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The Gospel of James Baldwin: Musician Meshell Ndegeocello Rekindles the Fire of Truth for a New Time that Was Once a Next Time

November 3, 2020: Found by Robert Curran

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”

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Mary Shelley on the Courage to Speak Up Against Injustice and the Power of Words in Revising the World

October 6, 2020: Found by Robert Curran

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“Words have more power than any one can guess; it is by words that the world’s great fight, now in these civilized times, is carried on.”

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The case for biometric authentication — and why we should ditch passwords

June 11, 2020: Found by Robert Curran

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According to Forbes, business leaders from a variety of industries have joined forces to face one unexpected enemy. That enemy? Log-ins and passwords. The group includes such giants as PayPal, Amazon, Visa, MasterCard, and Aetna. The unnamed members of the group are the millions of people who throw their “password” book across the room because none of the listed log-ins and passwords ever seem to work.

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When Did Time Really Begin? The Little Loophole in the Big Bang

June 10, 2020: Found by Robert Curran

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A pleasurable warping of the figuring faculty to contemplate what was there before the before.

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Cephalopod Atlas

May 13, 2020: Found by Robert Curran

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Ravishing otherworldly wonders of the cosmos beneath the surface, from the first expedition to prove that life exists in the depths.

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Virginia Woolf on Finding Beauty in the Uncertainty of Time, Space, and Being

May 12, 2020: Found by Robert Curran

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Calibration and consolation for those moments when it seems impossible that we should ever again recompose the world’s broken fragments into a harmonious whole.

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How AI is changing the customer experience

May 8, 2020: Found by Robert Curran

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AI is rapidly transforming the way that companies interact with their customers. MIT Technology Review Insights’ survey of 1,004 business leaders, “The global AI agenda,” found that customer service is the most active department for AI deployment today. By 2022, it will remain the leading area of AI use in companies (say 73% of respondents),…

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Americans trust Google and Amazon more than Tom Hanks, report finds

February 20, 2020: Found by Robert Curran

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Google and Amazon topped the list of the U.S.'s most trusted brands, according to a report by market research firm Morning Consult published Monday.

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Anatomy of an AI System wins Design of the Year 2019 at The Design Museum

January 18, 2020: Found by Robert Curran

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Infographic and research project Anatomy of an AI System, which lays bear the consequences of voice-assistant devices has won Design of the Year 2019.

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