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- A Dozen Ways You (Yes, You) Can Help Fight Climate Change
This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.If you’re reading this, chances are you care a lot about fighting climate change, and that’s great. The climate emergency threatens all of humanity. And although the world has started to make some progress on it, our global response is still extremely lacking. The trouble is, it can be genuinely hard to figure out how to direct your money wisely if you want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. There’s a glut of environmental organizations out there—but how do you know which are the most impactful? To help, here’s a list of eight of the most high-impact, cost-effective, and evidence-based organizations. We’re not including bigger-name groups, such as the Environmental Defense Fund, the Nature Conservancy, or the Natural Resources Defense Council, because most big organizations are already relatively well-funded. The groups we list below seem to be doing something… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.8 hours ago - ‘Person of interest’ detained over Brown University shooting, police say
Two people died and nine others were injured in the incident in Rhode Island on Saturday. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.8 hours ago - Today in Supreme Court History: December 14, 1964
12/14/1964: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. U.S. and Katzenbach v. McClung are decided. The post Today in Supreme Court History: December 14, 1964 appeared first on Reason.com. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.8 hours ago - The View From Inside the AI Bubble
In a small room in San Diego last week, a man in a black leather jacket explained to me how to save the world from destruction by AI. Max Tegmark, a notable figure in the AI-safety movement, believes that “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI, could precipitate the end of human life. I was in town for NeurIPS, one of the largest AI-research conferences, and Tegmark had invited me, along with five other journalists, to a briefing on an AI-safety index that he would release the next day. No company scored better than a C+.The threat of technological superintelligence is the stuff of science fiction, yet it has become a topic of serious discussion in the past few years. Despite the lack of clear definition—even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has called AGI a “weakly defined term”—the idea that powerful AI contains an inherent threat to humanity has gained acceptance among respected… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.8 hours ago - Witnesses Fled Bondi Beach as Gunmen Targeted Jewish Event
Gunshots ripped through a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia, killing at least 12 people. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.8 hours ago - 12 killed in Hanukkah shooting at Australia’s Bondi Beach
Twelve people were killed and more than two dozen injured in a shooting by two gunmen at a Jewish holiday event at Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.9 hours ago
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