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ChatGPT

The Fairness Party

January 4, 2023 Christopher Burke Education, Science One comment

With the recent open distribution of ChatGPT, a new chatbot from OpenAI, all kinds of predictions as to the imminent death of the world as we know it have come forward and run rampant. This is the end of the college essay; The College Essay is Dead, the Atlantic.

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Trump’s “beautiful wall” vs. America’s ugly infrastructure

January 16, 2020 Renee Shur Infrastructure Leave a comment

America’s infrastructure is a mess. Whether you live in a city, a suburb, a small town, a village, or a rural area, you don’t

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Smarter roads for the future

February 20, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Energy, Environment, Science, Transportation One comment

Twenty million miles of road snake across the surface of the earth. That’s enough pavement to wrap around the equator 833 times—or enough road

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In case you missed it

  • Starship Troopers and the Degeneration of Parody
  • The Fairness Party
  • “Secular Humanists with Jewish Last Names”
  • An (Updated) Honest Preview of the 2022 Midterms
  • Rescuing Susan Collins – Make Judicial Nominees Speak the Truth
  • Doing the world a world of good

A new book by Arthur Lieber. Political Introverts: How Empathetic Voters Can Help Save American Politics.  Buy it here.

Gloria Shur Bilchik’s new book, Election Insiders: Behind the scenes with the people who make your vote count. Kindle edition now available at Amazon.

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