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The inability to account for thousands of children will impact the stability of the region and the workforce, experts said. Source: Where did all the kids go? School enrollment continues…
The Denver district’s latest plan to address declining enrollment is broader than an ultimately rejected proposal to close 10 schools introduced in October. Source: DPS identifies 15 Denver schools for…
South Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world – and its falling. Like many countries, their fertility rate is well below 2.1 (replacement level). Efforts to bolster fertility…
Vikram Mansharamani, a lecturer at Harvard University with several degrees in multiple disciplines and author of Think for Yourself: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial, Intelligence…
Since record-keeping at the airport began in 1939, the greatest snowfall in a day was 14.4 inches in 1943. Source: Portland records snowiest day since 1943, landing at No. 2…
By early 2022, about 95% of Americans had contracted COVID despite the harsh countermeasures. A John Hopkins University meta-analysis concluded that lockdowns failed to contain the spread of COVID. At…
Starting on February 20 Recreational Flyers may request an airspace authorization to operate in controlled airspace at night through LAANC and before you fly, make sure you meet all of…
Even as college applications surge, a number of institutions are in financial jeopardy. Source: More colleges to close even as top schools experience application boom A significant part of this…
Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what’s going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language syntax. Source: What…
When dueling celebrity epidemiologists met social media, a catastrophe occurred: a complete loss of trust in science itself.