaxies. I then found that there is a ‘future visibility limit’ -- that even in the infinite future, there will be a part of the universe that w...

10204 1 Lion’s share: In the US, Facebook and Google together account for 90-95% of the total advertising revenue. Reuters Paranjoy Guha Thakurta Senior Journalist and Author IN recent weeks, a series of attempts have been made by governments in different countries, notably Australia and the United States, to curb the overweening dominance of two of the biggest digital monopolies on the planet. Unlike many parts of the world where a consensus has emerged that the unrestrained dominance of Alphabet (the parent company of Google, YouTube and the Android operating system on mobile phones) and...