How artificial intelligence could battle sexual harassment in the workplace

Written by John Brandon

“Your email was blocked, we’ve contacted an HR representative.”

This message could go a long way towards weeding out some of the sexual explicit messaging in the workplace, most recently highlighted by a New York Times report.

Although it would by no means block all suggestive comments that occur in the workplace, there is a way to make an artificial intelligence (AI) become more aware of what is happening in the digital realm.

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What Would Happen If We Blew Up the Moon?

Written by Rae Paoletta

The Moon is the Tango to Earth’s Cash, the Hall to our Oates, the Lennon to our McCartney before they hated each other. Simply put, our planet and the Moon are soul mates: except, of course, if something were to happen to one of them. Like, I don’t know, what if we just blew up the Moon?

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Global Warming Alarmist Tries Suing Critics into Silence

Written by Thomas Richard

Six years ago, climatologist Dr. Tim Ball challenged the data and scientific methodology of Michael E. Mann’s (in)famous “hockey-stick” temperature graph. As did several other climate observers. But for his harshest critics, Mann took the unusual step of suing them for libel.

Ball, a Canadian citizen, wrote an op-ed in which he wrote that Mann “belongs in the state pen, not Penn State.” The suit alleged that Ball’s statements were factually untrue and defamatory.

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An excess of ‘failed’ stars is a bad sign for alien life

Written by Steve Dent

We know for a fact that life can exist on planets that orbit yellow dwarf stars like our sun and are optimistic about the chances for smaller red dwarf systems like Trappist-1. When it comes to their awkward brown dwarf cousins, however, astronomers don’t think life is possible — they’re too small and cool to support it. So it’s a bit of a bummer that astronomers have discovered as many as 100 billion brown dwarfs in our galaxy, out of a maximum 400 billion stars in total.

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Canadian Court Limits Effort of Climate Alarmists to Silence Critics by Demanding Alarmist Climate Data

Written by Charles R. Anderson, Ph.D.

The infamous “hockey stick” alarmist Prof. Michael Mann, condoned by Pennsylvania State University, tried to shut down the criticism of Dr. Tim Ball (pictured above), a Canadian climatologist, by claiming that Dr. Ball had defamed him. Dr. Ball had backed up his criticism with publicly available science and challenged Dr. Mann to make his government-funded research data available for public examination.

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