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·Jun 10, 2020

A Deadly Mosquito-Borne Illness Is Brewing in the Northeast

EEE kills almost half of its victims, and cases are on the rise — In springtime, when the swamps behind the Mosman’s family home filled with fresh water, Keith, the eldest son, and Scott, his younger brother, would tramp barefoot through vernal pools in search of turtles, snakes, and frogs, returning hours later dotted with mosquito bites from the scourge that bred among the…

Environment

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A Deadly Mosquito-Borne Illness Is Brewing in the Northeast
A Deadly Mosquito-Borne Illness Is Brewing in the Northeast
Environment

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Published in OneZero

·Jul 9, 2019

What If an Algorithm Could Predict Your Unborn Child’s Intelligence?

Stephen Hsu’s startup Genomic Predictions analyzes genetic data to predict the chance of diseases like diabetes and cancer — and forecast IQ — For years, hopeful parents pursuing in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment have had the option of screening embryos for severe heritable diseases like cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, and Tay-Sachs disease. These rare and often deadly conditions, known as monogenic disorders, can be easily identified through genetic screening because they arise due to…

Genetics

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What If an Algorithm Could Predict Your Unborn Child’s Intelligence?
What If an Algorithm Could Predict Your Unborn Child’s Intelligence?
Genetics

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Published in OneZero

·Jun 7, 2019

Wikipedia Shows How to Handle Political Polarization

Even when editors disagree sharply, the site’s firm rules enable them to produce accurate entries — Is there an upside to political polarization? A cursory glance at the state of social media would suggest not: Twitter is a cesspool of abuse, Facebook a repository of viral misinformation, and YouTube a broadcaster of conspiracy theories and vicious trolling. Given the lamentable state of political discourse online, one…

Wikipedia

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Wikipedia Shows How to Handle Political Polarization
Wikipedia Shows How to Handle Political Polarization
Wikipedia

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Mar 17, 2015

From Can We Automate

To Ought We Automate Poetry and the Art of Automation Can computers write poetry? This is the question I’ve been exploring in my thesis for the past two years. In an attempt to answer this question I developed bot or not, a website that acts as a Turing Test for poetry. Basically, the website has a database of 300 poems…

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From Can We Automate to Ought We Automate
From Can We Automate to Ought We Automate
Tech

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