Offbeat: How should autonomous vehicles be programmed? Massive global survey reveals ethics preferences and...
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Disturbances in coral reefs can trigger significant ecosystem shifts, but ecologists and local fishing populations may perceive those shifts in fundamentally different ways,...
Offbeat: Steep decline in student belief that God created humans, 32-year Australian study reveals...
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Offbeat: Opioid overdose responsible for over 500,000 years of life lost in Ohio —
More than 500,000 years of life expectancy were lost in Ohio during a seven-year period, according to a study conducted by The Ohio...
Offbeat: How to save a seabird —
In the 1990s, the endangered status of the short-tailed albatross catalyzed efforts to reduce the number of birds accidentally killed as bycatch in...
Offbeat: Political and business interests don’t appear to align with public’s view —
Just about any news story about the Endangered Species Act includes a prominent mention of the controversy around the 45-year-old law.
But when you...
Offbeat: Why language technology can’t handle Game of Thrones (yet) —
Researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Dutch Royal Academy's Humanities Cluster evaluated four state-of-the-art tools for recognising names in text, to...
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Hey ISIS, You Suck: Local Muslims Post Anti-ISIS Billboard
A new billboard on Manchester Road in Missouri reads, "HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK!!! From: #ActualMuslims."
A group of Muslim-Americans have put up a blunt billboard...
