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A new use for AI: summarizing scientific research for seven-year-olds

The Verge

Zane Griffin Talley Cooper, a PhD candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, described the AI summaries as “refreshingly transparent.” He used the site to condense a paper he’d written on “ data peripheries ,” which traces the physical history of materials essential to big data infrastructure.

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This tiny Pennsylvania community was deemed ‘expendable.’ So toxic waste keeps flowing

Fast Company Tech

YUKON, Pa.When government inspectors arrived at the hazardous waste landfill here in 2023, they found themselves in a barren and alien landscape carved from western Pennsylvanias green countryside. RCRA is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, which regulates hazardous waste. Read Part I of this story here.

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Celebrating The Nation's Founding

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Dickinson was the leader of the Pennsylvania delegation. Conservative John Adams was the revolutionary. I woke up Thursday morning on the stage of history. We, the people woke up on the stage of history, 236 years into the revolution, the most complete, unexpected, and remarkable of any in the history of the world.

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Memorial Day 2012

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Abraham Lincoln As a young boy in Oil City, Pennsylvania, I marched in our annual Memorial Day parade with my Cub Scout troop. Right-Wing Conservatives. And won''t this take us again - as it has throughout our history - to the very wellspring of what is exceptional in America, to the proposition that we are all created equal.

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This Pennsylvania landfill sends radioactive waste into a nearby creek—and fracking has only made it worse

Fast Company Tech

In a rural pocket of western Pennsylvania, along the leafy banks of Sewickley Creek, a small, jagged pipe juts just above the waterline, its cement casing carpeted in moss. Colleen ONeil of the Mountain Watershed Association fixes a crooked sign posted near a landfills discharge pipe that flows into Sewickley Creek in Yukon, Pennsylvania.

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The Trump revolution will be podcasted

Recode by Vox

And listeners really trust what they hear on these shows This new breed of podcast where the hosts primarily discuss sports, pop culture, history, or lifestyle trends and mix in some current events creates a specific kind of intimacy and trust. Perhaps because these shows arent setting out to be overtly political, audiences are loyal.

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