Category: Science and Technology

Why state funding shouldn’t go toward blue-skies research

Post author By Vanness Erwid Wu
Post date September 3, 2021
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The government’s aims should center around their citizens when things like space research are still a hunch that is yet to be proven.

Tags applied research, benefit, breakthroughs, debate, food, motion, NASA, private, private companies, problems, scarcity, space, technology

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[AK] How Flat Earthers Think

Post author By Ahmad Kushay
Post date January 13, 2019
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This note will discuss the fallacious thought process of flat earthers. Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/i-watched-an-entire-flat-earth-convention-for-my-research-here-s-what-i-learnt

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[AK] What Makes People Not Believe in Science

Post author By Ahmad Kushay
Post date January 13, 2019
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Source: https://aeon.co/ideas/what-makes-people-distrust-science-surprisingly-not-politics
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0146167217741314

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[AK] The Death of Expertise

Post author By Ahmad Kushay
Post date May 20, 2017
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This note will discuss how expert’s opinion are becoming to have less and less value inside society and the harm brought because of it.

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[AK] How Artificial Intelligence Can Be Used To Influence Politics

Post author By Ahmad Kushay
Post date May 20, 2017
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This note will discuss how a set of artificial intelligence tools can be used to sway public opinion and attract them to a certain idea and the harms it brings to democracy.