Science and Technology
Public policies and legislation on digital issues: Are there advances or setbacks in Latin America?
Despite the existence of a good number of analytical documents that typify the diverse threats that the uncontrolled advance of monopolistic corporations over the internet and digital technologies poses to human rights and the equitable development of populations, state action…
Emotional education: an anthropological approach
The importance of human adaptation in times of crisis is a must. It is therefore urgent that the state and society in general, develop “emotional education” as a fundamental requirement for personal and social equilibrium. As a social anthropologist, I…
Scientist says today’s neural networks may be “slightly conscious”, sparks debate among experts in the field
He did not specify which intelligent systems he was referring to, but it is likely to be OpenAI’s GPT-3 autoregressive language model. The chief scientist of the research group at artificial intelligence development company OpenAI, Ilya Sustskever, posted on his…
11F: The struggle of the feminist movement in the production of knowledge
by Lina Merino and Agustina Medina Every 11 February we remember the “International Day of Women and Girls in Science” established by the United Nations in December 2015. The date represents an opportunity to rethink the current situation of women,…
CORBEVAX, a new patent-free COVID-19 vaccine, could be a pandemic game changer globally
The world now has a new COVID-19 vaccine in its arsenal, and at a fraction of the cost per dose. Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has seen over 314 million infections and over 5.5 million deaths worldwide. Approximately 60%…
“Have reverence for life” – Interview with ecocentrist Fred Hageneder on climate disruption, species extinction and our future on Earth
Heat waves, droughts, floods and wildfires are on the rise, the IPCC and the UN are sounding the alarm bells. Recently, even a report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA (United States Weather and Oceanographic Administration) attested the…
Cuba to hold International Biotechnology Congress in April
The Cuban Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industry Group (BioCubaFarma) has called on the global scientific community to attend the BioHabana 2022 International Congress, it was announced today. According to a press release from the organisation, the event, scheduled to take place…
Eunice Foote: the science behind climate change has a woman’s name
This is an opinion piece by Ana García Page, PhD candidate in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at the German Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, and José Ramón Ares, Professor of Physics at the Autonomous University of Madrid.…
Surveillance Concerns: The Good, the Bad, and the Xenophobic
Thom Hartmann has written an enormous number of great books, and the latest is no exception. It’s called The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy.…
Why the Internet Itself Is a Major Environmental Problem
If the internet were a country, it would be the sixth biggest user of electricity. By Robin Scher The paradox of combating climate change is that the extent of the emergency extends far beyond the actions taken by individuals to…
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