Author: Michelle Korhonen
A brutally violent series of murders of women has been documented. Thousands of Kenyans are protesting to demand government action on gender-based violence.
Expats, Amazon Prime’s adaptation of Janice Y. K. Lee’s best-selling novel The Expatriates, is a slow-burn drama following the lives of three American women in Hong Kong in the aftermath of a tragedy. Each protagonist deals with complicated feelings of grief as their lives overlap, with the affluent Margaret (played by Nicole Kidman) serving as the story’s anchor.Yet in the series’ splendid fifth and latest episode, titled “Central,” Margaret doesn’t appear until nearly 40 minutes in, and the women’s troubles fade into the background. Instead, the show brings into focus the people who have been hovering around the margins of…
A doctor who was in charge of tackling thousands of coronavirus admissions has been suspended after he was caught secretly treating private patients on NHS time at the height of the pandemic.Dr Enson Thomas, 58, had been appointed ‘Covid 19 Lead’ by an NHS trust and assigned to carry out extended working hours at two busy hospitals during the crisis.But the married father-of-three – an expert in respiratory medicine – sneaked off during his contracted NHS shifts to treat 38 patients privately at a chest clinic, a misconduct hearing was told.Over a 19-month period between 2019 and 2021 Dr Thomas…
What would you do if I told you there’s a whole demographic group that can’t be trusted to work because they’re unreliable, bad with technology, slow learners, and most likely not a good “culture fit”? What if I said that group probably shouldn’t even be incorporated into the rest of society – that they should live in their own, separate communities where the rest of us don’t have to see or interact with them unless we choose to? Would your hackles be raised? Would that language have you dialing up the ACLU? It probably should. It’s called stereotyping. (Heard of…
Tucker Carlson went to Moscow last week and had an absolute blast. He rode the subway and marveled at its clean cars, the fancy tilework in Kievskaya Station, and the lack of booze-drenched hobos. He went to a grocery store and was astonished by what ordinary people could apparently buy. He even managed to meet a local history buff and sit down for tea and conversation. Carlson, who had never previously visited Moscow, declared himself “radicalized” against America’s leaders by the experience. He didn’t want to live in Moscow, but he did want to know why we in America have…
Using antidepressants during pregnancy or while breastfeeding can damage a baby’s brain and increase their risk of suffering mental health problems in the future, a study found.Prozac, also known as fluoxetine, increases levels of mood-boosting serotonin in the brain – but scientists discovered this can affect a child’s developing prefrontal cortex.They also found the drug can pass into the breast milk of new mothers who take it and end up being fed to newborns. Research suggest that between 300,000 and 400,000 kids are being exposed to Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI) drugs each year in the US during pregnancy. Professor Won Chan…
A 2021 study of memorials in America counted 5,917 monuments that memorialize the Civil War. In that total, only 1 percent include the word slavery; Yale’s Civil War Memorial is not among that 1 percent.The memorial stands in one of the busiest corridors on campus. Four bas-relief figures—symbolizing courage, devotion, peace, and memory—surround tablets bearing the names of Yale men who fought and died for both sides. Verses of a poem, “The Blue and the Gray,” are etched into the floor. The poem, first published in The Atlantic, is by the 1849 Yale graduate Francis Miles Finch. He wrote songs…
Prince Harry has said Archie and Lilibet have an ‘incredible sense of humour’ and that they ‘make him laugh everyday’.The Duke of Sussex, 39, spoke publicly for the first time since King Charles postponed all public-facing duties last week following his cancer diagnosis while he spends time in Whistler, Canada, ahead of the Invictus Games next year. Asked by Good Morning America presenter Will Reeve what it was like being a father, Harry joked: ‘I can’t tell you, that’s classified. It’s top secret,’.He then added: ‘The kids are doing great. The kids are growing up like all kids do, very very fast.’.‘They have…
In this week’s StoryCorps, a father with terminal cancer records a message for his three-year-old daughter.
ChatGPT exploded into the world in the fall of 2022, sparking a race toward ever more advanced artificial intelligence: GPT-4, Anthropic’s Claude, Google Gemini, and so many others. But with every passing month, tech corporations appear more and more stuck, competing over millimeters of progress. The most advanced and attention-grabbing AI models, having consumed most of the text and images available on the internet, are running out of training data, their most precious resource. This, along with the costly and slow process of using human evaluators to develop these systems, has stymied the technology’s growth, leading to iterative updates rather…