COVID-19: What the Autopsies Reveal

Rebuilt New Orleans Levees Saved Lives and Property

Share this on WhatsApp Hurricane Ida, which cut a path of destruction from Louisiana to New York last year, is being recognized as one of the most destructive storms in U.S. history and the world’s costliest natural disaster in 2021. But the Category 4 hurricane also is becoming a poster child for government spending on […]

Speech Recognition Tech Is Yet Another Example of Bias

Share this on WhatsApp “Clow-dia,” I say once. Twice. A third time. Defeated, I say the Americanized version of my name: “Claw-dee-ah.” Finally, Siri recognizes it. Having to adapt our way of speaking to interact with speech recognition technologies is a familiar experience for people whose first language is not English or who do not […]

Kicking Horses Are More Deadly than Lightning

Share this on WhatsApp Originally published in July 1898 Credit: Scientific American Advertisement “Of the 298 classes of objects of fear, to which 1,707 persons confessed, thunder and lightning lead all the rest. But is there any factual justification for this fear? We believe there is not. As proof we may cite statistics of the […]