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The CDC's regularly revised travel advisories list added the Bahamas and Morocco among countries with the highest-risk destinations for travelers.

Perhaps, if we put bots together the right way, consciousness will simply emerge.

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It’s that time of year again, when I sell out the blog for personal gain.

The early media assessments of Joe Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal were as consistent as they were overheated: It was a “catastrophe,” a “disaster,” a “fiasco,” a “debacle,” a “calamity.” Not for six long decades has an overseas action by an American president generated a similar across-the-board reaction; in that case, it was the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in April 1961, authorized by John F. Kennedy soon after he took office. Carried out by U.S.-trained Cuban émigrés and aimed at overthrowing Fidel Castro’s two-year-old government... Читать дальше...

It’s been some time since public school curricula sat at the center of America’s culture wars, but panicked parent politics have returned with a vengeance. By mid-July of this year, 10 states had banned the teaching of “critical race theory,” a progressive school of legal scholarship that conservatives have redefined as an attack on American patriotism and a conspiracy against white K-12 students. In Texas, a representative bill signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott specifically bans the state’s... Читать дальше...

Kathy Hochul, who becomes the new governor of New York on Tuesday, can count herself fortunate that her state has forgotten just how closely bound to Andrew Cuomo she was as his choice for lieutenant governor in the 2014 election, most conspicuously as a messenger for the governor’s suddenly ardent crusade to win gains for women.

Earlier this month, more than 150 companies signed an open letter calling on Congress “to restore the protections of the Voting Rights Act, removing barriers to voting and building the truly representative 21st century democracy our country deserves.” The letter endorsed the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, or H.R. 4, which would restore a key provision of the VRA that was gutted by the Supreme Court in the 2013 decision Shelby County v. Holder.

Do we have ethical obligations to help our in-laws?

Beijing’s policies now that the Taliban is in charge will provide clues as to how it views global leadership.

The 2022 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List (curated by Andrew Spaeth and myself) has 109 research/teaching positions and 3 teaching position. 

1. Will any Big 12 schools emerge as expansion targets for George Kliavkoff and Pac-12?  Wichita Eagle
2. Body blows that Oklahoma, Texas delivered the Big 12 will have profound impact on coaching carousel  Yahoo Sports
3. SEC Shorts - BIG 12 loses Texas and Oklahoma Cast Away style  SEC Shorts
4. Kyle Flood calls Steve Sarkisian the best play caller in football  Burnt Orange Nation
5. With a new coach at Texas, tight ends enter the 2021 season with 'a lot to prove still'... Читать дальше...

The US Government has opened a formal investigation into Tesla’s ‘Autopilot’ system following a number of accidents involving emergency vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) confirmed the news on its website, with 17 people injured and one killed in the incidents identified by the organisation. Since 2018, the agency has identified 11 crashes where a Tesla on Autopilot or Traffic Aware Cruise Control has hit a vehicle with flashing lights, flares, an illuminated arrow board or cones warning of hazards. Читать дальше...

The Boston genetic engineering company Ginkgo Bioworks and its CEO, Jason Kelly, have been spectacularly successful selling a story: that synthetic biology will transform the manufacture of physical products. What computers did for information, Kelly says, biology will do for the physical world. Instead of making a chemical from petroleum, why not have Ginkgo’s multi-floor…

Bust isn’t the right word to describe Gregory Polanco. That is a little too strong. Disappointment is a much better word.

The spread between prices for 65% Fe iron ore and 62% Fe products have narrowed rapidly in recent weeks due to the former weakening at a faster pace than the latter.

1. UK Sales Charts: Sony Dominant as PS5, PS4 Games Claim Top Spots  Push Square
2. Sony quietly launches revised PlayStation 5 model with new screw  Eurogamer.net
3. The new, lighter PS5 is now on sale in Australia  What Hi-Fi?
4. PlayStation Direct PS5 Restock Dropping Today – August 24  Gaming INTEL
5. 10 PS4 Games You Forgot Even Existed | Forgotten & Obscure PS4 Games  Cultured Vultures
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"In the past," says Age Of Empires 2 project lead Bert Beeckman, "if we wanted, say, the AI playing the Holy Roman Empire to stay in the game even if they lost all their units, there was... a little trick we had to do". On remembering this, he sounds somehow nostalgic and faintly harrowed at the same time. "We had to create an invisible unit, somewhere out of the way. And the way to do that was to take a horse. And then garrison it inside another horse. Which would then become invisible". He pauses for a moment. Читать дальше...

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A resilient center makes strides in a difficult year to check in at #14 on our countdown of the best young players in the Penguins organization

Herbed walnut potato salad. | Courtesy of California Walnuts

Thinking ahead to your next few meals? Here are some main dishes and sides to try.

Storage will never be as fast as system memory--that’s just the nature of system architecture. But thanks to NVMe (nonvolatile memory express), SSDs can deliver such blazingly fast performance, the penalty of “going to disk” tends to be miniscule.

There are quite a few shells on Linux system and more that can be easily added. This post examines some of the more popular shells, how they differ and the files that contribute to their configuration.