A large global assessment of the world’s flora by the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew in the United Kingdom released May 9 says 21 percent of all plant species are at risk of extinction
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Please hit LIKE, SHARE and SUBSCRIBE for more amazing documentary videos. Description: A short documentary that explores the issue of child labor in the small-scale gold mines of the Philippines. Photographer and photojournalist Larry C. Price was granted rare access…
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SUSTAINING LIFE (series title) An ongoing look at food, water, and climate change MASS EXTINCTION: Life on the Brink Wednesday, October 14, 2015 Jonathan Payne, PhD, associate professor of geological sciences, Stanford University; and Sarah Holt, Producer, Director and Writer…
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“Tracking Lost Heritage: The ASOR Cultural Heritage Initiatives” Alison Cuneo (ASOR Cultural Heritage Initiatives, USA) Presented at Culture in Crisis II, an International Conference at the Yale Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage in collaboration with the Victoria and…
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Climate change is an urgent topic of discussion among politicians, journalists and celebrities…but what do scientists say about climate change? Does the data validate those who say humans are causing the earth to catastrophically warm? Richard Lindzen, an MIT atmospheric…
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Autonomous vehicles are now appearing on our roadways. This session will look at the new risks they pose—including ethics or value judgments that have no clear consensus—and how those risks could be managed, including what existing law might say about…
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Talking about some of the risks of Artificial Intelligence and how we could avoid some of them!
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Humans use a variety of resources for energy production. Since the late 19th century, industrialized nations have relied on non-renewables like coal and oil. Today is not much different, even with our advances. This video introduces non-renewables and sets the…
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http://www.biohackersummit.com Kaj Sotala is a researcher and author interested in both the risks of advanced artificial intelligence, and in developing communities that support the growth and flourishing of all their members. He has worked for the Machine Intelligence Research Institute…
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www.datameer.com Microsoft’s Vijay Narayanan answers the question, “What conversations do we need to have around the risks of artificial intelligence?” Vijay also discusses three trends he thinks will happen in the next 5 – 10 years, including most data will…
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