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Unseating demagogues using scientific reason 29 Jan 2021 Tribune News Service As we turn the page to new political leadership, it will be tempting to treat what happened in the past four years as a bad dream. We can’t allow that to happen. Our four-year exposure to an increasingly viral demagoguery demonstrates that those who seek power by inflaming prejudices and rejecting fact and reason pose an existential danger to our democracy. The insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6 confirmed this for many people, but in truth it was clear all along — and should have been clear ...

The questions of scientific inquiry — what do we know? how can we prove it? — can be an inoculation against authoritarianism.

Valtix Secures Strategic Investments from Cisco Investments and TSG, Names Former Juniper and Big Switch Executive Douglas Murray CEO Customer Adoption Accelerates and Leadership Team Expands News provided by Share this article Share this article SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Valtix, the industry's first cloud-native network security platform, announced that it has secured $12.5 million in strategic funding from Cisco Investments, Northgate Capital and The Syndicate Group. These new investors join Trinity Ventures, Vertex Ventures and Wing Venture Capital, which committe...

Experts predict post-covid mental health epidemic December 31, 2020 Parnian Shahsavary/YJI A mental health crisis could be imminent because of the impact of lockdowns and other stressful aspects of the pandemic, mental health professionals told Youth Journalism International. Helen Butlin, a psychotherapist in Ontario, Canada, said people are already vulnerable and struggling. The “tender, raw spots in our mental well being,” Butlin said, are under tremendous pressure, making coping more difficult.  She wasn’t the only one. “This is a collective trauma that we are all facing. It is a...

The Crying of Lot 49. "Them, we can talk about." What could fuel a livelier conversation—religion and politics notwithstanding? Them are easy to pick in December because the dictionary companies do the winnowing and choose a Word of the Year (WOTY). Says Oxford Dictionary about the deliberations: "Every year, we choose a winner that is judged to reflect the ethos, mood or preoccupations of that particular year and to have lasting potential as a word of cultural significance." Them are usually words worth talking about, I find. Collins Dictionary's 2020 WOTY is "lockdown." The noun was coine...