By Craig E. Colten 5 minute Learn Waves of catastrophe have earned Louisiana a popularity as the place to observe for a way local weather change will affect coastal areas. Hurricane Ida was merely a punctuation mark in a collection of devastating tropical cyclones, tragic inland floods, epic oil spills, and lethal epidemics. Regardless of these all-too-frequent catastrophes, many residents ...
By Jeffrey Funk and Gary N. Smith 9 minute Learn In 1965, Herbert Simon, who would later be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics and the Turing Award (the “Nobel Prize of computing”), predicted that “machines shall be succesful, inside 20 years, of doing any work a person can do.” In 1970, Marvin Minsky, who additionally acquired the Turing Award, ...
By elissaveta m. brandon 5 minute Learn When Interstate 244 rammed via Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood within the Seventies, the group had already skilled the wrath of racism. In 1921, a white mob had unleashed horrific violence towards the Black neighborhood, killing 300 folks and destroying 35 acres of business and residential property. Then within the Thirties, redlining insurance policies in ...