How do you make 600 students from 80 countries feel at home? Ask Chef Abigail Serbins The chef at Cal’s International House builds community and lifts the spirits of homesick students by learning their favorite dishes. 05/2/2024 - 9:13 am | View Link
My sister’s experience at Barnard has taught me to pick a college where I will feel safe I am reviewing chemistry problems for my test the following morning. Even though my music exceeds the dangerously high noise level, I hear my sister crying over the phone with my parents in another ... 05/1/2024 - 11:36 pm | View Link
Foundation 2 Crisis Services opens new headquarters in downtown Cedar Rapids Foundation 2 Crisis Services celebrated the opening of its new headquarters after a $5.4 million renovation of the Witwer Building at 305 Second Ave. SE in downtown Cedar Rapids. It “legitimizes ... 05/1/2024 - 2:11 am | View Link
Kimberly Parris: Local chef, entrepreneur and innovator hopes to inspire others through food Kimberly Parris, 42, is a jack of all trades. She’s a mother, chef, entrepreneur and innovator. 04/30/2024 - 5:30 am | View Link
Karaoke and a coin toss were the Thais that bound Asian Mint couple Most people in Dallas didn’t know much about Thai food 20 years ago when Nikky Phinyawatana and her husband, Tan Noisiri, opened their first Asian Mint in a strip center across from Medical City ... 04/30/2024 - 1:00 am | View Link
"Human beings had a play-based childhood from time immemorial," says author Jonathan Haidt. What caused teen mental health decline is "between 2010 and 2015, phones, screens come sweeping in The most important thing that parents can do is delay the age at which their child gets immersed in internet culture."
Fareed hosts a spirited debate on the House bill that could lead to a US ban on TikTok, with the American Enterprise Institute's Kori Schake and Glen Gerstell, former general counsel for the National Security Agency. They discuss national-security risks the Chinese-owned app might pose given its many American users.
A new government report warns that advanced Artificial Intelligence systems could pose an "extinction-level threat" to humans, and that the US must intervene. "I think we should be mindful of it," says Ret. Admiral James Stavridis. But he adds, "there have been big inventions in the past - the printing press, electricity, the internet - all of these have been a decried for the possibility of nefarious activity."