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No, AI Won’t Outsmart Our Climate Calamity | The Tyee
The World Economic Forum has pronounced that artificial intelligence holds the “transformational potential” to fix our growing climate emergency.AI can tell us how fast icebergs are melting. AI can map disappearing forests. AI can predict weather patterns in drought-stricken parts of Africa. AI can help sort through giant piles of waste materials and mine bits…
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Largest Interactive City Guide series in 190 countries
Largest Interactive City Guide series in 190 countries Stop typing and start clicking on searches with over 10900 preset searches in the latest San Francisco Interactive City Guide from the author, R.G.Richardson and more coming every week. No more typing, just pick and click with over 10900 quick links for greater accuracy and ease. Stop…
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From Cleanups to Concerts, EcoWatch’s Guide to Earth Day 2024 – EcoWatch
This year marks the 54th year of Earth Day! What better way to celebrate than to explore opportunities to join others in helping combat the climate crisis and make our planet cleaner, greener and more sustainable? Here are a few suggestions to get you started. Source: From Cleanups to Concerts, EcoWatch’s Guide to Earth Day…
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All oil and natural gas permits in B.C. waters relinquished – Victoria Times Colonist
There won’t be any oil and gas drilling rigs off British Columbia’s coast — at least not in the near future.The last of 227 oil and gas exploration permits that once blanketed British Columbia’s coast from the entrance to Juan de Fuca Strait to Alaska over the past 50 years have been relinquished to the…
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Changes to Canada’s national dental plan pitched to get dentists on side
Health Minister Mark Holland announced tweaks to Ottawa’s new dental-care plan Wednesday in a bid to get more dentists, hygienists and oral-health care providers to participate.Dental and hygienists’ associations say their members have been slow to sign up to provide care under the new federal program, even though 1.7 million seniors have already enrolled.They cite…
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British spy agency releases previously secret images of Colossus computer
Britain’s hush hush Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) intelligence and security organization has released new images never before made public of Colossus, the world’s first digital electronic computer, to mark its 80th anniversary.If there’s one thing that Britain’s intelligence agencies are notorious for, it’s their emphasis on secrecy. From For Your Eyes Only to destroy-all-evidence-and-pretend-it-never-happened, keeping…
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Future Ski Resorts
Glenda Luymes/Vancouver Sunabout 7 hours ago Cherie Kroll does the math every time she steps into her skis. So far this year, she’s skied five times, choosing not to go when conditions are poor. She paid $800 for her season pass at Grouse Mountain, including equipment and parking passes. That adds up to about $160…
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US businessman is wannabe ‘warlord’ of secretive far-right men’s network
Revealed: Charles Haywood, creator of the Society for American Civic Renewal, has said he might serve as ‘warlord’ at the head of an ‘armed patronage network’Jason WilsonTue 22 Aug 2023 11.00 BSTShareThe founder and sponsor of a far-right network of secretive, men-only, invitation-only fraternal lodges in the US is a former industrialist who has frequently…
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Lewis Hamilton says F1 hard to trust with no accountability in the sport – BBC Sport
Lewis Hamilton says there is “no transparency and no accountability” in Formula 1 as the sport continues to be rocked by off-track wrangles.The seven-time champion appeared to conflate controversies involving governing body the FIA and the behaviour of Red Bull team principal Christian Horner.Speaking before this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix, Hamilton said: “With the FIA,…
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Does a university undergraduate degree lead to a ‘good job?’ It depends what you mean
Universities are central to Canada’s economic growth.As a result, governments (which partially fund them), employers (who hire graduates) and students (who pay tuition fees) have come to view universities as a tool to achieve their own goals: economic growth, a productive workforce and good jobs after graduation.Yet, the increasing focus on training undergraduates for specific…