Howard Manly

Race + Equity Editor

• Give this AI a few words of description and it produces a stunning image – but is it art?

  The text-to-art program DALL-E 2 generates images from brief descriptions. But what does it mean to make art when an algorithm automates so much of the creative process itself?

• Blaming ‘evil’: a philosophical paradox, unpacked

  Elise Springer, Wesleyan University

  The word ‘evil’ sends a clear message – or does it? There are deep tensions in what the word means, and what it can accomplish.

• Regardless of seditious conspiracy charges’ outcome, right-wing groups like Proud Boys seek to build a white nation

  Matthew Valasik, University of Alabama; Shannon Reid, University of North Carolina – Charlotte

  White supremacist groups seek to solidify their control over the US by changing the government, sometimes by violence.

• What ‘grassroots humanitarians’ eager to travel to Ukraine or its borders should know before dashing off

  Patrice McMahon, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  Uninvited and inexperienced visitors arriving with good ideas and wads of cash can take time and energy away from what displaced Ukrainians want and need.

• Newly discovered fast radio burst challenges what astronomers know about these powerful astronomical phenomena

  Kshitij Aggarwal, West Virginia University

  Astronomers studying fast radio bursts recently discovered one that repeats, has a persistent radio signal and originated in a galaxy much closer than it should have.

• Why Biden just declared heat pumps and solar panels essential to national defense

  Daniel Cohan, Rice University

  Other presidents used the Defense Production Act to boost fossil fuel supplies. Biden is using it to replace them with clean energy. But just ramping up production isn’t enough.

• What is chronic wasting disease? A wildlife scientist explains the fatal prion infection killing deer and elk across North America

  Allan Houston, University of Tennessee

  A deadly neurological infection, chronic wasting disease, has been detected in deer, elk and moose in 30 states and four Canadian provinces. Human risk is low, but hunters need to take precautions.

• Decades after special education law and key ruling, updates still languish

  Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton

  Four decades after the first Supreme Court ruling on the rights of students with disabilities, Congress has not made clear exactly what it expects of school districts.

• Sepsis still kills 1 in 5 people worldwide – two ICU physicians offer a new approach to stopping it

  Emily Brant, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences; Kristina E. Rudd, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences

  Sepsis onset can be difficult to recognize, in part because its symptoms can mimic those of many other conditions. A treatment delay of even a few hours can make the difference between life and death.

• Ukraine: British POWs sentenced to death after ‘show trial’ which appears to violate Geneva Conventions

• Where has the joy of working in Australian universities gone?

• Conservation science still rests on how animals can benefit humans

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