Forty years ago, the majority of psychologists and psychiatrists assumed that young children were incapable of logical thought. They argued that children were irrational because they did not understand the relationship between cause and effect.
The success of artificial intelligence forces us to define more sharply what is unique about human intelligence. Many times, when computers succeed in imitating some human function, the response is, “But this isn’t really what human intelligence is all about.”
In today’s world, the concept of work hours versus leisure hours has become blurred. It is common today for professionals to work through lunch and dinnertime. With the help of internet, texting, laptops and cell phones, one can theoretically work from anywhere, round the clock.
Recent mass shootings in El Paso, TX, and Dayton, OH, have renewed calls for stricter gun control laws. Among developed nations, the United States is one of the leaders in gun deaths per capita.
Deep in the US military laboratory in Fort Detrick, MD lurk deadly viruses like ebola, anthrax, smallpox and plague.
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We are currently in the grip of the largest measles outbreak in the United States in two decades. In 2000, measles was declared eradicated in the United States. Ironically, though, the childhood vaccination program was a victim of its own success. Because the risk of contracting measles was seen as low, more people began to opt out of vaccination, citing fears of vaccine side effects. This created the conditions that allowed the measles virus to once again spread.
The inevitability principle in politics is the fallacy that once democracy takes hold in an area, it will continue to flourish and spread. Democracies do not go backwards, or so the theory goes. Once people have tasted freedom, and have the education and resources to enjoy it, they will never want to go backwards. They will never slide back into authoritarianism or totalitarianism. No matter how dire things get, they will always work out somehow.
Avraham Rainitz describes the moments after the Great Shofar is sounded and thousands of Jews greet the Rebbe in his full glory at 770.
Menachem Zigelbaum brings us a live report from the first day of work in the Third Beis Hamikdash. He briefs us on the Halachic dilemmas and original solutions that may come up.
Schneur Berger was there, at Israel’s International Airport, to witness air traffic control divert planes to military airfields to clear the runways for gigantic clouds.
Yisrael Lapidos met with a representative of the “Resurrection Authority,” a body set up to deal with the many challenges the newly resurrected will face steps out of the grave.
At some point all of us have experienced the pain of rejection, whether it was social, professional or personal. None of us likes the feeling of being considered inferior, unloved, unwanted or unvalued. MRIs have shown that social rejection activates the same areas in the brain as physical pain.
