The latest PISA assessment presents an unusually stark picture of educational performance. More than 760,000 15-year-old students across 91 participating countries and economies were assessed, producing evidence of broad declines in some
In a groundbreaking move, Microsoft Corporation has unveiled a highly classified generative AI service tailored exclusively for the United States intelligence community, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other spy agencies.
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In a groundbreaking move for the future of autonomous vehicles, Wayve, a startup specializing in AI technology for self-driving cars, has secured a staggering $1.05 billion in funding from tech giants Nvidia
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In my book “The Storm Before the Calm,” I wrote that the United States is headed into institutional and socio-economic crises. The institutional crisis, in my view, would primarily concern the way
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The demise of Dr. Nalin de Silva marks a conspicuous end of one of the predominant ideological fronts in Sri Lanka. In Julius Cesar, Shakespeare states “Evil that men do is remembered after their deaths, but
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This is the inaugural instalment of a thought-provoking series originally featured in Daily Philosophy. With permissions from both the editor of Daily Philosophy and the author behind this compelling series, we are
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The concept of the “total laborer” as a source of economic history can be supplemented by the formula “economic personality.” Economic personality is a total (integral) worker. In this case, the focus
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The slogans would seem to say it all. “Al Qassam (Hamas’s military wing) you make us proud, take another soldier out.” “We say justice, you say how? Burn Tel Aviv to the
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Twenty-three million years ago, our distant ancestors gained trichromatic color vision through means of a random genetic mutation. Trichromatic color vision and trichromacy refer to the ability to perceive color through three
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The student-led movement against the genocide in Gaza that is sweeping college campuses across the United States, has made “divestment” from Israel central to its demands. It’s what the “D” in BDS
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The following excerpt, adapted from a note originally written in Sinhala by Prof. Nalin de Silva, a renowned Sri Lankan theoretical physicist and philosopher, on October 20, 2019. Professor Nalin de Silva
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