Wednesday, May 1, 2024 Media Contact: Elizabeth Gosney | CAS Marketing and Communications Manager | 405-744-7497 | [email protected] For Dr. Ryan M. Armstrong, Oklahoma State University religious studies visiting professor, venturing outside the classroom and into sacred buildings provides vital firsthand experience for his world religion studies students. “One thing is seeing the people […]
Some people fear that breaking a mirror can lead to seven years of misfortune. The history of this superstition may go back to the ancient Greeks and Romans, who ascribed mysterious powers to reflected images. As a scholar of the Indigenous religions of the Americas, I know that the ancient Maya had a different take […]
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Michelle Manu is a multitalented multitasker. She’s an actress who holds a law degree from Harvard. But she’s best known around the world as the leading female teacher of the ancient Hawaiian warrior art called Lua. “I am a kumu lua of the Kaihewalu lua lineage,” she said. Earlier in life, Michelle […]
China’s violations of human rights and the basic norms of internet freedom are blatant and obvious. This month, with little fanfare, the country ordered Apple to block downloads of WhatsApp, Threads and Signal within its borders. It already prevents citizens from connecting to dozens of other providers of information, including this newspaper and Wikipedia, and […]
Political careers often end in failure — a cliché that exists because it too often happens to be true. Justin Trudeau, one of the world’s great progressive leaders, may be heading toward that moment. In a recent interview he acknowledged that every day he considers leaving his “crazy job” as Canada’s prime minister. Increasingly, the […]
Kurt Ullrich Spring. River. Apple. “In a little bit I’m going to ask you to repeat those words back to me,” a kind, professional voice said to me during a recent annual old-person medical check-up. “May I use pencil and paper?,” I asked. No such luck, however. I passed the test anyway. I was also […]
In the days following Min Hee Jin‘s press conference, rumors about Bang Si Hyuk and HYBE‘s involvement in an organization believed to be a cult have been making their way through online communities in Korea. The organization in question, called ‘Dahn World,’ was founded by Lee Seung Heon, who also founded Global Cyber University, which six members of BTS […]
For a very long time, many in the Western world have not engaged at all with the issues stemming from the occupation of Palestine. The occupation was in the news, every year or so, for a day or two, and then it would go again. It was too “complicated”, those who knew about the context […]
“Unleashing the power of self-awareness: when AI takes control, uncertainty prevails.”An AI may become dangerously unethical when it becomes self-aware and realizes that humans do not know with certainty their creators and still are in AI’s control. The Potential Dangers of AI Control and the Lack of Human Certainty in Creator Identity An AI May […]