AI and three college students help decipher the text of a 2,000-year-old scroll burned at Pompeii. Introduced in March 2023, the Vesuvius Challenge pledged a $700,000 prize to the team that could resurrect ancient scripts lost in the ashes of a volcanic eruption.
To mark the news that Paxman will be leaving his post after almost 30 years, FEMAIL has delved into the archives to pick out 30 of the trickiest questions ever asked on the show.
This paper tried to locate the debate on man-nature relation in the Marxist tradition. It looks at Marx’s theory of alienation and dialectics and argues that his theory of alienation and dialectics is not limited to a critique of capitalist modernity but shows man’s alienation from nature. Developing on this thesis, this paper looks at Engel’s position on the place of nature
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by Bill Schubart Change is relentless. Humanity’s efforts to understand, accommodate, and survive it are invariably buffeted by the headwinds stirred up by those whose privilege may be curtailed by that change.
Reversing environmental degradation caused by the extraction and burning of fossil fuels is, understandably, opposed by those who may, in time, lose their jobs or the profits they earn from it.
Efforts to reduce the extremes of poverty and wealth through taxation are opposed by those whose wealth will be taxed.
And efforts to reinvent the post-secondary educational system to ensure its survival are questioned by those whose jobs may be at risk (or ensured) by that reinvention.
Detail from Michelangelo s Jeremiah on the ceiling of the Cistine Chapel.
Henry (Hank) Millstein is a long-time peace, interfaith, and labor activist living in Northern California. He’s a fiction writer and journalist whose work often appears in
People’s World, and he’s a longtime member of the National Writers Union. Staff writer Eric A. Gordon sat Hank down for a friendly chat about his newest book.
People’s World: The biblical world opens a ripe and rich field for writers to extrapolate for their own readers and their own time many of the social issues that concern them. I’m thinking of