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80% More Problems Than Other Cars

80% More Problems Than Other Cars

Joanne Nova A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. She hosted a children’s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews, many on the Australian ABC. She was formerly an associate

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How to Gift Someone a BFD Membership This Christmas

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How to Gift Someone a BFD Membership This Christmas

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How to Gift Someone a BFD Membership This Christmas

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You Can’t Justify Censorship Like That

You Can’t Justify Censorship Like That

Ron Paul ronpaulinstitute.org Some libertarians dismiss concerns over social media companies’ suppression of news and opinions that contradict select agendas by pointing out that these platforms are private companies, not part of the government. There are two problems with this argument. First, there is nothing unlibertarian about criticizing private

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How to Gift Someone a BFD Membership This Christmas

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An Xtra Headache for the BFD

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5 Ways the AI Marvel Has Changed The World

5 Ways the AI Marvel Has Changed The World

Toby Walsh UNSW Sydney theconversation.com OpenAI’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT was unleashed onto an unsuspecting public exactly one year ago. It quickly became the fastest-growing app ever, in the hands of 100 million users by the end of the second month. Today, it’s available to more

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Is This the Future?

Is This the Future?

Peter Wells Professor of Business and Sustainability Cardiff University In 2019, Tesla was in the happy position of being a high-volume, premium-priced leader in the global electric vehicle (EV) market. Deliveries of 367,500 cars represented 50% growth over 2018. That included 92,550 of the mid-sized Model 3 cars

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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year: Authentic

Roger J. Kreuz Associate Dean and Professor of Psychology University of Memphis Roger J. Kreuz, University of Memphis When Merriam-Webster announced that its word of the year for 2023 was “authentic,” it did so with over a month to go in the calendar year. Even then, the dictionary publisher was

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An Xtra Headache for the BFD

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TikTok Has a Startling Amount of Sexual Content

TikTok Has a Startling Amount of Sexual Content

Sonja Petrovic The University of Melbourne Milovan Savic Swinburne University of Technology Explicit content has long been a feature of the internet and social media, and young people’s exposure to it has been a persistent concern. This issue has taken centre stage again with the meteoric rise of TikTok.

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AI Is Already Being Melded with Robotics

AI Is Already Being Melded with Robotics

Mark Tsagas University of East London theconversation.com Interest in the incorporation of robots into security, policing and military operations has been steadily increasing over the last few years. It’s an avenue already being explored in both North America and Europe. Robot integration into these areas could be seen

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Do You Feel Secure?

David Thunder David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society in Pamplona, Spain, and a recipient of the prestigious Ramón y Cajal research grant (2017-2021, extended through 2023), awarded by the Spanish government to support outstanding research activities. brownstone.org

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