From Black Inventors to One Laptop Per Child: Exporting a Racial Politics of TechnologyFouché, Rayvon
biaseseven when the data is balanced. Nevertheless, more and more concerning uses of AI technology are appearing in the wild. This list aims to trackall of them. We hope thatAwful AIcan be a platform to spur discussion for the development of possible preventive technology (to fight back!)....
The history of roads, road building and asphalt. Aspirin In 1829, scientists discovered that it was the compound called salicin in willow plants that was responsible for pain relief. But it was father of modern medicine, Hippocrates, who first discovered the pain relieving properties of the willo...
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This file contains: a list of investigators; Supplementary Notes 1 and 2 providing additional information about the participant in this study, including her residual articulatory capacity and current assistive communication methods; Methods providing additional methods to support the main results in the ...
Lithium-ion batteries are complex, multi-component devices with a long list of inventors, key inventions, and contributions2. According to Akira Yoshino, lithium-ion batteries were born in 1986 after the successful safety testing of early prototypes3. Since then, the performance of lithium-ion cel...
Among the many shaping factors, I would single out the country's excellent elementary schools; a labor force that welcomed the new technology; the practice of giving premiums to inventors; and above all the American genius for nonverbal, “spatial” thinking about things technological. Why ...
A fellow Dupont researcher, Julian Hill, had once observed Carothers carrying what turned out to be a ration ofthe poison cyanide. Hill remarked that Carothers could list all the famous chemists who had committed suicide. In April of 1937, Wallace Hume Carothers consumed that ration of poison ...
This breeder attributes the threat of legislation as one of the reasons that companies and breeders such as himself include blight resistance on their list of traits to select for. His statement above also suggests that the legislation drives the exploitation of wild genetic resources as well as ...
At the outset of his scientific career in the 1760s, the English chemist Joseph Priestley embarked on a journey both in England and America supported by fellow scientists John Canton, William Watson, Timothy Lane, and Benjamin Franklin to study the history of the emergence and development of ele...