During a severe heat wave in 2023, scientists scuba diving off the coast of Papua New Guinea captured clownfish to measure their bodies. Between February and August, they calculated the length of 134 of these iconic, orange and white fish once a month, taking a total of six measurements for each fish. Those measurements revealed something […]

Let’s imagine for a second that the impressive pace of AI progress over the past few years continues for a few more.  In that time period, we’ve gone from AIs that could produce a few reasonable sentences to AIs that can produce full think tank reports of reasonable quality; from AIs that couldn’t write code […]

As the eldest daughter in a family of six siblings, with a brain wired for strong convictions, Amy Lentz was born to give advice. Lentz is a 36-year-old with sea green eyes and wavy brown hair worthy of a shampoo commercial. She works as the chief people officer — the head of human resources — […]

For the last quarter-century, Bill Gates has been the donor behind what has long been one of the nation’s largest private philanthropic foundations, a behemoth that has long dwarfed nearly all other charitable institutions.  The Gates Foundation, in its commitment to a large, professionalized staff, driven by quantifiable data, and with its focus on global […]

On Wednesday evening, the American Jewish Committee held a reception at Washington, DC’s Capital Jewish Museum. The gathering, aimed at Jewish foreign policy professionals between the ages of 22 and 45, featured speakers from humanitarian groups. One such groups, IsraAID, said in a statement that the event “focused on bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza through […]