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New Hampshire Officials to Investigate A.I. Robocalls Mimicking Biden

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Jan

Technology

New Hampshire Officials to Investigate A.I. Robocalls Mimicking Biden

Voters in New Hampshire received robocall messages over the weekend in a voice that was most likely artificially generated to impersonate President Biden’s, urging them not to vote in Tuesday’s primary election, according to the state attorney general’s office.The fake recordings, which told listeners that “your vote makes a difference in November, not this Tuesday,” were manipulated to seem as if they had been sent by an officer of a Democratic committee, the office said.The attorney general’s office stressed that voting in the primary would not rule out voters from also casting ballots in the general election in November.“These messages…

Climate Change Takes Center Stage in Economics

24

Jan

By William Lee

Business

Climate Change Takes Center Stage in Economics

In early January in San Antonio, dozens of Ph.D. economists packed into a small windowless room in the recesses of a Grand Hyatt to hear brand-new research on the hottest topic of their annual conference: how climate change is affecting everything.The papers in this session focused on the impact of natural disasters on mortgage risk, railway safety and even payday loans. Some attendees had to stand in the back, as the seats had already been filled. It wasn’t an anomaly.Nearly every block of time at the Allied Social Science Associations conference — a gathering of dozens of economics-adjacent academic organizations…

Innovation quality learning: metodologías innovadoras para un aprendizaje activo y participativo

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Jan

By William Lee

New miscellaneousAprendizaje adaptativo, Enseñanza personalizada, Transformación digital en la educación Innovación

Innovation quality learning: metodologías innovadoras para un aprendizaje activo y participativo

La Transformación Digital del Aprendizaje: Innovación, Calidad y Tecnología en la Educación En la era digital en la que nos encontramos inmersos, la educación experimenta una transformación continua. Los avances tecnológicos y las mejoras en las comunicaciones han desplegado un amplio abanico de oportunidades para la innovación educativa, brindando la posibilidad de un aprendizaje personalizado y de calidad. En este artículo, examinaremos de qué manera la tecnología educativa, las metodologías innovadoras y la enseñanza personalizada están revolucionando el proceso de adquisición de conocimientos y desarrollo de habilidades por parte de los estudiantes. La innovación educativa ha cobrado un…

22

Jan

By William Lee

New miscellaneous

Leave the Poor Princess Alone

The gift and the book itself are fictional. The 2021 film, directed by Pablo Larraín, is too, proceeding from the idea that where there’s a martyr there must be a monster. Elizabeth is a freeze-dried witch, Charles a snarling prig. Perhaps to avoid accusations of defamation, the filmmakers identify their story, in a prefatory caption, as “a fable from a true tragedy.”A fable and a tragedy I grant you: The famous outline of Diana’s story, if not its unknowable guts, is Grimm indeed.But the word “true” doesn’t belong anywhere near “Spencer.” No reputable history has suggested, for instance, that the…

How Worcester Polytechnic Institute Weathered a Spate of Suicides

22

Jan

By William Lee

Health

How Worcester Polytechnic Institute Weathered a Spate of Suicides

“Were you burned out,” I asked.Her face was flat. “I still am,” she said. “Yeah. Yes, and I still am.” Worcester is famous for the snow dumps it receives in the winter. It has something to do with where the city is in relation to the Appalachian Mountains. The clouds bear down when the temperature drops, and then the snow is relentless and the weather is brutal. All winter, it’s brutal, brutal, brutal, and then somehow, slowly, it’s not anymore. That’s kind of how the end of W.P.I.’s crisis arrived. No one I spoke to could quite explain how they…

Coco Gauff, under the Australian Open radar, is having a very different kind of Grand Slam

22

Jan

By William Lee

Sports

Coco Gauff, under the Australian Open radar, is having a very different kind of Grand Slam

Coco Gauff walks onto the court in the middle of the day. The stadium is half-full, if that. So far, she mostly takes care of her main business in a little over an hour. A couple of television interviews follow her warm-down. Not much more than that. Sometimes there are just two or three journalists at her news conferences. In the evening, she barely gets noticed while wandering the streets of Melbourne on her way to dinner, whether or not she’s wearing a baseball hat and sunglasses. “Definitely more chill,” Gauff said the other day about her experience in this tournament compared…