Yale announces $150 million to support leadership in AI | YaleNews

August 30, 2024

https://news.yale.edu/2024/08/28/yale-announces-150-million-support-leadership-ai?utm_source=YaleToday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=YT_YaleToday-Faculty_8-29-2024


Spandex and Sweatbands at the Louvre | The New Yorker

August 30, 2024

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/17/spandex-and-sweatbands-at-the-louvre


NXTHVN

August 29, 2024

https://www.nxthvn.com/about/


Got a mouse in the house?

August 29, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-mousetrap


Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour? | The New Yorker

August 27, 2024

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/27/can-you-read-a-book-in-a-quarter-of-an-hour

blinkist


How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals | The New Yorker

August 27, 2024

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/27/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-toxic

Lerner, S. (2024, May 20). How 3M discovered, then concealed, the dangers of forever chemicals. The New Yorker.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/27/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-toxic

the horror of PFOS


Portal – Flatiron NoMad

August 27, 2024

currently NYC=>Dublin
https://flatironnomad.nyc/portal/


Assuming no expertise in computing, and involving no programming, this course addresses a number of fundame ntal questions: most importantly, how will our unders…

August 24, 2024

https://courtauld.ac.uk/short-courses-2024/spring-and-autumn-courses/autumn-courses/making-sense-of-computing-in-art/

Assuming no expertise in computing, and involving no programming, this course addresses a number of fundamental questions: most importantly, how will our unders…

Source: The Courtauld
Making Sense of Computing in Art


Digital damage? – ScienceDirect

August 24, 2024

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407924011461

Marshall, M. (2024). Digital damage? The New Scientist, 262(3496), 31–35. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0262-4079(24)01146-1

Guilty by association

For starters, the vast majority of studies into screen time, smartphones and social media just look for associations. Is more screen time associated, on a statistical level, with a certain harm? This means they can tell us whether the two are correlated, but they can’t say whether the screen time is actually causing the harm.

Researchers often ask people to self-report screen time, which is unreliable – particularly if you want to distinguish between different types of screen time. This is….


It’s actually OK to run the AC all day

August 24, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/when-to-turn-off-air-conditioner