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Leah Barlow, professor of liberal studies at the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, prepared to teach his introduction to the class of African American studies in this semester as always: he put together a program, mapped assignments and created an account Tiktok to make the material account as accessible as possible.He published a video on January 20 welcoming his 35 students to the course. The next morning, he emerged in the algorithm of quite Tiktok users who 250,000 people had enrolled in his channel.In a few days, the videos of Dr. Barlow had involuntarily inspired a freely affiliated network of black educators, experts and creators of content to form what has become known as Hillmantok University, a free and unconvented online and unofficial online socket and...

On Tuesday evening the declaration of President Trump according to which the United States could "take over" to the Gaza Strip and that its Palestinian population could have been permanently churned out was immediately criticized in the Middle East and beyond. In a joint press conference of the White House with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Trump said: "The United States will take control of the Gaza strip and we will also do a job with it". He said that the enclave, which has been devastated for over 15 months of war between Israel and Hamas, could be redeveloped and transformed into "The Riviera del Middle East". Riyad Mansour, leader of the Palestinian delegation at the United Nations, said on social media that instead of being transferred to other countries, the Palestin...

After more than three decades of planning and a $250 million investment, Lykos Therapeutics’ application for the first psychedelic drug to reach federal regulators was expected to be a shoo-in.Lykos, the corporate arm of a nonprofit dedicated to winning mainstream acceptance of psychedelics, had submitted data to the Food and Drug Administration showing that its groundbreaking treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder — MDMA plus talk therapy — was significantly more effective than existing treatments.At a pivotal public hearing last summer, two dozen scientists, doctors and trauma survivors told an F.D.A. advisory panel how MDMA-assisted therapy had brought marked relief from a mental health condition associated with high rates of suicide, especially among veterans.Then came skeptics w...

On Tuesday, an international group of 14 neonatal and pediatric specialists raised serious doubts about the tests used to condemn the British nurse Lucy Letby, who was judged guilty in 2023 for killing seven children at the hospital where she worked.In a dramatic press conference in London, the president of the panel, dr. Shoo Lee, Canadian neonatologist, said that the vast independent review that presided over had not found evidence that Mrs. Letby had killed or attempted to kill any of the children her care.He also highlighted harmful results that indicate serious errors in medical care in the unit in which deaths and chronic failures occurred in the management of neonatal conditions. He said some of the deaths had been preventable."Our conclusion was that there was no medical tests in s...

While Elon Musk crosses the federal government, those close to the billionaire are advertising a particular tool in their arsenal: artificial intelligence.Musk, who leads a series of technological companies, including Spacex, Tesla, X and Xai, was commissioned by the Trump administration with a drastically federal expenditure by reducing through the so -called Department of Government or Doge's efficiency. In the first two weeks of the administration, the group overturned the federal agencies and invited workers to resign to reduce costs.The Musk allies who have taken roles within government agencies are evaluating how to exploit the IA to identify budget cuts and detect waste and abuse, according to people who are familiar with internal conversations, who spoke on condition of anonymity F...

The new intelligence on the Iranian nuclear program convinced American officials that a secret team of the country's scientists is exploring a faster, even if more rough approach, to the development of an atomic weapon if Tehran's leadership decides to run for a bomb , according to the current and former American officials.The development also comes among the signs that the new president of Iran is actively looking for a negotiation with the Trump administration.The intelligence has been collected in the last months of the Biden administration, then transmitted to the national security team of President Trump during the transition of power, according to officials, who asked the anonymity to discuss sensitive details. The evaluation of intelligence warned that the engineers and scientists o...

At the beginning of February 2020, China blocked over 50 million people, hoping to hinder the spread of a new coronavirus. Nobody knew exactly how he was spreading, but Lidia Moraowska, an air quality expert at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia, did not like the clues he managed to find.It seemed to her as if the Coronavirus was spreading in the air, transported by drops of difficulties exhaled by the infected. If this were true, then standard measures such as the disinfection of the surfaces and stay a few meters from people with symptoms would not be enough to avoid infection.Dr. Moraowska and his colleague, Junji Cao at the Chinese Academy of the Beijing Sciences, have drawn up a desperate warning. By ignoring the diffusion in the air of the virus, they wrote, it woul...

In May, the Association for 10 Country of Southeast Asian nations, known as ASEAN, will meet the six nations of the Middle East which constitute the Gulf Cooperation Council. The guest of the summit, Malaysia, invited China to participate.China is also ready to update its free trade agreement with Asean, which includes Cambodia, Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam. And the trade and investments between Asean and India, the most populous nation in the world, are deepening.Great Britain has also recently baptized a new partnership. In December, a group that includes Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam, was officially combined with the trans-Pacific Trade Bloc. London is also trying to repair his brazen economic relations with the...

A week ago, Openi has published a tool that can go online to shop or book a restaurants. Now it offers technology AI can collect information from the Internet and summarize them in concise reports.Open has revealed the new tool, called Deep Research, with a demonstration on YouTube on Sunday, days after showing technology to legislators, politicians and other Washington officials."It can carry out complex research tasks that may request a person from 30 minutes to 30 days," said Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer in Openi, at the Washington event. On the contrary, deep research can carry out these tasks in 5-30 minutes, depending on the complexity.Artificial intelligence researchers call this type of technology an artificial intelligence agent. While chatbots can answer questions, write poe...

The new interim president of Syria, Ahmed al-Shara, arrived on Sunday in Saudi Arabia for his first foreign journey from his rebel coalition the longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad, saying that his country is looking for a true collaboration with The kingdom of the Gulf.Al-Shara landed at Riyad airport, in the Saudi capital on Sunday afternoon. The new flag of Syria flew next to the Saudi flag at the airport. Al-Shara later he met the hereditary prince of the reign rich in oil, Mohammed Bin Salman, according to the Syrian media and the Saudi state.The choice of Saudi Arabia for the first Al-Shara journey abroad was seen as a reflection of the married political alignments of Syria under the new leadership of the country: far from Iran, which was a key ally of the Assad regime and towards the ...