Over the last couple of months we embarked on making a short documentary about climate change. We had the opportunity to witness the effects of our changing climate firsthand and to meet the people on the front lines of campaigning…
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023 – Energy Consumption In this video Paul Andersen explains how humans have consumed energy through history and may consume energy in the future. Sources of energy have included food, animals, wood, wind, coal, oil, and natural gas. However non-renewable…
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Climate Change is a real and serious issue. In this video Bill Nye, the Science Guy, explains what causes climate change, how it affects our planet, why we need to act promptly to mitigate its effects, and how each of…
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Destruction of Syria and Iraq’s historical sites by ISIS has prompted an outpouring of international concern. In this video clip, Katharyn Hanson, Visiting Scholar from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Cultural Heritage Center, discusses the destruction of a Assyrian…
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Residents of the historic Bo-Kaap neighborhood in Cape Town say the area is at risk of losing its cultural heritage. The main reason is high earners moving in to buy and renovate properties. The Bo-Kaap has been recognised by the…
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Subscribe now to ScienceNET! Interesting and provocative comments about the possible consequences of artificial super-intelligence from two of the smartest, most accomplished people on Earth. “We have essentially been building the content base for the super-intelligence. You think you’re using…
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Existential risk from advanced artificial intelligence Top # 7 Facts
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Max Tegmark is an MIT cosmologist and Fellow of the American Physical Society and a founder of the Future of Life Institute; Nick Bostrom is the director of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford and the…
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What are existential risks? They are the risks that threaten the very survival of the human species, or those that could dramatically curtail its potential. There are many, from asteroid impact, to engineered pandemic to artificial intelligence (AI), and they…
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