Een tiener mag haar ongewenste zwangerschap na meer dan 30 weken afbreken, oordeelde het hooggerechtshof in India. „Voor arts en patiënt is dit een overweldigend complex dilemma.”
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Comments at European Political Community summit come as Britain seeks to join EU’s loan scheme for Ukraine
Keir Starmer has acknowledged that tensions are high between Donald Trump and Europe as he attends a summit of the European Political Community dominated by the conflicts in Ukraine and Iran.
With European leaders concerned over the US president’s waning interest in the Ukraine war, the prime minister will use the summit in Armenia to begin negotiations to participate in the EU’s loan scheme for Kyiv.
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Voor het eerst sinds de bouw in 1970 zijn twee grote hydraulische cilinders uit de Haringvlietsluizen gehaald. Rijkswaterstaat verwijderde de exemplaren van 12 duizend kilo om ze uitgebreid te onderzoeken op slijtage. Een flinke operatie.
A new, bipartisan bill introduced by Democratic Senator of California Adam Schiff and endorsed by the biggest AI developers in the world—including OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft—would change the K-12 curriculum to shoehorn in “AI literacy,” something that young people and teachers alike already hate in schools.
The Literacy in Future Technologies Artificial Intelligence, or LIFT AI Act, would empower the new director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to make grant awards “on a merit-reviewed, competitive basis to institutions of higher education or nonprofit organizations (or a consortium thereof) to support research activities to develop educational curricula, instructional material, teacher professional development, and evaluation methods for AI literacy at the K–12 level,” the bill says.
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It defines AI literacy as using AI; specifically, “having the age-appropriate knowledge and ability to use artificial intelligence effectively, to critically interpret outputs, to solve problems in an AI-enabled world, and to mitigate potential risks.”
The bill is endorsed by the American Federation of Teachers, Google, OpenAI, Information Technology Industry Council, Software & Information Industry Association, Microsoft, and HP Inc.
“With the growing adoption of artificial intelligence across industries, it’s crucial that our young people and workforce are equipped to succeed in this evolving landscape,” Schiff said in a press release.
“President Trump’s National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence made it clear that we must support American education and the development of an AI-ready workforce,” South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds wrote in the press release.
The NSF has been without a director for a year after its former director resigned amid the Trump administration’s mass-slashing of grants and jobs at the foundation. Last week, President Donald Trump fired all 22 members of the National Science Board (NSB), which oversees the NSF, without explanation. Jim O’Neill, Trump’s nominee to direct the NSF next, is a financier with no research background who formerly worked for Peter Thiel.
The grant would support “AI literacy evaluation tools and resources for educators assessing proficiency in AI literacy,” according to the bill. It would also fund “professional development courses and experiences in AI literacy,” and the development of “hands-on learning tools to assist in developing and improving AI literacy.”
Most importantly for real-world implications, it would fund changing the existing curriculum “to incorporate AI literacy where appropriate, including responsible use of AI in learning.”
Young people increasingly hate AI, and children already struggle with AI-enabled harassment that traumatizes them and disrupts their learning. And studies show kids are offloading learning onto AI models, undermining their education and social development.
Last year, the American Federation of Teachers announced a $23 million partnership with Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic to build an “AI training hub for educators” to show teachers how to do things like build lesson plans with AI. In January, the AFT announced it was leaving X because it was “sickened” by the non-consensual sexual abuse material created using xAI’s Grok image generator.
Six months ago, Schiff co-signed a letter urging Trump to take steps to protect consumers from energy costs incurred by data center development. “Since his second inauguration, President Trump has cozied up to Meta, Google, Oracle, OpenAI, and other Big Tech companies, fast-tracking and pushing for the buildout of power-hungry data centers across the country,” the letter said. Now, Schiff has “cozied up” to the world’s biggest AI tech companies.
During the Victorian era, innovators made huge leaps with optical technologies. It was the period of the stereoscope and an early projector known as the magic lantern, not to mention one in which eyeglasses became more affordable and entering the mainstream. These advances also influenced scientific inquiry, making microscopes more powerful, and the pursuit of microscopy enabled researchers and enthusiasts to discover creatures invisible to the naked eye.
One of these enthusiasts was London-based educator and amateur scientist Charles Thomas Hudson. Along with other scholars and aficionados, he participated in interest groups. “As President of the Royal Microscopical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society, Hudson was a leading figure in this growing scientific community,” says a statement from Osh Gallery, which is currently exhibiting a collection of unique illustrations in The Hudson Transparencies.
Curated by Luke Powell and Jody Hudson-Powell of design firm Pentagram, which runs Osh Gallery, the exhibition literally brings to light a number of colorful transparencies that Hudson used during his lectures. While they appear dark and even unfinished in a typical setting, “when lit from behind these intricate works transform into magical visions of life previously only glimpsed when viewed under a microscope,” the gallery says.
The Hudson Transparencies includes 58 original transparencies that measure a surprisingly large 37.8 by 29.5 inches. Each of the graphics’ proportions are “the equivalent of drawing ants the size of elephants,” says a statement. The animals and botanicals emerge through a combination of painted paper and perforations, which are made with lines and clusters of pinholes.
Hudson was particularly fascinated by rotifers, a phylum of zooplankton named for their so-called “wheel-bearing” characteristics. He also catalogued algae, protozoa, and larvae—such as that of the mayfly with its feather-like tail. Microscopic marine organisms were a particular favorite, though, and these back-lit images highlight the convergence of science and spectacular visuals that not only brought these creatures to life in a unique way for 19th-century viewers but continue to awe us today.
The Hudson Transparencies continues through June 11 in London. You might also enjoy Martin Kunz’s turn-of-the-century tactile graphics and Lorenz Oken’s seminal natural history work, Allgemaine Naturgeschichte Für Alle Stände.
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Hee kijk nou wat er bij ons in de mail ploft. Beelden van iemand die de webcam van vannacht heeft teruggekeken en de bekladders van het Nationaal Monument op de Dam iets beter bij de digitale kladden heeft dan dat webcamfilmpje dat bij andere media te zien is. De daders (al dan niet van Palestine Action Now) zijn nog niet gepakt, de politie is nog steeds op zoek naar drie verdachten op een fiets, maar hier kunnen we in ieder geval mooi zien dat een van hen een tas van de Action heeft. That narrows it down. Er is ook goed nieuws: het monument is alweer schoongemaakt voor vanavond. Hoe dan ook, volstrekt onacceptabel natuurlijk dit.
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