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How Can We Balance AI’s Potential And Ethical Challenges?
Wednesday, 23 April 2025, 9:17 am | Independent Media Institute
While AI is transforming industries with powerful capabilities, challenges like data quality, bias, transparency, and privacy concerns must be addressed to ensure fairness and accuracy, especially in areas like fraud detection. More >>
How Lab-Grown Meat Could Bring An End To Needless Animal Cruelty
Tuesday, 22 April 2025, 9:12 am | Independent Media Institute
Lab-grown meat is a sustainable and ethical alternative to traditional meat. It offers the same taste and texture while reducing animal suffering, environmental impact, and health risks. More >>
Archaeology Can Now Tell Us How People Have Muffled And Challenged Economic Inequality Across History
Saturday, 19 April 2025, 9:19 pm | Independent Media Institute
One clear trend is that through time, across the broad sweep of human history, the potential for inequality has grown due to advances in technology (domesticated crops and animals, enhanced communication, and advances in transport) and the increasing ... More >>
Lustrous Surfaces: Easy On The Eyes, Easy On The Nervous System
Friday, 11 April 2025, 9:39 am | Independent Media Institute
The attraction to luster is rooted in our evolutionary history and has persisted among prehistoric artifacts, ancient civilizations, and consumer culture. More >>
What Happens When Russian And Ukrainian Soldiers Come Home?
Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 8:30 am | Independent Media Institute
Russian and Ukrainian soldiers will eventually largely lay down their arms, but as the Soviet Afghanistan War shows, returning from the frontlines causes its own issues. More >>
The AI Power Play: How ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, And Others Are Shaping The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
Sunday, 6 April 2025, 12:39 pm | Independent Media Institute
The competition among top AI models is transforming how we work, create, and communicate. But as these systems grow smarter and more accessible, new questions emerge about cost, sustainability, and responsible development in a rapidly evolving landscape. More >>
What Will Tech Moguls Do With Their Wealth?
Saturday, 5 April 2025, 11:02 am | Independent Media Institute
Tech billionaires are embedding themselves in U.S. economic systems while experimenting with new ways to manage their fortunes. Lacking traditional family dynasties, they must also contend with an unpredictable alliance with Trump. More >>
Investigating A Bronze Age Mystery: A Cemetery Full Of Princes, But No Palaces In Sight
Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:54 pm | Independent Media Institute
The answer to why our species should change our ecological niche so radically is one of the most important in anthropological science. Going from foraging to deified kings in a few thousand years seems like a revolution, and indeed, it has been called ... More >>
First, They Came For The Venezuelans
Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 10:50 am | Independent Media Institute
Trump is turning deportation into a weapon of mass destruction. None of us—undocumented immigrants, people with papers, naturalized citizens, or native-born citizens—are safe. More >>
How U.S. States Can Protect The Environment From Federal Rollbacks And Intervention
Friday, 21 March 2025, 8:07 am | Independent Media Institute
States have powerful legal tools to counter federal environmental rollbacks, from enacting stronger local regulations to forming interstate coalitions that protect natural resources and public health. More >>
Trump’s Address To Congress Highlights The Absence Of Opposition
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 7:04 pm | Independent Media Institute
The relentless resistance that defined Trump’s first term has faded into an unsettling quiet. A perfect storm of factors has granted him relatively unchecked power to push drastic domestic and international changes. More >>
Participatory Budgeting Includes Community Members In The Public Funding Process
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 10:57 am | Independent Media Institute
As governmental authoritarianism intensifies, citizens “double down on democracy” through the participatory model. More >>
What Was It Like For Our Sapiens Ancestors To Meet And Mix With Cousin Species?
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 9:40 am | Independent Media Institute
Between 50,000 and 35,000 years ago in Eurasia, the disappearance of hominin species or their biocultural assimilation with anatomically modern humans is one of the biggest questions in prehistory today. More >>
What Are The Origins Of The Money We Use Today? Revisiting Heinrich Schurtz’s Groundbreaking Research
Friday, 7 March 2025, 11:18 am | Independent Media Institute
The pioneering research by one of the founders of economic anthropology is essential for understanding the social and institutional processes that gave rise to money as we know it. More >>
How Mesopotamia’s Urban And Industrial Revolution Started Politics As We Know It Today
Wednesday, 5 March 2025, 9:46 am | Independent Media Institute
Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of modern life. More >>
A Cruel Hoax: The Political Economy Of Anti-immigration
Friday, 28 February 2025, 10:26 pm | Independent Media Institute
Immigration always served chiefly the needs of U.S. capitalism. More >>
Monkeys Infected With Transmissible Diseases Are Trucked Across U.S.—Where’s The Transportation Department?
Friday, 28 February 2025, 10:22 pm | Independent Media Institute
Experimenting on monkeys is cruel—and keeping them is a threat to public health. More >>
The Coming Age Of Border Changes?
Thursday, 27 February 2025, 11:25 pm | Independent Media Institute
Trump’s remarks on annexing territory and recognizing Russian and Israeli territorial gains may align with his geopolitical ambitions, but the disruption to longstanding norms of fixed borders sets a risky precedent. More >>
Exploring Ancient Understandings Of Meteorites In Archaic Societies
Thursday, 27 February 2025, 11:20 pm | Independent Media Institute
“We have evidence for the idea that the sky was a dome made of iron in a few different civilizations,” explains Victoria Almansa-Villatoro, the Egyptologist who analyzed the hieroglyphic for iron (and sky), during an interview. More >>
How The Camp Lejeune Justice Act Can Help Veterans Impacted By Toxic Exposure
Saturday, 22 February 2025, 3:27 pm | Independent Media Institute
Decades of toxic contamination at Camp Lejeune have left veterans, military families, and civilians with devastating health issues. More >>
