![]() ![]() How soon, and should we welcome or fear it? ![]() ![]() To join the conversation yourself, please take the survey here. And that includes yours! Below are the answers from the first 14,866 people who have taken the survey that goes along with Max’s book. If we're going to create a future that benefits as many people as possible, we need to include as many voices as possible. But it's time to expand the conversation. For the book, Max surveys experts' forecasts, and explores a broad spectrum of views on what will/should happen. Max Tegmark’s new book on artificial intelligence, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, explores how AI will impact life as it grows increasingly advanced, perhaps even achieving superintelligence far beyond human level in all areas. Click here to see this page in other languages: Chinese French German Japanese Russian The Future of AI - What Do You Think? ![]()
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![]() Her sharp, logical mind, her secretive nature, her unromantic viewpoints leave him fascinated but frustrated. The mystery of Abigail Lowery intrigues local police chief Brooks Gleason, on both a personal and a professional level. ![]() Unfortunately, that seems to be the quickest way to get attention in a tiny southern town. She keeps to herself, saying little, revealing nothing. Her own security is supplemented by a fierce dog and an assortment of firearms. A freelance programmer, she works at home designing sophisticated security systems. Twelve years later, the woman now known as Abigail Lowery lives alone on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks. ![]() The events that followed changed her life forever. Daughter of a cold, controlling mother and an anonymous donor, studious, obedient Elizabeth finally let loose one night, drinking too much at a nightclub and allowing a strange man's seductive Russian accent to lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ĭueñas came into the spotlight in 2009, achieving great success in Spain thanks to her first novel, El tiempo entre costuras, published in English as The Time in Between, and The Seamstress, a historical espionage novel, which sold more than a million copies. She earned her PhD in English Philology from the University of Murcia in 1997. She earned a position as senior lecturer at the University of Murcia, where she worked for around two decades. While preparing for her doctoral degree, she worked as teacher at the Military Base of Los Alcázares. She earned a licentiate degree in English Philology from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) in 1987 and a Master of Arts in Romance and Classical Languages from Michigan State University (MSU) in 1989. ![]() María Dueñas Vinuesa was born in Puertollano in 1964. She rose to fame in 2009 with El tiempo entre costuras, her first novel, which became one of the best-selling works of Spanish literature in recent years and has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. María Dueñas Vinuesa (1964) is a Spanish writer and professor. In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Dueñas and the second or maternal family name is Vinuesa. ![]() ![]() ![]() He returned with an alarming account of how many European churches were slipping away from any confidence in the Bible as God's word. After the Second World War, Schaeffer's denomination sent him to investigate the state of Christianity in Europe. In his early years as a Presbyterian pastor, Schaeffer found himself focusing on defending a Christianity that took the Bible seriously against the increasingly liberal version. She was to be an enormous support to Schaeffer and his ministry and together they were to have four children. In 1935 he married Edith, the daughter of missionaries with Hudson Taylor's China Inland Mission. After studying in a liberal arts college in Virginia, he enrolled in a theologically conservative seminary to train as a pastor. In his youth he became fascinated by the great questions of philosophy and, finding answers in the Bible, became a Christian at 18. I have always valued his books and regret that I didn't spend time with him at L'Abri.īorn in Pennsylvania, USA in 1912, Schaeffer was the only child of working-class parents with no Christian faith. ![]() In my early days as a Christian one of the most influential figures around was the theologian, philosopher, pastor and preacher Francis Schaeffer. ![]() Francis Schaeffer entered the scene of American evangelicalism at age 53. ![]() ![]() He threw one against the wall, the other two ran away, and we can assume both the Denniston brothers were carefully respected afterwards. Bear got his nickname in juvenile detention when he saw three inmates trying to drown Fish. ![]() Upon the latter's fall into a coma, she becomes horrified and remorseful, and gradually works alongside Fish and crew to help her. The Atoner: Donna in Waking Rose spends the first half of the book antagonizing Rose.Amateur Sleuth: Rose and Blanche, but especially Rose.Action Girl: Kateri Kovach, particularly compared to the series' other heroines. ![]()
![]() ![]() In World Travel, a life of experience is collected into an entertaining, practical, fun and frank travel guide that gives readers an introduction to some of his favorite places-in his own words. It might not be the Bourdain book you were expecting but if you’re travel-starved from staying home during the pandemic, this might be a great summer read for you.Īnthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. With an hour of audio recorded during that conversation along with Woolever’s own notes, the book came to life, peppered with stories from friends, colleagues, family and those he met along the way in his travels. ![]() Bourdain had the idea of a world travel guide and after his death, Woolever decided to make this idea a reality. World Travel: An Irreverent Guide, published last month, is actually authored by longtime assistant Laurie Woolever and was something they discussed during a short conversation they had just months before his death. ![]() It’s been 3 years since Anthony Bourdain passed away so you might be wondering how he’s authored a book. This is part of my Summer Reads series where I’ll be reviewing a series of “not just cookbooks”. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is both a threat and a godsend for the environment, and it is leading the revival of manufacturing in the United States.Ī definitive narrative history, The Boom follows the twists and turns in the development and adoption of this radical technology. The “best all-around book yet on fracking” ( San Francisco Chronicle) from a Pulitzer Prize finalist: “Gold's work is a tour de force of contemporary journalism” ( Booklist).įirst invented in 1947, hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has not only become a major source of energy, it is changing the way we use energy, and the energy we use. ![]() ![]() Impulsive and self-absorbed, Annemarie isn't always likable, but Gruen's portrait of the stoic elder Zimmers is beautifully nuanced, as is her evocation of Eve's adolescent troubles. She must heal both horse and herself as she struggles with her father's deterioration, Eve's rebellion and her attraction to both the farm's new trainer and her childhood sweetheart Dan. ![]() ![]() Her long-denied passion for riding reawakens as she tracks the horse's identity and eventually discovers it to be Harry's younger brother. Although Annemarie decides (disastrously) to manage the farm's business, her attention quickly turns to an old and ostensibly worthless horse with the same rare coloring as Harry. There, her gruff Germanic mother struggles to maintain the farm and care for Annemarie's father, who is stricken with ALS. ![]() Two decades later, she returns to her family's horse farm a divorcee, with her troubled teenaged daughter, Eve, in tow. In the agonizing aftermath, she gives up riding and horses entirely. The Olympic dreams of teenaged equestrian Annemarie Zimmer end when her beloved horse, Harry, injures her and destroys himself in a jumping accident. Like The Horse Whisperer, Gruen's polished debut is a tale of human healing set against the primal world of horses. ![]() ![]() ![]() Picture a ladder that twists like a corkscrew, with the sugar and phosphate acting as the side rails and the base pairs acting as the rungs. In 1953, scientists proposed that DNA is structured as a double helix, with the chemical bases-adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T)-stacked up in pairs between two intertwining lengths of sugar and phosphate. Thousands of times thinner than one of the hairs on your head, a strand of DNA consists of three chemical building blocks: a sugar group, a phosphate group, and one of four nitrogen-containing bases. It helps cells make proteins, which they need to survive, and it facilitates reproduction. Chemistry with a twistĭNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule found inside every cell in almost every living thing. Without setting foot in a fancy science lab, this is how you can see the intricacies of a person’s DNA. ![]() Next time you’re holding hands, pay attention to the shape of her fingers. ![]() Notice the curve of her smile and the special way her forehead creases when she laughs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cost: up to $250,000 for the biggest, most impressive package. Attendees were told they’d be shuttled by private transportation to a lush Bahamanian island, luxurious accommodations, lavish food and drink, and elbow-rubbing with stars. In case you don’t, Fyre Festival was an exclusive multi-day celebration featuring bands, brands, and fun. Is it you who says or, as in the new book “Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet – And Why We’re Following” by Gabrielle Bluestone, is it someone who’s out for your money? Now, as an adult, you still want to think before answering. ![]() The answer likely depends on who’s asking but the outcome is still the same: once was, if it was a parent or teacher, you took a deep breath before replying. ![]() |